Télécharger le livre :  Public Policy and Democratic Backsliding in the UK

This book examines the rise of illiberalism within the British Conservative Party during the last few decades. It traces how the party’s political agenda has become increasingly dominated by populist and nativist policy positions since the UK’s withdrawal from the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-02-27
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Comparing Network Governance in England and China

This book compares network governance practices and public service delivery in England and China. Adopting a political ethnographic approach, it assesses whether networked forms of governance are used in provision of care for the elderly and those with learning...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-11-30
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective

This book examines the contemporary relevance of the concept of the core executive across a range of constitutional contexts, covering examples from Westminster system, continental Europe, and Scandinavia. Much study of core executives focuses exclusively on the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-06
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Assessing Public Management Reforms

This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize. Comprehensive reforms do not generate relevant and lasting changes. Yet some evolutions may occur that actually improve the efficiency level inside public administrations. The book...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-28
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Eric Drummond and his Legacies

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated. It provides a new assessment of its architect, Eric Drummond, the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, appointed a century ago. The authors conclude that he stands in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-06
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Narrative Policy Analysis

Narratives or storytelling are a feature of the everyday life of all who work in government. They tell each other stories about the origins, aims and effects of policies to make sense of their world. These stories form the collective memory of a government department; a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-24
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  William Armstrong and British Policy Making

This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant Whitehall officials in the post-1945 period. He was at the centre of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-23
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Regulation in the UK

This book explores the discourse of regulatory crisis in the UK and examines why, despite the increasing contestation of the principles underpinning the regulatory state, its institutions and practices continue to be firmly embedded within the governance of the British...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-30
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Party Policy

Examining the complexities and tensions in relations between party members and parliamentarians through an in-depth analysis of the processes that shape the development of party policy in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, this book Presents new evidence on the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-11
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Institutional Crisis in 21st Century Britain

In 21st century Britain, a 'perfect storm' seems to have engulfed many of its institutions. This book is the first wholesale consideration of the crisis of legitimacy that has taken root in Britain's key institutions and explores the crisis across them to determine if a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-23
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Hybrid Governance in European Cities

This wide-ranging study of three European cities shows how hybrid forms of governance emerge from the tensions between new ideas and past legacies, and existing institutional arrangements and powerful decision makers. Using detailed studies of migration and neighborhood...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-02-07
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Parliamentary Socialisation

This first book-length study of the socialisation of MPs uses questionnaire data gathered over two Parliaments (1992-97 and 1997-2001) to find out how MPs learn about, and what their attitudes are towards, their role as a Member of Parliament. It analyzes their...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-07-26
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  How Power Changes Hands

How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-27
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK

Based on interviews with officials, requesters and journalists, as well as a survey of FOI requesters and a study of stories in the national media, this book offers a unique insight into how the Freedom of Information Act 2000 really works.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-11
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  After Number 10

Having lost an election, been thrown out by their party, or retired on grounds of ill-health, what do former British prime ministers do? In the first book to look at the lives, political roles and influence of former prime ministers, Theakston analyzes all the former...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-07
Collection : Understanding Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Ernest Gowers

Draws on previously inaccessible family archives to penetrate the anonymity and public reticence of one of Britain's great twentieth century civil servants. Gowers was highly influential in public policy throughout his long civil service career, which began in 1903 and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-09-23
Collection : Understanding Governance
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