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Research Design in Social Science
This book provides a comprehensive, accessible guide to social science methodology. In so doing, it establishes methodology as distinct from both meth...
The New Durkheimians
These two volumes present the most important recent developments in the institutional theory of culture and demonstrate their practical applications. ...
Drawing on a number of reforms and innovations taking place in governments around the world and in large organizations more generally, shows how the r...
This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her work f...
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Privacy, Identity and Trust in the Age of Smart Technologies
Strategies for Holistic Government
"In this report, the authors set out the principal lessons that government can learn from early experiences of holistic working. They identifiy the re...
Futures for Dentistry in 2010
The impact of information technology (IT) on government in the last five years has been profound. Using the governments of Canada and Ontario (both re...
How Britain Can Grow Old Better in the Twenty First Century
The New Reform Agenda
The search for a more holistic approach to policy and management looks set to be as much a hallmark of public service reform in the early twenty first...
Non-profit Law and Freedom of Speech
This is a study of certain questions. Which countries restrict the freedom of political speech of private non-profit organizations?. Why do they do so...
What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What ...
Styles of Political Judgment in the Information Age Polity
The e-governance revolution is said to be changing everything, but will all the modelling tools, electronic meeting management systems and online cons...
The Case for Pragmatism in Public Policies Towards the Non-profit Sector
Britain and the First International Regulatory Regime Before 1914
This book draws on neo-Durkheimian institutional theory to explain why states commit to cooperating in multilateral regimes with other states even whi...
The book presents a novel theory of how networks of organizations work, what varieties are possible, and how their strengths and weaknesses differ. Th...
Includes statistics....
Policy Implementation as Sense-Makign and Settlement
Beyond Delivery sets out a critique of the dirigiste and mechanical ways in which some policy makers seek to exercise governance over the implementati...
Bringing East Central Europe Into the European Union