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Why Politics Fails
The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them
2023 || Paperback || Ben Ansell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are the problem, it's that our collective goals result in five political 'traps'.
Democracy: we all want a say in how we're governed, but it's impossible to have any true 'will of the people'. Equality: we want to be treated equally, but equal rights and equal outcomes undermine each other. Solidarity: we want a safety net ...
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Politics of the Administrative Process
2023 || Paperback || Donald F. Kettl || SAGE
Politics of the Administrative Process gives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched view of the field while remaining reader-friendly with engaging vignettes and rich, current examples. With a unique focus on policymaking and politics, the Ninth Edition continues its strong emphasis on politics, accountability, and performance.
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A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis
The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
2023 || Paperback || Eugene S. Bardach e.a. || SAGE
Experts Eugene Bardach and Eric Patashnik equip both budding and seasoned policy analysts with the skills they need to succeed, with a practical model including step-by-step advice, insightful discussions, and current case studies.
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Mastering Public Administration / Druk 3
2023 || Paperback || Fry || CQ Press
Each chapter spotlights a significant theorist in the field, covering his/her life, research, writings, and impact, introducing the discipline's most important scholarship in both a memorable and approachable manner.
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Budget Tools: Financial Methods in the Public Sector / Druk 2
2023 || Paperback || Chen || CQ Press
Using budgets from all levels of government, as well as from non-profit organizations, this text brings together scores of exercises that will take students through the process of public budgeting, from organizing data, all the way through to analysis and presentation.
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Going Mainstream
How extremists are taking over
2023 || Paperback || Julia Ebner || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Today, accelerated by a pandemic, global conflict and rapid technological change, their ideas are becoming more widespread: QAnon proponents run for U.S. Congress, neo-fascists win elections in Europe, and celebrity influencers like Kanye West spread dangerous myths to millions.
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The European Council in the Era of Crises Paperback edition
2023 || Paperback || Jan Werts || John Harper Publishing Ltd
Jan Werts brings a unique perspective to the European Council. As a journalist, he has reported on the spot from virtually every European Council meeting since 1975, a witness to countless episodes of last-minute arm-twisting and creative compromise. As a scholar, he wrote the first ever doctoral dissertation on the European Council, published in 1992. In 2008 he carried the story forward to the verge of the start of the permanent presidency. In this latest book, against the background of the...
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Tools for Decision Making
A Practical Guide for Local Government
2023 || Paperback || David N. Ammons || SAGE Publications Inc
Known for encouraging step-by-step problem solving and for connecting techniques to real-world scenarios, this title covers a range of local government practices - from the foundational to the advanced. It includes chapters that opens with a problem in a hypothetical city and then introduces a tool to address it.
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Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World
2023 || Paperback || Schulz || SAGE
A diverse collection of regional experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet.
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Public Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects / Druk 6
2023 || Paperback || Kearney || CQ Press
Edited by two senior public human resource management scholars, this well-regarded edited volume gathers concise essays by major scholars on critical issues in the field of contemporary public human resources management.