Focusing on the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Hungary, countries that represent key variations in European public administration, this textbook explores how the cultural, organizational, personnel and financial dimensions of public administration compare. The guiding questions are whether, to what extent and why the politico-administrative systems and their reforms show convergence or divergence from Europeanization. Key features of the second edition: Country profiles, comparative r...

In 2019 bestaat S.M.A.K. 20 jaar, en tegelijkertijd is het 20 jaar geleden dat er een collectiecatalogus van het S.M.A.K. verscheen. Met S.M.A.K. Highlights for a future verschijnt een boek dat een genereus beeld geeft van de collectie van het museum. De selectie in dit boek is een representatieve doorsnede uit een collectie van meer dan 3500 werken. Het boek neemt u mee in het labyrinth van de hedendaagse kunst, van iconische werken en klassiekers, over verborgen parels en recente aanwinsten...

After the death of Stalin, a small group of art enthusiasts in the Soviet Union started to collect modernist artworks that were considered formalist or anti-revolutionary, and were therefore ignored by official art institutions.

By doing so, these collectors played a pivotal role in the preservation of a crucial and now globally celebrated period of Russian cultural history.

The Paleev collection is the last of these private art collections to remain intact and in the hands of the family. It...

the Royal Museum for Central Africa was renovated. A wealth of photographs provides readers with a unique picture of the compre-hensive renovations to the 1910 building and its architectural metamorphosis. The museum was not only in urgent physical need of restoration, but also required a thorough transformation to turn it into a museum suitable for the 21st century. Photographs taken before, during and after renovation bear testament to that long and complex process. In addition to the splen...