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Digital government

technology and public sector performance

Few developments have had broader consequences for the public sector than the introduction of the Internet and digital technology. In this book, Darrell West discusses how new technology is altering governmental performance, the political process, and democracy itself by improving government responsiveness and increasing information ...

Strategic market management

Updated to reflect current business thinking and market conditions, this new edition of "Strategic Market Management" illustrates a structured approach to external market analysis that business managers can apply to their strategic decision making. By using a variety of concepts and methods such as strategic ...

Demanding work

the paradox of job quality in the affluent economy

Since the early 1980s, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialized world. Many workers are doing more skilled and fulfilling jobs, and getting paid more for their trouble. Yet it is often alleged that the quality of ...

The idea of a european superstate

public justification and european integration

Is there a justification for European integration? "The Idea of a European Superstate" examines this - the most basic-question raised by the European Union. In doing so, Glyn Morgan assesses the arguments put forward by eurosceptics and their critics. In a challenge to both sides of ...

Political power and corporate control

the new global politics of corporate governance

Why does corporate governance - front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat - vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance - how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are ...

The embedded corporation

corporate governance and employment relations in Japan and the United State

Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging ...

Talking prices

symbolic meanings of prices on the market for contemporary art

How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? "Talking Prices" is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers ...

Immigrants

your country needs them

Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed - or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed ...

Faith in schools?

autonomy, citizenship, and religious education in the liberal State

Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools? Should it fund them? What principles should govern these decisions in a society marked by religious and cultural pluralism? In "Faith in Schools?", Ian MacMullen tackles these important questions through both political and educational theory, and he ...

Where Nation-States come from

institutional change in the age of nationalism

To date, the world can lay claim to little more than 190 sovereign independent entities recognized as nation-states, while by some estimates there may be up to eight hundred more nation-state projects underway and seven to eight thousand potential projects. Why do a few such ...

Paying the tab

the cost and benefits of alcohol control

What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered human potential. Young and old ...

Instituciones políticas

Economía política mundial

T.II.: Pugna e incertidumbre en la economía mundial

Segunda parte de una obra que centra su atención en aspectos llamados a tener una influencia honda y duradera en la economía mundial: concretamente en las dinámicas estructurales que conforman las sociedades de nuestro tiempo y enmarcan lo que pueda ser su futuro.

Historia económica de la empresa

La historia económica de la empresa, o historia empresarial, es una disciplina híbrida, situada entre la historia, la economía y la dirección estratégica de empresas. Al preparar este manual, el mejor y más completo que hasta hoy haya aparecido en España, sus autores han tenido ...

La globalización de la pobreza

cómo se enriquecieron los países ricos...y por qué los países pobres siguen siendo pobres

¿Por qué sigue creciendo, día a día, la distancia que separa a los países ricos de los pobres? Erik S. Reinert, profesor de la Universidad Tecnológica de Tallin, revisa la historia del crecimiento económico del mundo desarrollado para demostrarnos que las reglas que hicieron posible ...

The other invisible hand

delivering public services through choice and competition

How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive ...

Mandates, parties, and voters

how elections shape the future

"No other work on this subject has developed the straightforward models of general applicability introduced by Fowler and Smirnov that relate mandate, policy-motivation, and competition in successive elections to turnout, uncertainty, and a host of control variables, not to mention evaluated such models empirically."

Trial Courts as organizations

Court administrators and judges have long acknowledged that culture plays an important role in the function of the nation's 16,000 trial courts. Trial Courts as Organizations provides a comprehensive framework for understanding this organizational culture, along with a set of steps and tools ...

The origins of capitalism and the "Rise of the West"

Eric Mielants provides a fresh, interdisciplinary interpretation of the origins of modernity in general and of capitalism in particular. He argues that, contrary to established thinking, the "Rise of the West" should not be examined through the lens of the Industrial Revolution or the colonization ...

The Foundation

a freat American secret. How private wealth is changing the world

The US foundations are worth $32 billion per year. This groundbreaking book shows how they can provide a vital spur to the engine of America's - and the world's - economies if properly established and run. Foundations are a peculiarly American institution with an enormous ...