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Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession...
Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
The former President of the United States, Bill Clinton and, at the time of publication, still current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair have described their style of government as a ‘Third Way’. In this important and timely book, Flavio Romano identifies and clarifies the...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 -...
Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch’s principal minister. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early years of the twenty-first, however, both the power and the significance of the role have been...
Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems...
Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
First published in 1984, this book examines the style of leadership amongst senior civil servants and its impact on administrative reform by investigating the work of Sir Percival Waterfield who was First Civil Service Commissioner from 1939 to 1951. He was responsible for setting up the Civil...
Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
Originally published in 1968, Richard Chapman’s pioneering work illuminates the process of decision making by analysis of a particular example: the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September, 1957. The legal responsibility for a decision may be easy to pinpoint; in this case the Court of...
Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Government Official History Series
This text analyzes British official thinking behind the UK's standing aloof from the moves after 1945 towards European economic collaboration, leading to the establishment of ECSC and the EEC in the 1950s. It deals with the later change of tack (1961), covers the organization in Whitehall for the...
Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book provides an examination of contemporary Anglo-American relations. Anglo-American relations, sometimes controversially referred to as the Special Relationship, constitute arguably the most important bilateral relationship of modern times. Yet in recent years, there have been frequent...
Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
First published in 1989, Michael’s Foley’s book deals with the ‘abeyances’ present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are preserved, provide the means by which constitutional conflict is continually...
Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
