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31. Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes

    The Influence of the Open Method of Coordination on National Reforms

    Edited by Martin Heidenreich, Jonathan Zeitlin

    Series: Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State

    This book examines how and to what extent the European Employment Strategy and the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) on Social Protection and Social Inclusion have influenced national labour market and social welfare policies. Focusing on the implementation of the OMC in different national...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
32. Trust and Confidence in Government and Public Services

    Edited by Sue Llewellyn, Stephen Brookes, Ann Mahon

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

    Trust and confidence are topical issues. Pundits claim that citizens trust governments and public services increasingly less - identifying a powerful new erosion of confidence that, in the US, goes back at least to Watergate in the 1970s. Recently, media exposure in the UK about MP expenses has...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
33. World-Regional Social Policy and Global Governance

    New research and policy agendas in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America

    Edited by Bob Deacon, Maria Cristina Macovei, Luk Van Langenhove, Nicola Yeates

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This volume explores the case for and the prospects of the development of world-regional social policies as integral elements of a pluralistic, equitable and effective system of global governance. Focusing on transnational regionalism, this book examines the trajectory and crossing over of the...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
34. Protecting Immigrant Rights in Mexico

    Understanding the State-Civil Society Nexus

    By Laura Valeria González-Murphy

    Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

    The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. Laura González-Murphy offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
35. Taxation and Economic Development (Routledge Revivals)

    Twelve Critical Studies

    By John F. J. Toye

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    The tax system is one of the instruments said to be available to translate development policy objectives into practice. The wide-ranging papers collected together in this volume, first published in 1978, explore different aspects of the link between national development objectives and the tax...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
36. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships

    Edited by Piet de Vries, Etienne B. Yehoue

    Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

    A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private...

    Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
37. Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries

    Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia

    Edited by Saltanat Liebert, Stephen E. Condrey, Dmitry Goncharov

    Series: Public Administration and Public Policy

    Although it has been more than 20 years since Communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, many scholars and politicians still wonder what the lifting of the Iron Curtain has really meant for these former Communist countries. And, because these countries were largely...

    Published February 25th 2013 by CRC Press
38. Public Administration Research Methods

    Tools for Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice

    By Warren S. Eller, Brian J. Gerber, Scott E. Robinson

    The best decisions made by public sector managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what’s happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public sector manager are...

    Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
39. The Maoist Movement in India

    Perspectives and Counterperspectives

    Edited by Santosh Paul

    This book presents the raging debate on one of the most brutal political realities that India has confronted in recent years: the rising conflict between Maoist insurgent groups and the Indian State. With some of the finest writings on the subject, it brings together articles and interviews from...

    Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge India
40. The Post-Racial Society is Here

    Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State

    By Wilbur C. Rich

    Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

    In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants...

    Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge