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Author : James Atherton Riedel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0536004641
Author : Lauren Joseph,Matthew Mahler,Javier Auyero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780387725949
Ethnography is uniquely equipped to look microscopically at the foundations of political institutions and their attendant sent of practices, just as it is ideally suited to explain why political actors behave the way they do and to identify the causes, processes and outcomes that are part and parcel of political life. This volume, based on a special issue of Qualitative Sociology offers an ethnographic study of politicians and political systems.
Author : Carolyn J. Heinrich,Laurence E. Lynn (jr.)
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780878407996
Drawing on recent advances in social science, these essays demonstrate how rigorous, theory-based research in public management can improve government performance. They reflect the improved techniques in data and statistics which allow researchers to contruct more incisive models of governance.
Author : Alan S. Gerber,Eric M. Patashnik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815731221
The U.S. Constitution calls on the government to "promote the general welfare." In this provocative and innovative book, a distinguished roster of political scientists and economists evaluates its ability to carry out this task. The first section of the book analyzes government performance in the areas of health, transportation, housing, and education, suggesting why suboptimal policies often prevail. The second set of chapters examines two novel and sometimes controversial tools that can be used to improve policy design: information markets and laboratory experiments. Finally, the third part of the book asks how three key institutions—Congress, the party system, and federalism—affect government's ability to solve important social problems. These chapters also raise the disturbing possibility that recent political developments have contributed to a decline in governmental problem-solving activity. Taken together, the essays in this volume suggest that opportunities to promote the common good are frequently missed in modern American government. But the book also carries a more hopeful message. By identifying possible solutions to the problems created by weak incentives, poor information, and inadequate institutional capacity, Promoting the General Welfare shows how government performance can be improved. Contributors include Eugene Bardach (University of California-Berkeley), Sarah Binder (Brookings Institution and George Washington University), Morris P. Fiorina (Stanford University), Jay P. Greene (University of Arkansas), Robin Hanson (George Mason University), Charles A. Holt (University of Virginia), David R. Mayhew (Yale University), Edgar O. Olsen (University of Virginia), Mark Carl Rom (Georgetown University), Roberta Romano (Yale Law School), William M. Shobe (University of Virginia), Angela M. Smith (University of Virginia), Aidan R. Vining (Simon Fraser University), David L. Weimer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Clifford Winston (Brook
Author : Edward Schatz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226736785
Scholars of politics have sought in recent years to make the discipline more hospitable to qualitative methods of research. Lauding the results of this effort and highlighting its potential for the future, Political Ethnography makes a compelling case for one such method in particular. Ethnography, the contributors amply demonstrate in a wide range of original essays, is uniquely suited for illuminating the study of politics. Situating these pieces within the context of developments in political science, Edward Schatz provides an overarching introduction and substantive prefaces to each of the volume’s four sections. The first of these parts addresses the central ontological and epistemological issues raised by ethnographic work, while the second grapples with the reality that all research is conducted from a first-person perspective. The third section goes on to explore how ethnographic research can provide fresh perspectives on such perennial topics as opinion, causality, and power. Concluding that political ethnography can and should play a central role in the field as a whole, the final chapters illuminate the many ways in which ethnographic approaches can enhance, improve, and, in some areas, transform the study of politics.
Author : Barry W. Poulson,John Merrifield
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781666932041
"In this book, nineteen experts examine topics ranging from constitutional reform and debt fatigue to fiscal rules and zero-based budgeting. Together, these contributions inform a multifaceted, nuanced argument for the need to formalize spending restraint and redefine state debt to include unfunded liabilities"--
Author : Stewart Riddle,Amanda Heffernan,David Bright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000506747
New Perspectives on Education for Democracy brings together diverse communities of education research in an innovative way to develop a nuanced understanding of the relationship between education and democracy. This book synthesises a range of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical approaches to address the complex challenges faced by young people and societies in the 21st century. Each chapter provides accounts of local democratic encounters in education, while engaging with global debates and issues, such as de-democratisation and growing social, economic, and educational inequality. This book presents new ways of thinking about democracy, local–global enactments of democracy through teaching and learning, and future thinking for a new era of democracy. This book will be relevant for educators, researchers, and policymakers who are interested in educational sociology, critical pedagogy, and democratic education.
Author : Timothy Cheek,Tony Saich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315293516
Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the tenacity of the CCP.
Author : Donald P. Haider-Markel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191611964
The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking. It contains a wide range of essays that define the important questions in the field, evaluate where we are in answering them, and set the direction and terms of discourse for future work. The Handbook will have a substantial influence in defining the field for years to come. The chapters critically assess both the key works of state and local politics literature and the ways in which the sub-field has developed. It covers the main areas of study in subnational politics by exploring the central contributions to the comparative study of institutions, behavior, and policy in the American context. Each chapter outlines an agenda for future research.
Author : Flinders, Matt,Wood, Matt
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447334583
Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or ‘quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed from democratic public debate altogether, leading many commentators to argue that they are part of a ‘crisis of democracy’, marking the ‘end of politics’. Tracing the political uses a broad range of international case studies to chart the politicising and depoliticising dynamics that shape debates about the future of governance and the liberal democratic state. The book is part of the New perspectives in policy and politics series, and will be an important text for students of politics and policy, as well as researchers and policy makers.
Author : David Berman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317459439
Politics at the state and local level has never been more interesting than in our "devolutionary" age. This popular text is the most concise, readable, and current introduction to the field. Now in its ninth edition, the book keeps its focus on the varied and changing political and economic environments in which state and local governments function, and their strengths and weaknesses in key areas of public policy. The text is enlivened by boxed sections that relate individual experiences or highlight particular issues and developments. Topics covered in this edition include the drive toward devolution in the federal system; fiscal constraints; political accountability; affirmative action; majority-minority districts; and changing approaches to welfare, education, land use, and law enforcement.
Author : H George Frederickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315290157
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction2. Theories of Institutional Dynamics3. Political and Administrative Cities4. The Evolution of Political Cities5. The Evolution of Administrative Cities6. The Evolution of the Model City Charter7. The Discovery of Adapted Cities8. Probing the Complexities of Adapted Cities9. The Conciliated City10. Conclusions
Author : Christopher A. Simon,Brent S. Steel,Nicholas P. Lovrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political science
ISBN : OCLC:1231463854
Author : David A. Moss,David Moss,John Cisternino
Publisher : The Tobin Project
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780982478806
As an experiment in reconnecting academia to the broader democracy, this work is designed to invigorate public policy debate by rededicating academic work to the pursuit of solutions to society's great problems.
Author : Jeffrey Quilter,Luis Jaime Castillo,Luis Jaime Castillo B.
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Mochica Indians
ISBN : 0884023621
Based on a set of papers presented by sixteen international scholars at the Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Studies symposium held in Lima, Peru, in 2004, this volume brings together essays on the nature of political organization of the Moche, a complex pre-Inca society that existed on the north coast of Peru from c. 100 to 800 CE.
