Trajectories Of Governance

Author : Giliberto Capano,Anthony R. Zito,Federico Toth,Jeremy Rayner
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3031074564

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Trajectories of Governance by Giliberto Capano,Anthony R. Zito,Federico Toth,Jeremy Rayner Pdf

This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations – England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands – between 1970 and 2018. More specifically, it examines how the governance approaches and the sets of policy tools used to govern have altered with respect to four public policy sectors that represent core responsibilities of the modern OECD state: education, energy, environment and health. To structure this analytical approach, the book harnesses sociological institutionalism in the area of ‘policy sequencing’ to trace both the motivations and the consequences of policy-makers’ altering governance approaches and the resulting policy tools. Combining a comparative and international focus, this book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy and governance.

Author : J. Pierre,B. Peters
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230512641

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Governing Complex Societies by J. Pierre,B. Peters Pdf

Western societies are becoming increasingly complex and challenging to govern, yet the modern state continues to play a central role in governance. This book presents a detailed analysis of the challenges confronting the contemporary state and the processes through which the state addresses those challenges. The notion of 'governing without government' is critiqued; instead, Pierre and Peters argue that what is happening a more a matter of state transformation than state decline.

Author : Viviana García Pinzón
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529236309

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Trajectories of Governance by Viviana García Pinzón Pdf

Trajectories of Governance studies the complex dynamics of order-making, violence and governance in peripheral cities in Latin America from a comparative, historical and multi-scalar approach. It aims to discover more about the drivers, contexts and uneven levels of violence through the case studies of Chalatenango and Sonsonate in El Salvador and Pereira and Tunja in Colombia. Based on a multidisciplinary analytical framework, it explains why and how some peripheral cities have become the locus of violent orders, whereas others have managed to control violence, and to examine the role of violence in the workings of local governance.

Author : Giliberto Capano,Anthony R. Zito,Federico Toth,Jeremy Rayner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031074578

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Trajectories of Governance by Giliberto Capano,Anthony R. Zito,Federico Toth,Jeremy Rayner Pdf

This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations – England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands – between 1970 and 2018. More specifically, it examines how the governance approaches and the sets of policy tools used to govern have altered with respect to four public policy sectors that represent core responsibilities of the modern OECD state: education, energy, environment and health. To structure this analytical approach, the book harnesses sociological institutionalism in the area of ‘policy sequencing’ to trace both the motivations and the consequences of policy-makers’ altering governance approaches and the resulting policy tools. Combining a comparative and international focus, this book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy and governance.

Author : Andreas Walther,Marcelo Parreira do Amaral,Morena Cuconato,Roger Dale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472589545

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Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe by Andreas Walther,Marcelo Parreira do Amaral,Morena Cuconato,Roger Dale Pdf

Drawing on findings from a large EU-funded research project that took place over three years, this book analyses educational trajectories of young people in eight European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Contributors explore interactions between structural and institutional contexts of educational trajectories, the individual meaning attached to education and the strategies adopted by young people to cope with its demands. The book also analyses the decision-making processes of individual students, placing them firmly within the social contexts of their families, local schools, national education systems and welfare states, as well as transnational policy contexts. In considering educational disadvantage, the book is based on primary, cross-national research with systematic analysis of the different themes addressed. As every chaptersis co-authored by two or three researchers, each based in a different country, the book goes beyond the usual country-based chapter design to provide an enriched insight into both comparative theory and research methods.

Author : M. Federowicz,R. Aguilera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230286191

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Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment by M. Federowicz,R. Aguilera Pdf

This collection provides exceptional descriptive and analytical insights into changes in corporate governance settings in ten Eastern and Western European countries. It demonstrates that there exist different varieties of capitalisms and paths to transformation of economic institutions. In addition, it offers detailed discussions about national cases as well as the overall European Union effects. This book should be of great interest to scholars and students of comparative national systems, corporate governance and European studies.

Author : Jon Pierre,B. Guy Peters
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1403940614

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Governance, Politics and the State by Jon Pierre,B. Guy Peters Pdf

The term 'governance' has become one of the most widely used in debates in Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations - often to mean very different things. Written by two leading political scientists, Governance, Politics and the State is the first systematic introduction to its nature, meaning and significance. Its central concern is with how societies are being, and can be, steered in an increasingly complex world where states must increasingly interact with and influence other actors and institutions to achieve results.

Author : Kim Fontaine-Skronski,Michèle Rioux
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137515198

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Global Governance Facing Structural Changes by Kim Fontaine-Skronski,Michèle Rioux Pdf

Contemporary governance is a contested field of competing institutional schemes and system of rules. This book analyzes new institutional trajectories, the renewal of old institutions or the emergence of new ones, to understand their interaction and how they can help renew collective action in a new world of global digital capitalism.

Author : Sarah Bell,Adriana Allen,Pascale Hofmann,Tse-Hui Teh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319426860

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Urban Water Trajectories by Sarah Bell,Adriana Allen,Pascale Hofmann,Tse-Hui Teh Pdf

Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. Conventional arrangements for understanding and managing water in cities are being subverted by a range of natural, technological, political, economic and social changes. The prognosis for water in cities remains unclear, and multiple visions and discourses are emerging to fill the space left by the certainty of nineteenth century urban water planning and engineering. This book documents a sample of those different trajectories, in terms of water transformations, option, services and politics. Water is a key element shaping urban form, economies and lifestyles, part of the ongoing transformation of cities. Cities are faced with a range of technical and policy options for future water systems. Water is an essential urban service, but models of provision remain highly contested with different visions for ownership of infrastructure, the scale of provision, and the level of service demanded by users. Water is a contentious political issue in the future of cities, serving different urban interests as power and water seem to flow in the same direction. Cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America provide case studies and emerging water challenges and responses. Comparison across different contexts demonstrates how the particular and the universal intersect in complex ways to generate new trajectories for urban water.

Author : Rachel Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000036343

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Transparency by Rachel Adams Pdf

This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy. This is, ostensibly, the information age. At the heart of the societal shift toward digitalisation is the call for transparency and the liberalisation of information and data. Yet, with the recent rise of concerns such as 'fake news', post-truth and misinformation, where the policy responses to all these phenomena has been a petition for even greater transparency, it becomes imperative to critically reflect on what this dominant idea means, whom it serves, and what the effects are of its power. In response, this book provides the first sustained critique of the concept of transparency in law and policy. It offers a concise overview of transparency in law and policy around the world, and critiques how this concept works discursively to delimit other forms of governance, other ways of knowing and other realities. It draws on the work of Michel Foucault on discourse, archaeology and genealogy, together with later Foucaultian scholars, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Judith Butler, as a theoretical framework for challenging and thinking anew the history and understanding of what has become one of the most popular buzzwords of 21st century law and governance. At the intersection of law and governance, this book will be of considerable interest to those working in these fields; but also to those engaged in other interdisciplinary areas, including society and technology, the digital humanities, technology laws and policy, global law and policy, as well as the surveillance society.

Author : Sabine Kuhlmann,Geert Bouckaert
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137525479

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Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis by Sabine Kuhlmann,Geert Bouckaert Pdf

This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies. Based on the results of COST research entitled, ‘Local Public Sector Reforms: an International Comparison’, this volume takes a European-scale approach, examining local government in 28 countries. Local government has been the most seriously affected by the continuously expanding global financial crisis and austerity policies in some countries, and is experiencing a period of increased reform activity as a result. This book considers both those local governments which have adopted or moved away from New Public Management (NPM) modernization to ‘something different’ (what some commentators have labelled ‘post-NPM’), as well as those which have implemented ‘other-than-NPM measures’, such as territorial reforms and democratic innovations.

Author : Andreas Walther,Marcelo Parreira do Amaral,Morena Cuconato,Roger Dale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education and state
ISBN : 1474287204

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Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe by Andreas Walther,Marcelo Parreira do Amaral,Morena Cuconato,Roger Dale Pdf

Author : Darryl S. L. Jarvis,Ka Ho Mok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811392948

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Transformations in Higher Education Governance in Asia by Darryl S. L. Jarvis,Ka Ho Mok Pdf

This book documents experimentation with various policy and governance approaches that produce structural differences in the composition and organisation of Asia’s higher education systems. In view of the wide variation in the public and private provision of higher education, it showcases how issues of access, equity and modes of participation are addressed, how institutional and programme quality are managed and how academic labour is treated and developed. The book both maps these differences and analyses the country-level dynamics, policy approaches and the problems faced by a variety of states in Asia in the race to develop competitive higher education systems. Focusing on the intersection of governance and higher education policy, it addresses the challenges facing higher education in Asia and the national responses of governments in terms of the organisation of the sector.

Author : David L. Brody,Kari Emilsen,Tim Rohrmann,Jo Warin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000284362

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Exploring Career Trajectories of Men in the Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce by David L. Brody,Kari Emilsen,Tim Rohrmann,Jo Warin Pdf

The role of men in early childhood education and care is crucial for the future of all children growing up in a gender sensitive world. Achieving greater diversity and gender balance in the workforce has proved a challenging goal, despite concerted efforts on the part of individuals, institutions, and governments around the world. Many men remain reluctant to enter the profession, and once they choose this work many leave. This book explores how men in the field make their career decisions to remain in or leave the profession. Taking a broad international perspective and exploring the role of gender in these career decisions, contributors from around the globe unpack how gender concepts influence men’s career trajectories. Through their collaborative research, the team of 17 gender and early childhood researchers investigate various critical and relevant factors such as professionalisation, workplace environment, leadership, day to day interactions in the workplace, societal considerations, internal motivations, agency, masculinities, and critical moments in career decision making. Using cultural, racial, ethnic, and social class lenses to examine men’s career decisions over their professional lives, the contributors’ unique approach uncovers the complexity of the issue and offers evidence-based recommendations for policy both on national and local levels. These include practical suggestions to directors and managers who care about achieving a gender-mixed workforce. Accessible and enlightening, this is a unique resource for scholars, policymakers, and any others in the education community who support boosting the inclusion of men in early childhood education.

Author : Graeme Hayes,Sikina Jinnah,Prakash Kashwan,David M. Konisky,Sherilyn Macgregor,John M. Meyer,Anthony R. Zito
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000552232

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Trajectories in Environmental Politics by Graeme Hayes,Sikina Jinnah,Prakash Kashwan,David M. Konisky,Sherilyn Macgregor,John M. Meyer,Anthony R. Zito Pdf

This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to oversights and silences, and the marginalisation of important forms of analysis and thought. As several chapters in the book explore, problem-solving frameworks have increasingly taken away space from more radical systemic challenge and critique, as the key themes of environmental politics have become ever more central to the field of politics as a whole – and as our understandings of social and environmental crisis become ever clearer and more urgent. The second purpose of the volume is to map out a series of new and developing agendas for environmental politics. The chapters in this volume focus foremost on questions of justice, materiality, and power. Discussing state violence, multispecies justice, epistemic injustice, the circular economy, NGOs, parties, green transition, and urban climate governance, they call above all for greater attention to intersectionality and interdisciplinarity, and for centering key insights about power relations and socio-economic inequalities into increasingly widespread, yet also often depoliticised, topics in the study of environmental politics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.