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Understanding Policy Fiascoes
by Paul 'T HartA crisis of governance is widespread in western societies. Public administration is caught in a web of personal and organizational inter-dependencies that require continuous awareness and readjustment on the part of its practitioners. Understanding Policy Fiascoes applies policy analysis to come to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
How Power Changes Hands
by Paul ’t Hart • John UhrHow can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and presents the latest empirical ev... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Public Policy Disasters in Europe (Routledge Research in European Public Policy)
by Pat Gray • Paul’t HartThis book considers some recent and spectacular failures in policy-making and asks what is meant by policy 'disaster', the different forms that they can take and why they have occured. These issues are explored in nine contrasting cases drawn from both the European Union and its member states. These... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
The Politics of Crisis Management
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at hand, while critics and bureaucratic competitors try to seize the moment to blame incumbent rulers an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Governing the Pandemic: The Politics of Navigating a Mega-Crisis
This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease COVID-19. Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Guardians of Public Value: How Public Organisations Become and Remain Institutions
This open access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this volume examines how some organisations rise to prominence and remain in high publi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Beyond Groupthink
Strategic issues and crises in foreign policy are usually managed by relatively small groups of elite policymakers and their closest advisors. Since the pioneering work of Irving Janis in the early 1970s, we have known that the interplay between the members of these groups can have a profound and, i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
The Routledge Companion to Leadership (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)
Leadership has never been more important – and divisive – than it is today. The idea and discourse of the leader remains a critical factor in organizational and societal performance, but there is evident tension between the persistent focus on the critical importance of individual leaders and the in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Snakes in Suits
Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants someone who's fearless, charismatic, and full of new ideas. Candidate X is charming, smart, and has all the right answers to your questions. Problem solved, right? Maybe not. We'd like to think that if... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
The Politics of Crisis Management
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact, while critics and bureaucratic competitors make use of social media to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
A Companion to Research in Education
This volume offers a unique commentary on the diverse ways that educational inquiry is conceived, designed and critiqued. An international team of scholars examines cross-cutting themes of how research in education is conceptualised, characterised, contextualised, legitimated and represented. Cont... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Snakes in Suits, Revised Edition: Understanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your Office
Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and updated case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing look at psychopaths in the workplace—how to spot their destructive behavior and stop them from creating chaos in the modern corporate organization.Over the past decade, Snak... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment (Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences #14)
by Keith T. Poole • Howard Rosenthal • Ryan Bakker • Royce Carroll • Christopher Hare • David A. ArmstrongWith recent advances in computing power and the widespread availability of preference, perception and choice data, such as public opinion surveys and legislative voting, the empirical estimation of spatial models using scaling and ideal point estimation methods has never been more accessible.The sec... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Operative Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Rob & Smith's Operative Surgery Series)
Since the first edition was published, this book has become the standard text for trainees in oral and maxillofacial surgery preparing for their exit examinations (intercollegiate FRCS). This third edition represents a major advance with each chapter thoroughly revised and updated and relevant new t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia
by Corbin D. Hilling • Valerie A. Kells • Michael J. Pinder • Derek A. Wheaton • Paul E. Bugas • Donald J. OrthA beautifully illustrated guide to the diverse and numerous freshwater fish species in Virginia.In Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia, the foremost experts on Commonwealth fishes bring their decades of field experience to readers, offering a complete reference to the fishes of the entire s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Information Systems Security: 16th International Conference, ICISS 2020, Jammu, India, December 16–20, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12553)
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2020, held in Jammu, India, during December 16-20, 2020.The 11 regular papers, 2 short papers and 3 work-in-progress papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Animal Welfare in a Changing World
by Temple Grandin • David A. Fennell • Tomas Norton • Paul C. Paquet • Elly Hiby • Mark Jones • Conor Ryan • Philip Lymbery • Andrew Butterworth • Rebecca Aldworth • Shelley M. Alexander • Regina Asmutis-Silvia • Panayiotis Panos Azmanis • Prof Daniel Berckmans • Lotta Berg • Harry Blokhuis • Xavier Boivin • John Bradshaw • Prof. Victoria Braithwaite • Stijn Bruers • Henry Buller • Joyce D’Silva • Sarah Dolman • Chris Draper • Charles Foster • Taryn Glass • Adam Hart • Sophia Hepple • Kristof Hermans • Miel Hostens • Michael J Kuba • Miriam Martin • Geert Opsomer • Maria Panagiotopoulou • Mark Simmonds • Kalliopi Stara • Rigas Tsiakiris • Bonny Ranst • Paul Whittington • James YeatesContemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Animal Welfare in a Changing World
by Temple Grandin • David A. Fennell • Tomas Norton • Paul C. Paquet • Andrew Butterworth • Elly Hiby • Mark Jones • Conor Ryan • Philip Lymbery • Rebecca Aldworth • Shelley M. Alexander • Regina Asmutis-Silvia • Panayiotis Panos Azmanis • Prof Daniel Berckmans • Lotta Berg • Harry Blokhuis • Xavier Boivin • John Bradshaw • Prof. Victoria Braithwaite • Stijn Bruers • Henry Buller • Joyce D’Silva • Sarah Dolman • Chris Draper • Charles Foster • Taryn Glass • Adam Hart • Sophia Hepple • Kristof Hermans • Miel Hostens • Michael J Kuba • Miriam Martin • Geert Opsomer • Maria Panagiotopoulou • Mark Simmonds • Kalliopi Stara • Rigas Tsiakiris • Bonny Ranst • Paul Whittington • James YeatesContemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
A Clinician’s Guide to Mental Health Conditions in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Assessment and Interventions
by David Murphy • Colin Hemmings • Sarah Bernard • Will Mandy • Richard Mills • Ailsa Russell • Kate Johnston • Amitta Shah • Dene Robertson • Daniel Clear • Cornelia Carey • Karina Marshall-Tate • Cristal Oxley • Tanja Sappok • Dougal Hare • Sarah Blainey • Freya Rumball • Barry Tolchard • Sally Cubbin • Quinton Deeley • Emma Woodhouse • Heather Westwood • Eleni Paliokosta • Manus Moynihan • Francisco Musich • Cynthia D'Agostino • Annelies Spek • Michelle Kiep • Emmie Neophytou • Aida Malovic • Clare Melvin • Ellie Wilson • Joe PowellThis comprehensive and much-needed guide addresses the issues faced by clinicians in assessing and treating the range of mental health conditions, which can affect adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Its particular focus on adults fills a notable gap in the ASD professional literature, with ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022