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Sunwings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Sunwings

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Politics in the Republic of Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Politics in the Republic of Ireland

Politics in the Republic of Ireland is now available in a fully revised fifth edition. Building on the success of the previous four editions, it continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of politics in the Republic of Ireland. Written by some of the foremost experts on Irish politics, it explains, analyzes and interprets the background to Irish government and contemporary political processes. Bringing students up to date with the very latest developments, Coakley and Gallagher combine real substance with a highly readable style, providing an accessible textbook that meets the needs of all those who are interested in knowing how politics and government operate in Ireland.

Town Hall Tales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Town Hall Tales

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Size and Local Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Size and Local Democracy

How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector reformers alike fro

From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of political parties. This volume systematically examines these two prominent developments in contemporary democratic politics and the relationship between them. It presents a cross-national comparative comparison that covers around 50 years in 26 democracies through the use of more than 20 indicators. It offers the most comprehensive comparative cross-national estimation of the variance in the levels and patterns of party change and political personalization among countries to date, using existing works as well injecting ...

The European Mayor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The European Mayor

With this book we aim at describing and analysing the selection, daily life, networks and values of local top political leaders in seventeen European countries. The empirical nourishment to the investigation into town halls across Europe is a survey conducted in 2003 with mayors and corresponding top local political leaders. The data covering responses from 2700 leaders is a unique and rich material allowing descriptions and analyses pursuing a number of lines of inquiry.

Making Local Government Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Making Local Government Work

This book looks at the development of local government on a global scale: its history, practice, and future. Leon van den Dool explores local government from a practical standpoint, including human resource policy and financial management, offers a concise summary of modern public management theories, and links this theory with practice, providing case studies from countries at different stages of development. A valuable tool for students and scholars of management, Making Local Government Work is also an excellent overview for anyone interested in how such organizations really operate.

Governance and the Democratic Deficit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Governance and the Democratic Deficit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. Governance is used to describe policy making and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical, network-like structure through negotiation and cooperation between public and private actors at one or across different political levels. This comprehensive volume combines empirical analysis and normative assessment of governance practices, providing a systematic approach based on a framework for assessing democratic legitimacy. It addresses different modes of governance at the local/regional, national, European and international levels. The volume assesses the alleged 'democratic deficit' of these new governance practices and as such is ideally suited to courses on public administration.

Political Language and Metaphor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Political Language and Metaphor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-03-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyze the use of metaphor in political science and international relations.

Implementing Public Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Implementing Public Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-09-16
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Bringing the major current insights in implementation research and theory together, Public Policy, Implementation and Governance reviews the literature on public policy implementation, relating it to contemporary developments in thinking about governance. The text stresses the continuing importance of a focus upon implementation processes and explores its central relevance to the practice of public administration. In light of the changing nature of governance, Hill and Hupe suggest strategies for both future research on and management of public policy implementation. Their basic approach is two-fold: firstly, to understand the process of implementation and secondly, to address how one might ...