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This title includes chapters on decentralisation and reform, an international perspective on decentralisation, opportunities and challenges for leadership and collegiality and moving forward, amongst others, in a geographically decentralised Irish public service.
Assesses performance verification, which is the "means of formally linking public service pay with industrial relations stability, cooperation with flexibility and ongoing change, and the implementation of an agenda of public service modernisation." - page 1.
Leading Irish academics and policy practitioners present a comprehensive study of policy analysis in Ireland. Contributors investigate the roles of the EU, the public, science, the media and gender expertise in policy analysis. This text examines policy analysis at different levels of government and identifies future challenges for policy analysis.
In recent decades there has been increasing historical interest in various aspects of local urban politics, resulting in a much better understanding of the recruitment and socio-economic characteristics of municipal leadership and the exercise of power at a local level. However, much less is known about the highly important offices and office-holders standing at the ceremonial, political and executive head of towns and cities. Through a comparative analysis of mayoralty since1800, this volume explores the characteristics of the office in relation to such issues as the constitutional position of mayors, their ceremonial and executive roles, their representational status in relation to local, ...