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The Spanish Billionaire's Pregnant Wife
Leandro Carrera Marquez, Duque de Sandoval, was as aristocratic, proud and arrogant as his name…and darkly handsome in an impossible, breathtaking way. What would this billionaire Spanish banker want with a struggling, impoverished waitress like Molly? But Leandro did want Molly—and he took her, accidentally making her pregnant with his child. In Leandro's traditional world, there was only one option—marry the mother of his heir. After all, none of his noble ancestors had actually married for love….
A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?
The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to cost and performance in UK government during the last thirty years. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? aims to address that gap, offering a unique evaluation of UK government modernization programmes from 1980 to the present day. The book provides a distinctive framework for evaluating long-term performance in government, bringing together the 'working better' and 'costing less' dimensions, and presents detailed primary evidence within that framework. This book explores the implications of their findings for widely held ideas about public management, the questions they present, and their policy implications for a period in which pressures to make government 'work better and cost less' are unlikely to go away.
The UK's Changing Democracy
The UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations. The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy. The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British po...
Growing the Productivity of Government Services
'Carrera and Dunleavy provide a crystal clear and comprehensive account of the complex issues involved in how best to improve the productivity of government services. They offer a nuanced but powerful explanation of productivity puzzles, conundrums and dilemmas in the public sector. But they also offer solutions to many of these problems. Finally, I have found a text on public economics that makes sense, gives genuine management insights and offers real suggestions to practitioners as to what to do next.' – Barry Quirk, Chief Executive, London Borough of Lewisham, UK 'This book presents a welcome and sobering analysis of productivity performance in UK central government – a subject that ...
Managing Under Austerity, Delivering Under Pressure
Contemporary public managers find themselves under pressure on many fronts. Coming off a sustained period of growth in their funding and some complacency about their performance, they now face an environment of ferocious competitiveness abroad and austerity at home. Public managers across Australia and New Zealand are finding themselves wrestling with expenditure reduction, a smaller public sector overall, sustained demands for productivity improvement, and the imperative to think differently about the optimal distribution of responsibilities between states, markets and citizens. Given ever-shrinking resources, in terms of staffing, budgets and time, how can public managers and public servic...
Boundary Control
The democratization of a national government is only a first step in diffusing democracy throughout a country's territory. Even after a national government is democratized, subnational authoritarian 'enclaves' often continue to deny rights to citizens of local jurisdictions. Gibson offers new theoretical perspectives for the study of democratization in his exploration of this phenomenon. His theory of 'boundary control' captures the conflict pattern between incumbents and oppositions when a national democratic government exists alongside authoritarian provinces (or 'states'). He also reveals how federalism and the territorial organization of countries shape how subnational authoritarian regimes are built and how they unravel. Through a novel comparison of the late nineteenth-century American 'Solid South' with contemporary experiences in Argentina and Mexico, Gibson reveals that the mechanisms of boundary control are reproduced across countries and historical periods. As long as subnational authoritarian governments coexist with national democratic governments, boundary control will be at play.
Secrets et Passions
L'héritière de Madrigal Court Que s'est-il passé pour que la grand-mère d’Ophélia exige qu’elle épouse Lysander Metaxis, l'ennemi de la famille ? Ophélia comprend pourtant que si elle veut conserver Madrigal Court, la maison de son enfance, elle va devoir se marier à cet homme pour lequel elle ne ressent que du mépris... et une attirance irrésistible. Passion pour un milliardaire Accablée, Abby apprend que son frère a volé de l'argent pour assouvir sa passion du jeu. Comment, à présent, éviter la ruine de sa famille ? Une seule personne pourrait l'aider : Nikolaï Arlov, le richissime homme d'affaires russe qui la courtise depuis qu'elle a fait sa connaissance à un gala... Sous l'emprise d'un séducteur Engagée comme serveuse lors d'un mariage, Molly a la surprise d'être courtisée par Leandro Carrera Marquez, duc de Sandoval. Conquise par le charme de ce célèbre aristocrate, elle s'abandonne à l'attirance qu'elle éprouve pour lui. Pourtant, elle sait que Leandro n'éprouve rien pour elle et qu'il n'hésitera pas à la congédier lorsqu'il se sera lassé d'elle... Romans réédités
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Noha Molly ügyes keramikus, a szakmájából nem tud megélni, ezért egy rendezvényszervező cégnél pincérkedik. Egy ilyen estélyen figyel fel a spanyol férfira, aki lovagiasan megvédi őt néhány becsípett erőszakoskodótól. A lány később hazaviszi kis autóján a taxijára hiába váró fiatalembert, s végül is az ágyban kötnek ki. A varázslatos éjszaka következményeit Leandro mindenképpen vállalni akarja, de vajon mit szól majd főnemesi családja?
