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Innovation in City Governments
Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more with less, and expanding community expectations. Some are now calling this ‘social innovation’ – innovation that is related to creating new services that have value for stakeholders (such as citizens) in terms of the social and political outcomes they produce. Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership establishes an analytical framework of innovation capacity based on three dimensions: Structure - national governance and traditions, the local socioeconomic context, and the municipal structure Networks – interpersona...
Cultural Analysis
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Humble Theory
A collection of fifteen essays exploring what folklore is, its history, and how it all connects to the world. Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are foundational and persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand theory an...
Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century
Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to defend the state. Total defence forces, led by a diverse workforce of defence and security professionals, are critical to both national defence and international security goals. Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century looks at the various groups that make up this workforce: members of the military’s regular force, reservists, defence civil servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. When civilian staff and military personnel work towards a common goal, their distinct professional cultures and identities...
Corporate Governance öffentlicher Unternehmen
Peter Daiser nimmt in dieser empirischen Untersuchung eine integrierte Betrachtung von Corporate-Governance-Einflussfaktoren und deren Wirkung auf den kommunalen Corporate-Governance-Erfolg vor. Die Ergebnisse lassen den Schluss zu, dass eine aktive, gestaltende Rolle der Kommune bei der Steuerung und Kontrolle öffentlicher Unternehmen zu einem höheren Corporate-Governance-Erfolg führt als eine passive Kontrollfunktion. Ferner sollten überwachende Tätigkeiten behutsam eingesetzt werden, da sich ein hohes Maß an Kontrolle negativ auf den Corporate-Governance-Erfolg auswirken kann. Aus den Ergebnissen werden Empfehlungen für Wissenschaft und Praxis abgeleitet.
Catalan Review
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La teoría de la organización administrativa en Colombia
El texto de este libro hace un novedoso estudio de la organización administrativa colombiana, evitando caer en la descripción de los organismos y entidades administrativas para centrarse en aspectos dinámicos como la distribución de competencias en la conformación de la Administración Pública, el relacionamiento entre diversos sujetos públicos, la forma de racionalizar el obrar administrativo y la explicación organizacional de la asignación de competencias y atribución de responsabilidad. Como se dijo, es un estudio original hasta ahora no realizado en el derecho administrativo colombiano, que invita al lector a analizar temas jurídicos sin desconocer el necesario relacionamiento con otras disciplinas, específicamente la ciencia de la administración.
Voices of Modernity
Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This novel reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, they suggest new strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity.
