... sector polarization (in NPM) 99–100 public-private partnerships (PPPs) 100–2 purchaser-provider separation 98–9 quality-shading 221 quasi markets 99–100 quasi-governmental agencies 228 quasi-voluntary compliance 241 Quinn, ...
This book is essential reading for researchers, academics and anyone involved in discussions about how to improve the value and impact of funded research.
This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This book describes how a critical aspect of the modern state is managed, or in some cases mismanaged.
In many areas the impact of changes in knowledge and ideas is dramatized by attempts to use new technologies to cut through intractable social problems . These ' technological shortcuts to social change ' include examples where a ...
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This new reader is designed to break the mould of core executive studies by broadening the focus of analysis from the conventional concentration on the relative power of Prime Minister and Cabinet to assess the whole battery of mechanisms ...
This book is essential reading for researchers, academics and anyone involved in discussions about how to improve the value and impact of funded research. You can read a snapshot of the results, Visualising the Data, free online.
This is the first study skills book written directly for students on degree courses in the humanities and social sciences.
It also ties into the - The social sciences and the humanities have been slower to open up full data sets. - There are issues around both the storage and accessibility of data as well as the 'translation' that is required for other ...
This is an invaluable guide to better research communication within and beyond academia.
First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted.
In this major new work, John S. Dryzek and Patrick Dunleavy provide a broad-ranging assessment of classical and contemporary theories of the state, focusing primarily on the democratic state form that has come to dominate modern politics.
This volume focuses on the key features of British politics under Tony Blair. The text asks to what extent devolution and European integration have brought about a system of multi...
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 ...