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Author: Ian Stafford
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2023-09
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1447355229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on fieldwork from the UK, France and Germany, this volume addresses the relationship between trust and transparency in the context of multi-level governance.
Author: Ian Stafford
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2022-03-24
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1447355237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs transparency a necessary condition to build and restore citizen and civil society trust in governance and democracy? Throughout Europe, there is a growing demand for effective forms of citizen engagement and decentralisation in policy-making to increase trust and engage increasingly diverse populations. This volume addresses the relationship between trust and transparency in the context of multi-level governance. Drawing on fieldwork from the UK, France and Germany, this comparative analysis examines different efforts to build trust between key actors involved in decision-making at the sub-national level. It outlines the challenges of delivering this agenda and explores the paradox that trust might require transparency, yet in some instances transparency may undermine trust.
Author: Felix Gille
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2023-09
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1447367332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-ND licence. This book explores the concept of public trust in health systems. In the context of recent events, including public response to interventions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination uptake and the use of health data and digital health, this important book uses empirical evidence to address why public trust is vital to a well-functioning health system. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive contemporary explanation of public trust, how it affects health systems and how it can be nurtured and maintained as an integral component of health system governance.
Author: Paul Chaney
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2024-04-09
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1447353420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how the uncertainties of the 21st century present existential challenges to civil society. Presenting original empirical findings, it highlights transferable lessons that will inform policy and practice in today’s age of uncertainty.
Author: Robin Mann
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2024-08-13
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1447356497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEpdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level. The concept of civil society is contested and multifaceted, and this text offers assessment and clarification of debates concerning the intertwining of civil society, the state and local community relations. Analysing two Welsh villages, the authors examine the importance of identity, connection with place and the impact of social and spatial boundaries on the everyday production of civil society. Bringing into focus questions of biography and temporality, the book provides an innovative account of continuities and changes within local civil society during social and economic transformation.
Author: Taylor, Roger
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016-06-20
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1447325362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing case studies from around the world, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that can be taken to make it more effective.
Author: James N. Druckman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 671
ISBN-13: 1108478506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNovel collection of essays addressing contemporary trends in political science, covering a broad array of methodological and substantive topics.
Author: Ramses Amer
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1783080655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘The Security-Development Nexus: Peace, Conflict and Development’ approaches the subject of the security-development nexus from a variety of different perspectives. Chapters within this study address the nexus specifically, as well as investigate its related issues, particularly those linked to studies of conflict and peace. These expositions are supported by a strong geographical focus, with case studies from Africa, Asia and Europe being included. Overall, the text’s collected essays provide a detailed and comprehensive view of conflict, security and development.
Author: Barbera, Filippo
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1447353358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe principles of the modern foundational economy and its role in renewing citizenship and informing public policy are explored for the first time in this instructive collection. Challenging mainstream social and economic thinking, it shows how foundational economy experiments at different scales can foster radical social innovation through collective, rather than private, consumption. An interdisciplinary group of respected European academics provide case studies of initiatives and interventions around policy cornerstones including housing, food supply and water and waste management. They build a judicious evidence base of the growing relevance of foundational economic thinking and its potential to provide a new political and social outlook on civil society and social justice.
Author: Russell Hardin
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2006-04-05
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780745624655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan we trust our elected representatives or is public life so corrupted that we can no longer rely on governments to protect our interests or even our civil liberties? Is the current mood of public distrust justified or do we need to re-evaluate our understanding of trust in the global age? In this wide-ranging book, Russell Hardin sets out to dispel the myths surrounding the concept of trust in contemporary society and politics. He examines the growing literature on trust to analyze public concerns about declining levels of trust, both in our fellow citizens and in our governments and their officials. Hardin explores the various manifestations of trust and distrust in public life – from terrorism to the internet, social capital to representative democracy. He shows that while today’s politicians may well be experiencing a decline in public confidence, this is nothing new; distrust in government characterized the work of leading liberal thinkers such as David Hume and James Madison. Their views, he contends, are as relevant today as they were in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and we should not, therefore, be distressed at the apparent distrust of twenty-first century government. On a personal level, Hardin contends that the world in which we live is much more diverse and interconnected than that of our forebears and this will logically result in higher levels of personal trust and distrust between individuals. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on trust, this book will be a valuable resource for students of government and politics, sociology and philosophy.
