Comparative Governance
Comparative Governance

Author: B. Guy Peters

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-07

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1316738175

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Decision-making is at the heart of governing and governance, and is a more challenging task compared to just a few decades ago as a result of increasing social complexity and globalization. In this book, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre propose a new framework for the comparative analysis of governance, arguing that government remains a central actor in governance. By articulating the functionalist dimension of governance they show how goal setting, resource mobilization, decision-making, implementation and feedback can be performed by a combination of different types of actors. Even so, effective governance requires a leading role for government. The framework is also applied to a taxonomy of governance arrangements and national styles of governing. Comparative Governance advances our knowledge about governance failure and how forms of governance may change. It also significantly strengthens the theory of governance, showing how governance can be studied conceptually as well as empirically.

Comparative Corporate Governance
Comparative Corporate Governance

Author: Afra Afsharipour

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1788975332

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This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.

Comparative Governance Reform in Asia
Comparative Governance Reform in Asia

Author: Clay Wescott

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2008-08-04

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1846639964

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Features chapters that analyze and compare the experiences of Asian countries in carrying out governance reforms. This book tackles such questions as: how common reform packages designed for developed countries are implemented in developing countries? What happens in the reform diffusion process? And what are the obstacles to reform success?

Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance
Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance

Author: Jos Raadschelders

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 1119026199

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Global Dimensions of Public Administration is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach that draws on knowledge sources across the social sciences. It provides a global, historical, and theoretical examination of the management and governance of the modern state with an emphasis on the structure, function, policies and reforms of over 30 countries. Readers will gain an understanding of the relationship between structure (territory, bureaucracy, political system) and function (policy and reforms) of government in its political and societal contexts. The authors' comparative approach features rich examples of how policy is culture-dependent and how the principles of modern bureaucracy are filtered to fit a nation's needs and expectations. Each chapter ends with comparative conclusions. Mid-career public sector professionals in executive education programs will better-understand the role and position of government in the contemporary world, not only in democratic societies, but also in less democratic environments.

Comparative Corporate Governance
Comparative Corporate Governance

Author: Andreas M. Fleckner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-11

Total Pages: 1252

ISBN-13: 1107355117

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The business corporation is one of the greatest organizational inventions, but it creates risks both for shareholders and for third parties. To mitigate these risks, legislators, judges, and corporate lawyers have tried to learn from foreign experiences and adapt their regulatory regimes to them. In the last three decades, this approach has led to a stream of corporate and capital market law reforms unseen before. Corporate governance, the system by which companies are directed and controlled, is today a key topic for legislation, practice, and academia all over the world. Corporate scandals and financial crises have repeatedly highlighted the need to better understand the economic, social, political, and legal determinants of corporate governance in individual countries. Comparative Corporate Governance furthers this goal by bringing together current scholarship in law and economics with the expertise of local corporate governance specialists from twenty-three countries.

Governance and Politics of China
Governance and Politics of China

Author: Tony Saich

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780230279933

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Now available in a substantially revised 3rd edition covering the changes of the Seventeenth Party Congress and Eleventh National People's Congress and other recent developments, this major text by a leading academic authority provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of politics and governance in post-Mao China.

Success and Failure in Public Governance
Success and Failure in Public Governance

Author: M. A. P. Bovens

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 1843762854

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Why do some policies succeed so well while others, in the same sector or country, fail dramatically? The aim of this book is to answer this question and provide systematic research on the nature, sources and consequences of policy failure. The expert contributors analyse and evaluate the success and failure of four policy areas (Steel, Health Care, Finance, HIV and the Blood Supply) in six European countries, namely France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Spain and Sweden. The book is therefore able to compare success and failure across countries as well as policy areas, enabling a test of a variety of theoretical assumptions about policy making and government.

Comparative Corporate Governance
Comparative Corporate Governance

Author: Petri Mäntysaari

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-16

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 3540264604

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An analytical overview of the regulation of shareholder activism in the UK and Germany. The book shows how the comparative legal method can be used in the study of the corporate governance systems of different countries. It deals with the regulation of the governance of listed companies within a wide framework that recognises the importance of company law, securities markets law, standards and internal rule-making.

Comparative Corporate Governance
Comparative Corporate Governance

Author: Klaus J. Hopt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1304

ISBN-13: 9780198268888

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"This book goes back to a symposium held at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law in Hamburg on May 15-17 1997"--P. [v].