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Author: E. Page
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-10-24
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0230288766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the changing role of senior civil servants in Western Europe and explores whether they have kept their central role in government decision-making. Looking at these issues in comparative perspective, the contributors provide an insight into the causes and consequences of the changing role of officials.
Author: Edward C. Page
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781349508617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the changing role of senior civil servants in Western Europe and explores whether they have kept their central role in government decision-making. Looking at these issues in comparative perspective, the contributors provide an insight into the causes and consequences of the changing role of officials.
Author: Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-16
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1108187978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCitizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world's largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2018-08-20
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1528785878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
Author: Johannes Angermüller
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9783825872380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume addresses the manifold conjunctures, interactions and disjunctures that occur at various levels of what has come to be rubricated under the buzzword of "globalization". While this term has the merit of reperiodizing our account of the capitalist dynamics, it simultaneously points to a crisis of representation both in political and epistemological terms. The contributions collected in this volume - being reflexive representations from the social sciences and humanities - assess some of the manifold aspects of this crisis.
Author: Erika Ábrahám
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-12-24
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 3031479637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2023, which took place in Lima, Peru, during December 4–8, 2023. The 20 full papers presented in this volume together with 3 invited papers and 1 tool paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They were organised in the topical sections as follows: Bring Together Practitioners; Researchers from Academia; Industry; Government to Present Research Results and Exchange Experience and Ideas.
Author: Paul Smeyers
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 1645
ISBN-13: 9401792828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook focuses on the often neglected dimension of interpretation in educational research. It argues that all educational research is in some sense ‘interpretive’, and that understanding this issue belies some usual dualisms of thought and practice, such as the sharp dichotomy between ‘qualitative’ and ‘quantitative’ research. Interpretation extends from the very framing of the research task, through the sources which constitute the data, the process of their recording, representation and analysis, to the way in which the research is finally or provisionally presented. The thesis of the handbook is that interpretation cuts across the fields (both philosophically, organizationally and methodologically). By covering a comprehensive range of research approaches and methodologies, the handbook gives (early career) researchers what they need to know in order to decide what particular methods can offer for various educational research contexts/fields. An extensive overview includes concrete examples of different kinds of research (not limited for example to ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ examples as present in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, but including as well what in the German Continental tradition is labelled ‘pädagogisch’, examples from child rearing and other contexts of non-formal education) with full description and explanation of why these were chosen in particular circumstances and reflection on the wisdom or otherwise of the choice – combined in each case with consideration of the role of interpretation in the process. The handbook includes examples of a large number of methods traditionally classified as qualitative, interpretive and quantitative used across the area of the study of education. Examples are drawn from across the globe, thus exemplifying the different ‘opportunities and constraints’ that educational research has to confront in different societies.
Author: Ruth Lister
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1447319850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA central theme of this lively and accessible text is that theory helps us to understand policy, politics and practice. The book combines an in-depth exploration of selected theoretical perspectives and concepts with the student-friendly format of the Understanding Welfare series. The author uses diverse examples from contemporary social policy to help theoretical arguments come alive. It should provide a key text for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates and postgraduates in social policy and related subjects, as well as their teachers.
Author: Catherine A. Simon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-06-18
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1136955828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery Child Matters represents the most radical change to education and welfare provision. This book examines the underlying political and social aims of this policy agenda. It reveals that Every Child Matters represents the Government's attempt to codify perceived risks in society and to formulate their responses.
Author: Neil Gilbert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-22
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1351323075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModernizing the Korean Welfare State analyzes recent developments in social and public policy in South Korea. Its focus is the new approach to Korea's system of social protection, known as the productive welfare paradigm. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to examine the new paradigm and associated policy developments. In the first part, contributors examine the significance of the productive welfare paradigm and recent policy developments within a broader comparative and international perspective. They question the commitment to welfare in the paradigm, viewing it largely as an example of a global trend towards the "enabling state" in which social welfare serves largely economic goals. Other contributors situate the new paradigm in relation to globalization and its implications for national strategies of social protection developed in earlier times. The new departure in Korea is compared to European welfare state development, and contributors find it a bold attempt to fashion a comprehensive welfare state based on social rights. In the second part, contributors focus on specific issues and policy areas. These include the degree to which Korea has been following a "pro-poor" growth policy. They evaluate developments in the area of unemployment and work injury insurance. They review the progress of policies in the area of social insurance and assistance, and the American system of income support for low income earners and its lessons for Korean policymakers. Other contributors review the public pensions system in Korea, and environmental protection policies are discussed and the impact of those policies on the poor and people of color, who are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards.
