Comparing Network Governance in England and China

Yongmei Li

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• This book compares network governance practices and public service delivery in England and China. Adopting a political ethnographic approach, it asses... Lees meer

After Number 10

K Theakston

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Having lost an election, been thrown out by their party, or retired on grounds of ill-health, what do former British prime ministers do? In the first ... Lees meer

The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK

R Hazell, B Worthy, M Glover

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Based on interviews with officials, requesters and journalists, as well as a survey of FOI requesters and a study of stories in the national media, th... Lees meer

Assessing Public Management Reforms

Patrick Gibert, Jean-Claude Thoenig

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize. Comprehensive reforms do not generate relevant and lasting change... Lees meer

How Power Changes Hands

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for ... Lees meer

Narrative Policy Analysis

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Narratives or storytelling are a feature of the everyday life of all who work in government. They tell each other stories about the origins, aims and ... Lees meer

The Politics of Party Policy

A Gauja

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Examining the complexities and tensions in relations between party members and parliamentarians through an in-depth analysis of the processes that sha... Lees meer

William Armstrong and British Policy Making

Kevin Theakston, Philip Connelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Provides an insight into the career and impact of a key figure in the British Civil ServicePresents findings from insider interviews with senior Civil... Lees meer

How Power Changes Hands

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for ... Lees meer

Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• This book examines the contemporary relevance of the concept of the core executive across a range of constitutional contexts, covering examples from W... Lees meer

Hybrid Governance in European Cities

C Skelcher, Helen Sullivan, S Jeffares

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• This wide-ranging study of three European cities shows how hybrid forms of governance emerge from the tensions between new ideas and past legacies, an... Lees meer

Narrative Policy Analysis

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Narratives or storytelling are a feature of the everyday life of all who work in government. They tell each other stories about the origins, aims and ... Lees meer

Institutional Crisis in 21st-Century Britain

David Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• In 21st century Britain, a 'perfect storm' seems to have engulfed many of its institutions. This book is the first wholesale consideration of the cris... Lees meer

Ministerial Leadership

Leighton Andrews

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Ministerial Leadership offers a practice-based account of how ministers in UK governments perform their roles and exercise leadership in their spaces ... Lees meer

Parliamentary Socialisation

M Rush, P Giddings

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• This first book-length study of the socialisation of MPs uses questionnaire data gathered over two Parliaments (1992-97 and 1997-2001) to find out how... Lees meer

Parliamentary Socialisation

M Rush, P Giddings

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• This first book-length study of the socialisation of MPs uses questionnaire data gathered over two Parliaments (1992-97 and 1997-2001) to find out how... Lees meer

Transforming British Government

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• These two volumes have one simple objective - to provide a summary of the key findings of all the projects on the Economic and Social Research Council... Lees meer

Public Policy and Democratic Backsliding in the UK

Sean Kippin

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• This book examines the rise of illiberalism within the British Conservative Party during the last few decades. It traces how the party's political age... Lees meer

Comparing Network Governance in England and China

Yongmei Li

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• This book compares network governance practices and public service delivery in England and China. Adopting a political ethnographic approach, it asses... Lees meer

After Number 10

K Theakston

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Having lost an election, been thrown out by their party, or retired on grounds of ill-health, what do former British prime ministers do? In the first ... Lees meer

Ernest Gowers

A Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Draws on previously inaccessible family archives to penetrate the anonymity and public reticence of one of Britain's great twentieth century civil ser... Lees meer

The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK

R Hazell, B Worthy, M Glover

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Based on interviews with officials, requesters and journalists, as well as a survey of FOI requesters and a study of stories in the national media, th... Lees meer

Ministerial Leadership

Leighton Andrews

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Governance
• Ministerial Leadership offers a practice-based account of how ministers in UK governments perform their roles and exercise leadership in their spaces ... Lees meer

The Politics of Regulation in the UK

Daniel Fitzpatrick

• Paperback | Understanding Governance
• This book explores the discourse of regulatory crisis in the UK and examines why, despite the increasing contestation of the principles underpinning t... Lees meer