You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
* Melds theoretical models with practical experience * Written by world-renowned experts on public administration * Guides future policy debates on helping to build effective and efficient states How does a government seeking to participate in and benefit from an integrated and interdependent world become more professional, technologically proficient, deregulated, and accountable? Reinventing Government for the Twenty-First Century tells you how. The authors identify the forces of globalization and the structural changes needed to increase state capacity and enhance global-scale participation. Professionals directly involved in assisting governments show public leaders and administrators how to improve the quality of their performance in government.
This book combines academic insights and practitioners’ experience from nineteen countries around the world, and it explores public administration systems capacity in predicting, facing, and reacting to, as well as operating in, the new reality. A reality characterised by considerable levels of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity; all amid rising geo-political tensions, climate change, digital transformation, aging populations, urbanisation, migration, and environmental degradation. These complex and intertwined policy issues put to test contemporary governance structures and current organisational arrangements for public administration systems, as well as the existing competencies and skills of public administrators. Thus, this book explores what public administration systems must do to keep up with the immense changes taking place around us and adapt to the new reality, as well as possess the capacity to forecast, to react and to learn from all past crises and manage competing and conflicting values as well.
The trend toward greater decentralization of governance activities, now accepted as commonplace in the West, has become a worldwide movement. This international development largely a product of globalization and democratization is clearly one of the key factors reshaping economic, political, and social conditions throughout the world. Rather than the top-down, centralized decisionmaking that characterized communist economies and Third World dictatorships in the twentieth century, today's world demands flexibility, adaptability, and the autonomy to bring those qualities to bear. In this thought-provoking book, the first in a new series on Innovations in Governance, experts in government and p...
Intervention of government of Indonesia in soccer games.
"Pertandingan sepak bola selalu menyedot perhatian banyak orang, dari kelas bawah sampai atas, dari pedagang sampai politisi. Pertandingan sepak bola profesional yang dikelola dengan baik dapat menjadi sarana memajukan kesejahteraan umum. Karena itu, negara kerap tergoda untuk melakukan intervensi atas sepak bola dengan menerapkan hukum nasionalnya. Negara, dan para pihak yang berkepentingan, lupa bahwa sepak bola itu milik FIFA, sama sekali bukan milik negara. Jika Negara mengintervensi, FIFA bisa dan berhak melarang sepak bola dipertandingkan di negara itu. Intervensi Negara bisa membuat sepak bola tidak pernah ada di negara tersebut. Sepak bola adalah permainan yang dikuasai dan dikontrol...
This book analyses the challenges and opportunities that governments in the Mediterranean region have faced to improve their public administration systems. The book highlights innovations that indicate each country¿s willingness to change, to be open to new ways of thinking and acting in reforming government. After looking at case studies from a wide range of countries including Albania, Morocco, Syria and Turkey, the authors select Dubai as an exemplary case of innovation in public administration.
Issues for 1966- include sections: A. Studies, B. Documents and monographs, C. News of institutes and schools of administration, D. Bibliographical notes.
The prosperity and well-being of people across the Mediterranean region depend very much on good governance. Understanding the challenges each country faces and the priorities in reforming public administration is the first step towards more coordinated action to strengthen government institutions, processes, and human resource capacities. The publication provides an overview of governance and public administration in selected countries. It identifies, assesses and analyses relevant needs and challenges as well as priorities for change and innovation in government at the local, national and regional levels. This book is the result of the combined efforts of more than 60 national and international experts and government officials, whose informed perspectives and feedback have shaped the respective chapters.
At head of title: Department of Economic and Social Affairs.