This volume explores how the Milosevic government prolongs its tenure despite failures and setbacks that would have, argues the author, brought down other governments. The answer, he maintains, lies in everyday life - the Milosevic regime has largely succeeded in making alternat…
Numerous administrative reforms during the past several decades, reffered to as the "New Public Management", have altered government in a number of fundamental ways. These changes have, in turn, produced the need for even greater change if the public sector is to be capable of g…
All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership--as well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social ref…
Leadership is essential to collective human endeavor, from setting and accomplishing goals for a neighborhood block association, to running a Fortune 500 company, to mobilizing the energies of a nation. Political philosophers have focused largely on how to prevent leaders from a…
Tony Blair's Chief of Staff from 1994 to 2007, Jonathan Powell, recounts the inside story of that period - drawing on his own unpublished diaries. Taking the lessons Machiavelli recorded in his political masterpiece The Prince, Jonathan Powell shows how they can still apply toda…
Regulation is a key concern of industries, consumers, citizens, and governments alike. Building on the success of the first edition, Understanding Regulation, Second Edition provides the reader with an introduction to key debates and discussions in the field of regulation from a…
This collection of essays seeks to address the changing constitutional framework of the European Union, and some of the changing patterns of governance within this complex polity. The primary aim of the book is to examine the apparent and gradual shift in the paradigm of Europea…
The volume aims to understand the concept of governance in its most complex manifestation and to identify its theoretical roots in the 'neo-liberal' mode of thinking cutting across different sub-disciplines in social sciences. It fills gaps in the available literature that tend …
Drawing on interviews and archival research, Greenstein shows how Eisenhower created a new style of political leadership, in which delicate private negotiations were shielded by folksy public evasiveness. This edition includes developments in the study of the Eisenhower presiden…
