"Linking Government Data provides a practical approach to addressing common information management issues. The approaches taken are based on international standards of the World Wide Web Consortium. Linking Government Data gives both the costs and benefits of using linked data t…
Report forecasting possible economic recession in the UK by 1980 - examines britain's trade performance, balance of payments, gross national product, standard of living, dependence of North sea petroleum resources, etc., criticises the educational system and regional planning an…
by Janssen, Marijn, International Federation for Information Processing., Working Group Information Systems in Public Administration, EGOV Conference, International Federation for Information Processing, International Conference on Electronic Government, Delft)
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Strategic Management and Public Service Performance demonstrates that strategic management makes a difference to the performance of public organizations. In detail the authors show how all three of the major elements of strategic management matter for the effectiveness of public…
Natural disasters are often multifaceted and cause severe damage. Disasters initiated locally can become national and even global crises. Today's world urgently needs a new body of knowledge and techniques for the mitigation of and response to disaster. Central to such a body of…
"Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of governance-interactive governan…
"In The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance, Anthony Michael Bertelli introduces core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to public management and policy. Though recent literature that mathematically models relationships between politicians and public mana…
From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Dysfunctional government: It's become a cliche. And most of us are resigned to the …
"Discover analytical tools and practices to help improve the quality of risk management in government organizationsFederal agencies increasingly recognize the importance of active risk management to help ensure that they can carry out their missions. High impact events, once tho…
Documents how Kenya was viewed as a model of democracy upon the 2003 election of president Mwai Kibaki before the flight of reformer John Githongo two years later upon his discovery of government corruption.
