This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions. By comparing the many voting procedures used in democratic decision-making, it explains why win-or…
Extensively revised and updated, this classic text revisits the central problem of searching for mainstream and alternative paradigms to guide us in comparative political inquiry. Chilcote reminds us that in a post-Cold War world in which challenges to comparative inquiry aboun…
The public service has changed dramatically during the past several decades. Reviewing these changes, this book presents contributions from top international experts on public management and public administration. It provides a global assessment of reform and the lessons governm…
Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters.
The public service has changed dramatically over the years. Reviewing these changes, this book provides a global assessment of reform and the lessons governments can learn from previous policies. It offers insights into the origins of policy ideas, the qualities and capabilities…
"Now in a completely updated second edition, this textbook has become a favorite for the introductory undergraduate course in comparative politics. It features ten theoretically and historically grounded country studies that show how the three major concepts of comparative analy…
Cases in Comparative Politics, Third Edition, is a set of thirteen country studies that describe politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, India, Iran, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Nigeria. This casebook applies the conceptual…
Résumé : Governance of Public Sector Organizations examines recent changes in central governmental administration in contemporary democracies by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. There is a considerable need for such knowledge in a period when governments are c…
In the context of massive environmental problems in Southeast Asia, the countries in the region have decided - at least in some instances - to create regimes to solve these problems jointly. This empirical observation is surprising, given the Southeast Asian countries' general r…
