Here, Brendan Martin argues for a more participative approach, involving both service users and public service employees to produce changes that keep on working. Ideological and technocratic approaches to public service reform are not delivering the sustainable improvements demanded by society. Yet transforming public service quality and efficiency has never been more important to both economic stability and social justice. The book draws on experiences worldwide, telling the stories through the...
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (Health & safety booklets)
Poland and the Baltic states, March 1921-Dec. 1923 (Documents on British foreign policy, 1919-39. 1st, #23)
Civil Service Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2008
Metric System of Weights and Measures (Classic Reprint)
by Frederick a P Barnard
Terrorism and Disaster (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, #11)
The terror attacks of 9.11 signalled that people are increasingly put at risk of not only terrorism but natural and technological disasters as well. Since 9.11 scholars have been asking new questions about catastrophe and made important and interesting innovations in methods, concepts, and theories regarding disaster and terror. This volume brings together a creative set of papers, most of which are about the 9.11 attacks. They draw from several disciplines to address key questions: what lessons...
This insightful book sheds light on three competing ideological windows on the world: conservatism, liberalism and socialism. David Reisman explores the importance of these perspectives not only to generating public policy, but also in our capacity to explain the very nature of reality. Surveying the diversity of beliefs that govern and guide contemporary society, Reisman illustrates the pre-eminence of three all-encompassing meta-ideologies that capture heterogenous philosophies. The book trac...
In the tradition of `Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's `Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistant A scion of one of the oldest families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in a magnificent chateau and educated in E...
The main aim of this book is to argue that the use of private force by states has been restricted by a norm against mercenary use. The book traces the evolution of this norm, from mercenaries in medieval Europe through to private security companies in modern day Iraq, telling a story about how the mercenaries of yesterday have evolved into those of today in the process. The norm against mercenaries has two components. First, mercenaries are considered to be immoral because they use force outsid...
Mortality from Cancer and Other Malignant Tumors in the Registration Area of the United States 1914
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies
by Joel D. Aberbach and etc.
In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings. One of the authors' most significant fi...