Remaking Governance

Remaking Governance
Author: Newman, Janet
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2005-09-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1861346409

There has been an explosion of new forms of governance as societies adapt to economic, social and political change. This book highlights the dynamics of the social, cultural and institutional practices involved in 'remaking' governance. It is structured around three key themes: the remaking of peoples, publics and politics.

Remaking Management

Remaking Management
Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2008-05-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113947197X

Debates about the consequences for work practices posed by the rapidly growing transnationalisation of business have become increasingly central to management studies, sociology, political science, geography and other disciplines. Remaking Management brings together a range of international contributors from different sub-disciplines in management to examine current theories of change or continuity of work practices in the context of fashionable claims about unstoppable globalisation or unmoveable national business systems. It provides theoretical and empirical challenges to both of these explanations. Rejecting an overemphasis on inevitable convergence or enduring divergence, the book reveals a mix of international, national and organisational-level influences on workplace practice. This is a rich and wide-ranging resource for graduate students and academics concerned with how organisations are responding to an increasingly complex commercial environment.

Remaking the Chinese Leviathan

Remaking the Chinese Leviathan
Author: Dali L. Yang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780804754934

This book examines a wide range of governance reforms in the People's Republic of China, including administrative rationalization, divestiture of businesses operated by the military, and the building of anticorruption mechanisms, to analyze how China's leaders have reformed existing institutions and constructed new ones to cope with unruly markets, curb corrupt practices, and bring about a regulated economic order.

Remaking the Presidency

Remaking the Presidency
Author: Peri E. Arnold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The first comprehensive study of the three Progressive Era presidents who stretched the limits of the early twentieth-century presidency in order to meet the emerging public expectations. Explains the leadership differences between the three presidents and looks at the impact the Progressive movement had on the office of the presidency.

Modernising School Governance

Modernising School Governance
Author: Andrew Wilkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317660579

Modernising School Governance examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system. A focus of the book concerns how government and non-government demands for ‘strong governance’ have been translated to mean improved performance management of senior school leaders and greater monitoring and disciplining of governors. This book addresses fundamental questions about the neoliberal logic underpinning these reforms and how governors are being trained and responsibilised in new ways to enhance the integrity of these developments. Drawing on large-scale research conducted over three years, the book examines the impact of these reforms on the day to day practices of governors and the diminished role of democracy in these contexts. Wilkins also captures the economic and political rationalities shaping the conduct of governors at this time and traces these expressions to wider structural developments linked to depoliticisation, decentralisation and disintermediation. This book addresses timely and original issues concerning the role of corporate planning and expert handling to state education at a time of increased school autonomy, shrinking local government support/oversight, and tight, centralised accountability. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in disciplines of education, sociology, political science, public policy and management. It will also be of interest to researchers and policy makers from countries with similar or emerging quasi-market education systems.

Remaking Urban Citizenship

Remaking Urban Citizenship
Author: Michael Peter Smith
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412846188

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subversive Citizens

Subversive Citizens
Author: Barnes, Marian
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009-07-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847422071

The idea of subversive citizenship is explored through theoretical and empirical analyses by a range of prominent social researchers.

Government e-Strategic Planning and Management

Government e-Strategic Planning and Management
Author: Leonidas G. Anthopoulos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2013-10-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1461484626

​Various e-strategies have been developed since the late '90s in an attempt to describe the governmental vision for administrative and for societal change, the objectives and priorities with regard to the development of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at national and at supranational levels. Terms such as the European “Information Society”, the U.S. “Information Highways” and the Korean and Chinese “Informatization” try to describe social transformation that occurs due to the ICT, and to determine means with which governments will capitalize the ICT to improve social life and to support economic growth. This book focuses on the e-strategic management approaches that are followed worldwide, addresses the gaps that appear between e-strategic updates, and presents alternative strategic management methods adopted or to use strategic management methods as a means to describe the e-strategic evolution in their geographic areas. Each chapter evaluates e-strategic management approaches, to define multi-criteria decision-making systems for e-strategic transformation and Indicative methods for e-strategic analysis. This book also illustrates experiences from national and supranational cases, which come from different geographic areas regarding e-strategic planning and management, and demonstrates e-strategic initiation and development across different countries and continents, and the association between policies and ICT. It also seeks to perform a systematic analysis of various representative cases, in order to capture the realized e-Strategic transformation. It will be of interest to scholars and policy-makers in public administration, management, and information technology. ​