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Die Ukraine und die Euro...
Die günstige, zugleich aber komplizierte, geopolitische Lage der Ukraine bestimmt die bilaterale Zusammenarbeit zwischen Kiew und Brüssel. Dabei kommt dem Umstand, dass das osteuropäische Land direkt an die Russische Föderation grenzt, keine geringe Bedeutung zu. Zwar gehört r...
(2009)
2516 Reads
Open Government
Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
by Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma
In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practi...
(2010)
427 Reads
OECD Public Management R...
Towards an Integrated Public Service
Ireland's economic success story is one that many OECD countries would like to emulate. Of the many factors linked to this success, understanding the public sector’s role is key. Integration matters. The key public service reform challenge for Ireland going forward is for the ...
(2008)
341 Reads
OECD Public Governance R...
Working Together to Sustain Success
Finland’s traditional Nordic model is under pressure: A rapidly ageing society, the global economic crisis and growing societal disillusionment require the public administration to be strategically agile in order to maintain fiscal sustainability and to respond to a complex an...
(2010)
289 Reads
OECD Review of Agricultu...
Israel’s agriculture is unique amongst developed countries in that land and water resources are nearly all state-owned and that agricultural production is dominated by co-operative communities. Israel is a world leader in agricultural technology, particularly in farming in ari...
(2010)
248 Reads
Better Regulation in Eur...
This report maps and analyses the core issues which together make up effective regulatory management for France, laying down a framework of what should be driving regulatory policy and reform in the future. Issues examined include: strategy and policies for improving regulator...
(2010)
224 Reads
Better Regulation in Eur...
The importance of effective regulation has never been so clear as it is today, in the wake of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. But how exactly can Better Regulation policy improve countries’ economic and social welfare prospects, underpin sustained growt...
(2010)
215 Reads
Die Wiedergewinnung des ...
Hannah Arendts Auseinandersetzung mit Platon und Heidegger
Hannah Arendt konstatiert »fragwürdige Traditionsbestände im politischen Denken«, die bis in die Neuzeit reichen und auf Platon zürückgehen. Sie will mit einer philosophisch-metaphysischen Tradition brechen, in der sich alle Politik dem Wahrheitsanspruch der Philosophie untero...
(2007)
408 Reads
Paradoxien der Demokrati...
Die beiden in diesem Band enthaltenen Texte stellen einen bedeutsamen Beitrag zum gesellschaftstheoretischen und politischen Denken der Gegenwart dar. Eisenstadt konzentriert sich in ihnen auf die zentralen Fragen und Herausforderungen, die sich der Demokratie und der politisc...
(2005)
292 Reads
OECD Review of Agricultu...
This Review measures the level and composition of support provided to Chilean agriculture, and evaluates the effectiveness of current measures in attaining their objectives. The study finds that Chile provides much lower support and protection to its agricultural sector than m...
(2008)
159 Reads
Regionale Wege in Europa
Föderalismus - Devolution - Dezentralisierung
Neue Wege für die Regionen stehen nicht erst seit der deutschen Föderalismus- Debatte in der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit. Tendenzen zu Regionalisierung und Dezentralisierung finden sich vielmehr aktuell gleich in mehreren europäischen Staaten, zusehends auch...
(2006)
168 Reads
Demokratie vitalisieren ...
Immer weniger Menschen in Deutschland gehen zur Wahl, immer weniger engagieren sich in der Politik. Dennoch zeigen Auseinandersetzungen um Schulreformen oder Rauchverbote: Die Deutschen wollen mitreden. Weltweit gibt es eine Vielzahl staatlicher Institutionen, die Bürger an po...
(2011)
118 Reads
Ratsarbeit besser machen
Ein Handbuch für kommunale Mandatsträger, sachkundige Bürger und Verwaltungschefs
by Marga Pröhl and Andreas Osner
Die kommunalen Parlamente müssen wirkungsorientierter und zeitsparender arbeiten, um die Qualität der Politik vor Ort zu verbessern. Nur so kann Kommunalpolitik wieder attraktiver werden, nur so werden sich wieder mehr Menschen bereit finden, im politischen Ehrenamt Verantwort...
(2010)
59 Reads
Cultural Studies and Cul...
What a Difference a Region Makes
by Chris Berry, Nicola Liscutin, and Jonathan D. ...
This book critically assesses the implementation of the "one country, two systems" in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) from the political, judicial, legal, economic and societal dimensions. The author contends that there has been a gradual process of mainlan...
(2010)
100 Reads
Voting in America [Three...
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[Three Volumes]
The three volumes of _Voting in America_ offer the most comprehensive, authoritative, and useful account of all aspects of voting in America ever assembled. This set surveys the legal foundations, historical development, and geographic diversity of voting practices a...
(2008)
47 Reads
Wochenbericht des DIW Be...
Türkei | Mehrwertsteuer-Bonus
by DIW Berlin
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(2011)
25 Reads
The Legislative Branch o...
People, Process, and Politics
Spanning the history of the federal system of government of the United States, _The Legislative Branch of Federal Government: People, Process, and Politics_ looks at the evolution of the U.S. Congress over the past 225+ years, then describes its current structure, responsi...
(2008)
24 Reads
Rethinking e-Government ...
User-Centred Approaches
Expecting substantial savings and improved public services – a trend further accentuated by the financial and economic crisis beginning in 2008 – OECD countries have invested in the development of e-government services over the past 10-15 years. However, despite the initial ex...
(2009)
41 Reads
Electing Hong Kong's Chi...
by Simon Young and Richard Cullen
Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong ...
(2010)
34 Reads
Crisis at the Polls
An Electoral Reform Handbook
If free and fair elections are the heart of our prized democratic system of government, the integrity of our electoral system must be beyond question. Yet all too often, flaws in the administration of our elections have undermined public confidence in the results. Th...
(2008)
14 Reads
