The politics of decentralisation: Revitalising local democracy (Public policy and politics)

This wide-ranging book sets discussion of the various approaches to local government decentralisation in the context of the changing nature of public service management and the possibilities for new kinds of public involvement in government decision-making. It draws on a wide range of experiences throughout the UK as well as the findings of an in-depth study of the impact of radical decentralisation strategies in two inner London boroughs to provide an authoritative assessment of the politics of decentralisation.

The Politics of Decentralisation: Revitalising Local Democracy (Public Policy and Politics, 15)

Business & Money

Burns, Danny

Hambleton, Robin

Hoggett, Paul

International

Red Globe Press

Navigating Complexity in International Development: Facilitating sustainable change at scale

Governments and organizations invest huge sums of money in development interventions to explicitly address poverty and its root causes. However, a high proportion of these do not work. This is because interventions are grounded in flawed assumptions about how change happens -- change is rarely linear, yet development interventions are almost entirely based on linear planning models. Change is also characterized by unintended consequences, which are not predictable by planners and by power dynamics, which drive outcomes towards vested interests rather than real need. Development processes need to engage effectively with these sorts of complex system dynamics. This book provides a conceptual framework for this thinking, offers detail case studies of interventions which have been built on this philosophy and which demonstrate key facets of it. It articulates some clear methodological underpinnings for this work, and draws out the implications both for development, practice and practitioners.

Worsley, Stuart

Economics

Practical Action Publishing

As the welfare system is restructured and state support is reduced, the concepts of mutual aid and self-help are being promoted as a means of addressing problems of poverty and social exclusion. A range of informal structures, including activities such as credit unions, economic exchange systems, and shared childcare, offer solutions to the problems of budget constraints, as well as confronting the breakdown in social cohesion and providing a cushion against the impact of poverty.This analysis explores the potential and limits of self-help and mutual aid, and looks at how much these informal networks and activities can contribute to the mainstream. The authors conclude that they play a crucial part in combating social exclusion, and make recommendations for policies to safeguard and enchance their role.Mutual aid and self-help is important reading for community groups, poverty networks and local authorities.

Mutual aid and self-help: Coping strategies for excluded communities

Politics & Social Sciences

Taylor, Marilyn

Social Sciences

Policy Press

This handbook is a companion volume to What works in assessing community participation? (The Policy Press, 2004) which documents the results of the road testing of two earlier frameworks for assessing community participation - Benchmarking community involvement in regeneration (Yorkshire Forward, 2000) and Auditing community participation: An assessment handbook (The Policy Press, 2000).Making community participation meaningful outlines key considerations that are necessary to ensure that community participation is effective; provides detailed sets of questions to enable stakeholders to assess the extent to which the indicators of success are being met; highlights a variety of resources which can be used by community groups to generate information and insight into the key issues and offers the real prospect of a commonly accepted assessment framework which has the authority to be adopted across sectors.

Making community participation meaningful: A handbook for development and assessment

Heywood, Frances

Wilde, Pete

Wilson, Mandy

This report documents the results of road-testing two frameworks for assessing community participation: Active partners: Benchmarking community involvement in regeneration (Yorkshire Forward, 2000) and Auditing community participation: An assessment handbook (The Policy Press, 2000). The report examines whether the tools were useful, what worked most effectively and how the tools might be amalgamated on the basis of what was learned from the road-testing. The practical difficulties involved in using the tools were also explored. The lessons learned have enabled the production of a new companion handbook for development and assessment, Making community participation meaningful, which combines and develops the original frameworks.

What works in assessing community participation?

Systemic action research: A strategy for whole system change

Systemic action research works with real social and organisational issues to uncover their complex dynamics, often revealing unexpected opportunities. This book shows how this process can be integrated, in any context, to the process of social and organisational development and change. The book explains how systemic thinking works and how systemic action research can be embedded into organisational structures and processes to catalyse sustainable change and critical local interventions. Practically written, it details how to design a programme and build it directly into policy and practice development, extending the possibilities of action research beyond the 'individual' and the 'group' to work across whole organisations, multi-agency governance arenas and networks. The book is filled with illustrative stories and pictures which bring the concepts to life enabling the reader to develop a clear picture of how to put it into practice.Systemic action research programmes are now being adopted in Government and local governance contexts as well as in national and international NGOs. This book will be invaluable for experienced action researchers as well as social science and social policy researchers who will benefit from an approach to qualitative research which is participative, grounded in practice and allows systemic understandings of complex problems. Policy makers and practitioners will appreciate a process which generates meaningful evidence about the dynamics of change and offers a tangible system for continuously integrating that learning into both formal and informal decision-making.

The gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people. Using a combination of photos, text, and graphics, and drawing from the voices of activists and non-payers, it describes the everyday organization of local anti-poll tax groups and chronicles the demonstrations and riots leading up to the battle of Trafalgar. It shows how the courts were blocked, the bailiffs resisted, and the Poll Tax destroyed. The final chapter draws from our experience to present a radically new vision of change from below. Danny Burns was secretary of the Avon Federation of anti-Poll Tax Unions and coordinated the campaign in the South West. He was also a nonaligned member of the All-Britain Federation national committee.

Poll Tax Rebellion

AK Press

Fundamentos. Anatomía por ecografía ofrece a estudiantes de medicina, residentes y profesionales de la radiología e imagen los fundamentos anatómicos de la ecografía como medio de exploración diagnóstica. Además de un texto amigable y explicaciones claras y concisas, se acompaña de cientos de ejemplos de ecografía señalizados y no señalizados, representaciones topográficas e interpretación de la ecografía e imágenes en cadáveres que brindan una base sólida de la anatomía por regiones. El texto se ha creado con un enfoque clínico e incluye casos de entornos reales. El contenido abre con un capítulo introductorio y uno sobre los fundamentos físicos de la ecografía, y continúa con capítulos organizados por regiones anatómicas: espalda, extremidad superior, extremidad inferior, tórax: pared torácica y pleura, corazón, abdomen, cuello, cara y ojo, pelvis femenina y pelvis masculina. La obra cierra con un capítulo enfocado en traumatismos, uno de preguntas y respuestas, así como un práctico y detallado glosario.

Fundamentos. Anatomía por ecografía (Spanish Edition)

Medical Books

LOUKAS, MARIOS

Basic Sciences

Ovid Technologies

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