The systematically revised third edition of the leading text on approaches and methods in political science features a considerable internationalization in both the team of contributors and the range of coverage and examples. About half the chapters are entirely new and the rest are substantially revised and updated.

Theory and Methods in Political Science (Political Analysis)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gerry Stoker

Gerry Stoker David Marsh

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book examines the changing nature of local politics, drawing on the latest research from the ESRC Local Governance Program. It assesses the emergence of new forms of elite organizations and changing power relations in the context of increasing roles for business and other partners. The book concludes with a consideration of the extent to which the emerging system of local governance can meet the social and economic challenges created by globalization.

The New Politics of British Local Governance (Government Beyond the Centre)

History

Europe

The Politics of Local Government (Public Policy and Politics)

Politics & Government

Gbc;Standing Order Sbn (Pr)

Macmillan Dummy List

The search for a more holistic approach to policy and management looks set to be as much a hallmark of public service reform in the early twenty first century as the changes introduced under the rubric of 'new public management' or 'reinventing government' were in the closing decades of the twentieth. Towards Holistic Governance presents an authoritative assessment of successes and failures to date and a new framework for analysis and implementation based on extensive research both in the UK - where the New Labour government has been an early enthusiast and pathfinder for 'joined-up government' just as its predecessors were for privatisation and contracting out - and elsewhere.

Towards Holistic Governance: The New Reform Agenda (Government beyond the Centre, 21)

Perri 6

Diana Leat

Kimberly Seltzer

Red Globe Press

Nuclear Power and Energy Policy: The Limits to Governance

Keith Baker

Achieving mass democracy was the great triumph of the last century. Learning to live with it will be the greatest achievement of this one. Stoker suggests that democracy must create a new politics, making it as easy as possible for as many people to participate. Winner of the Political Studies Association Book of the Year Prize 2006

Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work

Social Sciences

How can governments persuade citizens to act in socially beneficial ways? Thaler and Sunstein's book Nudge drew on work from behavioral economics to claim that citizens might be encouraged through ‘light touch interventions’ (i.e.nudges) to take action. In this ground-breaking successor to Nudge, Peter John and his colleagues argue that an alternative approach also needs to be considered, based on what they call a 'think' strategy. Their core idea is that citizens should themselves deliberate and decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. The authors not only set out these divergent approaches in theory but they offer evidence from a series of experiments to show how using techniques from ‘nudge’ or ‘think’ repertoires work in practice and how that practice is made effective. The book is unique in exploring an expanding field of policy and social science interest - changing civic behavior, using insights from another growing field of social science interest - the rise of experimental methods.

Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour

Graham Smith

PETER, JOHN

Sarah Cotterill

Liz Richardson

Alice Moseley

Corinne Wales

Bloomsbury Academic

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