Performance accountability and combating corruption / / edited by Anwar Shah

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778294103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2007
• ISBN: 1-280-94046-8; 9786610940462; 0-8213-6942-3
• Descrizione fisica: xxvi, 418 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm
• Collana: Public sector governance and accountability series
• Altri autori (Persone): ShahAnwar
• Disciplina: 352.3/4
• Soggetti: Total quality management in government; Political corruption - Prevention
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Overview; Part I Ensuring Integrity and Improving the Efficiency of Public Management; BOXES; TABLES; Part II Strengthening Oversight and Combating Corruption; FIGURES; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability. The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability and the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption.

Transnational Activities and Immigrant Integration in Germany : Concurrent or Competitive Processes? / / by Reinhard Schunck

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483961203321
• Autore: Schunck Reinhard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 3-319-03928-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Collana: International Perspectives on Migration, , 2214-9805 ; ; 8
• Disciplina: 305.9069120943
• Soggetti: Emigration and immigration; Sociology; Statistics; Migration; Sociology, general; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law; Germany Emigration and immigration Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1: Introduction -- 2: Immigrant Integration -- 3: Transnationalism -- 4: A Theory of Immigrant Integration and Transnational Activities -- 5: Methods -- 6: Transnational Activities and Immigrant Integration in Germany -- 7: Determinants of Transnational Involvement -- 8: Consequences of Transnational Involvement -- 9: Conclusion -- Appendix.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates both the causes and effects of transnational activities among immigrants in relation to their integration into the receiving society. It uses large scale, representative data about first and second generation immigrants in Germany. It develops a formal theoretical model, which explains both transnational involvement and paths of immigrant integration. Important questions are answered: What consequences does transnational involvement have on integration? Is transnational involvement a distinct form of integration? Is it an alternative to assimilation? Does it hinder or facilitate assimilation? Longitudinal analyses are presented which show that ; immigrant integration and transnational involvement do not necessarily oppose each other. The book shows that although low levels of integration may coincide with strong transnational ties, the relationship is not causal. This book shows how immigrant integration and transnational involvement are related to each other and how a joint examination of both processes may advance our understanding of the general dynamics of migration and integration.