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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450743103321

Titolo

Unbundled government : a critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation / / edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-280-07545-7

0-203-50714-2

0-415-31448-8

1-134-37979-X

Descrizione fisica

xv, 349 p. : ill

Collana

Routledge studies in public management ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

PollittChristopher

TalbotColin

Disciplina

352.3/67

Soggetti

Administrative agencies - Reorganization

Decentralization in government

Public administration

Organizational change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part Part I Setting the scene -- chapter 1 The Agency idea -- Sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed, sometimes untrue / Colin Talbot -- chapter 2 What is available and what is missing in the study of quangos? / Geert Bouckaert -- part PART II Agencies, quangos and contracts in the heartlands of the New Public Management -- chapter 3 Adapting the agency concept -- Variations within Next Steps / Francesca Gains -- chapter 4 Executive agencies and joined-up government in the UK / Oliver James -- chapter 5 Contracting and accountability -- A model of effective contracting drawn from the U.S. experience / Jocelyn M. Johnston -- chapter 6 Contractualism and performance measurement in Australia / Linda McGuire -- chapter 7 The agency concept in North America: failure, adaptation and incremental change -- Failure, adaptation, and incremental change / Andrew Graham -- part Part III Autonomization in



continental Europe and Japan -- chapter 8 Quangos in Dutch government / Sandra Van Thiel -- chapter 9 Lost in translation? Shifting interpretations of the concept of agency: the Dutch case -- Shifting interpretations of the concept of agency: the Dutch / Amanda Smullen -- chapter 10 Central agencies in Sweden -- A report from Utopia / Jon Pierre -- chapter 11 Agencification in Japan -- Renaming or revolution? / Kiyoshi Yamamoto -- part Part IV Autonomization in the developing and transitional countries -- chapter 12 New public management in a developing country -- Creating executive agencies in Tanzania / Janice Caul?eld -- chapter 13 Putting new public management to good use -- Autonomous public organizations in Thailand / Bidhya Bowornwathana -- chapter 14 The design, performance and sustainability of semi-autonomous revenue authorities in Africa and Latin America / Robert R. Taliercio Jr -- chapter 15 Castles built on sand? -- Agencies in Latvia / Christopher Pollitt -- chapter 16 A radical departure? -- Executive agencies in Jamaica / Colin Talbot -- part Part V Overview -- chapter 17 Theoretical overview / Christopher Pollitt.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493158303321

Titolo

A renaissance architecture of power : princely palaces in the Italian Quattrocento / / edited by Silvia Beltramo, Flavia Cantatore, Marco Folin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-31550-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (479 p.)

Collana

Medieval Mediterranean, , 0928-5520 ; ; Volume 104

Disciplina

720.945/09024

Soggetti

Architecture, Renaissance - Italy - History

Architecture and state - Italy - History - To 1500

Architecture and state - Italy - History - 16th century

Power (Social sciences) - Italy - History

Princes - Dwellings - Italy - History

Palaces - Italy - History

Renaissance - Italy

Electronic books.

Italy Kings and rulers Dwellings History

Italy Politics and government 1268-1559

Italy History, Local



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

Preliminary Material / Silvia Beltramo , Flavia Cantatore and Marco Folin -- 1: Princes, Towns, Palaces: A Renaissance “Architecture of Power” / Marco Folin -- 2: Medieval Vestiges in the Princely Architecture of the 15th Century / Silvia Beltramo -- 3: The Princely Palace in 15th-Century Italian Architectural Theory / Flavia Cantatore -- 4: Palaces and Palatine Chapels in 15th-Century Italian Dukedoms: Ideas and Experiences / Andrea Longhi -- 5: “Combining the Old and the New”: The Princely Residences of the Marquises of Saluzzo in the 15th Century / Silvia Beltramo -- 6: The Sforza Castle of Milan (1450–1499) / Aurora Scotti -- 7: Patrician Residences and the Palaces of the Marquis of Mantua (1459–1524) / Giulio Girondi -- 8: The Renewal of Ferrara’s Court Palace under Ercole i d’Este (1471–1505) / Marco Folin -- 9: Architecture of Power: Imola during the Signoria of Girolamo Riario (1473–1488) / Stefano Zaggia -- 10: “Small Mice, Large Palaces”: From Urbino to Carpi / Elena Svalduz -- 11: The Medici Palace, Cosimo the Elder, and Michelozzo: A Historiographical Survey / Emanuela Ferretti -- 12: The Palace of Nicholas v: Continuity and Innovation in the Vatican Palaces / Flavia Cantatore -- 13: Alfonso i of Naples and the Art of Building: Castel Nuovo in a European Context / Bianca de Divitiis -- 14: The Residences of the Kings of Sicily, from Martin of Aragon to Ferdinand the Catholic / Marco Rosario Nobile -- Bibliography / Silvia Beltramo , Flavia Cantatore and Marco Folin -- Index of Manuscripts / Silvia Beltramo , Flavia Cantatore and Marco Folin -- Index of Names / Silvia Beltramo , Flavia Cantatore and Marco Folin -- Index of Places / Silvia Beltramo , Flavia Cantatore and Marco Folin.

Sommario/riassunto

The growth of princely states in early Renaissance Italy brought a thorough renewal to the old seats of power. One of the most conspicuous outcomes of this process was the building or rebuilding of new court palaces, erected as prestigious residences in accord with the new ‘classical’ principles of Renaissance architecture. The novelties, however, went far beyond architectural forms: they involved the reorganisation of courtly interiors and their functions, new uses for the buildings, and the relationship between the palaces and their surroundings. The whole urban setting was affected by these processes, and therefore the social, residential and political customs of its inhabitants. This is the focus of A Renaissance Architecture of Power , which aims to analyse from a comparative perspective the evolution of Italian court palaces in the Renaissance in their entirety. Contributors are Silvia Beltramo, Flavia Cantatore, Bianca de Divitiis, Emanuela Ferretti, Marco Folin, Giulio Girondi, Andrea Longhi, Marco Rosario Nobile, Aurora Scotti, Elena Svalduz, and Stefano Zaggia.