1.

Record Nr.

UNICASUDA0114474

Titolo

Zenit e Nadir 2.: i manoscritti dell'area del Mediterraneo : la catalogazione come base della ricerca : atti del Seminario internazionale, Montepulciano, 6-8 luglio 2007 / a cura di Benedetta Cenni, Chiara Maria Francesca Lalli e Leonardo Magionami

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montepulciano, : Thesan & Turan, [2007]

ISBN

8895835034

9788895835037

Descrizione fisica

286 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Collana

Medieval writing ; 2

Disciplina

025.3412

411.7

Soggetti

Manoscritti - Catalogazione - Congressi - 2007

Manoscritti - Catalogazione - Congressi Montepulciano 2007

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Francese

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814393503321

Autore

Raadschelders J. C. N.

Titolo

Global dimensions of public administration and governance : a comparative voyage / / Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Eran Vigoda-Gadot, with Mirit Kisner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-119-02612-1

1-119-02625-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (579 p.)

Disciplina

351

Soggetti

Public administration

Comparative government

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

Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; The Authors; 1 Globalization and Government: Combining Global and Comparative Perspectives upon the State of Modern Government; Levels of Analysis and Understanding; Globalization; Combining a Global and Comparative Perspective; Combining the Studies of Administration and Politics; Audience for and Structure of This Book; Concluding Remarks: ``Flying ́́and Comparing across the Globe

Part One: The Origin, Development, and Dissemination of Government: Structuring Territory and Organization2 The Roots and Development of Governance, Government, and Public Administration: The Envelopment of Local Communities in Upper-Local Polities over Time; Types of Governing Associations; All Government and Governance Started Local; The Emergence of Territorial States as Upper-Local Polities; A Global Model of Government Development; The Development of Thinking about Government: From Political Theory to Public Administration; Comparing Government Models: Concluding Remarks

3. Structuring Governance and Government: The Layered Territorial and Bureaucratic Organization of the WorldTerritoriality and Property;



Territorialization of the World; International Boundaries; Subnational Jurisdictions: Historical Trends; Subnational Jurisdictions: The Contemporary Situation; Bureaucracy as Organizational Structure: The Bureaucratization of the World; The Influence of Colonization; Concluding Remarks: Boundaries Creating Polities; 4. State Making, Nation Building, and Citizenship; Defining State and Nation; State Making: Models and Explanations

The Separation of Organized Religion and the State: A Recent Phenomenon?Nation Building: From Subjects to Citizens; Citizenship as Layered Phenomenon; A Future for State, Nation, and Citizenship?; 5. Political-Administrative Systems and Multilevel Government; Basic Distinctions of Political Systems; Five Types of Political Systems in Relation to Political Party System; Unitary and Federal Systems; Typologies of Democratic Systems; Presidential and Parliamentary Systems; Party-Political and Bureaucratic-Prominent Systems

The Three Branches of Government and Core Features of Democratic Political SystemsThe Structure of Government Departments; Multilevel and Multiactor Government and Governance; Concluding Remarks; 6. Bureaucratic Organization and Culture; Defining Bureaucracy: The Influence of Max Weber and His Fears; Bureaucracy in the Evolution of Human Communities: The Origin of the Stereotype?; Societal Culture; Organizational Culture; Perceptions of Public Individuals; Sucking Water from Straws or Opening the Tap in the Kitchen

7. Organization, Management, and Policy: Comparing the Competencies of Government and Public Administration

Sommario/riassunto

A comparative, interdisciplinary examination of the mechanisms behind public administration  Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance is a comprehensive, comparative text on the structure and function of governments around the world. Written by two of the field's leading public administration scholars, this book provides an interdisciplinary perspective and a global, historical, and theoretical examination of the management and governance of the modern state. Readers learn how territory, bureaucracy, and political systems influence policy and reform in over thirty countries, a