|
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes
This book reveals the market research, strategy, branding and
communication behind the unpredictable 2017 New Zealand election
result which saw Jacinda Ardern elected Labour leader just 8 weeks
before the election to become Prime Minister. Utilising rich data
sources that include a 250,000 Vote Compass survey and interviews
with key political advisors, it explores the alignment of the
policy of National, Labour, the Greens and NZ First with party
supporters, demographic segments and undecided voters. It also
analyses the leadership communication and branding of the leaders
Bill English, Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little, as well as the
advertising by minor parties ACT, the Greens, United Future and the
Maori Party. The book provides advice for practitioners, such as:
focus on being responsive, communicate delivery competence,
differentiate in policy and advertising, build an energetic and
charismatic leader brand and be flexible when planning.
In 2010 IAP released Change (Transformation) in Government
Organizations, edited by Ronald R. Sims. This well-received volume
described how organizational change methods can be used effectively
to make government organizations more effective and efficient and
better equipped to serve a demanding citizenry. The 2010 book
brought together contributions by managers, practitioners,
academics, and consultants in the study of international, federal,
state, and local government efforts to respond to increased calls
for change (transformation) in public sector organizations. Since
the release of the 2010 volume, calls for government transformation
have continued and intensified, and a number of fresh ideas and
examples have been generated from the field. The time is now ripe
for a follow-up volume laying out innovative, successful ideas for
transforming government. Transforming Government Organizations:
Fresh Ideas and Examples from the Field is that follow-up volume. A
collection of fresh contributions such as those included in this
book will add to the growing knowledge base of what does-and what
does not-work when transformation efforts are attempted in
government organizations. The contributors to this new volume are
experts with extensive experience as change agents in government
and other organizations. They provide analyses and discussions of
specific cases and issues as well as practical tools, ideas, and
lessons learned intended to guide those responsible for similar
efforts in the years to come. The audience for the book are
government managers, scholars, and others interested in undertaking
or learning about such efforts.
This book presents new research results on the challenges of local
politics in different European countries, including Germany, the
Netherlands, the Nordic countries and Switzerland, together with
theoretical considerations on the further development and
strengthening of local self-government. It focuses on analyses of
the most recent developments in local democracy and administration.
The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual
burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011
proclaimed that the oppressive, colonial past had been overthrown
decisively. So why has the oppression perpetrated by previous
regimes been repeated? What impact has this had on the lives of
'ordinary' citizens? Egyptian Revolutions looks at the impact of
the current events in Egypt on citizens in relation to matters of
belonging, identification and repetition. It contests the tendency
within postcolonial theory to understand these events as resistance
to Western imperialism and the positioning of activists as agents
of sustainable change. Instead, it pays close attention to the
continuities from the past and the contradictions at work in
relation to identification, repetition and conflict. Combining
postcolonial theory with a psychosocial studies framework it
explores the complexities of inhabiting a society in a state of
conflict and offers a careful analysis of current theories of
gender, religion and secularism, agency, resistance and compliance,
in a society riven with divisions and conflicts.
This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from
the national to the sub-national level. Presenting case studies for
countries with federal systems of government, such as Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, and India, as well as those
focusing on states with hybrid systems of government, such as
Italy, the contributors analyze multilevel government formation
processes to identify vertical congruence between national and
sub-national coalitions. The book also examines various factors
affecting the degree of congruence of political coalitions, such as
the degree of decentralization, federalization and
institutionalization of political systems, as well as cleavage
structure. This book will be a valuable resource for all scholars
interested in coalition politics, as well as for politicians and
practitioners in government and parliament.
This book explores violence against the environment within the
broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent,
perpetrators, and responses. TEC has become one of the greatest
threats to environmental and human security today, as well as a
lucrative enterprise and a mode of life in many regions of the
world. Transnational Spheres of Ecoviolence argues that we cannot
seriously consider stopping TEC without also promoting
environmental (and climate) justice. The spheres covered range from
wildlife and plant crime to illegal fisheries to toxic waste and
climate crime. These acts of violence against the environment are
both localized in terms of event and impact, and globalized in
terms of market drivers and internationalized responses. Because it
is so often intimately linked to political violence, coerced labor,
economic and physical displacement, and development opportunity
costs, ecoviolence must be viewed primarily as a human security
issue; the fight against it must derive legitimacy from impacts on
local communities, and be twinned wth the protection of
environmental activists. Reliance on the generosity of distant
corporations or the effectiveness of legal structures will not be
adequate; and militarized responses may do more harm to human
security than good to nature. A transformative approach to
transnational ecoviolence is a very complex task affected by the
geopolitics of neoliberalism, authoritarian states, rebel factions
and extremists, socio-economic patterns, and many other factors. In
this challenging text, the authors capture this complexity in
digestible form and offer a wide-ranging discussion of commensurate
policy recommendations for governments and the general public.
This book examines the efforts of the European Union, both past and
ongoing, to harness the socio-economic potential of the internet in
public policy-making. In order to achieve this, the author delves
into the interactions between actors in the process of EU
decision-making, using an outlook which focuses on how both
multi-level and experimentalist governance can provide solutions
for digital policy governance. The book also addresses the
involvement of local and regional authorities in digital
policy-making, both in how they endorse decisions made at the EU
level, and in how they contribute directly to digital policy-making
in their own localities.
This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media.
Opinions polls are not reported in the media as unfiltered numbers,
and some opinion polls are not reported at all. This volume
demonstrates how opinion polls travel through several stages that
eventually turn boring numbers into biased news in the media. The
framework offered in this book helps to understand how some polls
end up in the news coverage, and which systemic biases abound in
the news media reports of opinion polls. In the end, a change
narrative will be prominent in the reporting of opinion polls which
contributes to what the general public sees and shares. The
findings cover journalists, politicians, experts and the public,
and how they all share a strong preference for change.
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and
the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson
was one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion
of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. As a political
philosopher, Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment and knew many
intellectual leaders in Britain and France. He idealized the
independent yeoman farmer as exemplar of republican virtues,
distrusted cities and financiers, and favored states' rights and a
strictly limited federal government. Jefferson supported the
separation of church and state and was the author of the Virginia
Statute for Religious Freedom. Here is his life in his own words.
This important book presents theoretical and empirical studies of
the current reorganization of economic, political and social
relations in Britain, West Germany and Scandinavia. An
international list of distinguished contributors provide critical
and well-informed commentaries on issues such as the transition
from 'Fordism' to 'Post-Fordism', discourses and strategies of
flexibility, the recomposition of labour markets and labour
processes, the changing functions of the welfare state, and the
transformation of the state. The arguments are illustrated using
cases drawn equally from these three significant and distinct
patterns of political economy. In particular, the book assesses how
the need for increased 'flexibility' influenced the intellectual
and organizational responses of these countries to the crises of
the late 1970s.
A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong
Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For the 150
years that Hong Kong was a British colony, people, money and
technology flowed freely, while Hong Kong residents enjoyed
freedoms that simply did not exist in mainland China. When the
territory was handed over to China in 1997, the Communist Party
promised that Hong Kong would remain highly autonomous for fifty
years. Now, at the halfway mark, it is clear that China has not
kept its word. Universal suffrage and free elections have not been
instituted and activists have been jailed en masse following the
decree of a sweeping national security law by Beijing. As China
continues to expand its global influence, Hong Kong serves as a
chilling preview of how dissenters could be treated in regions that
fall under the emerging superpower's control. A Hong Kong resident
from 1992 to 2021, Mark L. Clifford has witnessed this
transformation first-hand and has unrivalled access to the full
range of the city's society, from student protestors to billionaire
businessmen and senior government officials. A powerful and
dramatic mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, Today Hong
Kong, Tomorrow the World is the definitive account of one of the
most important geopolitical standoffs of our time.
This book includes collective research by the Institute of
Political Science of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which
is an important research institution of political science and a
think-tank in China. The book was completed by the expert team of
"China's Political System" headed by Director Fang Ning for several
years and after several changes in their manuscripts. This book
covers the core political systems of China, such as the leadership
system of the Communist Party of China, the decision-making system
of the Party and government in Chinese politics, the system of the
people's congress, the relationship between the central and local
authorities, the system of officials training and selection, the
system of discipline inspection and supervision, the system of
consultative democracy and the system of community-level
self-governance, etc. This book aims to build a new paradigm of
empirical research and introduction of the contemporary Chinese
political system by using the description and research method of
materialization and dynamics of the political system.
Investigative reporter Patrick J. Sloyan, a former member of the
White House Press Corps, revisits the last years of John F.
Kennedy's presidency, his fateful involvement with Diem's
assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Civil Rights
Movement. Using recently released White House tape recordings and
interviews with key inside players, The Politics of Deception
reveals: The Politics of Deception is a fresh and revealing look at
an iconic president and the way he attempted to manage public
opinion and forge his legacy, sure to appeal to both history buffs
and those who were alive during his presidency.
Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has
one person had to make such a varied range of them. From D-Day to
Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red
Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, he was able to give our
country eight years of peace and prosperity by relying on a core
set of principles. These were informed by his heritage and
upbringing, his strong character and his personal discipline, but
he also avoided making himself the centre of things. He tried to be
the calmest man in the room, not the loudest, so instead of seeking
to fulfill his personal desires and political needs, he pursued a
course he called the 'Middle Way' that tried to make winners on
both sides of a situation. In addition, Ike maintained a big
picture view on any situation; he was a strategic, not an
operational leader. He also ensured that he had all the information
he needed to make a decision. His talent for envisioning a whole,
especially in the context of the long game, and his ability to sees
causes and various consequences, explains his success as Allied
Commander President. Then, after making a decision, he made himself
accountable for it, prizing responsibility most of all his
principles. How Ike Led shows us not just what a great American
did, but why - and what we can learn from him today.
This book gives a historical and contemporary overview of the
redistricting process, using North Carolina for the different
political, electoral, and legal issues and debates over the
practice of drawing legislative district boundaries. Redistricting
has been characterized as "the most political activity in America,"
and North Carolina has often been at the heart of recent
controversies over this particular activity. In fact, the Tar Heel
state was once described as "long notorious for (its) outrageous
reapportionment." Through legislative construction to significant
legal challenges, the Tar Heel state has been a noted case study
for the past thirty years. From the contentious issues of
redistricting principles to the matters of gerrymandering, based on
race and politics, North Carolina's past three decades have seen
major U.S. Supreme Court cases deal with redistricting
controversies. By exploring this state's dealings with
gerrymandering and redistricting, readers will have a better sense
of the dynamics facing the nation as it confronts the 2020 Census
and the subsequent redistricting efforts in 2021.
This book is a study of the centrality of racism in the
construction and maintenance of class-based societies in Britain,
the United States, and Western Europe. It combines analysis of
historical and contemporary material to provide the reader with a
better understanding of contemporary forms of racism.
The essays challenge assumptions of both racial superiority and
inferiority and of "natural" racial antagonism. The book is
intended for those readers concerned with understanding and
changing our increasingly unequal and unjust societies as well as
for those studying the issues of race relations, social structure,
and equality in an academic setting.
|
You may like...
Hoe Ek Dit Onthou
Francois Van Coke, Annie Klopper
Paperback
R300
R219
Discovery Miles 2 190
|