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This title was first published in 2003. This insightful work
examines institutional formation and change as evidence of the
major re-shaping of government internationally over the last two
decades. It is based on a series of case studies of institutional
reform and ranges across institutions in countries including the
UK, China, Australia and the USA. Each case study considers
questions concerning the establishment of institutions, such as:
what have been the objectives of institutional changes? What are
the principles and values on which new institutions are founded? In
addition to looking at broad hypotheses regarding the state and new
institutions, the book also draws together practical lessons
regarding institutional reform. Thus the cases are analysed as a
group to throw light on a number of issues: are there patterns
discernible in the formation of new political institutions? What do
the cases reveal about what works, and what does not work, in
forming new institutions? What predictions can be made about the
relationship between values and governance structures?
This book discusses the most prominent subjects - and occasional
victims - of the ethics debate: government ministers. Political
ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political
science, philosophy, applied ethics and public policy and it has
become a major topic in current affairs' reporting of politics. It
is the first major work to discuss institutional reforms around the
world that target ministerial morality and asks: how are these
reforms influencing the motivation and conduct of the most powerful
of our politicians? The book provides unique insights into
ministerial behaviour and the changing role of institutions in
influencing the ethics of the executive, with analyses from around
the world. Contributors to the volume include international
high-profile players in political ethics. They include Lord Nolan,
the first Chairman of Britain's Joint Parliamentary Committee on
Standards in Public Life; Professor Robert J. Jackson, a leading
Canadian political scientist instrumental in establishing the
Canadian Office of the Ethics Counsellor; and Associate Professor
Noel Preston, the leading commentator on ethics in Australian
politics, who has been involved in developing a number of its
ethical regimes.
This title was first published in 2003. This insightful work
examines institutional formation and change as evidence of the
major re-shaping of government internationally over the last two
decades. It is based on a series of case studies of institutional
reform and ranges across institutions in countries including the
UK, China, Australia and the USA. Each case study considers
questions concerning the establishment of institutions, such as:
what have been the objectives of institutional changes? What are
the principles and values on which new institutions are founded? In
addition to looking at broad hypotheses regarding the state and new
institutions, the book also draws together practical lessons
regarding institutional reform. Thus the cases are analysed as a
group to throw light on a number of issues: are there patterns
discernible in the formation of new political institutions? What do
the cases reveal about what works, and what does not work, in
forming new institutions? What predictions can be made about the
relationship between values and governance structures?
This title was first published in 2002: Political ethics is a
rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science,
philosophy, applied ethics and public policy and it has become a
major topic in current affairs' reporting of politics. This book
discusses the most prominent subjects - and occasional victims - of
the ethics debate: government ministers. It is the first major work
to discuss institutional reforms around the world that target
ministerial morality and asks: how are these reforms influencing
the motivation and conduct of the most powerful of our politicians?
The book provides unique insights into ministerial behaviour and
the changing role of institutions in influencing the ethics of the
executive, with analyses from around the world. Contributors to the
volume include international high-profile players in political
ethics. They include Lord Nolan, the first Chairman of Britain's
Joint Parliamentary Committee on Standards in Public Life;
Professor Robert J. Jackson, a leading Canadian political scientist
instrumental in establishing the Canadian Office of the Ethics
Counsellor; and Associate Professor Noel Preston, the leading
commentator on ethics in Australian politics, who has been involved
in developing a number of its ethical regimes.
This book demonstrates how nonlinear/non-Gaussian Bayesian time
series estimation methods were used to produce a probability
distribution of potential MH370 flight paths. It provides details
of how the probabilistic models of aircraft flight dynamics,
satellite communication system measurements, environmental effects
and radar data were constructed and calibrated. The probability
distribution was used to define the search zone in the southern
Indian Ocean. The book describes particle-filter based numerical
calculation of the aircraft flight-path probability distribution
and validates the method using data from several of the involved
aircraft's previous flights. Finally it is shown how the Reunion
Island flaperon debris find affects the search probability
distribution.
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