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Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting - A New Role for Rule Variability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Michael Di... Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting - A New Role for Rule Variability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Michael Di Francesco, John Alford
R1,559 Discovery Miles 15 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work explores how reshaping budget rules and how they are applied presents a preferred means of public sector budgeting, rather than simply implementing fewer rules. Through enhanced approaches to resource flexibility, government entities can ensure that public money is used appropriately while achieving the desired results. The authors identify public budgeting practices that inhibit responses to complex problems and examine how rule modification can lead to expanded budget flexibility. Through a nuanced understanding of the factors underlying conventional budget control, the authors use budget reforms in Australia to show the limits of rule modification and propose "rule variability" as a better means of recalibrating central control and situational flexibility. Here, policy makers and public management academics will find a source that surveys emerging ways of reconciling control and flexibility in the public sector.iv>

The Self and its Defenses - From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Massimo Marraffa, Michele Di... The Self and its Defenses - From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Massimo Marraffa, Michele Di Francesco, Alfredo Paternoster
R1,754 Discovery Miles 17 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life. This process aims primarily at defending the self-conscious subject against the threat of its metaphysical inconsistence. In other words, the self is essentially a repertoire of psychological manoeuvres whose outcome is self-representation aimed at coping with the fundamental fragility of the human subject. This picture of the self differs from both the idealist and the eliminative approaches widely represented in contemporary discussion. Against the idealist approach, this book contends that rather than the self being primitive and logically prior, it is the result of a process of construction that originates in subpersonal unconscious processes. On the other hand, it also rejects the anti-realistic, eliminative argument that, from the non-primary, derivative nature of the self, infers its status as an illusory by-product of real neurobiological events, devoid of any explanatory role.

The Self and its Defenses - From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Massimo Marraffa, Michele Di... The Self and its Defenses - From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Massimo Marraffa, Michele Di Francesco, Alfredo Paternoster
R1,938 Discovery Miles 19 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life. This process aims primarily at defending the self-conscious subject against the threat of its metaphysical inconsistence. In other words, the self is essentially a repertoire of psychological manoeuvres whose outcome is self-representation aimed at coping with the fundamental fragility of the human subject. This picture of the self differs from both the idealist and the eliminative approaches widely represented in contemporary discussion. Against the idealist approach, this book contends that rather than the self being primitive and logically prior, it is the result of a process of construction that originates in subpersonal unconscious processes. On the other hand, it also rejects the anti-realistic, eliminative argument that, from the non-primary, derivative nature of the self, infers its status as an illusory by-product of real neurobiological events, devoid of any explanatory role.

Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting - A New Role for Rule Variability (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the... Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting - A New Role for Rule Variability (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Michael Di Francesco, John Alford
R1,802 Discovery Miles 18 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work explores how reshaping budget rules and how they are applied presents a preferred means of public sector budgeting, rather than simply implementing fewer rules. Through enhanced approaches to resource flexibility, government entities can ensure that public money is used appropriately while achieving the desired results. The authors identify public budgeting practices that inhibit responses to complex problems and examine how rule modification can lead to expanded budget flexibility. Through a nuanced understanding of the factors underlying conventional budget control, the authors use budget reforms in Australia to show the limits of rule modification and propose "rule variability" as a better means of recalibrating central control and situational flexibility. Here, policy makers and public management academics will find a source that surveys emerging ways of reconciling control and flexibility in the public sector.iv>

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