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Measuring governance has become an increasingly important feature
of modern societies, with organisations and institutions expected
to prove their worth by quantifying their activities and results.
This unique Handbook maps historical developments, theoretical
conceptions and key approaches, and summarises what is known about
measuring governance from a variety of fields of practice. Peter
Triantafillou and Jenny M. Lewis bring together an array of leading
international academics to examine how governance is measured
across different policy sectors and levels of government. Chapters
explore the sociological theory of measurement, the quality of
collaborative governance processes, governance in public health
care, and global development cooperation. The editors and
contributors have combined theoretical thinking with empirical
findings to support this comprehensive overview of measuring
governance, providing a significant contribution to the ongoing
discourse in this field. This thought-provoking Handbook will
appeal to public administration and public policy professionals, as
well as business and government practitioners at a national and
international level. It will also prove highly beneficial to
students, academics and researchers in governance, social policy,
business and management and political science.
Societies all over the world are facing a host of daunting
problems, including poverty, persistent unemployment, income
inequality, unequal distribution of political power and
participation, ageing populations, uncontrolled migration, and
climate change. Public Governance in Denmark: Meeting the Global
Mega-Challenges of the 21st Century? provides a nuanced account of
how Denmark handles these urgent societal problems. Offering
up-to-date academic analysis of Danish public governance, this
edited volume encourages an informed and balanced debate about
formulating and adopting political reform with reference to 'the
Danish model'. The authors explore how recent public governance
changes have turned the Danish welfare state into a mix of a
neo-Weberian state and an enabling state, deploying its
considerable resources to create economic growth for the benefit of
most Danes, satisfying the needs of citizens and businesses, and
developing collaborative solutions to complex problems. Still, not
all Danish policy changes have been successful and evolving
problems require further reforms in the years to come. Public
Governance in Denmark will be of great interest to students and
scholars within the fields of public administration, governance,
policy and politics as well as policy professionals engaged in
analyzing, designing, and evaluating public policies and governance
strategies.
Liberal democracies are experiencing a major transformation of
public governance by which self-regulation, co-operation and
negotiation between public and private actors and across different
political-administrative levels play an increasingly important role
for policy-making and implementation. Using the term 'governance
imagery', or what a given society envisions to be the proper way of
governing public affairs, this volume examines the emergence,
causes and consequences of the politics of self-governance both
within relevant social science theorizing and in the everyday
production of public governance in various policy areas. It
questions how self-governance materialized in various areas of
public governance in different liberal democracies, and the driving
forces and political effects of attempts to enhance the role of
self-governance. Challenging the theory and practice of public
administration, The Politics of Self-Governance is an indispensable
read for all those interested in new forms of public governance.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the
ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Middleware Conference, held in
Montreal, Canada, in December 2012. The 24 revised full papers
presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile
middleware; tracing and diagnosis; architecture and performance;
publish/subscribe middleware; and big-data and cloud computing;
availability, security and privacy.
This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of
individuals and populations of liberal democracies. It provides a
detailed account of the emergence and working of Danish and English
health promotion policies and programs in the areas of obesity
control and mental recovery. The book shows that these
interventions are supported by a form of optimistic vitalism,
according to which we should all work indefinitely to improve our
health and vigour. In the areas of both obesity control and mental
recovery, equally particular individuals, and the social
environment in which they live, are the target of political
interventions. The book is above all relevant for social and
political science researchers and graduate students as well as for
policymakers and practitioners in the field of public health. This
book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3,
Good health and well-being. -- .
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Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing - First International Workshop, ALGOCLOUD 2015, Patras, Greece, September 14-15, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Ioannis Karydis, Spyros Sioutas, Peter Triantafillou, Dimitrios Tsoumakos
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the First International Workshop on Algorithmic
Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2015, held in Patras, Greece,
in September 2015 in conjunction with ALGO 2015. The 13 revised
full papers presented together with 2 tutorial papers were
carefully reviewed and selected from 37 initial submissions. They
cover a wide range of topics in two main tracks: algorithmic
aspects of large-scale data stores, and software tools and
distributed architectures for cloud-based data management.
This book examines the links between major contemporary public
sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the
book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism
as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a
critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative
power. The book examines the quest for accountability, credibility
and evidence in the public sector. It asks whether this quest may
be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? The
book makes the argument that while current administrative reforms
are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they
evolve above all around a particular form of neoliberalism:
constructivist neoliberalism. The book analyses the dangers of the
kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering
capacities of society and administration itself. -- .
Traditional forms of top-down government are being challenged by
the growing complexity and fragmentation of social and political
life and the need to mobilise and activate the knowledge, ideas,
and resources of private stakeholders. In response to this
important challenge, there has been a persistent proliferation of
interactive forms of public governance that bring together a
plethora of public and private actors in collaborative policy
arenas. This book explores how these new forms of interactive
governance are working in practice and analyses their role and
impact on public policy making in different policy areas and in
different countries. The need for facilitating, managing and giving
direction to interactive policy arenas is also addressed through
empirical analyses of different forms of metagovernance, that aim
to govern interactive forms of governance without reverting to
traditional forms of hierarchical command and control. Finally, the
normative implications of interactive policy making are assessed
through studies of the democratic problems and merits associated
with interactive policy making.JACOB TORFING is Director of the
Center for Democratic Network Governance and Vice-Director in the
large-scale research project on Collaborative Innovation in the
Public Sector. He has been a member of the Danish Social Science
Research Council. PETER TRIANTAFILLOU is a member of the Center for
Democratic Network Governance and has served as the Dean of Study
at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde
University.
Traditional forms of top-down government are being challenged by
the growing complexity and fragmentation of social and political
life and the need to mobilize and activate the knowledge, ideas,
and resources of private stakeholders. In response to this
important challenge there has been a persistent proliferation of
interactive forms of public governance that bring together a
plethora of public and private actors in collaborative policy
arenas. This book explores how these new forms of interactive
governance are working in practice and analyses their role and
impact on public policy making in different policy areas and in
different countries. The need for facilitating, managing and giving
direction to interactive policy arenas is also addressed through
empirical analyses of different forms of metagovernance that aim to
govern interactive forms of governance without reverting to
traditional forms of hierarchical command and control. Finally, the
normative implications of interactive policy making are assessed
through studies of the democratic problems and merits associated
with interactive policy making.
Rising and changing citizen expectations, dire fiscal constraints,
unfulfilled political aspirations, high professional ambitions, and
a growing number of stubborn societal problems have generated an
increasing demand for innovation of public policies and services.
Drawing on the latest research, this book examines how current
systems of public governance can be transformed in order to enhance
public innovation. It scrutinizes the need for new roles and public
sector reforms, and analyzes how the gradual transition towards New
Public Governance can stimulate the exploration and exploitation of
new and bold ideas in the public sector. It argues that the key to
public innovation lies in combining and balancing elements from
Classic Public Administration, New Public Management and New Public
Governance, and theorizes how it can be enhanced by multi-actor
collaboration for the benefit of public officials, private
stakeholders, citizens, and society at large.
Rising and changing citizen expectations, dire fiscal constraints,
unfulfilled political aspirations, high professional ambitions, and
a growing number of stubborn societal problems have generated an
increasing demand for innovation of public policies and services.
Drawing on the latest research, this book examines how current
systems of public governance can be transformed in order to enhance
public innovation. It scrutinizes the need for new roles and public
sector reforms, and analyzes how the gradual transition towards New
Public Governance can stimulate the exploration and exploitation of
new and bold ideas in the public sector. It argues that the key to
public innovation lies in combining and balancing elements from
Classic Public Administration, New Public Management and New Public
Governance, and theorizes how it can be enhanced by multi-actor
collaboration for the benefit of public officials, private
stakeholders, citizens, and society at large.
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