Governing democracies

The bureaucracy is the fourth branch of government, often receiving attention in times of emergency or when it is the object of criticism from the media or politicians. Less understood is how bureaucratic institutions function in a democracy, both from an organizational perspective and as institutional participants within the political arena. Drawing on rational choice approaches, computationally intensive data and modeling techniques, and systematic empirical inquiry, this original collection of essays highlights the important role bureaucracies play in shaping public policy-making.

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Ebook "Parliamentary control and government accountability in South Asia: A comparative analysis of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka" presents a comparative analysis of the role of parliamentary committees in securing government accountability in the three largest and most important functioning democracies in South Asia: Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.

273p tuongnhuoclan 28-11-2023 4 3   Download

Part 1 of ebook "Accountability without democracy: Solidary groups and public goods provision in Rural China" provides readers with contents including: governance and informal institutions of accountability; decentralization and local governmental performance; local governmental performance; informal accountability and the structure of solidary groups; temples and churches in Rural China;...

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Accountability without democracy: Solidary groups and public goods provision in Rural China" provides readers with contents including: lineages and local governance; accountability and village democratic reforms; the limitations of formal party and bureaucratic institutions; conclusion;...

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Part 1 of ebook "Controlling governments: Voters, institutions, and accountability" provides readers with contents including: explaining the electoral performance of incumbents in democracies; how can governments be accountable if voters vote ideologically; enduring ethnicity - the political survival of incumbent ethnic parties in western democracies;...

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Controlling governments: Voters, institutions, and accountability" provides readers with contents including: the political consequences of internal party democracy; choosing rules for government - the institutional preferences of early socialist parties; constitutions and democratic breakdowns;...

155p tuongnhuoclan 27-11-2023 7 4   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Democratization and the judiciary: The accountability function of courts in new democracies" provides readers with contents including: legitimating transformation - political resource allocation in the South African constitutional court; the accountability function of the courts in Tanzania and Zambia; renegotiating ‘law and order’ - judicial reform and citizen responses in post-war guatemala; economic reform and judicial governance in Brazil - balancing independence with accountability;...

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Encyclopedia of the social and solidarity economy: A collective work of the United Nations Inter-Agency task force on SSE (UNTFSSE)" provides readers with contents including: linkages to development; care and home support services; culture, sports and leisuresectors; energy, water and wastemanagement sectors; information and communication technology (ICT); enabling environment and governance; co-optation, isomorphism and instrumentalisation; participation, governance, collective action and democracy;...

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Ebook Building the e-service society: E-commerce, e-business, and e-government - Part 1 includes the following content: Chapter 1: Towards key business process for e-government; Chapter 2: An intelligent search engine for electronic government applications for the resolutions of the united nations security council; Chapter 3: Knowledge in e-government; Chapter 4: Democracy in the electronic government era; Chapter 5: Usability evaluation as quality assurance of e-government services; Chapter 6: Rethinking trust and confidence in european e-government; Chapter 7: Exploring the relationship b...

239p haojiubujain01 06-06-2023 8 5   Download

Ebook Analyzing politics: An introduction to political science – Part 2 presents the following content: Chapter 7 Political ideologies III: Feminism, environmentalism, and postmodernism; Chapter 8 Comparative politics I: Governmental systems: democracy and nondemocracy; Chapter 9 Comparative politics II: Interest groups, political parties, and elections; Chapter 10 Comparative politics III: Governing democracies: executives, legislatures, and judiciaries; Chapter 11 International relations I: Introduction; Chapter 12 International relations II: Contemporary issues.

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Ebook Analyzing politics: An introduction to political science (Fifth edition) – Part 2 presents the following content: Chapter 7 Political ideologies III: Feminism, environmentalism, and postmodernism; Chapter 8 Comparative politics I: Governmental systems: democracy and nondemocracy; Chapter 9 Comparative politics II: Interest groups, political parties, and elections; Chapter 10 Comparative politics III: Governing democracies: executives, legislatures, and judiciaries; Chapter 11 International relations I: Introduction; Chapter 12 International relations II: Contemporary issues.

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This book, Libraries and Democracy, focuses on the role libraries play in advancing deliberative democracy. Democracy is no simple construct. President Lyndon B. Johnson believed in voting as the crux of democracy. At the end of the century, President Bill Clinton held governance to be the dominant feature of democracy. Perhaps the most comprehensive view was held by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who considered democracy to be the opportunity for everyone to participate in all aspects of society.

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Ebook Politics (2nd ed): Part 1 presents the following content: Chapter 1 what is politics? chapter 2 governments, systems and regimes; chapter 3 political ideologies; chapter 4 democracy; chapter 5 the state; chapter 6 nations and nationalism; chapter 7 global politics; chapter 8 subnational politics.

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The papers were distributed over the following tracks: General E-Government and Open Government Track; General E-Democracy and E-participation Track; Smart Government Track; AI, Data Analytics, and Automated Decision-Making Track; Digital Collaboration and Social Media Track; Policy Modelling and Policy Informatics Track; Social Innovation Track;...

287p maingoc84 31-05-2022 15 4   Download

In Vietnam, direct democracy has been recognized in many important legal documents and has been concerned by the Vietnamese Government, especially in recent times. Promoting and expanding direct democracy in Vietnam is evaluated as very correct and consistent actions of the Communist Party and the Government of Vietnam.

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The article demonstrates that centralised, fragmented regimes contain weaknesses in their ability to implement policy and pursue long-term development, whilst centralised dominant regimes have a weakness from supressing critique. Overall, this reinforces the importance of analysing the manifestation of political power within the ruling elite, and the way this shapes key political pressures and policymaking horizons.

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This respective study is aimed to investigate the trade relationship of China and Africa with the addition of cultural distance as a mediator of this relationship. China and Africa there is a huge cultural distance and some anti-Chinese factors exist in Africa but wider developments in the market of China become the focus trade by Africa. China mainly deals with African democracy and autocracies, avoiding any exchange between China and an African nation's form of governance.

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The participatory budgeting of Brazilian municipalities is one of the most publicized examples of democracy-inaction that fosters citizenship knowledge acquisition in local government. This research adds two new perspectives to the participatory process. The first one demonstrates how knowledge is acquired and shared, and which are the new contextual conditions for this acquisition to happen, which we call, the knowledge acquisition process.

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In developing economies, resource gap is critical and widening resulting to huge fiscal and budgetary deficits. Therefore, revenue mobilization is challenging proposition in an economy like Nepal where majority of the people live in abject poverty. Tax administration lacks innovative mechanism to identify new taxpayers and bring them into tax-net. Tax reform agenda was the reform package and program of the government after the restoration of multiparty democracy system.

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Unless Bangladesh will find credible means to change the political culture within which it function, the viability of democracy will remain doubtful. Though it is about four decades of independence, the history of democracy isn’t worth to value its principles in its actual practice. Bangladesh’s democracy is distorted by the malpractices of political power by her politicians. The quality of democracy in the country has been jeopardized by the immature practices and attitudes by its political party, in or out of power.

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