Administrative Law category: 861 books
Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh
Reforms, Participation and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP...
Information, Models, and Sustainability
Policy Informatics in the Age of Big Data and Open Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book reflects on the emerging trends, development, and challenges of policy on sustainability using information technology, and provides valuable insights to both research and practice communities. Sustainability has become an important focus for government, civil society and the corporate community...
Open Government
Opportunities and Challenges for Public Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
On January 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. The memorandum declares the new Administration’s commitment to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government and establishing a system linking three principles: transparency, public participation...
by Martin Shenkman,Jonathan Blattmachr
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
2012 may be the most important year in history for tax planning. More wealth may be transferred in the waning months of 2012 than any other year. What can and should you do to take advantage of the potentially astounding planning opportunities that are available? What are the risks associated with this...
The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management
Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
How can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live? Ironically, many governments and citizens keep on asking the same question after every new disaster. Why, even with high levels of investment in increasing government’s capacity to manage disasters, do the impacts of disasters...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation and implement structural reforms for reorganizing fiscal...
Evolutionary Governance Theory
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations. As a novel theory of governance, EGT understands governance as radically evolutionary, which implies that all elements of governance are...
by Abadir M. Ibrahim
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book tests many of the assumptions, hypotheses, and conclusions connected with the presumed role of civil society organizations in the democratization of African countries. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at countries that have successfully democratized, those that are stuck between progress...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
This book presents strategies for managing disasters and reducing risks in Asian countries. Given the dynamic changes in the natural environment as well as the patterns of land use and management, the growing populations of the developing nations in Asia, migration patterns, and other social-cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries. The Asian region has become increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, including floods, cyclones, storms, earthquakes, drought, typhoons and tsunamis. Further, as a result of unsustainable changes being made in patterns of land...
by James P. Howard, II
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This Brief presents a benefit-cost analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as an evaluation of its cumulative socioeconomic effects. Created by Congress in 1968, the NFIP provides flood insurance protection to property owners, in return for local government commitment to sound...
by US Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
This is Title 2 of the United States Code annotated. It is current through June 24 , 2017.
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The King Takes Your Castle
City Laws That Restrict Your Property Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book describes the critical issues facing the public in view of the rapid growth and economic impact of the sharing economy, which has resulted in internet firms, such as Airbnb and HomeAway, to rapidly become larger than major hotel chains, with company value measured in multiple billions...
Russia as a Network State
What Works in Russia When State Institutions Do Not?
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Discusses the ambiguous nature of the state in Russia, focusing on elite networks and their role in policy processes. This book examines the paradoxical dualism of state institutions and ruling networks, providing answers as to why some decisions are not implemented, and why the state exists despite the systemic inefficiency of its institutions.