1. Ethics management in the public services -- 2. Bildung : Gadamer's hermeneutics and ethics management in the public service -- 3. Understanding through metaphors -- 4. Towards sensory-based strategy for public service ethics -- 5. Sight -- 6. Hearing -- 7. Smell -- 8. Touch -- 9. Taste -- 10....

Introduction / Evan Moll Ghin and Mads Bøge Kristiansen -- Public management in times of austerity: the literature / Eva Moll Ghin and Mads Bøge Kristiansen -- The five case countries / Eva Moll Ghin and Mads Bøge Kristiansen -- Germany: an outlier in terms of fiscal adjustment / Jobst...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction and overview: polarization explained and applied; Part I Polarized mass publics and electoral politics; 1 Concerted action in complex environments: a comparison of...

1. Emerging from the crisis : the transformation of public service employment relations? / Stephen Bach and Lorenzo Bordogna -- 2. Greece : public service employment relations: adjustment and reforms / Christos A. Ioannou -- 3. Spain : rationalization without modernization: public service...

1. Introduction -- 2. Socio-economic and political drivers of social procurement -- 3. Historical and contemporary developments in social procurement -- 4. Institutional and resource enablers of social procurement -- 5. Social procurement and the corporate sector -- 6. Governing beyond...