Part I -- 1: Don't Be A Prick -- 2: Managers Are Evil -- 3: Stables and Volatiles -- 4: The Rands Test -- 5: How to Run a Meeting -- 6: The Twinge -- 7: The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster -- 8: Lost in Translation -- 9: Agenda Detection -- 10: Management via Worry and Crisis -- 11:...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Domestic Institutions and the Political Economy of International Agreements: A Survey and Hypotheses -- Chapter 3. Domestic Institutions and the Ratification of International Agreements in a Panel of Democracies -- Chapter 4. Choosing to Be Constrained:...

Das Ergebnis von unseren Entscheidungen, die zu unserem Verhalten und Handeln führen, hängt nicht nur von uns ab, sondern auch von den Entscheidungen – Handeln und Verhalten – unseres sozialen Umfelds: Ein jeder ist ein Spieler. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, was Spieltheorie ist und wie man...

Chapter 1: Introduction to Budgeting in Georgia -- Chapter 2: Fiscal Conservatism and Fiscal Conservatives -- Chapter 3: Patterns and Trends in Georgia Revenue -- Chapter 4: Patterns and Trends in Georgia Spending -- Chapter 5: The Executive Budget in Georgia -- Chapter 6: The Annual Budget...

Chapter 1 : Train Wreck Spotting (The Municipal Financial Crisis Is Here) -- Chapter 2: Inside City Budgeting -- Chapter 3: What City Government Does and What City Government Is -- Chapter 4: Why City Council Decisions Go Wrong -- Chapter 5: Failed Financial Analysis -- Chapter 6: Budget...

This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years. One direction has been to reflect real economic...

Chapter 1. Internet of Things and the Public Sector -- Chapter 2. The Internet of Things in a smart society: how government policy can help seize opportunities and mitigate threats -- Chapter 3. Methodologies for a participatory design of IoT to deliver sustainable public services in 'smart...

Chapter 1 What Could Be the Contents of Adam Smith’s Third Book -- Chapter 2 The Contributions and Deficiencies of Keynesian Economics -- Chapter 3 Scarcity and Generation of Resources -- Chapter 4 The Dual Attributes of Government -- Chapter 5 Regional Government Competition -- Chapter 6...

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking...