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Governing the pandemic: the politics of navigating a mega-crisis
This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease COVID-19. Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics and policy of crisis management, it offers a unique ‘bird’s eye’ view of the immense logist…
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- 9783030726805
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- IX< 130 p.
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- 320.901 BOI g
Learning policy, doing policy : interactions between public policy theory, pr…
When it comes to policymaking, public servants have traditionally learned 'on the job', with practical experience and tacit knowledge valued over theory-based learning and academic analysis. Yet increasing numbers of public servants are undertaking policy training through postgraduate qualifications and/or through short courses in policy training. Learning Policy, Doing Policy explores how poli…
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- 9781760464219
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- XXI, 329 p.
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- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
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- 374.934 LEA l
Teacher transition into innovative learning environments : a global perspective
This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges that these changes pose, and the effective evaluation of these changes. The book reports on emerging research in learning environ…
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- 9789811574979
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- xv, 334p. : ill.
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- 371.3 TEA t
Asylum matters : on the front line of administrative decision-making
This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration, the book shows how regularities in administrative practice and ‘socialised subjectivity’…
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- 9783030615123
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- xvii, 203p. : ill.
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- 342.494083 AFF a
Achieving person-centred health systems : evidence, strategies and challenges
The idea of person-centred health systems is widely advocated in political and policy declarations to better address health system challenges. A person-centred approach is advocated on political, ethical and instrumental grounds and believed to benefit service users, health professionals and the health system more broadly. However, there is continuing debate about the strategies that are availa…
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- 9781108855464
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- xxiii, 396p. : ill.
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- 362.1094 ACH a
The changing role of the hospital in European health systems
Hospitals today face a huge number of challenges, including new patterns of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, ageing populations and continuing budget constraints. This book is written by clinicians for clinicians and hospital managers, and those who design and operate hospitals. It sets out why hospitals need to change as the patients they treat and the technology to treat them c…
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- 9781108855440
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- xix, 305p. : ill.
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- 362.11068 CHA c
Perpustakaan khusus vs covid 19 : inovasi dan kreasi layanan pada masa pandemi
Pandemi Covid-19 yang terjadi sejak pertengahan Maret 2020 berdampak cukup besar terhadap pengelolaan perpustakaan. Di awal pandemi, hampir semua layanan tatap muka perpustakaan harus ditutup. Lalu, bagaimana perpustakaan berinovasi agar tetap memberikan layanan yang terbaik pada masa-masa tersebut? . Buku ini berisi cerita para pustakawan dan pengelola perpustakaan di 17 perpustakaan kemente…
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- 9786233130882
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- x, 199p. : ill.
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- 027.609598 TIM p
Managing modern healthcare : knowledge, networks and practice
Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best practice; and how these processes are all influenced both by the organisations in which managers act and by the professional communities of practic…
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- 9781315658506
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- viii, 207p. : ill.
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- 362.1 BRE m
Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their a…
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- 9781760462796
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- xix, 529p. : ill.
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- 320.994 SUC s
Guardians of public value : how public organisations become and remain instit…
This open access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this volume examines how some organisations rise to prominence and remain in high public esteem through changing and challenging times. It builds upon the scholarly tradition of instit…
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- 9783030517014
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- xiii, 353p. : ill.
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- 352.367 GUA g
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