Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations provides students with a comprehensive yet practical introduction to the financial decision-making and management skills required of students and practitioners in the public, health, and not-for-profit sectors.

Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, community, liberty, equality. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values? This fourth edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on issues such as nationalism, immigration and multiculturalism, as well as updated guides to further reading. This lively and accessible book i...

A short, authoritative and critical guide to a much-debated concept in social science. From the history of cosmopolitanism to the "cosmopolitan turn" in contemporary society, this book is a must for students attempting to understand human interaction in a postmodern world.

‘China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment’ is one of the first scholarly books on Xi’s China during the Pandemic, which contains several features that are unmatched by existing scholarship. First, all the authors have studied and taught Chinese and American history or politics in both China and the United States for decades. They accordingly are quite familiar with and possess deep understandings of the history, politics, ideology, and society in both countries and therefore their resea...

Weinig Belgen liggen wakker van staatshervormingen. Politici zouden zich beter met de 'echte' problemen van de mensen bezighouden, klinkt het vaak. Hoe je die staat organiseert, vormt nochtans de basis om het politieke spel te kunnen spelen.Bouteca probeert het stof van de Belgische staatshervorming af te slaan door de boeiende geschiedenis ervan te vertellen en de belangrijkste hedendaagse discussies toe te lichten. Waarom is dat federalisme eigenlijk nodig? Zouden we niet beter terugkeren n...

In Europees Verval maak je een reis door de wereld van de Europese

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toont aan dat Nederland uit de Europese Unie kan stappen zonder

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This exciting seventh edition, now situated in a global context with international examples throughout, has been updated to now cover strategy and planning in the public sector; transparency, accountability and ethics; and non-profit management

With more than 250 entries, arranged in encyclopaedic A-to-Z format, this updated sixth edition provides insight into the key questions readers have about the U.S. Congress and helps them make sense of the narrow power division between Republicans and Democrats.

The gold standard for navigating the literature about policy implementation and governance, this modern classic is the leading introduction to the study of implementation.