Governing From Center Stage

Author : Lori Cox Han
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing from Center Stage written by Lori Cox Han and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyzes and compares the use of communication strategies of presidents and their administrations during the television age of politics. In begins in 1961, and demonstrates that various factors can play a role in whether or not a president succeeds in controlling the political agenda.

Author : Katja Brøgger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303000886X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing through Standards: the Faceless Masters of Higher Education written by Katja Brøgger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an empirical and theoretical account of the mode of governance that characterizes the Bologna Process. In addition, it shows how the reform materializes and is translated in everyday working life among professors and managers in higher education. It examines the so-called Open Method of Coordination as a powerful actor that uses “soft governance” to advance transnational standards in higher education. The book shows how these standards no longer serve as tools for what were once human organizational, national or international, regulators. Instead, the standards have become regulators themselves – the faceless masters of higher education. By exploring this, the book reveals the close connections between the Bologna Process and the EU regarding regulative and monitoring techniques such as standardizations and comparisons, which are carried out through the Open Method of Coordination. It suggests that the Bologna Process works as a subtle means to circumvent the EU’s subsidiarity principle, making it possible to accomplish a European governance of higher education despite the fact that education falls outside EU’s legislative reach. The book’s research interest in translation processes, agency and power relations among policy actors positions it in studies on policy transfer, policy borrowing and globalization. However, different from conventional approaches, this study draws on additional interpretive frameworks such as new materialism.

Author : Diane J. Heith
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748490
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polling to Govern written by Diane J. Heith and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidents spend millions of dollars on public opinion polling while in office. Critics often point to this polling as evidence that a “permanent campaign” has taken over the White House at the expense of traditional governance. But has presidential polling truly changed the shape of presidential leadership? Diane J. Heith examines the polling practices of six presidential administrations—those of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton—dissecting the poll apparatus of each period. She contends that while White House polls significantly influence presidential messages and responses to events, they do not impact presidential decisions to the extent that observers often claim. Heith concludes that polling, and thus the campaign environment, exists in tandem with long-established governing strategies.

Author : Tomila Lankina
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742530218
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing the Locals written by Tomila Lankina and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governing the Locals demonstrates that with the exception of a brief period in 1990-92 when the local soviets fostered mass mobilization, local governments in post-Soviet Russia have actively constrained grass-roots activism. Rather than serving as instruments of the 'schooling in civil society, ' or of 'making democracy work'_as the conventional wisdom holds_local governments have been used by the regional authoritarian or ethnocratic regimes as instruments of top down social control. The author suggests that this tendency has been on the rise under President Putin, whose reforms have served to integrate local government into a centralized power vertical potentially facilitating authoritarian style social mobilization non only on a regional level, but also on a nation-wide scale. The author examines the impact of local self-governing institutions on nationalist movement mobilization in Russia. Using insights from social movement theories, Lankina argues that similar to the soviets in the Soviet system, municipalities in post-Soviet Russia continue to influence local societies through their control over social networks, material resources, and public agenda setting. Accordingly, their facilitating or constraining role crucially affects movement successes or failures. This is the first study identifying the centrality of local government for understanding the nature of state-society relations in Russia, and for explaining the broader questions of social activism or lack thereof in the post-Soviet space.

Author : Lina Svedin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136319336
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accountability in Crises and Public Trust in Governing Institutions written by Lina Svedin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions. Using Sweden as the case study, this book provides a framework to analyse accountability in crises and looks at how this affects trust in government. Crises test the fabric of governing institutions. Threatening core societal values, they force elected officials and public servants to make consequential decisions under pressure and uncertainty. Public trust in governing institutions is intrinsically linked to the ability to hold decision-makers accountable for the crucial decisions they make. The book presents empirical evidence from examination of the general bases for accountability in public administration, and at the accountability mechanisms of specific administrative systems, before focusing on longer term policy changes. The author finds that within the complex web of bureaucratic and political moves democratic processes have been undermined across time contributing to misplaced and declining trust in governing institutions. Accountability in Crises and Public Trust in Governing Institutions will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of public policy, political leadership and governance.

Author : Karen Sanders
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849665044
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government Communication written by Karen Sanders and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Government communication is a curiously neglected area of discursive analysis. No considered examination of the subject exists which provides either an account of the contemporary governmental landscape or an explanation of the common and divergent themes on both a domestic and international basis. This volume aims to fill that gap, providing a concise and illuminating case-study based review of government communication. It will be divided into three sections to reflect differences in both geography and political allegiances, scrutinizing continental Europe, Anglo-American traditions and newly emerging democracies. Offering a global and thematic account, it is an indispensable resource for all students of political communication.

Author : Wayne Avrashow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645437949
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Center Stage written by Wayne Avrashow and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If politics is a game, who better to play it than a master showman like a mega-rock star? America has adored rock star Tyler Sloan for decades, and when he decides to leave the Las Vegas stage to run for a seat on the United States Senate, it's assumed that he'll run an unconventional campaign. He exceeds expectations--and more. No stranger to politics, Sloan's estranged father was a California governor who narrowly lost his presidential campaign. It's this experience--and his performance skills--that render a show-stopping performance as an independent candidate for Senate. He expresses disdain for the two-party system and dismisses special interests and lobbyists. Sloan immediately finds himself caught in a political campaign fraught with scandal, corruption, and conflicting loyalties--personally, politically, and romantically. Will Sloan be able to handle political turbulence and reckon with his own past while navigating the polls? As the countdown to election day begins, Tyler Sloan is focused on winning and taking center stage.

Author : Carlton W. Laird
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456891499
Total Pages : 67 pages
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Download or read book To Save Cut the Governing Structures written by Carlton W. Laird and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jefferey M. Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521657075
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing from Below written by Jefferey M. Sellers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world more policy making and the politics that shape it take place in the urban regions where most people live. This book draws on eleven case studies of similar but disparate urban regions in France, Germany and the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s. It documents the growth of this urban governance and develops a pioneering analysis of its causes and consequences. It traces the origins to the expansion and devolution of policy making, to local business mobilization and institutional interests in high-tech and service activities, and the incorporation of local social movements. Nation-states shape the possibilities for this urban governance, but operate increasingly as infrastructures for local initiatives. Where urban governance has succeeded in combining environmental quality and social inclusion with local prosperity, local officials have built on supportive infrastructures from higher levels, the local economy, civil society, and favourable positions in the global economy.

Author : William G. Weissert
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421428938
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Health written by William G. Weissert and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on compelling current examples, Governing Health is a timely and essential book.