The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change. But what are these formalized and implicit understandings? What are the key dimensions of such bargains? In what conditions do bargains rise and fall? And has there been a universal and uniform change in these bargains?
The second edition of this text features substantial extra coverage of methodological issues in political science, an additional chapter on the philosophical underpinnings of the study of politics and a simplified structure for the presentation of theories and approaches.
Buku ini membahas dua tema yang sesungguhnya sudah banyak didiskusikan sejak jauh di masa lalu, bahkan sejak awal hadirnya peradaban manusia, namun tetap menarik hingga kini dan di masa mendatang, yakni kepemimpinan (leadership) dan kekuasaan (power). Dua tema tersebut menyatu ke dalam kepemimpinan politik. Di tengah-tengah kelangkaan bacaan tentang kepemimpinan politik, kehadiran buku ini sang…
This book examines the struggle between President Obama and the United States Congress to manage federal spending and tax policy for the three and one half years between 2009 and the summer of 2012. More than half the book focuses on the intense 44-day crisis in June and July 2011 when the United States came to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default on its debt. Based on eighteen month…
Secara umum buku ini mencoba membahas perkembangan di dalam tubuh pni serta peranan partai ini dalam keadaan atau perkembangan politik indonesia di antara tahun - tahun mencemaskan, yaitu 1963 - 1969.
Rahasia Dokter Sabara: Tania Rejana terpukau oleh perhatian yang dilimpahkan Edo Sabara terhadapnya walau hatinya sudah dimiliki oleh Jonas. Namun Jonas mendadak mati dalam tidur! Tania sendiri mengalami berbagai kecelakaan. Kecurigaan jatuh pada Arman yang akan mewarisi kekayaan Tania bila ia meninggal. Sayangnya sejauh itu tak ada bukti. Namun akhirnya ketika Tania memutuskan untuk menerima l…
Buku Kerajaan Indonesia tidak memaparkan perbedaan antara Republik dan Kerajaan, mengapa sebuah Negara memilih bentuk Republik atau Kerajaan -- tentunya memiliki argumentasi, mengandung maksud, visi dan nilai-nilai yang ingin diwujudkan di dalam tatanan masyarakat. Tapi kenyataannya, atau dalam praktek kekuasaan dan penyelenggaraan pemerintahan, ternyata rancu dan bahkan terasa tak ada bedanya …
Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems by Evan M. Berman, James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, and Montgomery R. Van Wart offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues of management in the public sector, including managing under tight budgets with increasing costs, hiring freezes, contracting out, and the politicization of the civil servic…
We were gratified and somewhat surprised at the success of the first edition of Theorizing Crisis Communication. Although we believed a summary of crisis theory was important, we also assumed that crisis communication remained a relatively specialized area of communication research. The success of the first edition demonstrated that crisis communication is recognized as a critical area of pract…
This latest edition has been fully revised by the author to reflect new trends and developments in social media and to capture emergent topics such as CEO activism and corporate character and purpose
E-Learning Ecologies explores transformations in the patterns of pedagogy that accompany e-learning--the use of computing devices that mediate or supplement the relationships between learners and teachers--to present and assess learnable content, to provide spaces where students do their work, and to mediate peer-to-peer interactions. Written by the members of the'new learning'research group, t…
Explores contemporary debates and challenges in education. In this time of dramatic social change, education represents significant possibilities and opportunities. Written in accessible, lively style, this book examines learners and their learning environments and considers how schools can prepare their students for the future
Crises occur every day: a viral outbreak threatens public health, a corporation lays off thousands of workers, an oil spill threatens an ecosystem. Such crisis can be devastating, resulting in tragic and sometimes fatal outcomes for individuals, organizations, the organizations' stakeholders, and even entire industries. Author W. Timothy Coombs explains how crisis management can prevent or redu…
Strategic Corporate Communication in the Digital Ageexplores how contemporary communication approaches are crossing boundaries as innovative media formats and digital transformations offer new challenges and opportunities to academia and practitioners