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Nauru is often figured as an anomaly in the international order. This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance to the histories of international law. Drawing on theories of jurisdiction and bureaucracy, it reconstructs four shifts in Nauru's status - from German protectorate, to League of Nations C Mandate, to UN Trust Territory, to sovereign state - as a means of redescribing the transition from the nineteenth century imperial order to the twentieth century state system. The book argues that as international status shifts, imperial form accretes: as Nauru's status shifted, what occurred at the local level was a gradual process of bureaucratisation. Two conclusions emerge from this argument. The first is that imperial administration in Nauru produced the Republic's post-independence 'failures'. The second is that international recognition of sovereign status is best understood as marking a beginning, not an end, of the process of decolonisation

A class analysis of the American political system -- Theories of government, early American history, and the politics of class conflict -- A constitution in question : how democratic is the founding document? -- Federalism and the struggle for democracy -- Interest groups and the upper-class perversion of political power -- Congress : the dysfunctional branch -- The presidency : class politics, the imperial presidency, and the threat to democracy -- The bureaucracy and the neoliberal threat to the common good -- The courts and judicial process : ideology, conflict, and class elitism -- Political parties : a crisis of confidence -- Elections and voting : electoral capture by elites -- Politics and the media : bias in pursuit of business interests -- Public opinion : the rise of neoliberal politics and mass resistance -- Civil liberties and the quest for corporate personhood -- Civil rights and the fight for equality -- Economic policy : growing inequality in the neoliberal era -- Imperialism and U.S. foreign policy : protecting business interests abroad -- Conclusion : where do we go from here?

This volume examines the specific gender roles in peace and security. The authors analyse the implementation process of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in various countries and discuss systemic challenges concerning the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Through in-depth case studies, the authors shed new light on topics such as the gender-related mechanisms of peace processes, gender training practices for police personnel, and the importance of violence prevention. The volume studies the role of women in peace and security as well as questions of gender mainstreaming by adopting various theoretical concepts, including feminist theories, concepts of masculinity, organizational and security studies. It also highlights regional and transnational approaches for the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, namely the perspectives of the European Union, NATO, the UN bureaucracy and the civil society. It presents best cases and political advice for tackling the problem of gender inequality in peace and security

Corruption is one of the most prominent issues in Latin American news cycles, with charges deciding the recent elections in Mexico, Brazil, and Guatemala. Despite the urgency of the matter, few recent historical studies on the topic exist, especially on Mexico. For this reason, Christoph Rosenmüller explores the enigma of historical corruption. By drawing upon thorough archival research and a multi-lingual collection of printed primary sources and secondary literature, Rosenmüller demonstrates how corruption in the past differed markedly from today. Corruption in Mexico's colonial period connoted the obstruction of justice; judges, for example, tortured prisoners to extract cash or accepted bribes to alter judicial verdicts. In addition, the concept evolved over time to include several forms of self-advantage in the bureaucracy. Rosenmüller embeds this important shift from judicial to administrative corruption within the changing Atlantic World, while also providing insightful perspectives from the lower social echelons of colonial Mexico.

This anthology, Defining Public Administration, is designed to assist beginning and intermediate level students of public policy, and to stir the imaginations of readers concerned with public policy and administration. The forty-five articles included in the text are all reprinted from the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, and these accessible, interesting articles have been assembled to offer a sample of the riches to be found within the larger work. The articles provide definitions of the vocabulary of public policy and administration as it is used throughout the world-from the smallest towns, to the largest national bureaucracies. Defining Public Administration is organized into twelve parts. Each part focuses on a domain pertinent to the study of public administration, including overviews, policy making, intergovernmental relations, bureaucracy, organization behavior, public management, strategic management, performance management, human resource management, financial management, auditing and accountability, and ethics.

Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global warming, inequality, concentration of business power, and financial instability. Regulation of global political economy in the interests of the majority of the world's population is essential if the human species is to avoid a Darwinian catastrophe. This book explores China's rich history of regulating the market in the interests of the mass of the population. For over two thousand years the Chinese bureaucracy has sought pragmatically to find a Way in which to integrate the 'invisible hand' of market forces with the 'visible hand' of ethically guided government regulation. Instead of seeking confrontation with China, citizens and politicians in the West need to deepen their understanding of the contribution that China can make to globally sustainable development in the decades and centuries ahead.

Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global warming, inequality, concentration of business power, and financial instability. Regulation of global political economy in the interests of the majority of the world's population is essential if the human species is to avoid a Darwinian catastrophe. This book explores China's rich history of regulating the market in the interests of the mass of the population. For over two thousand years the Chinese bureaucracy has sought pragmatically to find a Way in which to integrate the 'invisible hand' of market forces with the 'visible hand' of ethically guided government regulation. Instead of seeking confrontation with China, citizens and politicians in the West need to deepen their understanding of the contribution that China can make to globally sustainable development in the decades and centuries ahead.

"China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976. Andrew G. Walder argues that Mao's China was defined by two distinctive institutions: a Party apparatus that exercised firm discipline over its members; and a socialist economy modeled after the Soviet Union. Although a large bureaucracy had oversight of this authoritarian system, Mao intervened at every turn. The doctrines and political organization that produced Mao's greatest achievements--victory in the civil war, the creation of China's first modern state, a historic transformation of urban and rural life--also generated his worst failures: the industrial depression and rural famine of the Great Leap Forward and the destruction and stagnation of the Cultural Revolution. Misdiagnosing China's problems as capitalist restoration and prescribing continuing class struggle against imaginary enemies, Mao ruined much of what he had built and created no viable alternative"--Provided by publisher

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Early Mapping: The Tsardom in Manuscript -- 2. New Technology and the Mapping of Empire: The Adoption of the Astrolabe -- 3. Muscovy and the European Information Revolution: Creating the Mechanisms for Obtaining Foreign News -- 4. How Was Western Europe Informed about Muscovy? The Razin Rebellion in Focus -- 5. Communication and Obligation: The Postal System of the Russian Empire, 1700-1850 -- 6. Information and Efficiency: Russian Newspapers, ca.1700-1850 -- 7. What Was News and How Was It Communicated in Pre-Modern Russia? -- 8. Bureaucracy and Knowledge Creation: The Apothecary Chancery -- 9. What Could the Empress Know About Her Money? Russian Poll Tax Revenues in the Eighteenth Century -- 10. Communication and Official Enlightenment: The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education, 1834-1855 -- 11. Information in Plain Sight: The Formation of the Public Graphosphere -- 12. Experiencing Information: An Early Nineteenth-Century Stroll Along Nevskii Prospekt -- Selected Further Reading -- List of Figures -- Index.

part Part I: Present as History -- chapter 1 New Beginnings -- chapter 2 Defining Genocide -- chapter 3 Counting Bodies -- chapter 4 Collectivizing Death -- chapter 5 Individualizing Life -- part Part II: Past as Prologue -- chapter 6 Democracy, Autocracy, and Terrorism -- chapter 7 Human Rights and Personal Responsibilities -- chapter 8 Bureaucracy and State Power -- chapter 9 Nationalism and Genocidal Systems -- chapter 10 Totalitarianism as a Penal Colony -- part Part III: Future as Memory -- chapter 11 Memory as History -- chapter 12 Banality of State Power -- chapter 13 A Natural History of the Holocaust -- chapter 14 Jewish Survival in a Post-Holocaust World -- part Part IV: Toward a General Theory of State-Sponsored Crime -- chapter 15 Functional and Existential Visions of Genocide -- chapter 16 Exclusivity and Inclusivity of Collective Death -- chapter 17 Surviving the Genocidal State -- part Part V : Studying Genocide -- chapter 18 Life, Death, and Sociology -- chapter 19 Researching Genocide -- chapter 20 Gauging Genocide.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Public Personnel Management: A Cornerstone of Effective Government -- Chapter 2 Human Resources Practices and Research in Europe -- Chapter 3 Generational Differences and the Public Sector Workforce -- Chapter 4 Affirmative Action and the Law -- Chapter 5 Diversity, Social Equity, and Representative Bureaucracy -- Chapter 6 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Employees in the Public Sector Workforce -- Chapter 7 Paying the Shadow Workforce: The Case of Health Care -- Chapter 8 Unions in the Public Sector -- Chapter 9 Public Employees' Liability for" Constitutional Torts" -- Chapter 10 Public Sector Pensions and Benefits: Reform Challenges in a New Environment -- Chapter 11 Public Service Reform and Motivation -- Chapter 12 Workforce Planning in Turbulent Times -- Chapter 13 The Senior Executive Service: Past, Present, and Future -- Chapter 14 The Role of Human Resource Management in Cybersecurity -- Chapter 15 Telework in Government -- Chapter 16 Human Resources Management in Nonprofit Organizations -- Index

Preliminary Material /Claudio V. Zanini and Lima Bhuiyan -- 'Evil' of the Weak and Mediocrity as the Aim of Modern Culture: A Discussion of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals /Abdullah Onur Aktaş -- Is Diabolical Action Possible? /Peter Brian Barry -- The Justified Villain: Television, Terrorism and Re-Examining Evil /Lima Bhuiyan -- Dionysus: The Face of the Feminine Archetypal Principle /Diedra L. Clay -- Religious Evils in Turkish Horror Films /Bilgehan Ece Şakrak -- The Inevitability of Evil and Moral Tragedy /Zachary J. Goldberg -- Evil as All-Powerful, Evil as Immortal: The Public Relations of Evil in the Media /Sophia Kanaouti -- Exploring the Banality of Bureaucracy in Carceral States /Rallie Murray -- Against Humility as Informed Contempt /Regan Lance Reitsma -- The Belief in Evil and Its Redefinition during the Salem Witch Trials /Stefanie Schnitzer Mills -- Pinteresque Evil: A By-Product of Authority and Power Games /Asli Tekinay -- Representations of Evil in Found Footage Movies /Claudio Vescia Zanini.

1. Understanding public administration in Korea : the need for sharing models in government reforms / Kwang-Kook Park, Wonhee Lee, and Seok-Hwan Lee -- 2. Evolution of the developmental state and government capacity in Korea : achievements and challenges / M. Jae Moon -- 3. The role of planning and government in economic development / Jin Park -- 4. Korean government organization : the developmental state and its transformation / Keunsei Kim and Hyunshin Park -- 5. Korean public personnel management / Kyung-Ho Cho -- 6. Budget and financial management / Wonhee Lee -- 7. Performance management in Korea : prospects and challenges / Seok-Hwan Lee -- 8. Local government / Young-Chool Choi -- 9. Roles and reforms of public enterprises / Sang Cheoul Lee -- 10. Urban development / Jong Youl Lee and Chad Anderson -- 11. Electronic government / Seunghwan Myeong -- 12. Administrative control : ensuring accountable bureaucracy / Sung-Jun Myung -- 13. Historical review of the anticorruption policy in Korea : progress and challenges / Kilkon Ko -- 14. Government innovation / Kwang-Kook Park.

"Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada's system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the "Indian Hospitals" were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients. Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the "Indian Hospitals," the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations. A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, Separate Beds reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations that should never be forgotten."--

This book discusses some of the main challenges that arise in the management of modern democracies, with a focus on the role of citizens and their perceptions of government. A theoretical and practical framework is suggested for dealing with some of the most urgent problems that governments face today: the balance between bureaucracy and democracy, and between political and administrative concerns; the pressing economic concerns in a market-based, globalized knowledge society; and the changes in the relationship of trust amongst the players. At the heart of the analysis is the idea that running governments effectively means settling the potential conflicts between all those who are involved in the governmental process and in the making of public policy and public actions. The authors suggest approaches for strengthening the trust in democratic institutions and cooperation between the main actors in the democratic sphere, without compromising on the need to ensure effective governance