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Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The daunting challenges that face the nation in the 21st century establish the need for the transformation of government and demand fundamental changes in how federal agencies should meet these challenges by becoming flatter, more results-oriented, externally focused, partnership-oriented, and employee-enabling organizations. This testimony addresses how the long-term fiscal imbalance facing the United States, along with other significant trends and challenges, establish the case for change and the need to reexamine the base of the federal government; how federal agencies can transform into high-performing organizations; and how multiple approaches and selected initiatives can support the reexamination and transformation of the government and federal agencies to meet these 21st century challenges."

Regional governance from a comparative perspective / Detlef Nolte, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany . - State and society in the transnational space / Wolfgang Hein, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany . - Analysis of global and regional convergence from an international economic perspective / Víctor M. González-Sánchez, UNED, National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain . - Financial literacy and financial inclusion : a double challenge for public sector / Susana de los Ríos-Sastre, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, Spain. - Does university education develop entrepreneurial qualities? / Sylvia Rohlfer and Sergio Pulgarin, CUNEF, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Calle Leonardo Prieto Castro, Madrid, Spain, and others . - State-formation and patterns of violence : a cross regional comparison / Sabine Kurtenbach, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany . - Between independence and control : recent developments within the judiciary in Latin America / Cordula Tibi Weber and Mariana Llanos, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany . - China-Cuba relations in the 21st century / Adrian H. Hearn, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia . - Subnational authoritarian enclaves and their impact on national democratic rule : evidence from Mexico / Allyson Lucinda Benton, CIDE Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico D. F., Mexico . - State and society structural distance and measurements : an empirical analysis of China's national business associations / Long Ningli, China Center for Comparative Politics & Economics, Beijing, China . - A methodology for economic analysis of water reuse projects : the case of the city of Barcelona / Oriana Correia, "Scar Alfranca and Luis Seguí, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

After preparing to lead a quiet life as a teacher and scholar of political theory, William Galston has spent the past quarter century crossing the boundaries between academia and public life, including a two-year stint as Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy under President Clinton. Reflecting these boundary-crossings, Public Matters contains a selection of Galston's essays on politics, policy, and religion

This forum article highlights three major research trends we have observed in the journal Global Environmental Politics since 2000. First, research has increasingly focused on specific and formal mechanisms of global environmental governance, contributing to more elaborate and refined methodologies that span more scales and levels of analysis. Second, research increasingly has concentrated on the rise of market-based governance mechanisms and the influence of private actors, reflecting a broader shift among policymakers toward liberal approaches to governance. Third, over this time empirical research has shifted significantly toward analyzing issues through a lens of climate change, providing valuable insights into environmental change, but narrowing the journal's empirical focus. These trends, which overlap in complex ways, arise partly from shifts in real-world politics, partly from broader shifts in the overall field of global environmental politics (GEP), and partly from the advancing capacity of GEP theories and methodologies to investigate the full complexity of local to global governance. This maturing of GEP scholarship does present challenges for the field, however, including the ability of field-defining journals such as Global Environmental Politics to engage a diversity of critical scholarly voices and to influence policy and activism.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Libraries as Stewards and Access Points for Government Information -- Chapter 1 Government Information Librarians: New Skills and Training for the Digital Age -- Chapter 2 E-Government and Public Libraries in the United States and Canada: Challenges Facing the Public Library of Today -- Chapter 3 Digitization and Digital Preservation of Government Information -- Chapter 4 Preservation of Digital Government Information by Libraries: An Australian Case Study -- Chapter 5 Enhancing Access to Printed Government Documents -- Chapter 6 Managing the Digital Collection -- Chapter 7 Government Information and Services: Accessibility and the Digital Divide -- Part 2 Governments as Information Managers and Providers -- Chapter 8 Managing the Freedom of Information Process: How do National Government Departments Manage and Deliver upon the Promises of the Freedom of Information Process? The East European Perspective (Estonia, Hungary, and Uzbekistan) -- Chapter 9 Authenticating Digital Government Information -- Chapter 10 Open Government: Beyond Black-box Transparency -- Chapter 11 Managing Open Government Data -- Chapter 12 Government Information and New Web Technologies -- Chapter 13 Crown Copyright and the Reuse of Government Information: Access and Limitations -- Chapter 14 An e-Government Experience in Colima with Significance in a Country: Mexico -- Index.