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"Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet there remains scant attention in textbooks to the issues that arise in trying to address metropolitan governance. Governing Metropolitan Areas describes and analyzes structure to understand the how and why of regionalism in our global age. The book covers governmental institutions and their evolution to governance, but with a continual focus on institutions. David Hamilton provides the necessary comprehensive, in-depth description and analysis of how metropolitan areas and governments within metropolitan areas developed, efforts to restructure and combine local governments, and governance within the polycentric urban region. This second edition is a major revision to update the scholarship and current thinking on regional governance. While the text still provides background on the historical development and growth of urban areas and governments' efforts to accommodate the growth of metropolitan areas, this edition also focuses on current efforts to provide governance through cooperative and collaborative solutions. There is also now extended treatment of how regional governance outside the United States has evolved and how other countries are approaching regional governance"--

Bringing Chinese scholars and political advisors and practitioners together with scholars who study China and the United States from a Western political scientific perspective, this book uncovers genuine areas of overlap between the politics of the two nations. Important topics covered include China's democratic prospects and the rise of local village elections, the role of interest groups, Chinese political and legal reforms and developments regarding intellectual property rights and environmental regulation, Western and Chinese political philosophy, and Sino-American foreign policy interacti

A suitable quality level of the main functions and tasks of municipal administrations is a fundamental condition for the existence and development of every activity, not only for market-oriented organisations but also the public sector. Slovenian municipalities have not adopted a general policy on quality and it is therefore difficult to speak of the optimisation of work in a municipal administration, the efficiency and rationality of work, cost reduction, nor to evaluate the performance of an administration and the individual civil servants it employs. The authors of this article present the results of an empirical research project on administrative capacity carried out among the directors of Slovenian municipal administrations, in both 2007 and 2012 and an analysis of the topic in the context of reorganisation of local administrations. By means of the Administrative Capacity Index, they evaluate the degrees of individual municipalities' administrative capacities and establish at what population size a municipality can be regarded as administratively capable. Adapted from the source document.

KEY ISSUESThe 2014 Article IV consultation takes place when the authorities have started to address longstanding economic challenges. For a number of years Egypt has suffered from low and non-inclusive growth and from high unemployment. Since 2011 these problems have been compounded by large fiscal deficits and rising public debt and by external fragility evidenced by loss of foreign exchange reserves. In 2014, Egypt adopted a new constitution and elected a new president who was candid with the electorate on the need to reform the economy. The government has developed a plan centered

This document identifies if there are possibilities for Mexican foreign policy within the Community of Latin-American and Caribbean States (Celac) to achieve a major regional projection. Foreign policy is analyzed from a procedural perspective and the historical contingency and normative and ideational structures of Celac are highlighted, as a mechanism of political dialogue at the highest level in the region. It is concluded there is no concrete strategy on behalf of Mexican foreign policy within Celac because this regional space has not represented a tangible and short-term priority for the current government, even though Mexico was one of the promoters of its creation. ; Este documento identifica si existen posibilidades de la política exterior mexicana dentro dela Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac) para alcanzar una mayor proyección en la región. La política exterior se analiza desde una perspectiva procesal y se resaltan la contingencia histórica y las estructuras normativas e ideacionales de la Celac, como mecanismo de diálogo político al más alto nivel en la región. Se concluye que no existe una estrategia concreta por parte de la política exterior mexicana dentro de la Celac porque este espacio regional no ha representado una prioridad tangible y a corto plazo para el gobierno actual, pese a que México fue uno de los impulsores de su creación.

In the mid-1990s, the Asian financial crisis provided a strong impetus to democratising reforms in Indonesia. A major component of reform was the drive towards more efficient, effective and accountable government, based on the principles of New Public Management (NPM) and associated financial management reform. So far, while some progress has been achieved, there remain considerable shortfalls in the implementation of change. On the basis of a literature review of NPM, financial management reform and implementation of public policy, this study investigates factors affecting implementation outcomes of the financial management reform in Indonesian Government institutions. This is an important research gap since research on NPM and financial management reform has tended to focus on policy design with less focus on how the reform is converted into action at organisational level. This study employs a multiple case study design using four cases of Indonesian Government institutions and gathered data through interviews with key informants from the four case study institutions. This thesis argues that the reasons for shortfall in the implementation of change lie in the fact that a uniform implementation strategy was employed by the Indonesian government. This strategy overlooked the varied nature of the problem, the lack of capacity and knowledge in financial management and the need for more effective political and bureaucratic leadership in the process. More fundamentally, it is argued that advanced financial and accounting reforms may not represent a realistic reform emphasis for a developing country such as Indonesia, where governance capacity is limited. In transplanting the reforms, advocates overlooked the fact that successful implementation in western countries rested upon pre-existing practices of sound financial management and accountability, which were lacking in Indonesia. This resulted in an implementation gap that will take many years to surmount.

Paving the way for a government to fulfil its responsibility to families, this authoritative and critical account of the Troubled Families Programme reveals the inconsistencies and contradictions within it, and issues of deceit and malpractice in its operation.

Analyses the development of dairy imports and its impacts on local production of dairy products in Nigeria, examining dairy products import policy objectives, control measures & their effectiveness; local production & marketing systems and government policies affecting each; and policy instruments likely to be effective in controlling imports.

Challenges James Godbolt's article titled 'the Vietnam War in Norway' by claiming that there were in fact two different Norwegian perspectives - one was found in the anti-war movement, the other in the political elite. A closer inspection of the Labor Party dominated journals, which lead the government, reveals that in the 1960's the Norwegian government, as a NATO member, was supporting America's efforts, whereas a shift occurred after 1967 when the anti-war minority opinion started to gain traction. L. Pitkaniemi

Contemporary British Conservatism brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities to provide a broad-ranging assessment of Conservative politics, policy and ideology today. A central concern throughout is to assess the impact of Thatcherism on the party and the extent to which there has been a return to more traditional Conservatism under John Major

"Biography of Domingo Cavallo, Menem's powerful economic 'wizard.' Describes his rise to the top, despite having no party or family connections. Hated by old-time Peronists, he nevertheless continues to shape public policy with his firm neoliberal guidelines. Believable portrait of this controversial figure, based on careful and considerable research"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

This title analyzes whether citizens blame and credit European Union (EU) institutions for policy failures and successes, and how that matters when people make decisions about those institutions.

This report discusses the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), which is the percentage of Medicaid benefit costs paid for by the federal government.