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This text is a guide for companies of all sizes as they navigate business responsibility in climate change. It includes the latest scientific research, governance tools, and recent developments in sustainable finance. Providing steps for a meaningful contribution to climate change, this is a critical tool for all corporate stakeholders.

Bordering intimacy is a study of how borders and dominant forms of intimacy, such as family, are central to the governance of postcolonial states such as Britain. The book explores the connected history between contemporary border regimes and the policing of family with the role of borders under European and British empires. Building upon postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, the investigation centres on how colonial bordering is remade in contemporary Britain through appeals to protect, sustain and make family life. Not only was family central to the making of colonial racism but claims to family continue to remake, shore up but also hide the organisation of racialised violence in liberal states. Drawing on historical investigations, the book investigates the continuity of colonial rule in numerous areas of contemporary government – family visa regimes, the policing of sham marriages, counterterror strategies, deprivation of citizenship, policing tactics, integration policy. In doing this, the book re-theorises how we think of the connection between liberal government, race, family, borders and empire. In using Britain as a case, this opens up further insights into the international/global circulations of liberal empire and its relationship to violence.

"Sound management of the machinery of government is at the core of a well-functioning state. Written by an author with a wide range of experience in international affairs, this introductory text addresses both the commonalities and diversity of administrative practice around the world. Exploring developed countries as well as developing and transitional economies, it provides strong conceptual foundations combined with nuts-and-bolts "how to" topics, such as public personnel management, public procurement, and public budgeting, supported by data and concrete illustrations. The book is organized around three important themes: the roles, size, and organizational architecture of government; the management of public finances, personnel, and procurement; and the interface between government and society, including the delivery of public services. A concluding chapter summarizes lessons learned and offers possible paths to improve the management of the public sector in sustainable ways. Running the Government will serve as a core text for graduate courses in public administration and as a supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in political science, public economics, and international affairs. It may also serve as an accessible reference for civil service training courses around the globe"--

5 How Can Transnational Connection Hold? An Actor Network Theory Approach to the Materiality of Transnational Education GoverPart Three Knowledge Regimes; 6 Revealing Market Hegemony through a Critical Logics Approach: The Case of England's Academy Schools. Policy; 7 Test-Based Accountability and the Rise of Regulatory Governance in Education: A Review of Global Drivers; 8 Making Education News in Chile: Understanding the Role of Mediatization in Education Governance through a Bourdieuian Framewo; Part Four Institutional Regimes.

"A homicide perpetrated by a mentally-disordered person under the care of health services is a shocking event. Otherwise known as a 'patient homicide', these events attract investigatory responses that are widely understood to be episodes of procedure that seek the truth about what happened and promote the learning of lessons. This monograph however incorporates systems theory into its novel theoretical design and argues that these events are communicated about within closed systems of life (eg, law, medicine). These systems operate through unique internal logics. Yet, they resonate in society and enable a contingent and chaotic space of governance to emerge in which universal understandings about patient homicides and the realisation of pre-defined goals to minimise their occurrence is unachievable.The book is timely because the Scottish Government initiated a process of reforming their patient homicide investigation procedures in 2017. In England more recently, plans to reform patient homicide investigations are slowly germinating. Original and compelling, the book concludes that policy makers should re-evaluate their normative commitments to improve public safety and health service quality in a world of disharmony, objection, and resistance"--

In our current society, governments face complex societal issues that cannot be tackled through traditional governance arrangements. Therefore, governments increasingly come up with smart hybrid arrangements that transcend the boundaries of policy domains and jurisdictions, combine governance mechanisms (state, market, networks and self-governance), and foster new forms of collaboration. This book provides an overview of what smart hybridity entails and of its potentials and challenges. It includes empirical analyses of hybrid arrangements in five policy domains, and reflections upon these studies by internationally renowned governance scholars. They show that the smartness of the new hybrid arrangements does not lie in realizing quick fixes, but in participants' capacities to learn, adapt and arrive at sustainable and legitimate solutions that balance various public values

The result of a long collaboration between a Kenyan-Somali mediator and a Swiss scholar-practitioner, Mediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts introduces an innovative, practical approach to resolving an enduring issue: How can conflicts be resolved in polarized societies? This approach breaks out of the insider/outsider dichotomy to develop a framework for achieving peace in the most challenging of contexts—a framework that unites outsider perspectives on mediation methodology with the rich experiences and reflections that only local peace practitioners can provide. The authors lay out the framework step by step, present case studies that show it in action, and clarify how local peace and security structures can act as a bridge between short-term mediation and long-term state-building efforts around the world.

"With isolationism and protectionism strengthening in response to the forces of globalization, the interrelationship of the national and supranational in shaping good governance norms has become increasingly relevant. "Good Governance in Economic Development" critically examines the transparency and accountability mechanisms underpinning international trade, finance, and investment regimes, particularly in view of the intensifying influence of China. It also explores the Chinese state's engagement with these norms, shedding light not only on how the principles of transparency, accountability, and public participation are applied within China, but also on the ability of China to affect international rules."--

Introduction -- Background to corporate environment in Tanzania -- Ethics, accountability and governance -- Public sector code of ethics -- Corporate evolution and challenges -- Governance failure & corporate waste cases analysis -- Reflections and recommendations.

This case explains key features of multi-sited ethnography, providing insights into the enactment of policy and politics within and across a range of public administration spaces. Offering reflections on the ethnographic experience of being there, the case discusses gaining access, defining a field, ethical behavior, data analysis, and presenting findings. The first site is a Parliamentary building of historic significance but used in a modern policy context. Politics is not overt, but power is exerted and discourse is highly political and the formal space is exclusive. In a town hall, stable physical boundaries delineate relationships between elected decision makers, their representatives, and observers. A history of who has been permitted to speak, and thus exert political power, is evident in the architecture. In contrast, a community space is more fluid, again influenced by history but also by neoliberal welfare reform policy. Here, the space is structured less by architecture and more by oral history and local knowledge that interacts in tension with an administrative Geographic Information System (G.I.S.). The G.I.S. map conveys order and precision, but politics is in evidence, and it is unclear who has the power to reinforce the liminal boundary. The different sites are analyzed using spatial theory and theories of governing at a distance to show how processes of inclusion and exclusion operate and to argue that governing also takes place at close range. Unpredictable policy effects are achieved variously by means of seduction, enrolment, and coercion that feature in these otherwise disparate spaces.

Part I: Open Government Data Theory and Practice -- Chapter 1:Turning Open Government Data into Public Value: Testing the COPS Framework for the Co-Creation of OGD-Driven Public Services -- Chapter 2: Governing Open Spatial Data Infrastructures: The case of the United Kingdom -- Chapter 3: Online Fiscal Transparency of U.S. State Governments: An Analysis Using Public Value Framework -- Chapter 4: Towards the open government eco-system: connecting e-participation models and open government to analyze public policies -- Part II: Open Government Data and Smart Cities and Government -- Chapter 5: The Role of Open Data in Smart Cities: Exploring status in resource-constrained countries -- Chapter 6: Open Government Initiatives in Spanish Local Governments. An Examination of the State of the art -- Chapter 7: Empowering communities and improving public services through open data: South African Local Government Perspective -- Chapter 8: Blockchain for Open Data – Exploring Conceptual Underpinnings and Practice -- Index