1. Governance puzzles / John Clarke -- 2. E-governance and the governance of the global internet / Richard Collins -- 3. The limits of post-Lisbon governance in the European Union / Leslie Budd -- 4. "Early adopter" case studies of effective mobile communications between citizens and government...

Section I—Executive Office of the President and Office of the Vice President -- Executive Office of the President -- Office of the Vice President -- Section II—The Departments -- Agriculture -- Commerce -- Defense -- Education -- Energy -- Health and Human Services -- Housing and Urban...

Benefiting from the authors' many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners, here is a clear, comprehensive, practice-oriented text for public budgeting courses. Rather than presenting each budgeting concern in mind-numbing detail, the book offers a commonsensical...

Aus den öffentlichen Haushalten werden in zunehmendem Umfang Aufgaben und die zugehörige Finanzwirtschaft ausgelagert und auf mehr oder weniger selbstständige Einrichtungen übertragen. Bei den Gemeinden haben solche Ausgliederungen verschiedentlich bereits einen Umfang erreicht, der dem...

Michael J. Brogan's Modern Budget Forecasting in the American States: Precision, Uncertainty, and Politics examines government budgeting through the analysis of budget forecast errors. This book is innovative in its ability to connect the technical aspects of budgeting with the politics of the...