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9781412903240 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 29, 2014, cover price $129.50

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9781412903257 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 29, 2014, cover price $40.95

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9781452244396 | Revised edition (Cq Pr, July 15, 2012), cover price $100.00

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Product Description: Comparison is essential for the development of generalizations about politics and government. This book examines the issues involved in the attempts to compare political systems, and discusses how the methods and results of comparative politics can be improved...read more
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9780230220904 | 2 revised edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 8, 2013), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Comparison is essential for the development of generalizations about politics and government.

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9780230220911 | 2 revised edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 8, 2013), cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government. Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, the book argues that the new institutionalism comprises eight variations on the theme of institutional analysis...read more
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9781441192868 | 3 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 24, 2011), cover price $100.00
9780826479839 | 2 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 30, 2005), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: At the turn of the millennium there has been a major growth of interest in institutional theory and institutional analysis in political science.
9781855674257 | Cassell, January 1, 1999, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This text identifies the various approaches to institutions and then provides a common frame of reference for the different theories.

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9781441130426 | 3 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 1, 2011), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.
9780826473042 | 2 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 15, 2005), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: At the turn of the millennium there has been a major growth of interest in institutional theory and institutional analysis in political science.
9781855674264 | Cassell, June 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: At the turn of the millennium there has been a major growth of interest in institutional theory and institutional analysis in political science.
9780826452764 | Cassell, June 1, 1999, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: At the turn of the millennium there has been a major growth of interest in institutional theory and institutional analysis in political science.

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Product Description: Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform. Steering from the Centre details how chief executives in ten Western democracies have responded to governance challenges in the wake of reform ideas such as the New Public Management which stress deregulation and decentralization...read more
By Carl Dahlstrom (editor), B. Guy Peters (editor) and Jon Pierre (editor)
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9781442641488 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform.

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9781442610699 | Univ of Toronto Pr, August 27, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform.

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9780814766675 | New York Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $75.00

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Product Description: Comparative Politics provides a comprehensive, theoretical, and methodological introduction to the field of comparative politics. In the sciences, theory is tested through direct experimentation. In politics, however, social scientists cannot simply manipulate an institution or law to see what might happen...read more
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9780814766682 | New York Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Comparative Politics provides a comprehensive, theoretical, and methodological introduction to the field of comparative politics.

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By B. Guy Peters (editor)
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9780230220348 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 13, 2010, cover price $85.00

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9780230220355 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 13, 2010, cover price $28.00

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Product Description: This new text, written by a team of leading authorities, assesses the state of American politics in the Obama administration. It looks both at the institutional framework of government and at the policy dilemmas facing the United States today and it analyzes the major controversial issues that shape American political debates in the 21st century...read more
By B. Guy Peters (editor)
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9780230576827 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2010, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This new text, written by a team of leading authorities, assesses the state of American politics in the Obama administration.

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9780230576834 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2010, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This new text, written by a team of leading authorities, assesses the state of American politics in the Obama administration.

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Product Description: The term 'governance' has become on of the most widely used in debates in Political Science - and one of the most misunderstood and contested. This leading and defining text has been updated throughout and extended to cover netweork, global and multi-level governance, on meta-governance and complexity, measurement and building empirical models...read more
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9780230220447 | Revised edition (Palgrave Macmillan, March 5, 2013), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The term 'governance' has become on of the most widely used in debates in Political Science - and one of the most misunderstood and contested.

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Product Description: Now in its eighth edition, B. Guy Peterss trusted text once again provides a meticulous overview of the process behindand the current state of American public policy. In addition to balanced and comprehensive coverage of governmental structures and policymaking procedures, Peters addresses an array of specific policy issues as well as cost-benefit and ethical analysis...read more
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9781933116747 | 7 edition (Cq Pr, December 8, 2006), cover price $72.95 | About this edition: In this seventh edition of his classic introduction to the process and content of public policy in America, B.
9781889119632 | 6th edition (Chatham House Pub, January 1, 2004), cover price $48.95
9781568029061 | 6th edition (Cq Pr, December 1, 2003), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This is the new edition of an undergraduate level textbook on the formation and implementation of public policy in the United States.
9781566430678 | 5th edition (Chatham House Pub, January 1, 1999), cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This revised edition begins by defining American public policy and its environments, as well as identifying the governmental structures through which policy is designed and reshaped.
9781566430241 | 4th edition (Chatham House Pub, February 1, 1996), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This revised edition begins by defining American public policy and its environments, as well as identifying the governmental structures through which policy is designed and reshaped.
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Product Description: This major new text by two leading authorities in the field provides a state-of-the-art assessment of what we know about voting behavior and the character, consequences and significance of elections in democratic states. Uniquely broad-ranging in scope, it shows how patterns of electoral behavior have evolved over time and also assesses the varying extents to which voters in different countries are able to affect the direction of government policies in practice...read more
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9781403941275 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 13, 2009), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This major new text by two leading authorities in the field provides a state-of-the-art assessment of what we know about voting behavior and the character, consequences and significance of elections in democratic states.

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Offers a comprehensive exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies. This sixth edition features: international case studies on North America, Western and Eastern European and Asian countries; discussion of how governments have been developing strategies to enhance co-ordination across their programs; and more.
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9780415342094 | 6 edition (Routledge, July 26, 2009), cover price $178.00 | About this edition: Written by a leading authority in the field, this comprehensive exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies is now available in a fully revised sixth edition, offering extensive, well documented comparative analysis of the effects of politics on bureaucracy.

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9780415342100 | 6 edition (Routledge, August 12, 2009), cover price $53.95 | About this edition: Offers a comprehensive exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies.

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Product Description: Contemporary administrative reforms push administrative systems to homogenize. This book documents, however, the persistence of administrative traditions in a number of countries that tend to maintain existing administrative patterns and reduce the impact of pressures for reform...read more
By B. Guy Peters (editor)
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9780230575660 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 22, 2010, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Contemporary administrative reforms push administrative systems to homogenize.

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Product Description: These papers are a cross-section of reform efforts in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania and Russia, demonstrating some successful transformations, some much more limited successes, while the continuing outcomes of most reforms can be expected to be mixtures of success and failure...read more
By B. Guy Peters (editor)
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9789639719118 | Local Government & Public Serv, March 1, 2009, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: These papers are a cross-section of reform efforts in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania and Russia, demonstrating some successful transformations, some much more limited successes, while the continuing outcomes of most reforms can be expected to be mixtures of success and failure.

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By Hans-Ulrich Derlien (editor) and B. Guy Peters (editor)
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9781843765172 | Edward Elgar Pub, January 1, 2009, cover price $170.00

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By Hans-Ulrich Derlien (editor) and B. Guy Peters (editor)
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9781843765165 | Edward Elgar Pub, January 1, 2009, cover price $170.00

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Product Description: Contemporary Europe provides a lively and readable introduction to the politics, societies, cultures, economics and international relations of an increasingly integrated but still very varied continent. Introductory chapters set the scene in terms of history and natural and human resources and a concluding chapter assesses the prospects for the future...read more
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9780333921548 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 30, 2008, cover price $81.00 | About this edition: Contemporary Europe provides a lively and readable introduction to the politics, societies, cultures, economics and international relations of an increasingly integrated but still very varied continent.

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9780333921555 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 30, 2008, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Contemporary Europe provides a lively and readable introduction to the politics, societies, cultures, economics and international relations of an increasingly integrated but still very varied continent.

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Product Description: This four volume set brings together a collection of the key readings in institutional theory and its applications to political phenomena. Although the principal focus of these readings is on institutional theory based in political science, articles from other disciplines that have been central to the development of theory in this discipline, or that have substantial relevance for political phenomena, have also been included...read more
By B. Guy Peters (editor)
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9781412928755 | Sage Pubns Ltd, July 21, 2007, cover price $995.00 | About this edition: This four volume set brings together a collection of the key readings in institutional theory and its applications to political phenomena.

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Critically reflecting on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, this guide is suitable for both the practice of public administration and its on-going development as an academic discipline.
By B. Guy Peters (editor) and Jon Pierre (editor)
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9781412945394 | 1 concise edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, June 15, 2007), cover price $77.00 | About this edition: Critically reflecting on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, this guide is suitable for both the practice of public administration and its on-going development as an academic discipline.

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Product Description: "The new handbook by Peters and Pierre provides an invaluable addition to the literature. It offers new scholars and practitioners a means to navigate many of the complex theoretical and practical issues in contemporary policy analysis" - Mark Considine, University of Melbourne The public policies of governments affect the lives and livelihoods of citizens every day in every country around the world...read more
By B. Guy Peters (editor) and Jon Pierre (editor)
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9780761940616 | Sage Pubns Ltd, August 7, 2006, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: "The new handbook by Peters and Pierre provides an invaluable addition to the literature.

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Product Description: Are public sector institutions being exposed to ever-greater oversight, audit and inspection in the name of efficiency, accountability and risk management? "Controlling Modern Government" explores the long-term development of controls over government across five major state traditions in developed democracies - US, Japan, variants of continental-European models, a Scandinavian case and variants of the Westminster model...read more
By Christopher Hood (editor), Oliver James (editor), B. Guy Peters (editor) and Colin Scott (editor)
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9781843766292 | Edward Elgar Pub, December 4, 2004, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Are public sector institutions being exposed to ever-greater oversight, audit and inspection in the name of efficiency, accountability and risk management?

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9781845425913 | Edward Elgar Pub, December 1, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Are public sector institutions being exposed to ever-greater oversight, audit and inspection in the name of efficiency, accountability and risk management?

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Product Description: Western societies are becoming increasingly complex and challenging to govern, yet the modern state continues to play a central role in governance. This book presents a detailed analysis of the challenges confronting the contemporary state and the processes through which the state addresses those challenges...read more
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9781403946607 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 22, 2005, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Western societies are becoming increasingly complex and challenging to govern, yet the modern state continues to play a central role in governance.

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Product Description: This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made from outside the civil service system, anonymity, partisanship and systems used to handle appointees of prior administrations in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Britain, New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Greece...read more
By B. Guy Peters (editor) and Jon Pierre (editor)
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9780415700252 | Routledge, July 14, 2004, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel.

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Product Description: This major international handbook provides a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in this essential field of inquiry. Assembling an outstanding team of scholars from around the world, it comprehensively explores the current state of the art in academic thinking and the current structures and processes for the administration of public policy following this period of rapid transformation and change...read more
By B. Guy Peters (editor) and Jon Pierre (editor)
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9780761972242 | Sage Pubns Ltd, July 11, 2003, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This major international handbook provides a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in this essential field of inquiry.

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