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Public Administration: 25 Years of Analysis and Debate

Product Description: Public Administration: 25 Years of Analysis and Debate presents a history of the last quarter century of journal Public Administration by its editor R. A. W. Rhodes, and features a collection of the journal's most influential articles published between 1986 and 2011...read more

By R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9781444332162 | Blackwell Pub, August 2, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Public Administration: 25 Years of Analysis and Debate presents a history of the last quarter century of journal Public Administration by its editor R.

The State As Cultural Practice

Product Description: The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science...read more

By R. A. W. Rhodes

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9780199580750 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 6, 2010, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science.

The Australian Study of Politics

Product Description: The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science. It focuses on Australia and on developments since WWII, also exploring the historical roots of each major subfield...read more

By R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9780230201033 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2009, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science.

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9780230201040 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 22, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions

Product Description: The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the 'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of where we are in the study of political institutions, covering both the traditional concerns of political science with constitutions, federalism and bureaucracy and more recent interest in theory and the constructed nature of institutions...read more

By Sarah A. Binder (editor)

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9780199275694 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 9, 2006, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science.

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9780199548460 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 15, 2008, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science.

Observing Government Elites: Up Close and Personal

Product Description: The behaviour of politicians and public servants often strikes outside observers as erratic, inconsistent and sometimes foolish. One way of understanding their behaviour is political anthropology. This book focuses on the everyday life of ministers and senior public servants in different countries, describing their world through their eyes...read more

By Paul t Hart (editor), Mirko Noordegraaf (editor) and R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9780230008403 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 26, 2007, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The behaviour of politicians and public servants often strikes outside observers as erratic, inconsistent and sometimes foolish.

Governance Stories

Product Description: An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation. Over the last twenty years Britain has changed from being governed as a unitary state to a country ruled by the interplay of various forces: central government, the market, public-private partnerships, new local government structures (eg...read more

By Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes

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9780415376600 | Routledge, February 1, 2006, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation.

Decentralizing the Civil Service: From Unitary State to Differentiated Polity in the United Kingdom

By P. Carmichael, A. Massey, J. McMillian and R. A. W. Rhodes

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9780335212354 | Open Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $130.00

Interpreting British Governance

Product Description: How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain?This book develops the argument that we can understand political practices only by grasping the beliefs on which people act...read more

By Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes

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9780415304511 | Routledge, May 1, 2003, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: How is Britain governed?

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9780415304528 | Routledge, May 1, 2003, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Governance in Britain has changed enormously in the past twenty years from the market led Thatcher years to Blair's 'joined up government'.

The Changing World of Top Officials: Mandarins or Valets?

Product Description: This book explores the roles and workings of the heads of government departments in six nations: departmental secretaries in Australia, departmentschefs in Denmark, directeurs d'administration in France, secretaris-generaal in the Netherlands, chief executives in New Zealand, and permanent secretaries in the UK...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By R. A. W. Rhodes (editor) and Patrick Moray Weller (editor)

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9780335203024 | Open Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This book explores the roles and workings of the heads of government departments in six nations: departmental secretaries in Australia, departmentschefs in Denmark, directeurs d'administration in France, secretaris-generaal in the Netherlands, chief executives in New Zealand, and permanent secretaries in the UK.

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9780335203017 | Open Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: This book explores the roles and workings of the heads of government departments in six nations: departmental secretaries in Australia, departmentschefs in Denmark, directeurs d'administration in France, secretaris-generaal in the Netherlands, chief executives in New Zealand, and permanent secretaries in the UK.

Changing Patterns of Governance in the United Kingdom: Reinventing Whitehall

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive examination of the changing relations between ministers and civil servants in the UK since 1979. Drawing on evidence compiled from more than 150 interviews, this book provides unprecedented insight into the world of Conservative government...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Marsh, R. A. W. Rhodes (foreword by), David Richards and Martin J. Smith

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9780333792896 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 2002, cover price $137.00 | About this edition: This is the first comprehensive examination of the changing relations between ministers and civil servants in the UK since 1979.

Transforming British Government: Changing Institutions

Product Description: These two volumes have one simple objective--to provide a summary of the key findings of all the projects on the Economic and Social Research Council's Whitehall Program. The Program combined basic research on the evolution of British government with policy relevant research on contemporary practice in Britain and Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Economic and Social Research Council (other contributor) and R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9780312235840 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 2000, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: These two volumes have one simple objective--to provide a summary of the key findings of all the projects on the Economic and Social Research Council's Whitehall Program.

Transforming British Government: Changing Roles and Relationships

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By Economic and Social Research Council (other contributor) and R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9780312235857 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 2000, cover price $110.00

Administering the Summit: Administration of the Core Executive in Developed Countries

Product Description: Speaking truth to power demands diplomatic skills. This book looks at the way advice, which is needed by all executives, is provided to the summit of government in twelve advanced industrialized countries (Australia, Belgium, Britain, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and the US)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By B. Guy Peters (editor), R. A. W. Rhodes (editor) and Vincent Wright (editor)

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9780312230333 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 17, 2000, cover price $173.00 | About this edition: Speaking truth to power demands diplomatic skills.

Control and Power in Central-Local Governmental Relations

Product Description: Originally published in 1981, this text established itself as a significant contribution in the study of local government. Its "power-dependence" model of central-local government relations underpinned the vast growth in the study of policy networks in British government...read more

By R. A. W. Rhodes

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9781840147780 | 2 sub edition (Ashgate Pub Ltd, February 1, 2000), cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 1981, this text established itself as a significant contribution in the study of local government.

United Kingdom

Product Description: This series brings together a selection of journal articles from the field of comparative politics over the past 30 years. The aim is to render readily accessible to teachers, researchers and students an extensive range of essays which, together, provide a basis for understanding both the established conceptual terrain and the new ground being broken in the rapidly changing field of comparative political analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9781840140453 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, July 1, 1999, cover price $600.00 | About this edition: This series brings together a selection of journal articles from the field of comparative politics over the past 30 years.

The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Executives

Product Description: The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain...read more

By Herman Bakvis (editor), R. A. W. Rhodes (editor) and Patrick Moray Weller (editor)

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9780312177027 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1997, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain.

9780333681947 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1997, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain.

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9780333681954 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1999, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain.

Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability

Product Description: Interweaving recent institutional changes in central, local and European Union government, this study emphasizes the inability of the "Westminster model" to account for persistent policy failure. It also looks at the need to respod to the postmodern challenge, rethinking theoretical assumptions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By R. A. W. Rhodes

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9780335197286 | Open Univ Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $98.95 | About this edition: Interweaving recent institutional changes in central, local and European Union government, this study emphasizes the inability of the "Westminster model" to account for persistent policy failure.

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9780335197279 | Open Univ Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Understanding Governance asks: * What has changed in British government over the past two decades, how and why?

Natural Phonology: The State of the Art

By Bernhard Hurch (editor), R. A. W. Rhodes (editor) and Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting (other contributor)

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9783110147957 | Mouton De Gruyter, July 1, 1996, cover price $154.00

Prime Minister, Cabinet, and Core Executive

Product Description: This new reader is designed to break the mould of core executive studies by broadening the focus of analysis from the conventional concentration on the relative power of Prime Minister and Cabinet to assess the whole battery of mechanisms which co-ordinate policy and manage conflict...read more

By Patrick Dunleavy (editor) and R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9780333558966 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1995, cover price $42.01 | About this edition: This new reader is designed to break the mould of core executive studies by broadening the focus of analysis from the conventional concentration on the relative power of Prime Minister and Cabinet to assess the whole battery of mechanisms which co-ordinate policy and manage conflict.

Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary

Product Description: Chicago (see Zhgaagong, which may mean "Place of the Skunk"). Kemo Sabe (see Giimoozaabi, which may mean "he looks out in secret"), and Giche-gumi (from Longfellow’s poem, see gchigami) are all words that came originally from algonquian languages and can be found in this dictionary...read more

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9780899251141 | Mouton De Gruyter, January 1, 1986, cover price $132.70 | About this edition: Chicago (see Zhgaagong, which may mean "Place of the Skunk").

9783110102031 | Mouton De Gruyter, April 30, 1985, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: Chicago (see Zhgaagong, which may mean "Place of the Skunk").

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9783110137491 | Mouton De Gruyter, February 1, 1993, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Chicago (see Zhgaagong, which may mean "Place of the Skunk").

Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era

Product Description: This text examines the true extent of policy change in the 1980s, comparing the degree of policy change over a range of areas and explaining why the extent of change was greater in some areas than others. The areas studied include economic policy, industrial relations, housing and social security...read more

By David Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9780335156832 | Open Univ Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This text examines the true extent of policy change in the 1980s, comparing the degree of policy change over a range of areas and explaining why the extent of change was greater in some areas than others.

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9780335156825 | Open Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This text examines the true extent of policy change in the 1980s, comparing the degree of policy change over a range of areas and explaining why the extent of change was greater in some areas than others.

Policy Networks in British Government

Product Description: The concept of networks is one of interest and importance in the study of politics and policy-making. To date, studies of this have either operated at a high level of generalization or have only offered certain case studies. This work proposes an integrated set of studies of different policy areas and a set of terms to explore common features and variations between policy areas...read more

By David Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes (editor)

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9780198278528 | Clarendon Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The concept of networks is one of interest and importance in the study of politics and policy-making.

Tensions in the Territorial Politics of Western Europe