MICHIEL S. DE VRIES is Professor in Public Administration at the Institute of Management Research of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Other books he has written/edited are:
Calculated Choices in Policy Making (Palgrave, 2000),
Improving Local Government (Palgrave 2008, together with PS Reddy and Shamsul Haque),
Beyond Blame: Technical Assistance to CEE Countries in Transition (NISPA, 2009, together with I. Sobis) and
Value and Virtue in Public Administration (Palgrave 2010, forthcoming, together with Pan Suk Kim).
7 Ebooks by Michiel S. de Vries
Kenneth A. Loparo: The Importance of Neglect in Policy-Making
De Vries argues that it is possible to explain when and in what direction policy change is likely to occur. He argues that what is neglected at present is likely to become dominant in policies of the …
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€117.69
Kenneth A. Loparo & P. Reddy: Improving Local Government
Local governments encounter many problems, and although there is not one panacea that works internationally, this book argues that there are mechanisms to improve local situations. By drawing on case …
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€53.49
Kenneth A. Loparo & P. Kim: Value and Virtue in Public Administration
A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the …
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€96.29
Michiel S. de Vries & Juraj Nemec: Performance-Based Budgeting in the Public Sector
This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries. Beginning with a …
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€139.09
Vries Michiel S. de Vries: Understanding Public Administration
Public administration the practice of producing and executing government policy by bureaucrats, politicians, managers and other officials affects almost everything we encounter in our day-to-day …
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€44.92
Kenneth A. Loparo & Michiel S. De Vries: Calculated Choices in Policy-Making
This is a book about making choices based on the evaluation of alternatives. The outcomes of choices are often worse than people expect. This book discusses the major problems in evaluating courses …
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€55.92
Michiel S. De Vries & Juraj Nemec: International Trends in Participatory Budgeting
This book analyses the participatory budgeting practice as it has evolved in evaluated countries, focusing on what is substantially at stake concerning the budget and issues involved, the actual pa …
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€117.69
