Drawing on the findings of a series of empirical studies undertaken with boards of directors and CEOs in the United States, this groundbreaking book develops a new paradigm to provide a structured analysis of ethical healthcare governance. Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations begins by presenting a clear framework for ethical analysis, designed around basic features of ethics – wh…
Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness and accessibility. Drawing on hundreds of ethnographic observations of appeal hearings, as well as…
The papers by Jack Stenner included in this book document the technical details of an art and science of measurement that creates new entrepreneurial business opportunities. Jack brought theory, instruments, and data together in ways that are applicable not only in the context of a given test of reading or mathematics ability, but which more importantly catalyzed literacy and numeracy capital i…
a beautiful part of beautiful Somerset, where the **soft orchard and cottage scenery" is dimpled between blue hillslopes, where meadows and woods and translucent streams compete with each other in charm,— in the lovely region of the Quantock hills, lies the quiet little market- village of Nether Stowey. About sunrise on a May morning of 1790, a young man awoke in a little wayside cottage ther…
Dalam volume ini, yang didasarkan pada simposium selama seminggu di Pusat Studi Ekonomi Universitas Munich, dua cendekiawan ekonomi pemerintahan terkemuka memperdebatkan perspektif mereka yang berbeda tentang peran pemerintah dan fungsi fiskalnya. James M. Buchanan, yang berpengaruh dalam mengembangkan program penelitian tentang pilihan publik, berkonsentrasi pada ketidaksempurnaan proses polit…
He looked surprised, and still continued to urge me in a manner which roused a deep inner feeling of indignation within me, for it seemed to say that he understood me to be overwhelmed with the honor he proposed to confer upon me, and humored my timidity about accepting it. There was no doubt in his manner, not the shadow of a suspicion that I could be in earnest. There was something that turne…