Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Does it really matter? Assessing the performance effects of changes in leadership and management structures in Nordic higher education -- Chapter 2: Performance in higher education institutions and its variations in Nordic policy -- Chapter 3: Nordic higher education in flux: system evolution and reform trajectories -- Chapter 4: National performance-based research funding systems: constructing local perceptions of research -- Chapter 5: External research funding and authority relations -- Chapter 6: The changing roles of academic leaders: decision-making, power and performance -- Chapter 7: Strategy as dialogue and engagement -- Chapter 8: Evaluation practices and impact: overload? …”
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Wellbeing and Devolution Reframing the Role of Government in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland / by Wallace, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Understanding societal wellbeing -- Chapter 2: Understanding Devolution and Wellbeing in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland -- Chapter 3: Scotland: Wellbeing as performance management -- Chapter 4: Wales: Wellbeing as sustainable development -- Chapter 5: Northern Ireland: Wellbeing as a vision -- Chapter 5: Cross-jurisdictional analysis -- Chapter 6: Conclusions and reflections.…”
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Public Administration in Germany

Table of Contents: “…New Steering Model, Performance management, Benchmarking.…”
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Qatar's Nation Branding and Soft Power Exploring the Effects on National Identity and International Stance / by Al-Tamimi, Nawaf, Amin, Azzam, Zarrinabadi, Nourollah

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The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power

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Transformation and Development Studies in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Member States /

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The New Politics of Numbers Utopia, Evidence and Democracy /

Table of Contents: “…1.The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction -- 2.Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR -- 3.The People's Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China's Big (Br)other -- 4.Accounting for Who We Are and What We Could Be: Inventing Taxonomies of the Self in an Age of Social Disquiet -- 5.Quantifying Inequality: From Contentious Politics to the Dream of an Indifferent Power -- 6.Homo Statisticus: A History of France's General Public Statistical Infrastructure on Population since 1950 -- 7.A New Calculable World in the Making: Governing through Transnational Certification Standards -- 8.Do Performance Indicators Improve the Effectiveness of Development Aid? …”
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iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable City Research Findings of University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart /

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Opportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities A Consolidated Discipline? /

Table of Contents: “…Institutionalization of Political Science in small states, Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir, Irmina Matonyte -- Chapter 6 From Scientific Communism to Political Science: Development of the Profession in the Post-Soviet States, Dangis Gudelis, Irmina Matonyte, Serghei Sprincean, Tatsiana Chulitskaya -- Chapter 7 On the Way to Relevance: At the crossroads of recognition and performance, Gabriella Ilonszki, Davor Boban, Dangis Gudelis -- Chapter 8 Adjusting of New Countries into Existing (Old) Institutional Frameworks, Erkki Berndston -- Chapter 9 Conclusion: Political Science Between Opportunities and Challenges, Christophe Roux.…”
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Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation Global Challenges, Bi-regional Responses /

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Researching Central Asia Navigating Positionality in the Field /

Table of Contents: “…Navigating AcademicRepression in Central Asia (Ruslan Norov) -- Chapter 10. Performative Heterosexuality: A Gay Researcher Doing Fieldwork in Central Asia (Marius Honig) -- Chapter 11. …”
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EU Cohesion Policy Implementation - Evaluation Challenges and Opportunities The 1st International Conference on Evaluating Challenges in the Implementation of EU Cohesion Policy (E...

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