Government

This book provides practical information, case examples, theory, and a critical summary of applied research about how computer technology can be used to support and improve special education and related services. Its focus is on how computer technology can facilitate an individualized and collaborat..

The underlying theoretical premise of this text is that the separation between the executive and legislative functions has important policy consequences and has influenced legislative outcomes. The study analyzes the pattern of interaction on banking bill introductions over the past 150 years...

This work gives advice on continual improvement in government, providing information on concepts and the tools and methods to ensure this improvement...

In education, big data analytics is being used to enhance the learning process, evaluate efficiency, improve feedback, and enrich the learning experience. Integrating data from different institutions enables data-driven decision-making. This book presents innovative applications of data analytics in..

Summarising the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation, this text defines the term and looks at its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records criticisms, and is especially concerned with the conditions that are necessary for democracy to exist...

This text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government...

What are the chief challenges posed to contemporary democracy by modern technology, and how can democratic theory best respond to, or at least reflect on, those challenges? Inhabiting the kind of technologically advanced era in which we live, what sources are available within political theory for th..

The development of Russian democracy has been a gradual process of maturation punctuated by dramatic events. This text examines events such as the first free elections, the Russian parliament's resistance to the 1991 coup, and the bloody confrontation with the military in 1993...

Since the 1980s and the collapse of communist, military, and race-based regimes across the world, the euphoria has given way to the question of how to enhance the viability of democratic constitutional government. This text covers this issue...

Since the 1980s and the collapse of communist, military, and race-based regimes across the world, the euphoria has given way to the question of how to enhance the viability of democratic constitutional government. This text covers this issue...

Considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice...

This text provides an analysis of the variety of consequences that elections may have for the operation of American political institutions and the formulation and administration of policy...