Governance and Grievance touches on various aspects of Habsburg domestic policy, focusing on how the rulers influenced and were influenced by developments in both Italian and German Tyrol, and how they used to advantage the competing regional interests.

Reveals how poor governance and everyday forms of organization resulted in mutiny amongst seamen during the Age of Sail.

Case studies of short listed projects carried out in 2006-2007 and announced at the special function for the CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards and presented during the 42nd Annual Convention of the Computer Society of India.

Contributed articles in the Indian context.

Governance and Crisis of the State in Africa explores the problems and challenges of disruptive conflicts and conflict management in West Africa. Based on a robust analysis of a large stock of theoretical and empirical studies on the nature of the state in Africa and the incidents of state failure, fragmentation and collapse, the author argues that a major explanation of state weakness in Africa is the lack of the imperatives of good governance - itself rooted in the trajectory of the emergence of these states. Using the recent internal wars and ongoing conflicts in some West African states such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea- Bissau and Cote d'Ivoire as case studies, the author explains how the use of inappropriate methods of conflict management exacerbates these conflicts and the crisis of the nation-state in Africa. ________________ John Emeka Akude holds a PhD in political science from the University of Cologne, Germany where he teaches African Politics, Politics of Development and International Political Economy. His research interests include political economy, the state and economic development, conflict studies, state collapse and war economies as well as the transformation of political order. His publications include "Krisen und Krisenmanagement in Afrika," Zwischen Wunschdenken und Ohnmacht: Der Anspruch der Afrikanischen Union auf Konfliktmanagement in Afrika," "Bad Governance and State Collapse in Africa" as well as "Weak States and Security Threats in West Africa." He is a member of the Working Group on the Transformation of Political Order at the Chair of International Relations, University of Cologne, Germany.

Contributed articles and published articles from the special issue of Indian journal of public administration, vol. 44, no. 3..

This volume provides a framework for evaluating issues of the internal governance and organizational effectiveness of labor unions. Little systematic attention has been paid to labor unions as organizations, as a prevailing assumption of the literature is to treat unions as simple institutions with well-defined objectives. This volume collects some of the best work on issues of union democracy and union funding, with the objective of identifying the factors in understanding modern labor and employment laws. It is edited by two prominent legal scholars that promote (and retard) the organizational effectiveness of these organizations. The book also offers some comparative assessments by including chapters on Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Published by the National Center for Public Productivity (NCPP) and the Seoul Development Institute, this casebook highlights reforms which Seoul planned and administered. It addresses the impacts of those reforms, as well as difficulties and problems in the implementation process. The book consists of four major sections: enhancing transparency, improving integrity, upgrading responsiveness and increasing productivity.