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Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment

Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment

Attaining the benefits of (especially fiscal) decentralization in government remains an enduring challenge in part because the re-arrangement of public functions across levels of government has often been carried out poorly. This book aims to provide a firmer conceptual basis for the re-arrangement of public functions across levels of government. In doing so it offers practical advice for policy makers from developing and emerging countries and development cooperation practitioners engaged in such activity. Combining a theoretical approach for inter-governmental functional assignment with an in-depth analysis of real-life country cases where functional assignment (FA) has been supported in the context of international development cooperation it underscores the common technical and political challenges of FA and also demonstrates the need to expect and support country made and context-specific solutions to FA processes and results. Examples are drawn from a number of developing/transition countries from the Asia-Pacific region Africa and the OECD which outline and suggest advisory approaches tools principles and good practices and approaches. This text will be of key interest to scholars students policy-makers and practitioners in public policy decentralization local governance studies public administration and development administration/studies. | Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment

GBP 42.99
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The Making Of Iran's Islamic Revolution From Monarchy To Islamic Republic Second Edition

The Making Of Iran's Islamic Revolution From Monarchy To Islamic Republic Second Edition

In this fully revised and expanded second edition Dr. Milani offers new insights into the causes and profound consequences of Iran's Islamic Revolution. Drawing on dozens of personal interviews with the officials of the Islamic Republic and on recently released documents he presents a provocative analysis of the dynamics and characteristics of fa | The Making Of Iran's Islamic Revolution From Monarchy To Islamic Republic Second Edition

GBP 130.00
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Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France

Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France

Though long recognized as one of the most beautiful works from the second half of the thirteenth century the magnificent sculptural program of the reverse façade at Reims Cathedral has received little in the way of scholarly attention. Interpreting the iconography in the light of Latin texts associated with the building its history and its ceremonial use Donna Sadler assesses the significance of the reverse façade in light of other thirteenth-century visual programs associated with the court of Louis IX. The book's chapters deal with the history of the cathedral and its architectural antecedents; the iconographic message of the visual program the meaning of the reverse fa§ade and how it intersects with the overall iconography; the function of the verso and how it is enhanced by the marriage of form and content; and a consideration of contemporary works linked to the court of Saint Louis concluding with a brief look at the new roles sculpture assumes as it migrates inside cathedrals. Ultimately this book reveals how the imagery on the reverse façade not only conforms to a system of memory and mode of medieval narratology but also articulates a dominant ideological position regarding the interdependence of ecclesiastical and royal powers. | Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France

GBP 48.99
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Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R provides coverage with worked examples of a large number of dimension reduction procedures along with model performance metrics to compare them. Factor analysis in the form of principal components analysis (PCA) or principal factor analysis (PFA) is familiar to most social scientists. However what is less familiar is understanding that factor analysis is a subset of the more general statistical family of dimension reduction methods. The social scientist's toolkit for factor analysis problems can be expanded to include the range of solutions this book presents. In addition to covering FA and PCA with orthogonal and oblique rotation this book’s coverage includes higher-order factor models bifactor models models based on binary and ordinal data models based on mixed data generalized low-rank models cluster analysis with GLRM models involving supplemental variables or observations Bayesian factor analysis regularized factor analysis testing for unidimensionality and prediction with factor scores. The second half of the book deals with other procedures for dimension reduction. These include coverage of kernel PCA factor analysis with multidimensional scaling locally linear embedding models Laplacian eigenmaps diffusion maps force directed methods t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding independent component analysis (ICA) dimensionality reduction via regression (DRR) non-negative matrix factorization (NNMF) Isomap Autoencoder uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) models neural network models and longitudinal factor analysis models. In addition a special chapter covers metrics for comparing model performance. Features of this book include: Numerous worked examples with replicable R code Explicit comprehensive coverage of data assumptions Adaptation of factor methods to binary ordinal and categorical data Residual and outlier analysis Visualization of factor results Final chapters that treat integration of factor analysis with neural network and time series methods Presented in color with R code and introduction to R and RStudio this book will be suitable for graduate-level and optional module courses for social scientists and on quantitative methods and multivariate statistics courses. | Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

GBP 64.99
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