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2009 Reprint,updated,printed ""on demand"" - Belgium Foreign Policy And Government Guide ... Read more

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2009 Reprint,updated,printed ""on demand"" - Belgium Government And Business Contacts Handbook ... Read more

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This review of human resource management (HRM) in Belgian government is the first country review of its kind to be carried out by the OECD. It provides a detailed diagnosis and solutions for improving the management of government employees in the Brussels-Capital Region, Federal Government, Flemish Government, French Community and Walloon Region. The report compares the policies and practices of Belgium with those in other OECD countries, as well as those across different governments in Belgium. Recommendations suggest that governments should reform the intergovernmental framework on employment to remove rigidities and enhance co-operation, pay special attention to staff productivity and efficiency, and enhance the good governance of their HRM systems. Table of Content : Foreword Assessment and Recommendations Introduction Chapter 1 Workforce Planning and Management Chapter 2 The Management of Staff Performance Chapter 3 Flexibility and coherence of HRM rules across governments Chapter 4 Core Values Annex 1 Framework for OECD Reviews of Human Resource Management in Government Annex 2 Context Annex 3 The Belgian Public Service in Figures Bibliography ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's politics were best known through the writings of Arend Lijphart, who considered it a model case of consociationalism. Over the past ten to fifteen years, the analysis of consociationalism has been complemented by a more detailed coverage of Belgium's spectacular transformation process from a unitary into a federal state, moving rapidly now to disintegration. Likewise, several peculiar aspects of Belgian politics, such as the record fragmentation of its party system, have been covered in edited volumes or international journals. However, given the complexity of the Belgian configuration of political institutions and actors, any inclusion of particular aspects of the Belgian case in comparative work calls for an in depth and integrated understanding of the broader political system.

This is the first book which provides such an analysis. It brings together a team of 19 political scientists and sociologists who aim to explain the dynamics and incentives of institutional change and seek to analyze the intricate interplay between the main institutional components of the Belgian body politic. The sociological, political and institutional determinants and the consequences of the "federalisation" process of Belgium is the central theme that links each of the individual chapters. This book will be essential reading for students who want to understand the politics of Belgium and for anyone with a strong interest in West European Politics, comparative politics and comparative federalism.

This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.

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Chapters: List of Prime Ministers of Belgium, Walloon Region, Flemish Government, Belgian Federal Government, Council of State, Flemish Region, Minister-President, Schepen, Provisional Government of Belgium, Belgian National Identity Card, Crown Council of Belgium, List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, Court of Audit, Provinces of Flanders, Committee I, Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, Committee P, Belgian National Geographic Institute, Regional Governments of Belgium. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article is part of the series:Politics and government ofBelgium This is a list of Prime Ministers of Belgium, known regionally as: in Dutch, in French, and in German. Although Leaders of Government (French: ) had been appointed since the independence of the country, until 1918 the King often presided over the Council of Ministers, so the modern era of the "Premiership" started after WWI with Léon Delacroix. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=204622 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Public Manager, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 2081 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Improving public policy communication in Belgium: government managers can better inform citizens of proposed policies by ensuring their information is complete, timely, and accurate.
Author: Dave Gelders
Publication: The Public Manager (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35Issue: 3Page: 32(4)

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Chapters: Belgian Revolution, Talleyrand Partition Plan for Belgium, National Congress of Belgium, Provisional Government of Belgium, Revolutions of 1830. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: United Kingdom of the Netherlands Southern Provinces The Belgian Revolution was the conflict which led to the secession of the Southern provinces from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and established an independent Kingdom of Belgium. Much of the population of the south were Roman Catholic, French-speaking, or liberals who regarded King William I's rule as despotic. There were high levels of unemployment and industrial unrest among the working classes. On 25 August 1830, after a performance at the Brussels opera, a riot erupted, quickly followed by uprisings elsewhere in the country. Factories were occupied and machinery destroyed. Order was restored after William committed troops to the Southern Provinces. Rioting continued and the leadership was seized by extremists, who started talk of secession. An intense battle took place in Brussels and the Northern troops were forced to withdraw, while the States-General in Brussels voted for secession and declared independence. In the aftermath, a National Congress was assembled and William refrained from future military action and appealed to the Great Powers. The resulting London Conference of major European powers recognized Belgian independence, but after the installation of Leopold I as "King of the Belgians" in 1831, William made a belated military attempt to restore his position in the Ten Days Campaign, which failed as a result of French military intervention. Not until 1839 did the Dutch accept the decisions of the London conference and was Belgian independence ensured. The Netherlands overthrew Napoleoni...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=753563 ... Read more

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There is continual concern about the ability of governments to perform the duties and responsibilities that their citizens have come to expect from them. Many citizens view government as inept, arthritic, and dedicated to the preservation of the bureaucratic status quo. As we close the twentieth century, the challenge for democratic governments is to become adaptive, flexible, innovative, and creative. In short, they need to become learning organizations. This book explores what it will take for governments to break out of their traditional ways of approaching problems and learn new approaches to finding solutions.

Can Governments Learn? examines organizational learning in the public sector. It seeks to understand the role policy and program evaluation information can play in helping governments learn. Among the democratic societies studied are Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Significantly, the studies documented here show that the concept of organizational learning has vitality and applicability cross-nationally.

Can Governments Learn? evaluates preconditions for governmental learning as well as the institutional and human resource factors that contribute to the process. This volume in the Comparative Policy Analysis Series is essential for policymakers, government officials, and scholars interested in improving the performance of governments. ... Read more

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It is not the author's intention here to write a strictly chronological history of Belgium from the time of its existence as an independent nation, - that is, since 1830. It is impossible to understand as complicated and delicately constituted an organism as Belgium without going back to the very origin of the different institutions governing its existence, without familiarizing oneself with the diverse spiritual adventures which determined its real character. The political personality of Belgium, the justification for its existence as a separate state, as a sovereign entity, is not to be attributed, as some observers have claimed, solely to the will of its great and powerful neighbors, nor to the machinations of those who tried to establish a balance of power in Europe. It is determined by causes much more profound, which to many investigators have remained lost in time. The author, Dr. Jan-Albert Goris, has published a number of books on historical, artistic and literary subjects in Dutch, French and English. He taught Economic History at Louvain University in Belgium. [From Introductory Material] ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more