Resultaten voor 'john connolly'

1. John , Connolly

The Politics and Crisis Management of Animal Health Security

The Politics and Crisis Management of Animal Health Security addresses the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in the United Kingdom - one of, if not the, most significant crises ever to face the UK farming industry. Underpinned by interviews with politicians and bureaucrats and with significant primary documentary analysis the book shows that the crisis was a critical juncture in how disease outbreaks have been planned and managed ever since. The book concludes by considering the 'temporality' of lesson learning by the UK government including the current and future challenges associated with managing incongruent risks (e.g., flood protection, swine flu and Ebola).

Public Value Management, Governance and Reform in Britain

This book examines developments in governance reform in Britain, with a particular focus on the period since 2010. We argue that the experiences of the past decade mean that public value-based ideas are required to inform governance reform for the coming years. This needs to be prioritised due to the twin challenges of managing the aftermath of Brexit and navigating through the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume outlines key themes, issues and debates relevant to contemporary public sector reform including: modes of state governance, evidence-based policy-making debates, the challenges and possibilities of public sector innovation, accountability issues, and the implications of Brexit. The overall conclusion of the book is that the coming decade presents an opportunity for more paradigmatic changes to UK governance but, for this to happen, political leaders need to prioritise a ¿reinventing government¿ agenda underpinned by public value-based thinking and approaches. This book will be of particular interest to students of politics and public administration and relevant for those with general research interests in British governance and public policy.

1. John , Connolly
2. Paddy , Dolan

Gaelic Games in Society

In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years. The main themes in the book include: advances in the threshold of repugnance towards violence in the playing of Gaelic games, changes in the structure of spectator violence, diminishing displays of superiority towards the competing sports of soccer and rugby, the tension between decentralising and centralising processes, the movement in the balance between amateurism and professionalism, changes in the power balance between ¿elite¿ players and administrators, and the difficulties in developing a new hybrid sport. The authors also explain how these developments were connected to various social processes including changes in the structure of Irish society and in the social habitus of people in Ireland.

Public Value Management, Governance and Reform in Britain

This book examines developments in governance reform in Britain, with a particular focus on the period since 2010. We argue that the experiences of the past decade mean that public value-based ideas are required to inform governance reform for the coming years. This needs to be prioritised due to the twin challenges of managing the aftermath of Brexit and navigating through the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume outlines key themes, issues and debates relevant to contemporary public sector reform including: modes of state governance, evidence-based policy-making debates, the challenges and possibilities of public sector innovation, accountability issues, and the implications of Brexit. The overall conclusion of the book is that the coming decade presents an opportunity for more paradigmatic changes to UK governance but, for this to happen, political leaders need to prioritise a ¿reinventing government¿ agenda underpinned by public value-based thinking and approaches. This book will be of particular interest to students of politics and public administration and relevant for those with general research interests in British governance and public policy.

1. John , Connolly
2. Paddy , Dolan

Gaelic Games in Society

In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years. The main themes in the book include: advances in the threshold of repugnance towards violence in the playing of Gaelic games, changes in the structure of spectator violence, diminishing displays of superiority towards the competing sports of soccer and rugby, the tension between decentralising and centralising processes, the movement in the balance between amateurism and professionalism, changes in the power balance between ¿elite¿ players and administrators, and the difficulties in developing a new hybrid sport. The authors also explain how these developments were connected to various social processes including changes in the structure of Irish society and in the social habitus of people in Ireland.

Functional Grammar and the Computer

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introductory -- FG*C*M*NLU: Functional Grammar Computational Model of the Natural Language User / Dik, Simon C. -- 2. On generating -- Simulation of a Functional Grammar in Prolog / Samuelsdorff, Paul O. -- A Formalism for Functional Grammar Expression Rules / Bakker, Dik -- 3. On parsing -- Towards a Universal Parsing Algorithm for Functional Grammar / Janssen, Theo M.V. -- Implementation Efficiency Considerations in Parsing Functional Grammar / Gatward, Richard -- An ATN Parser for English FG? Or maybe an Active Chart? / Liong, Kwee Tjoe -- Parsing an English Text Using Functional Grammar / Dignum, Frank -- 4. On the lexicon and its utilization -- On the Representation of the Lexicon in FG* / Kahrel, Peter -- Towards a Lexicon of Functional Grammar / Zutphen, Hetty Voogt-van -- The Structure of Lexical Knowledge as Envisaged in the LINKS-project / Vossen, Piek -- Spreading the Word: Knowledge-Activation in a Functional Perspective / Meijs, W.J. -- 5. On knowledge representation and logic -- Functional Grammar and Artificial Intelligence / Connolly, John H. -- The Identification of Referents / Rijkhoff, Jan -- A Dialectical Model of Modality / Weigand, Hans -- Relational Reasoning in Functional Logic / Dik, Simon C. -- 6. On translation -- Functional Grammar and Machine Translation / Korst, Bieke van der -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names