State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates public sector reform strategies such as New Public Management as well as incorporation, tendering and bidding, decentralization, team production and privatization.
The articles in this volume are devoted to: – moduli of coherent sheaves; – principal bundles and sheaves and their moduli; – new insights into Geometric Invariant Theory; – stacks of shtukas and their compactifications; – algebraic cycles vs. commutative algebra; – Thom polynomials of singularities; – zero schemes of sections of vector bundles. The main purpose is to give ‘friendly’ introductions to the above topics through a series of comprehensive texts starting from a very elementary level and ending with a discussion of current research. In these texts, the reader will find classical results and methods as well as new ones. The book is addressed to researchers and graduate students in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and singularity theory. Most of the material presented in the volume has not appeared in books before. Contributors: Jean-Marc Drzet, Toms L. Gmez, Adrian Langer, Piotr Pragacz, Alexander H. W. Schmitt, Vasudevan Srinivas, Ngo Dac Tuan, Andrzej Weber
