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Analysing the conditions under which governments are more likely to present an executive law or a government bill, this book addresses a central aspect of the decision-making process of public policies.

The sobering reality of the disconnect between the resolve of the world community to effectively address climate change, and what actually needs to be done, has led to increasing impetus for consideration of a suite of approaches collectively known as "e;climate geoengineering,"e; or "e;climate engineering.

This volume discusses public policy making in Turkey.

This book describes the institutions and process through which the Georgia General Assembly adopts a budget, the executive-legislative branch politics that transpire during the process and the tax and spending policies that the process produces.

This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world's remaining tropical forests.

This book provides a comparative analysis of policy instruments designed to respond to climate change, drought and floods in connection with agricultural producers and their communities in four case study areas: Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada; Coquimbo, Chile; and Mendoza, Argentina.

This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and policy reform in public administration.

This book presents a new and innovative approach to understanding the dynamics of international climate change negotiations using India as a focal point.

This book critically explores the role of two advocacy NGOs actively involved in processes of education policymaking during the recent education reforms carried out in Chile, the country known as the first laboratory of neoliberalism around the world.

This book explores the historical relationships between human communities and water.

This book explores care-leavers' access to their personal records.

This book explores the involvement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the issue area of environmental and disaster displacement.

This book offers fresh and exciting new directions of inquiry into the highly contentious issue of conflict resolution in South Asia.

The book is a case study of Putin's use of the tactics of divide and rule in relation to, particularly, the hard-line elements among his supporters.

This book analyses the careers, governance and management practices of some of the institutional sports leaders who have had the greatest impact on global sport in the 120 years since Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games.

This book explores speeches by American presidents.

This book aims to foster a better understanding of the particular challenges faced by resource-dependent countries or jurisdictions in managing their resource revenues through natural resource funds (NRFs).

Extensive previous research has investigated environmental conflict management issues in networked settings and the design of policy networks, but the emergence and evolution of self-organizing policy networks are still not fully understood.

This book re-constructs the evolution of the border conflict between Croatia and Slovenia.

This book examines public administration in South Asia in the context of rapid changes and modernization of administrative traditions, thoughts, and practices.

This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector.

This book conceives federalism not as a static institutional architecture, but as a dynamic formation always in flux.

This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis.

This is the first comprehensive book on the rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta.

This book applies various theoretical tools to explore the advantages and disadvantages of performance management systems, the ways in which they can be improved, and the strategies through which they can be designed and integrated into the policy making process.

This book examines user and community co-production of public services and outcomes, currently one of the most discussed topics in the field of public management and policy.

This book provides a detailed examination of public service reforms in Malta.

This book provides an innovative theoretical and analytical framework for studying the role and impact of specialized research organizations and consultancies on decision making in climate politics.

This book analyses the challenges facing the European Union through the frame of the rule of law.

This book analyzes Revolutionary Committees during the Cultural Revolution period in the People's Republic of China.

This volume discusses Korea's role as a middle power in the midst of the 21st century global power shift.

This book explores the analysis of social phenomena, using a multidisciplinary approach while addressing statistical, economic, sociological, as well as psychological issues.

This book investigates the tensions between EU law and international commercial arbitration, i.

This book explores how social media and its networked communities dismantles, builds, and shapes identity.

This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party.

This edited volume presents unique insights on sibling relationships in adulthood in the early 21st century, focusing on three themes: relations beyond childhood and school years; factors shaping social support provision between siblings; and changes in family life and how these impact sibling relations.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the role of local governments around the world in the management of the migration, integration and development nexus.

The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance.

Is the Prefect an exception, surviving only in France and some countries influenced by Napoleon?

This book explores how Pacific Island communities are responding to the challenges wrought by climate change-most notably fresh water accessibility, the growing threat of disease, and crop failure.

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods in critical cases.

This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust.

Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink.

This book presents a new way of looking at and analyzing policies, programs and/or plans in which research scientists have used their knowledge to develop mechanisms such as South Africa's National Water Resource Strategy, Second Edition; Australian and South African climate change adaptation strategies for government entities and the UNDP's Water and Ocean Governance focus area.

This volume LNCS 12429 constitutes the papers of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 20221, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2022.

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people.

This volume brings together well-versed authors from four continents to critically discuss the roots of neoliberalism and how academics use the word today.

The second volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) focuses on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which was signed 40 years ago.

This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries.