Public administration

Populist radical right (PRR) parties have long been characterised as 'men's parties' due to the overrepresentation of men within their ranks.

Populist radical right (PRR) parties have long been characterised as 'men's parties' due to the overrepresentation of men within their ranks.

States of Solidarity: How to Build a Society makes the urgent case that solidarity is not a relic of the past but a foundational pillar for building just, democratic, and sustainable futures.

Government and market failures spur many citizens to practical action today.

Government and market failures spur many citizens to practical action today.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Administrative law is focused on the control of decision-making in government and the public sector.

The New Dynamics of Accountability in Fire and Rescue Services offers a timely and critical examination of how governance reforms have reshaped accountability within one of the most under-researched emergency services.

The New Dynamics of Accountability in Fire and Rescue Services offers a timely and critical examination of how governance reforms have reshaped accountability within one of the most under-researched emergency services.

States of Solidarity: How to Build a Society makes the urgent case that solidarity is not a relic of the past but a foundational pillar for building just, democratic, and sustainable futures.

What is the nature of mass opinion on public policies?

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), a theoretical framework originally formulated to study US public policy, has been widely applied to western countries and has advanced policy process scholarship over the past three decades.

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), a theoretical framework originally formulated to study US public policy, has been widely applied to western countries and has advanced policy process scholarship over the past three decades.

Provides a comprehensive multinational analysis of evidence based policy making, examining how evidence is defined, interpreted, and used across professions, governance systems, and leadership contexts to shape public policy and legislation.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Das Buch zeigt, wie Gutachten und Studien zu ‚erwünschten‘ Ergebnissen gelangen können und sich damit ihren Auftraggebern gefällig erweisen.

Scanning millions of faces each year, facial recognition technology (FRT) has become one of today's fastest growing and most controversial AI-driven surveillance technologies.

In the summer of 2020, angry citizens took to the streets of Minneapolis after a recording of the murder of George Floyd went viral.

Administrative rulemaking and planning is an under-studied and under-theorized area of public law.

In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of the ICTs so as to manage and steer the multi-sectoral stakeholder relations on a non-hierarchical way.

The information revolution has increased the pressure on governments to utilize technology to increase efficiency, transparency, and access.

Information technology is everywhere.

Recently, the public sector has given an increasing amount of national and international attention to electronic government systems.

To be successful in the 21st century, governments must make use of digital and communication technologies in order to coordinate resources and collaborate with their citizens.

Information technology is everywhere.

Digital technology and the Internet have greatly affected the political realm in recent years, allowing citizens greater input and interaction in government processes.

The information revolution has increased the pressure on governments to utilize technology to increase efficiency, transparency, and access.

Electronic Government is continually advancing in topics such as hardware and software technology, e-government adoption and diffusion, e-government policy, e-government planning, management, e-government applications, and e-government impacts.

Disclosure issues affect every stage of the criminal investigation and subsequent proceedings.

Disclosure issues affect every stage of the criminal investigation and subsequent proceedings.

Administrative rulemaking and planning is an under-studied and under-theorized area of public law.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies.

Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies.

Governance becomes ever more interconnected and multilevel, and polycentric governance has been developed as a lens to analyze this complexity.

Political life in advanced democracies is steeped in negativity towards bureaucracy.

This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary.

Political life in advanced democracies is steeped in negativity towards bureaucracy.

This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary.

This book exposes a migration of business practices, players, and norms into philanthropy that strains the regulatory regime sustaining public trust in elite generosity through accountability and transparency and proposes legal reforms and private solutions to restore it.

Public procurement is vulnerable on many levels.

As countries around the world make continuous strides in developing their economies, it has become increasingly important to evaluate the different ways culture impacts the growth of a region.

Technological development is achievable only when a country has the ability to systematically design and introduce its own new technologies.

Our understanding of the interaction between courts and political branches in modern democracies is incomplete.

In the last half century since the height of the rights revolution - a period marked by significant rights expansions but limited government capacity to enforce them - efforts to defend individuals' and communities' rights have hinged on the effectiveness of the "e;litigation state:"e; a fragile but sometimes powerful mode of governance that relies on private litigants and their attorneys, rather than agencies, to enforce the laws of the land.

African Climate Futures shows how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape political debates and struggles in the present.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has played a pivotal role in the EU's approach to infectious diseases, but its journey toward empowerment has been anything but straightforward.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Administrative law is focused on the control of decision-making in government and the public sector.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has played a pivotal role in the EU's approach to infectious diseases, but its journey toward empowerment has been anything but straightforward.

Das Buch zeigt, wie Gutachten und Studien zu ‚erwünschten‘ Ergebnissen gelangen können und sich damit ihren Auftraggebern gefällig erweisen.

Many governments in semi-democratic regimes have adopted participatory democratic institutions to promote development and accountability.