Public administration

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Performance practices need to be adapted to collaborative governance settings.

Water policy in United States is one of the most complex topics in the field of public policy.

Ina Epkenhans-Behr setzt am Politikfeld der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe an und untersucht die Beziehung zwischen öffentlichen und freien Trägern.

This book reports on the results of a survey of 38 major Chinese cities' public service performances and provides an overview of the development of basic public services in the larger cities.

This book argues that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation which holds between a true thought and a fact is that of identity, not correspondence.

Widespread crisis-events such as pandemics can impose an immense strain on societies' multi-stakeholder efforts to preserve and sustain the mechanisms of public value (PV) creation.

While the operation and structure of the public workforce is not a matter that is on the minds of most, the consequences for the nature and effectiveness of government are substantial.

In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system.

For more than twenty years, Environmental Policy and Politics has kept instructors and students abreast of the challenges presented by contemporary environmental, energy, and natural resource problems in the United States.

Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021 is an examination of specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration areas in the democratic South Africa: political-administrative relationships, the delegation of authority to senior managers and performance management.

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This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption.

In 2020, the world is in the throes of the COVID-19 global pandemic-an epidemic the likes of which humankind has not experienced for decades.

For generations the Rio Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors.

This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector.

Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen's basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum income guaranteed for all members of society.

Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in understanding national, subnational and global politics.

Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

Globalization is an irresistible force.

This book examines the statecraft of former UK Prime Minister, Theresa May as a means of deconstructing her leadership of the United Kingdom.

Dieses Buch liefert wichtige Anregungen und konkrete Tipps für die erfolgreiche Einführung digitaler Prozesse im öffentlichen Dienst;  und es beantworten entscheidende Fragen: Welche Faktoren sind für eine gelungene Umsetzung wichtig?

Bürger- oder Beteiligungshaushalte, durchgeführt auf kommunaler Ebene in Städten und Gemeinden, haben in den letzten Jahren in Deutschland verstärkt Aufmerksamkeit erfahren.

This volume of leading scholarly articles addresses the international dynamics of emergency policy and practice.

Governing cabinets are composed of ministers who come and go even as governments march on.

Ziel des Werkes ist es, sich speziell an der Ausbildung an Fachhochschulen und in Anfangsuniversitätssemestern auszurichten.

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies.

The Romanian government has undertaken important legal and institutional changes over the past decade to improve the governance and performance of its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), yet significant implementation shortcomings persist.

Discussing how to use public policy to improve the quality of life for those at the bottom of the social hierarchy, this text makes the case for policy that expands employment and facilitates jobs, finances education and economic and cultural integration, rewards merit, and encourages voting and political participation.

Federalism has experienced a remarkable renaissance in recent decades - as an alternative way to accommodate ethnic differences; as a tool to combat remote, undemocratic and ineffective central governments; and lastly, as a means to promote economic performance in the developing world through decentralisation.

Originally published in 2002, The Subsidy Scandal examines the subsidies spent by governments and the affect this has had on the environment.

How do international organizations support local peacebuilding?

Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries.

Taxation in Canada remains the only volume to present under one cover a complete description of the Dominion, provincial, and municipal tax structure in Canada.

This book highlights the most critical aspects of diversity and their implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), examining them in a collection of conceptual and practical contributions from researchers and practitioners alike.

Governing in a Global World captures the panorama of women governing around the world.

Very little research has been conducted on how parliamentary oversight is undertaken in small countries and jurisdictions or across the southern African region (excluding South Africa).

The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

This book explores public budgeting in India.

Collaboration between government agencies, an old joke goes, is an unnatural act committed by nonconsenting adults.

Southern-Led Development Finance examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have emerged in recent years, as countries from the Global South seek to transform their economies and to shield themselves from global economic turbulence.