Public administration

This book is a translation and celebration of Slovenian politician France Bucar's seminal work.

This volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in former Yugoslavian countries.

This Brief examines the objectives of cultural policy in Jordan, the institutional framework within which it operates, and its outcomes.

This new handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities.

This book aims at presenting a conceptual apparatus and empirical analysis of the ways Nordic civil society is affected by social transformations by focusing on the Norwegian case.

This book analyses the trilemma between growth, energy security and climate change mitigation and, breaking from scholarly orthodoxy, challenges the imperative that growth must always come first.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe.

This book explains the causal pathways, the mechanisms and the politics that define the quantity and quality of policy learning.

This book addresses the process of decentralization in Italy, examined from the perspective of political parties.

In this book, leading gender scholars survey the contribution of feminist scholarship to new norms and knowledge in diverse areas of political science and related political practice.

This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries.

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.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades.

Narratives or storytelling are a feature of the everyday life of all who work in government.

Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of integrated efforts in EU foreign and security policies.

This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau.

This book examines the issue of free access to information as part of the openness and transparency principles.

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context.

This book explores the various economic and institutional factors that explain why huge investments are made in unworthy transportation mega-projects in the US and other countries.

This book argues that contemporary society in general, and public administration specifically, can benefit from more reflexive learning processes through democracy and public involvement.

This book provides an innovative re-examination of the 'recovery' phase of a disaster by one of the UK's most experienced disaster management specialists.

This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage.

This book presents a selection of contributions on the timely topic of structural reforms in Western economies, written by experts from central banks, the International Monetary Fund, and leading universities.

This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform.

This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from the national to the sub-national level.

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of migration in the era of globalization.

This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners.

This well-documented and fascinating book tells how, over the centuries, a series of visionaries, scientists, technologists, and politicians fostered the involvement of Italy in space exploration.

This is the first book in the Interdisciplinary European Studies collection.

This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations-in particular, Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia-and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities, but of growing them.

This book examines Croatia's economic and political transformation over the last 30 years.

This book explores the subject of research misconduct: its definition, what behaviours should fall under its label, and the types of preventive and repressive procedures that should be put to practice to combat it.

This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative 'public' interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates.

This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people's participation and accountability.

This book discusses racial segregation in American cities.

This book examines the different motivational policies used for inventory management.

This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

This volume offers unique perspectives on how to engage in methods of inquiry in Political Science.

This book explores how the interrelated concepts of responsible citizenship, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability can be interpreted, researched and taught.

This book presents a multidimensional approach by providing a state of the art on EIS ecosystems, as well as structural and changing dynamics and its impact on citizens' quality of life.

This book presents a theory of information justice that subsumes the question of control and relates it to other issues that influence just social outcomes.

This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city's South Side blues clubs and blocks.

This book provides  the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.

This study investigates regulatory reforms in the telecommunications sector of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries.

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

This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change.

This book analyses neo-liberal economic policy in Hong Kong and its relationship to British colonial governance.

This book discusses the results and implications of a two-year public engagement program on nanotechnology.