Public administration

This book provides a general overview of intelligence in health policy, health-care organizations and health services in the light of the current EU digital agenda, which aims to make health data and e-health tools publicly available.

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

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.

The seemingly unlimited technological potential of nanotechnology brings with it new practices of governance, networking, and exercising power and agency.

This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.

This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective.

This volume uses new empirical evidence and analytical ideas to study phenomena of fragmentation and exclusion threatening stability and cohesion in Greek society in the aftermath of the crisis.

The volume highlights the state-of-the-art knowledge (including data analysis) of productivity, inequality and efficiency analysis.

This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics.

This book offers the first benchmarking study of China's response to the problems of security in cyber space.

In late 2015, against a background of growing populist opposition to international trade agreements, the European Commission announced its willingness to negotiate a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration.

Given the global crises confronting the world today, it is important to interrogate the notion of "e;the modern state"e; and to evaluate its effectiveness in providing security and services for its populations, including the most disadvantaged and vulnerable.

This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape.

In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system.

This book examines what role regions play in European (dis)integration and European identity building.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities.

This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach.

This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016.

This book explores the legitimacy of political asylum applications in the US and UK through an examination of the varieties of evidence, narratives, and documentation with which they are assessed.

This book provides a first comprehensive legal examination of water rights arrangements and water rights trading in China.

This book reconsiders the fundamental principles of zoning and city planning over the course of the past one-hundred years, and the lessons that can be learned for the future of cities.

This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged.

This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption.

This edited collection analyses social inequality in the European Union, within and between countries.

This book explores sub-municipal units' (SMU) role in decision making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation and, in rural areas, service delivery.

This book explains how and why the New Labour governments transformed Britain's immigration system from a highly restrictive regime to one of the most expansive in Europe, otherwise known as the Managed Migration policy.

This volume critically engages with the development of official policy and reform in relation to the support of victims of crime both within and beyond the criminal justice system of England and Wales.

This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct.

This book investigates the extent to which depoliticisation strategies, used to disguise the political character of decision-making, have become the established mode of governance within societies.

This book explains how advanced democracies and welfare states can achieve welfare-enhancing, liberal institutional reform.

Historically, technological change has had significant effect on the locus of administrative activity, cost of carrying out administrative tasks, the skill sets needed by officials to effectively function, rules and regulations, and the types of interactions citizens have with their public authorities.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices.

This book provides an examination of e-Government frameworks and maturity stages in governments around the world, including an overview of the legal frameworks that have supported them.

This book sheds light on the central complexities of municipal cooperation and examines the dynamics, experiences and drivers of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in Europe.

This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance.

This book presents a collection of original research papers addressing the relationship between information systems (IS) and innovation.

This book focuses on the methodology of research on historical memory and contributes to theoretical discussions concerning the use of historical memory as a variable to explain political action and social movement.

This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory.

This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

This unique text fills a major gap in the emergency services literature by surveying the research on fire and rescue service management in the UK.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the study of policy analytics, modelling and informatics.

This book investigates the emergence and working of governance networks in contemporary Russia.

This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level.

This book explores how the state can foster collective action by fisher's communities in fisheries management.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders.

This edited volume explores the state of inclusive governance in South Asia.

This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities.