Public administration

This book analyses Chile's "e;truth and justice"e; policies implemented between 1990 and 2013.

This book explores the transformation in the healthcare system in Turkey since 2003, which has been portrayed as a benchmark for building universal healthcare systems in emerging market economies.

This book offers a novel interpretation of Russian contemporary discourse on Islam and its influence on Russian state policies.

This book uses role theory to analyze the judicial decisions made by state supreme court judges.

This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security.

This book provides a self-contained presentation of the statistical tools required for evaluating public programs, as advocated by many governments, the World Bank, the European Union, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

This book explores the regulation of pesticides in the European Union in order to reveal the complex, controversial, and contested nature of an assessment system proudly declared by the EU to be 'the strictest in the world'.

This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author's extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in central and local government.

This volume chronicles the policy challenges and adaptations faced and made by the South Korean government during the post-industrialization and democratization period.

This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century.

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 offers a systematic guide to the allocation of American taxpayer dollars used to provide for the common defense.

The essays in this volume explore several key issues facing democracies today.

This book is dedicated to a fundamental conflict in modern states: those persons holding public office are no more than ordinary citizens.

This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels.

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world.

This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model.

This book shows how the systems approach is employed by scientists in various countries to solve specific problems concerning railway transport.

This book analyses the struggle for social justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This book examines the socio-political conflicts which have arisen since Hong Kong's return to China and confronts the fundamental problems in the design of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model.

This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field.

This book analyzes the common set of obstacles to the development and integration of government Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects and effective e-government initiatives in developing countries.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This volume provides bridges from the social sciences to business ethics and from the latter to the quality of life, by connecting the research themes of quality of life, social sciences, including public policy-making, and business ethics or corporate responsibility.

This book examines the decade from 2004 to 2013 during which people in China witnessed both a skyrocketing number of food safety crises, and aggregating regulatory initiatives attempting to control these crises.

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research.

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions.

This volume analyzes the corruption phenomenon in Africa and how to combat it from a governance perspective with illustrated case studies from three of the most corrupt of those nations covering, respectively, the Southern Africa region (Swaziland); the Eastern Africa region (Kenya); and the Western Africa region (Nigeria).

This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities.

This volume focuses on recent experiences of return migration to Mexico and Central America from the United States.

This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates.

This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand, and accounting and management information systems on the other.

This book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia.

This book furthers the ongoing theoretical development of the multiple streams framework, assessing its applicability to European Union (EU) policy-making processes.

This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement.

This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing.

Uniquely informed by a sociological perspective, this major new textbook introduces the underlying origins and consequences of international migration, placing individuals within a broader social, cultural and historical context.

This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century.

This provocative volume takes an international, multidisciplinary approach to understanding globalization and assessing its economic, social, and environmental effects.

Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value.

This book is a collection of never-before-published papers from some of the most prominent voices in public economics.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

In recent years, there has been a decentralisation of the enforcement of the EU competition law provisions, Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

This book develops an innovative system, in the form of an "e;app"e;, that harnesses the power of the internet to predict which sorts of people will prefer which policy in ANY planning situation.

This book elucidates fundamental governance features and issues in contemporary China.

In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world.

This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization.

This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "e;nonessential asset"e; that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts.

This important volume takes a life course approach in sharing empirical insights on the family experiences of African American males in socioeconomic and political contexts.