Public administration

This timely book presents a collection of expert insights into the impacts of COVID-19 in a broader socio-economic context.

This book provides qualitative analyses of intercultural sense making in a variety of institutional contexts.

This textbook provides theoretical and clinical knowledge needed by social workers and other practitioners involved in humanitarian emergency response.

Procurement is a critical government activity, yet very little scholarly attention is devoted to procurement fraud in public policy, public management, or public financial management research.

This book provides an overview of legitimacy-related challenges at hybrid organizations and demonstrates legitimacy's importance for the strategic development of organizations.

Drawing on field-based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana, this book examines whether and how democratic decentralization and local governance reforms in developing countries have produced the anticipated development outcomes.

This book assesses the impact of the May 2019 European elections as well as the Covid-19 pandemic on the EU's politics, institutions, and policies.

This book addresses governing by numbers and human capital policy in higher education by asking how higher education is quantified, how the quantitative information is used in educational governance, and how the information is perceived by students, teachers, managers, and policymakers, and affects decision-making.

The book discusses smart governments and innovation in the public sector.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the distribution of public money and its political and societal implications.

This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI).

This book examines the role of government fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies.

Collaboration is a ubiquitous yet contested feature of contemporary public policy.

This book utilises comparative diachronic and synchronic analyses to investigate models of national urban agendas.

This book explores the development of sustainable public procurement (SPP) as a strategic policy instrument to support decoupling of economic growth from environmental degradation and enhancing social well-being.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the debate over the role of the state in East Asia's development history.

Responding to public health challenges at the global and local levels can give rise to an array of tensions.

This book assesses the impacts of the right within the US and UK, forty years on from their initial effects upon economic and social orthodoxies.

This book examines knowledge and policy transfer from the perspectives of Brazil and China.

This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe.

This book takes an insider perspective of the psychological issues of creating policy.

This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations - England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands - between 1970 and 2018.

The countries in the Western Balkans have been severely affected by the wars and conflicts that led to the breakup of former Yugoslavia, by political instability and the effort of creating new states, weak economies and high levels of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, and inequality.

African nations are seeking ways to build strong institutions that are development-oriented and people-centred.

After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of international politics with a force.

This volume continues the tradition now established since 2006, of compiling excellent research into the practice and application of community indicators in a single source volume.

This book presents a global overview of racism against immigrants within and in the name of the welfare state.

This book argues that the welfare state system should be adopted globally, not only for the purpose of achieving equality and justice within nations, but also for security between states.

This book analyses why the Ukrainian state established asylum laws and policies in the thirty years since 1991, even though the number of asylum seekers was very low.

This book is a fascinating treatment of ethics, governance, and anti-corruption initiatives from a public sector management perspective and is especially relevant for an Africa looking to benefit from the recently launched Africa Continental Free Trade Area.

This book explores the possible (actual, potential and imagined) future security threats migration from Nigeria could pose to Europe, the United States of America, Canada and to some extent Australia.

This book challenges the notion that the New Zealand Police are one of only four global police services that does not have routinely armed officers, using arguments and facts drawn from 2000 to 2019, a period of important change for the organisation and its relationship with firearms, particularly following the outrages of the Christchurch mosques terrorist massacres in 2019, and the 2020 shooting death of a young police constable in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings.

This book examines the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for public-sector accounting and finance.

This book explores key factors long-term care recipients have identified as impacting their quality of life and offers programmatic and policy recommendations to enhance well-being within long-term care communities.