Public administration

This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work.

As the impetus of globalization continues to gather pace, more and more people leave their homes pursuing dreams of a better life for themselves and their families.

This book deals with the role of expertise and public participation in modern governance.

This book provides an introduction to Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) for those in the public administration field.

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism.

This book interrogates Africa's pursuit of the Democratic Developmental State model by drawing on the experiences of Mauritius, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.

Over the past thirty years the comparative study of policy agendas under the aegis of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) has become one of the fastest growing sub-field in policy research.

This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of current techniques for profit shifting and tax base erosion in the area of corporate taxation and measurement.

The book applies an interdisciplinary analytical framework, based on social psychology theories of inclusion and exclusion, to a discussion of legal discourse and the development of legal frameworks in Europe concerning migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and European citizens.

This book aims to establish a dialogue around the various "e;urban sanctuary"e; policies and other formal or informal practices of hospitality toward migrants that have emerged or been strengthened in cities in the Americas in the last decade.

This book provides a detailed examination of public service reforms in Malta.

This book elaborates on how Norway has managed to convert a large fraction of its endowment of hydrocarbons below the seabed of Norwegian waters into financial wealth, invested in the world's capital markets.

This book analyzes a range of new developments in various fields concerning the concepts of chaos and complexity theory.

This edited volume examines how climate action plans engage justice at the scale of the city.

This book goes deep behind the scenes of school privatization campaigns to expose the complex networks of funding that sustain these efforts - often hidden from the view of the public.

Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list.

Over the past two decades, society has been witnessing how technological, political, and societal changes have been transforming individual and collective urban mobility.

This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective.

This book takes the reader through real-world examples for how to characterize and measure the productivity and performance of NFPs and education institutions-that is, organisations that produce value for society, which cannot be measured accurately in financial KPIs.

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes-including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

This book aims to provide a collection of early ideas regarding the results of applying risk and resilience tools and strategies to COVID-19.

For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making.

This book demonstrates the variation in the reaction of the UK's 'big four' banks - RBS, Lloyds, Barclays and HSBC - to the Great Financial Crisis 2008.

This book fills a gap in the literature on the Precautionary Principle by placing the principle within the wider context of precautionary reasoning and uses philosophical arguments and case studies to demonstrate when it does-and does not-apply.

This contributed volume is the first in-depth analysis of the health policies of populist radical right (PRR) parties worldwide and their actual involvement in health care.

This edited volume details public branding and marketing from a global, comparative perspective.

This handbook shares profound insights into the main principles and concepts of integrated care.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This volume discusses public policy making in Turkey.

This book presents scheduling with a medium- and short-term focus, which makes it possible to capitalize on fleeting market opportunities while simultaneously working to reconcile economic and environmental priorities.

This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries.

This edited book examines the experience of small states in Europe during the 2015-2016 migration crisis.

This book discusses local area planning in the Lombardy region of Italy.

This book focuses on two key ways to improve the literature surrounding policy analysis.

The objective of this book is to examine how the legal order of Malta, the EU's smallest Member State, manages to cope with the obligations of the EU's acquis commu-nautaire.

This book examines the evolution of basic income policy and research in advanced economies and is divided into two parts.

This book analyzes contemporary issues in governance, policy management, and policy performance both at the central and local levels in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

Stress tests highlight a system's weak spots.

This book explores critical questions pertaining to the character and content of the "e;American People"e; as posited in the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the fundamental law.

This book addresses the need for a better understanding of the design, implementation and improvement of process management.

By merging public and private tangible and intangible capitals, Public Private Partnerships contracts (PPP) are fundamental to generate public value and to support economic and social development; in the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, they prove critical to pave the way for the recovery.

This book investigates the role of banking interest groups and lobbying in the making of the European Banking Union.

The world is not an equal place.

This innovative and thought-provoking study puts forth a compelling analysis of the constitutive nexus at the heart of the European refugee conundrum.

This book comprehensively describes the history of Gatineau Park, from the first proposals for a "e;national park"e; in the early 1900s to the governance issues in the present period, and it highlights the issues concerning the planning and governance of this unique near-urban ecological area.

This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques.

This book has three primary objectives.