Public administration

This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.

This book is the first to explore collaborative governance arrangements in Israel.

This book contributes an analysis of UK-based non-governmental organisations engaged in transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) activism, within a broader recognition of the complexities that British colonial legacies perpetuate in contemporary international relations.

This book draws on examples from cannabis policy discourse and elsewhere to illustrate how individuals come to subscribe to a particular policy narrative; how policy narratives evolve; how narratives are employed in public policy discourse to compete with other narratives; and how, on implementation, the winning narrative is performed and subsequently institutionalized.

This book examines administrative silence in a comparative manner in the EU law and 13 jurisdictions from Europe.

This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation.

This book contributes to the discourse on planning theory by accentuating the perspective of public innovation.

This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN.

This volume describes African cities in transition, and the economic, socio-political, and environmental challenges resulting from rapid post-colonial urbanization.

Parish councils are often underappreciated and undervalued in what they do even though they are an essential part of the governing of England today.

This book explains how transnational policy entrepreneurs have contributed to the transfer of the contested concept of 'Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development' (PCSD) in global policy.

This book covers game-theoretic approaches to analyzing policies for environmental regulation in the power sector.

This book develops and tests a typology of local state-society relations.

This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries.

Cultural, economic and political trends are changing the way public administrations are organized and this book examines the new challenges managers face, with the need for a shift from a traditional bureaucratic model to a competency-based approach to organizational design and management in the areas of recruitment, training, career development and assessment.

Policy advocacy is an increasingly important function of many nonprofit organizations, as they seek broad social changes in their concerning issues.

This book explores multi-year community-based crime prevention initiatives in the United States, from their design and implementation, through 5-year follow ups.

This book provides the first full account of the 20-year story of universal access and service in South Africa's ICT sector.

This book examines the implications of The General Theory of Second Best for analyzing the economic efficiency of non-government conduct or government policies in an economically efficient way.

This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence.

This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years.

"e;A much needed, sobering look at the seductive promises of new technologies.

This volume constitutes a first approximation for the use of systems approaches and dynamic performance management as tools for collaborative governance.

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe.

The recent rise of "e;Medicare for All"e; in American political discourse was many years in the making.

This book discusses the Europeanization of Turkish public administration since the early 2000s, offering an analysis of the transformation and basic features and problems of Turkish public administration in relation to the EU accession process.

This book reflects on theoretical developments in the political theory of care and new applications of care ethics in different contexts.

This book describes the emergence of research policy as a key competence of the European Union (EU).

This book addresses timely concerns of rising African nationalism and the 2nd decolonisation in Africa.

"e;The European Parliament elections in May 2019 did not bring about the rise of populism in Europe that had been feared by many.

This book presents tools, techniques, and best practices to develop public-sector leadership.

This book explores the role of complexity in the governance of migration and diversity.

By now, planners everywhere know - more or less - what the ingredients of a sustainable city are, in theory.

This book analyzes the security of critical infrastructures such as road, rail, water, health, and electricity networks that are vital for a nation's society and economy, and assesses the resilience of these networks to intentional attacks.

This edited volume focuses on the links between the ongoing crisis in and around Ukraine, regional diversity, and the reform of decentralization.

Immigration has become one of the central issues dominating the agenda of political parties, and has also played a crucial role in the rise of right-wing populism in Western Europe.

Federal models of government have shaped history and demonstrated how diverse people can live together and govern together in relative harmony.

Networks have become a prominent template for public service governance.

How have regionalization processes across Europe impacted on policy convergence?

"e;Weak Institutions and the Governance Dilemma is especially important and welcome since it offers a very incisive analysis of the role of NGOs in transitional democracies and the effect of institutional setting on NGO effectiveness in representing citizen interests.

This book provides a multilevel system analysis of performance in the production of global public goods, as well as a tailored analysis of the specific features of performance management systems in international organizations.

Crises occur in all societies across world, and can be natural (such as hurricanes, flooding, and earthquakes), man-made (such as wars and economic downturns), or, often, a combination of both (such as famines, the flooding of New Orleans in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levy failures, and the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011).

When crises occur, citizens, media and policymakers alike expect government to respond and to take a leading role in recovery.

This book analyzes whistleblowing worldwide publicly known cases from Belguim, Brazil, Finland, Japan and The Philippines to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing.

In this volume scholars from around the world discuss the innovative forms of collaboration between public and private actors that contribute to making our cities more liveable.

This book analyses the contribution of the new forms of reporting adopted by Public Sector Organisations in the provision of information on value creation processes to their various stakeholders.

Seaport Container Terminals (SCT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks, and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels, as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the International Scientific Conference "e;Economics in the Changing World,"e; held on June 26-27, 2018 at the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance of Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia).

This book provides a critical realist analysis of Turkish foreign policy (TFP), covering various periods from the Turkish National Struggle to the contemporary Justice and Development Party Government.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) from a government and public policy perspective.