Public administration

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated.

International shipping is currently at a crossroads.

This book fleshes out activities and initiatives in the field of education from across areas of European Union competence in order to highlight the extent to which education and training have penetrated the European Community's policymaking since its creation.

This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector.

The 2008 financial crisis rocked British capitalism to its foundations.

This book presents different research designs, their respective purposes and merits as well as their underlying assumptions.

This book investigates whether politics in Britain in the twenty-first century is driven more by issues of culture and identity than by "e;left versus right"e; issues of wealth distribution.

This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis.

This book explores goal-oriented action and describes the variety of options offered by strategic management in guiding public organisations.

This is a comparative international study of the patterns of planning in local governments.

This book analyses the changing nature of the British economy and the consequences of Brexit upon its place within the European economic space.

This book comprehensively presents the current practice and further development paths of public sector accounting, auditing and control systems in 7 South Eastern European countries based on the contributions of highly-respected researchers.

This book offers deep insights into the functioning of humanitarian organizations (HOs) from a managerial perspective.

This book applies an interdisciplinary governance assessment framework to assess China's water quality governance from a holistic point of view.

"e;This fine team of academics moves beyond mere descriptions of capacities, structures and processes to explain the effectiveness of Civil Protection in the EU.

This book addresses what is perhaps the most salient issue in American politics today: the decline of the middle class.

This book deals with the immediate effects of, and response to, Hurricane Maria on the social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS) of Puerto Rico.

In this book, Arjun Tremblay considers the future of multiculturalism, contextualised within an ideological and political shift to the right.

This book examines new member states' problems with the absorption of EU funds.

This book examines the ways in which Arab civil society actors have attempted to influence public policies.

This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries.

It is widely assumed that the relationship between governance capacity and decentralization determines the success in governance, but how does this relationship function is largely contested.

This book offers a novel approach to mapping the people and organisations working in EU affairs, allocating much of the volume to a discussion of non-EU institutional representation in Brussels.

This book documents and analyses spatial planning in Ghana, providing a comprehensive and critical discussion of the evolving institutional and legal arrangements that have shaped and defined Ghana's spatial planning system for more than seven decades; the contemporary policy instruments and mechanisms for articulating and implementing policies and proposals at multiple scales; and the formally established procedures for development management.

This book charts contemporary developments in counter-extremism within the UK education sector.

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it?

This book analyzes the impacts on peoples' lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa Familia Program.

This book addresses current changes of education policies in a context of globalisation.

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Over the last 20 years economic pressures have forced the governments of Western Europe to take hard and often immediate decisions.

This book critically investigates the origins and consequences of the Janus-faced character of attitudes and policies towards migrants that seek to penetrate "e;Fortress Europe"e;.

This book explores the politics behind "e;de-liberalization"e;, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms.

This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.

This book explores the way in which banks were regulated in the UK in the period from 1946 until 1971.

"e;In their comparative analysis of several universities from different parts of the world, the authors make a case for the critical roles that higher education institutions can play in building the civic framework in a society.

This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it.

This book explores the transformative power of swarm intelligence and digital innovations in shaping the cities of the future.

This book explores school processes that shape student learning and principals' leadership.

Religion as Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe examines the significance of securitization theory as a reference point in understanding current religious, socio-cultural, and political processes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

"e;A truly expansive and valuable book that challenges the assumptions and constraints of current leadership thinking.

"e;Euchner's carefully researched and cogently argued study of morality politics in Europe adds an outstanding piece of research to the ever growing literature on religion and politics.

Networks have become a prominent template for public service governance.