Public administration

Serving as a touchstone for a much-needed research program on social scales, this volume challenges disciplinary boundaries and brings into focus a paradoxical state of affairs in contemporary thought: the domain of local-global interactions has not yet been identified as an object of analysis in its own right, despite engaging a large, multi-disciplinary research community with strong potential for cross-fertilization.

This volume explores voters' political rationalizations.

Compares the current right-wing attack on American higher education to Henry VIII''s Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1535.

In an era marked by unprecedented challenges, from the climate crisis to the rise of populism, the ways to manage public sector organisations have dramatically changed.

This Palgrave Policy Essential draws together recent developments in the field of science in government, policy and public debate.

Introduces the key features of French administrative law and institutions to English-speaking readers.

The study of public policy and the methods of policy analysis are among the most rapidly developing areas in the social sciences.

Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities is an important book.

American higher education faces a challenging environment.

Many of the recent reforms in public services in the UK have been driven by the image of the 'responsible citizen' - the service user who does not only have rights to receive services but also has responsibilities for the delivery of policy outcomes.

This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level.

The survey and the transference are the distinctive and operative acts in the transmission of real property and, where they differ from each other, one must of necessity control the other.

Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting text is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management.

Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems.

Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance.

A repeat of the Florida debacle in the 2000 presidential election is the fear of every election administrator.

The last decade has witnessed a transformation in the organization and management of primary care.

Welfare states face profound challenges.

Over the past two decades, there has been a shift of paradigm in public administration and public sector accounting around the world with the increasing emphasis on outcomes as opposed to inputs and outputs focus.

The rise to power of Eliot Spitzer, the scourge of Wall Street and one of America's most controversial politicians, by the reporter who knows his crusade bestFew politicians have burst onto the American scene with as much impact as Eliot Spitzer.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

A New Synthesis in Public Administration sets out a theoretical framework that takes this new reality into account.

The focus of this book is to analyse from a number of perspectives the politics of change in Ireland north and south since 1969.

This book examines the theory and praxis of the legal concept of subsidiarity and the policy paradigm of multilevel governance, providing an updated overview on how subnational and national authorities engage within the EU institutional framework.

The hidden federal features of the European Union help explain the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom that face an unfinished political community.

Using a comparative framework, this volume presents case studies of issues of public procurement and discusses how procurement professionals and policy makers in different regions are responding to these challenges.

Dieser Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über die Sozial- und Solidarwirtschaft, die nicht nur in Frankreich an Bedeutung gewinnt.

This book provides a definition of dampness in each of its forms, details the various potential sources, and causes that can result in damage to the building, and importantly, the threats to the health of the occupiers.

This book reconsiders the fundamental principles of zoning and city planning over the course of the past one-hundred years, and the lessons that can be learned for the future of cities.

This book examines budgeting by analyzing the local government budget as a complex system, thus adding a new dimension to traditional budget textbooks.

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each policy process theory.

This book brings an innovative study of marriage migration in Australia, offering new insights into issues of intimacy and authenticity online.

This book presents a series of interconnected studies designed to understand systemic corruption in local governments.

This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on the academisation of the English school system.

This book explores the role of entrepreneurship in economic and social integration of post-Soviet immigrants in the European Union, and the ways in which national institutions influence these processes.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain vulnerable to being used as conduits for political finance, patronage, and personal or related-party enrichment.

Because of the complexity involved in understanding the environment, the choices made about environmental issues are often incomplete.

No analysis of migration in Europe today can avoid consideration of the role of the EU institutions, as well as the member states, in policy-making.

The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known.

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

This handbook presents an authoritative account of the development of movements, thoughts and policies of OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in India.

This book presents a novel methodological framework for analysing governmental discourse.

This book examines deliberative democracy and its practical forms and applications in local government public policy.

This edited collection examines various facets of governance - the organization and steering of political processes within society - for a better understanding of the complexities of contemporary policy making.

India Higher Education Report 2020 critically analyzes the role played by the state, industries, and higher education institutions in the employment and employability of educated youth in India.

As the UK negotiates Brexit, what are the effects, implications and challenges that lie ahead?