Public administration

This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize.

The Westminster-stylized model of Parliamentary democratic governance is out of step with today's digitally and socially networked world.

A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government.

This book focuses on the public policy and political/ethical dimensions of ALS/MND across a wide selection of countries and argues for the need of a multidisciplinary and international approach.

This is a major contribution to our understanding of European integration.

The Global South is recognized as one of the fastest growing regions in terms of Internet population as well as the region that accounts for the majority of Internet users.

This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers.

Unique in bringing together contributions from academics and practitioners on the theme of strategic, intelligent modern lobbying this book provides a thorough and accessible discussion on key ideas pertinent to the pursuance of public affairs in the European Union.

Im Rahmen der „Flüchtlingskrise“ ab 2015 war vielerorts die Rede davon, dass die Polarisierung zu einer Erosion des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts in Deutschland geführt habe und entsprechend gegengesteuert werden müsse.

Legislative debates make democracy and representation work.

This book analyzes the harms related to whistleblower retaliation, its psychosocial impacts on employees, and the institutional dysfunction it creates and perpetuates.

This major new text on the theory and practice of public management moves away from descriptive accounts of its evolution to provide a systematic treatment of the key paradigms of public management today.

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

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program.

This title was first published in 2002.

Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practitioners who work in public and nonprofit organizations.

This book provides a broad overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-supported innovation both on an evidence-based level, a theoretical and a methodological level.

Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not.

Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last 60 years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law.

First published in 1997, this volume emerged in response to the need for material on the research, development, use and application of mass appraisal techniques for ad valorem property tax systems.

This book features contemporary critical and Marxist theories of resistance, domination, knowledge, and systems of ideological control.

The academic field of behavioral science has developed rapidly in recent decades.

How does an authoritarian state reform its police force following a transition to democracy?

Phua focuses on applying the best of corporate strategy and innovation tools and praxis into the policy process with the aim of devising a coherent policy strategy-innovation framework and process.

Trust and confidence are topical issues.

This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China's public sector - government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises.

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.

Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments.

This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing individual health, domestic order, international health governance actors, and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based modus operandi of the present world order.

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law.

The events of September 11, 2001 sharply revived governmental and societal anxieties in many democratic countries concerning the threats posed by terrorism, organized crime, the proliferation and use of weapons of mass destruction, and other complex security threats.

This book continues the discussion from Volume I on economic, fiscal, and financial crises in world history that have had a great impact on the entire world and the fiscal measures taken by governments to combat each crisis.

This contributed volume examines the trend whereby the EU resorts ever more often to informal arrangements and deals with third countries in an effort to curb and manage migration flows towards the EU and facilitate the return of irregular migrants to their countries of origin or transit.

AIDS has a unique political history.

Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed nations, South Korea is extraordinary.

When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food.

In the book, the author has provided the CAT Aspirants with detailed concepts and problem solving skills.

Public accountability is a hallmark of modern democratic governance and the foundation of the popular performance management movement.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book provides an accessible introduction to causal inference and data analysis with R, specifically for a public policy audience.

In a relatively short time, Finland has transformed a society of approximately 5.

This new edition offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of U.

Chris O'Leary looks afresh at the reasons for prosocial work choices in the first substantive critique of Public Service Motivation (PSM).

The past two and a half decades have seen major transformations in public sector management and governance across the globe.