Public administration

The aim of this book is to take stock of the experiences of Spain and Portugal in the adaptation to the IPSAS, showing the advantages, disadvantages and the main challenges for its implementation.

This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization.

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research.

​PPP haben sich in Deutschland und international als wünschenswerte Beschaffungsalternative der Öffentlichen Hand etabliert.

How much does money really matter in American politics?

The tools of American statecraft-defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence-are rarely examined together.

Offers an instructive look at the role modern telecommunications infrastructures play in promoting vibrant rural economies.

Investigates implications of domestic debt on consumption and growth, and studies separation of debt and monetary management.

This edited volume discusses digital transformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book uses Sweden as a test case to analyze how parliament and elected representatives function in a representative democracy.

This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing.

There are many actions that we attribute, at least colloquially, to states.

This book presents both the importance of energy transition and its associated difficulties.

This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women's political participation in Bangladesh.

This book fills the need for a communication-based, public sector framed book.

THE COMMODIFICATION GAP In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive contextual processes.

With contributions from leading regional scholars, Public Administration in Africa: Performance and Challenges examines the complexities of the art of governance from the unique African perspective.

The purpose of this book is to consider the neighbour conflict arising between airports and neighbouring owners of land, particularly with residential uses, as well as to assess the existing solutions applied to manage or resolve that conflict.

The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose?

Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind.

A comparison of the political development of census questions about race, demonstrating how ideas and politics shape racial boundaries.

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted.

The neo-Weberian state constitutes an attempt to combine the Weberian model of administration with the principles laid down during the retreat from the bureaucratic management paradigm (new public management and public governance).

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das Thema der Wissenschaftlichkeit in der Polizei.

Over the past 10 years partnership working has become a central feature of public services.

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.

Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning.

This book discusses the role of grant-making foundations in supporting local communities, and how effective governance can contribute to greater success of the social projects they finance.

This book describes the institutions and process through which the Georgia General Assembly adopts a budget, the executive-legislative branch politics that transpire during the process and the tax and spending policies that the process produces.

In this timely and unique work, Calum Paton assesses the political economy and politics of current health policy in order to explain the underlying causes of problems in the National Health Service.

This report serves to support the development of Latin America's legal and regulatory frameworks for sustainability disclosure, the responsibilities of company boards and shareholder rights.

Earthquakes are a huge global threat.

The first comprehensive examination of how systems of government have emerged in the small and diverse developing island states of the Pacific Islands region, this study outlines the way in which government systems in the region have evolved from their pre-independence origins to their current political, constitutional, and public sector arrangements.

Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector.

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

This book provides a comprehensive study of Indonesia's contemporary foreign policy engagement with Africa, highlighting the archipelago's recent reawakening to the continent.

This book tackles global economic and social issues from a perspective that may seem obvious but which no author has yet taken: that we humans are living beings.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of policy transfer in authoritarian regimes.

La segunda parte de esta obra está orientada al examen de los tipos penales en particular, y de las disposiciones a través de las cuales se efectúa la integración normativa, recurriendo a la evolución legal del instituto, a los planteamientos doctrinarios, y a los desarrollos que ha efectuado nuestra jurisprudencia, permeadas por el imprescindible cedazo de la crítica, cuando ello se hace necesario para fundamentar propuestas hermenéuticas.

Designed for professionals and aspiring professionals in public policy, public health, and related programs, Public Health Leadership illustrates the complexity of contemporary issues at the intersection of public health and healthcare and the compelling need to engage numerous public and private stakeholders to effectively advance population health.

Examines the most influential arguments about the consequences of political decentralization.

Due to the increased global political importance of the nonprofit sector, its technological support and organizational characteristics have become important fields of research.