Public administration

Mittlere Manager bilden in Veränderungsprozessen die Schaltstelle zwischen strategischen Vorgaben und deren operativer Umsetzung.

Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault.

Is decentralisation good for development?

This is the first book in the Interdisciplinary European Studies collection.

Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts, and theories during the 21st century.

The response of the U.

Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category?

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book sets out to analyze how the OBOR initiative will influence the world's geo-political and geo-economic environment, with specific regard to the 'Belt and Road' countries and regions.

Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are seeking means of improving their performance.

Big data and its accompanying technological ecosystems have had a dramatic impact on business, politics and society.

Examining the involvement of religious NGOs (RNGOs) at the UN, this book explores whether they polarize political debates at the UN or facilitate agreement on policy issues.

The world has undergone a revolution in assisted reproduction, as processes such as in vitro fertilization, embryonic screening, and surrogacy have become commonplace.

In this comparative, historical survey of three East Asian countries, Jong-sung You explores how inequality hinders democratic control of corruption.

Laura Block asks how liberal democracies manage torestrict migration in spite of liberal constraints.

Lobbying is not only the subject of ongoing, heated debates in politics and the public sphere but has also been a focus of the social sciences for decades.

Chinese government officials have played a crucial role in China's economic development, but they are also responsible for severe problems, including environmental pollution, violation of citizens' rights, failure in governance, and corruption.

As difficult as it might seem to define governance, it appears to be that much more difficult to measure it.

Hateful thoughts and words can lead to harmful actions like the March 2019 terrorist attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The term of governance and the way it has been used by European institutions have elicited much interest in the academic world.

This book explains how to bring about institutional change and foster new institutional structures (institution building) by resolving power inequities in a rural ecosystem in India, and advocates the identification of an appropriate institutional champion to make this happen.

This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting.

Politisches Handeln ist zunehmend krisenbehaftet und exekutivdominiert.

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Written for practitioners and practitioners-in-training of education development, this book reviews education issues in developing countries and provides in-depth case studies from Egypt, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

This book explains when and how interest groups are influential in the European Parliament, which has become one of the most important lobbying venues in the EU.

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level.

This report endeavours to measure, and to describe, transnational corruption based on data from the 427 foreign bribery cases that have been concluded since the entry into force of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in 1999.

Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht die theoretischen Grundlagen und die praktischen Instrumente rund um zentrale Themen der öffentlichen Verwaltungen – den demographischen Wandel und knappe Haushaltsbudgets.

This book revisits the traditional general approach to sport policy by adopting an entrepreneurial perspective.

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

This book traces how the student loan system has created insurmountable student debt traps for millions of student borrowers contrary to its original purpose of promoting social mobility.

This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.

This volume is devoted to three key themes central to studies in regional science: the sub-national labor market, migration, and mobility, and their analysis.

Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986.

Affecting more than 800 million people, food insecurity is a global problem that runs deeper than hunger and undernutrition.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse.

The first edition of this work, published in 1993, refuted the notion that administrative ethics could not be studied empirically.

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.

The book conducts a comprehensive research study on China's urbanization.

In an effort to provide greater awareness of the necessary policy decisions facing our elected and appointed officials, Energy Policy in the U.