Public administration

To counter pervasive levels of citizen disengagement from political institutions, this book examines democratic innovations that meaningfully engage with citizens to address some of the deficits of Western representative democracies.

A Half Century of Municipal Reform: The History of the National Municipal League provides an in-depth chronicle of the League's origins, programs, and contributions to municipal reform from 1894 to 1944, with occasional references extending to 1948.

In the wake of the so-called information technology revolution, many stakeholders from the public and private sectors (including citizens) have indeed grown accustomed to the promise and usability of spatial data infrastructures (SDI) for data access, use, and sharing.

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

This book examines the ways in which government-owned technologies (GovTechs) and technologies owned by civil society organisations (CivicTechs) can be integrated into policy processes to enhance interactions between citizens and governments, and ensure effective, efficient, and accountable public service delivery.

The National Audit Office has played an important role in the checks and balances of the UK parliamentary and political system over the last 40 years.

This book examines the impact of democratic backsliding and populist governments on the public policy process.

In East and Southeast Asia, the creation of civil society is a crucial yet most difficult issue.

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Explore the Important Role that the Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Plays within a Broader Environmental ContextFocused on the information semantics of land use and land cover (LULC) and providing a platform for reassessing this field, Land Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects presents a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and best practices for applying semantics in LULC.

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

This book is one of three volumes that provide a systematic overview of public administration, public management and public governance in Italy.

This book defines regional climate leadership in East Asia and the Pacific as a novel addition to the climate leadership theory.

Police officers, social workers, teachers, and many other street-level bureaucrats exercise discretion in dealing with clients.

This important new handbook provides a comprehensive assessment of contemporary public policy and governance in the Global South.

Australia and the United States face very similar challenges in dealing with drought.

In Zeiten wachsender Anforderungen an öffentliche Dienstleistungen und steigender Bürgererwartungen wird effizientes und bürgernahes Service Management immer wichtiger.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Verfassung, Verwaltung, Regierung in neuerer Zeit" verfügbar.

Wellbeing is a hot topic: governments, psychologists and a thousand self-appointed 'experts' all claim to promote it and yet our societies are experiencing record levels of mental distress and ill-health.

This book is one of three volumes that provide a systematic overview of public administration, public management and public governance in Italy.

One of the seventeen critical infrastructures vital to the security of the United States, the water supply system remains largely unprotected from the threat of terrorism, including possible revenge by Al Qaeda over the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

This book analyses contemporary Mexico-China relations as a complex cultural encounter.

Fight rural poverty through the creation of significant policy mechanisms, microenterprises, and employment programsThe majority of the world's poor live in Asia, and most of these live in rural areas.

The Indian Constitution has held the country together for 75 years now.

Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work.

In einer Welt, in der alles darauf abzielt, uns zu unterhalten, scheint Langeweile ein Relikt aus grauer Vorzeit zu sein.

Based on decades of evidence-based research and technical assistance, Public Administration and Disability: Community Services Administration in the US brings together the diverse, expert perspectives and discusses the leading efforts of the past three decades in the field of disability and community services.

Effective public personnel management (also known as human resource management, HRM, or human capital management) is essential for successful government.

State governments are responsible for most of the direct domestic spending that affects the well-being of their citizens.

This book examines the development of internet policymaking over the last forty years.

This book examines the development of internet policymaking over the last forty years.

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare state studies.