Public administration

Electronic health records are widely regarded as the 'connective tissue' of any modern healthcare system.

In the world's developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power - from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of foreign investment.

Making Congress Work, Again, Within the Constitutional SystemCongress for many years has ranked low in public esteem joining journalists, bankers, and union leaders at the bottom of polls.

Tribal Administration and Development is a book which traces the origin and growth of the efforts for the development of tribal populations in India.

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 analyzes various important aspects of methodology and substance regarding economic, social, and political policy in East Europe directed toward achieving more effective, efficient, and equitable societal institutions.

This book assesses the effects of globalization and neoliberal economic regimes in low- and middle-income countries, primarily on industries, investment and trade; finance and credit; and employment, gender and development.

This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken.

The application of digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reform governmental structures and public service is widely and perhaps naively viewed as the 21st century "e;savior"e;, the enlightened way to reinvigorate democracy, reduce costs, and improve the quality of public services.

This book mainly summarizes and analyzes the advanced research progress in the field of behavioral public administration, and also looks forward to the future of related academic research.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

Die Steuerverwaltung in Deutschland ist aus historischen Gründen dezentral organisiert.

Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast.

This book provides a thoughtful and rigorous guide to coverage modeling, reviewing essential models, solution approaches, and related applications.

Political realists are accustomed to argue that ethical considerations have no place in public affairs.

The new edition of this popular book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use financial management and budgeting tools in the public sector.

This book is an exploration of the various types of transnational politics that the Chin and Acehnese people are engaged in, particularly in the Malaysian state.

This book offers the first benchmarking study of China's response to the problems of security in cyber space.

With a range of case studies from every continent, the contributors to this book analyze the challenges that arise for states living with much larger neighbors, and the policies they develop to account for this asymmetry.

The book examines the state of Open Government in Asia.

The Coding Revolution-a combination of the Digital Revolution and genetic engineering-has had a destructive effect on society.

Political compromise is emerging as a preferred solution for numerous apparently intractable problems.

What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common?

There are many Indian thinkers who have contributed a great deal to the political thought of the country.

It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'.

Where many textbooks on policy research focus on methodological and statistical theories, leaving students to wonder how they will apply those theories to future policy positions, this innovative textbook takes theories of policy research and puts them into practice, demystifying the subject by translating it into real-world situations in which students can actively engage.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the movement towards co-production of public services and outcomes, a topic which has recently become one of the most intensely debated in public management and administration, both in practice and in the academic literature.

The public sector urgently needs more personnel and must actively engage with the labor market to distinguish itself from the private sector.

This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries.

This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.

This study has two central research questions: Do democracy profiles affect policy performance?

Although collaborations for local and regional economic development have been popular in recent years, it is not yet wholly clear when or how such efforts bring successful outcomes.

Property relations are such a common feature of social life that the complexity of the web of laws, practices, and ideas that allow a property regime to function smoothly are often forgotten.

Some of the worst effects of the global economic downturn that commenced in 2008 have been felt in Europe, and specifically in the Eurozone's so-called PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) and Cyprus.

In Abgrenzung zu Parteien beschränkt sich der politische Wirkungskreis von Wählergemeinschaften auf die Kommunalpolitik, weshalb sie in Deutschland nicht die rechtlichen Kriterien für den Erwerb des Parteienstatus erfüllen.

Transformation of Korean Politics and Administration: A 30 Year Retrospective retraces critical junctures that were turning points in Korean history as seen from the historical path dependence theory.

This book examines the various ways in which policymakers and political actors across different governmental levels have responded to the recent European refugee 'crisis', and the effects of these responses.

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.

Developing countries have made rapid but highly varied progress since the 1990s.

Since 1978, when China started remaking its economy, it has also embarked on an unparalleled effort at remaking its pension system to accommodate its hybrid economic model.

This book examines systems and practices of public service education and training in an international context.

This book aims to explain the gap between Western theories and the Chinese administration reform experiences.

Proposals for reform have dotted the federal management landscape in the United States for more than 50 years.