The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public engagement and policy success and failure.
How a public-private partnership led to the largest emergency response system in the worldEmergency medical response systems are a critical component of any nation's healthcare system.
The political discontent or malaise that typifies most modern democracies is mainly caused by the widely shared feeling that the political freedom of citizens to influence the development of their society and, related to this, their personal life, has become rather limited.
Diese Arbeit beleuchtet die verfahrensrechtliche Förderung von klimaschutzfreundlichen Projekten, die dem besonders dringenden Infrastrukturausbaubedarf abhelfen können.
This book discusses the Europeanization of Turkish public administration since the early 2000s, offering an analysis of the transformation and basic features and problems of Turkish public administration in relation to the EU accession process.
Der Band diskutiert die Tätigkeit der Verfassungsschutzbehörden im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen administrativer Leistungsfähigkeit und demokratischer Kontrolle.
Im politischen System der Bundesrepublik zeichnet sich auf der lokalen Ebene seit geraumer Zeit ab, dass sich das Parteiensystem durch den Einzug neuer Parteien in die Kreistage und Räte erweitert hat, während neue Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten politische Mehrheitskonstellationen weniger vorhersehbar machen.
The book utilises Gramsci's concepts of hegemony, counter-hegemony, organic intellectuals, and integral state to interrogate how modes of engagement between the state and civil society have contributed to a polarised polity in Zimbabwe, and in turn how this has impacted democratisation processes.
This encyclopedia includes entries on the concepts, issues and theories starting with alphabets D to K that define public policymaking, evaluation, management and implementation.
Das Ziel dieses Buches ist die Vermittlung zentraler Begriffe, Theoreme und Hypothesen zum Welthandel und der Handelspolitik aus einer ideengeschichtlichen Perspektive.
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Issues in Expropriation reviews the contemporary major issues involving expropriation (eminent domain/compulsory purchase) in an international context.
Global Cases in Best and Worst Practice in Crisis and Emergency Management is the first book to focus on select global cases from the perspective of best and worst practices in the context of crisis and emergency management.
Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State is the first in-depth look at the influence of performance measurement on the effectiveness of the federal government.
Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives.
A new edition of a popular textbook that provides a systematic and up-to-date introduction to the different approaches to understanding leadership in the public sector.
Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women's lives.
In The Capacity to Innovate, Sarah Giest provides insight into the collaborative and absorptive capacities needed to provide public support to local innovation through cluster organizations.
The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative.
