Public administration

Through policy and intervention national governments in Europe have long held an active interest in railways, an interest that has transferred to the supranational level via the EU commission.

This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens.

This book addresses the sustained failure to properly fund local government in England.

This is a sweeping narrative of American domestic public policy-its triumphs, struggles, and failures over the past 120 years.

Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice.

Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities.

Rating Valuation: Principles and Practice has long been the standard go-to guide for both students studying rating valuation and practitioners needing a comprehensive reference book covering rating law, valuation and, importantly, practice.

This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe.

What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made 'citizenship inclusion' their main goal?

Today's pressing political, social, economic, and environmental crises urgently ask for effective policy responses and fundamental transitions towards sustainability supported by a sound knowledge base and developed in collaboration between all stakeholders.

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades.

This book explores how different governments have leveraged their capacity to advance a revival of nuclear power.

Developed countries throughout the world are experiencing population ageing and the new challenges that arise from this change in the national demographic.

This collection provides a balanced evaluation of multi-level governance.

This book is a collection of fourteen selected Public Administration Case Studies written by Shri Gyanendra Srivastava IAS (Retd.

For some time, the United States has been engaged in a national debate over affirmative action policy.

This title was first published in 2001: Based on extensive research, this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique.

Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs.

In this book, Eric J.

The accession of Croatia to the EU marked the end of a long and arduous period of transition.

This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory.

Air Transportation Industry considers the influence of political, legal, economic, social, and technological factors on the developments in the industry.

Is public administration an art or a science?

Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of its members.

For most of political science's history, discussions about professional ethics had nothing to do with human subjects.

There are considerable differences in environmental performance and outcomes across both democracies and autocracies, but there is little understanding of how levels of democracy and autocracy influence environmental performance.

The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance.

This book is an up-to-date analysis of the issues facing the future of the social work profession in the face of rising political authoritarianism, economic inequality and insecurity, class and racial conflicts, fiscal pressure and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages.

The Public Servant's Guide to Government in Canada is a concise primer on the inner workings of government in Canada.

"e;Mouritzen and Opstrup's book is a most welcome addition to the subject of the management of academic performance.

This book develops a very particular concept of sociality: a holistic way of understanding how human beings have come to care about and collectively provide for their welfare as a species and to recognise each other's needs in terms of shared social rights.

Theories heralding the rise of network governance have dominated for a generation.

First published in 1999, this book applies formal economic measures to the passenger and taxpayer benefits of public transit service in the United States under a public choice analytical framework.

This book is one of two volumes that examines the successes and failures of the Ghanaian Fourth Republic from a political, public administration and public policy viewpoint.

Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies.

The volume deals with the fundamentals of the contemporary relations between civic actors and state power structures.

The transformation of British local government into a new and complex system of local governance raises fundamental theoretical questions as well as empirical ones.

This book presents a detailed examination of the current state of knowledge in the field of paleoneurology in the main amniote groups (reptiles, birds and mammals), and advances  resulting from new non-invasive technologies.

By examining the various policy subfields of European economic integration such as agriculture, trade, banking, economic governance and sustainability this book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of developments that have taken place in the past five years aimed at exploring the path of economic integration in Europe.

This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and policy reform in public administration.

Media have been recognized as powerful instruments to mould public opinion.

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