Public administration

Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, DC uncovers and explains the dynamics that have influenced the contemporary economic advancement of Washington, DC.

Advocates of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe before 1989 placed great emphasis on community self-government as the basis of civil society and democracy.

Wellbeing, resilience and sustainability are three of the most popular ideas in current usage and are said to represent a much-needed paradigm shift in political and policy thinking.

Seth Masket's The Inevitable Party is a study of anti-party reforms and why they fail.

Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines.

The events of September 11, 2001 sharply revived governmental and societal anxieties in many democratic countries concerning the threats posed by terrorism, organized crime, the proliferation and use of weapons of mass destruction, and other complex security threats.

This book argues that states have a special obligation to offer asylum as a form of reparation to refugees for whose flight they are responsible.

This book discusses blockchain technology and its potential applications in digital government and the public sector.

The United States lacks a comprehensive and coordinated labor market policy.

Popular music is increasingly visible in government strategies and policies.

Studies how habits of governance create institutional rigidities that dislodge law-given local autonomy to improve urban public services.

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This book provides comprehensive, systematic, multi-disciplinary guidance to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries of all regions.

We show how blockchain as a new contracting technology can improve contracting outcomes without the involvement of courts.

This book examines the puzzle of why genetically modified organisms continue to be controversial despite scientific evidence declaring them safe for humans and the environment.

The Regulatory Craft tackles one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time the reform of regulatory and enforcement practice.

This encyclopedic reference/text provides an analysis of the basic issues and major aspects of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, public policy, and public administration in historical and contemporary perspectives.

Once considered among the most respected police departments in the world, the LAPD suffered a devastating fall from grace following the 1991 police officer beating of Rodney King and the Los Angeles riots stemming from the officers acquittal in 1992.

Taking a chronological approach, this book challenges established economistic and ideologistic narratives of neoliberalism in Britain by charting the gradual diffusion of an increasingly interventionist neoliberal governmental rationality in British politics since the late 1970s, and the various means by which the project has furnished itself with a hegemonic basis for its popular support.

In the literature on forced migration, little is known about the experiences of Iraqi refugees resettled in the United States through the US Refugee Admissions, Reception and Placement Program.

This book explores the history of forced land acquisition and transformation of power in the Fifth Schedule areas in India.

This book examines law and governance implications in relation to maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS).

This book examines knowledge and policy transfer from the perspectives of Brazil and China.

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

Expertisation and Democracy in Europe provides a much-needed account of the role and re-organisation of expertise and expert knowledge in Europe and the European Union in a broad range of policy spheres, contributing to the debate triggered by the recent crises.

This study applies policy network theory to major technological, economic, environmental and social trends to generate propositions about the future of public policy.

This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the institutional changes that have occurred to the local level delivery of public utilities and personal social services in countries across Europe.

The post Independence India opted for a planned approach for its future development and growth.

This book focuses on the innovative and more critical management approach adopted in the PA (Public Administration) in order to identify and describe the main models and instruments to economically evaluate the decision making process in accordance to the specific conditions such as efficiency, effectiveness, cost and equity.

The identity implications have been overlooked from discussions on devolution, which have tended to focus on constitutional, legal and financial issues.

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

Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime.

With an emphasis on the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales, Making Commons Dynamic examines the empirical basis of theorising the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process and offers analytical directions for policy and practice that can potentially help maintain commons as commons in the future.

This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural mixing in the field of the arts.

This edited volume explores the state of inclusive governance in South Asia.

Democratic and consolidated states are taken as the model for effective rule-making and service provision.

The Shield of Nationality examines multinational corporations'' relations with governments in developing countries and why governments can sometimes expropriate foreign-owned property.

This book aims to inform policy-makers, engineers and earth scientists about the current and emerging role of geophysics in addressing environmental processes, assessments, and policy directions related to new and existing dams and levees.

This book provides the first in-depth study of healthcare reforms in post-communist Eastern Europe.

Der Sammelband beleuchtet das Themenfeld Sicherheit im öffentlichen Raum aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven von Wissenschaft, Polizei, Kommunen und Politik und bietet Rezipientinnen und Rezipienten neue Einblicke, Synergien und Lösungsansätze.