Public administration

This edited volume discusses digital democracy at the local level in Europe.

Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world.

The subject of policy analysis in Thailand is less examined than in Western societies.

Working with Data in the Public Sector: From Fear to Enthusiasm is the first book designed for practicing and future public administration professionals to help overcome any anxiety about using data effectively in their roles.

Published in 1999, this book is designed to provide the reader with a detailed understanding of Hong Kong's social and political development.

This book provides a first comprehensive legal examination of water rights arrangements and water rights trading in China.

Since Independence, organisational and procedural issues have occupied centre stage in the litarature on Public Administration in India.

Efforts by governments to promote sustained domestic economic development have been mixed.

Health policy in the United States has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment, with important roles played by public and private actors, as well as institutional and individual entities, in designing the contemporary American healthcare system.

This book covers a diverse range of topics situated at the intersecting fields of economic management, public administration, and green development.

This edited volume presents an analysis of the evolution of French language policies and their impact on French regional languages and their communities.

In the 1980s a large number of Latin American countries reverted from military dictatorships to civilian democracies.

Originally published in 1989, this study provides an informed and critical analysis of local partnerships between the private and public sectors in response to the unemployment problems.

This book presents an innovative democratic framework that ensures public participation, based on applying principles of good governance to facilitate urban transport decision-making in an integrated and structured manner.

The vocabulary and discourse of water resource management have expanded vastly in recent years to include an array of new concepts and terminology, such as water security, water productivity, virtual water and water governance.

Remedies Cases and Materials in Australian Private Law is an invaluable resource which enables students to understand remedial law.

The fifth volume of the Interdisciplinary European Studies series aims to explore the EU's pursuit of societal resilience and its role in the transition to a green economy.

The search for good governance has become an increasingly important element of public policy and public management and is high on the political agenda of East Asian countries.

First published in 1999, this volume is written by seasoned public choice scholars and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on peaceful coexistence and sustainable development in developing countries.

Using a key religious freedom Act, the book analyzes legislative process, Supreme Court jurisprudence, and discusses the role of religion in public life.

This book is organized to examine the major subjects taught in American politics through the lens of twenty-five hot button issues affecting American politics and policy today.

This Palgrave Policy Essential considers the security and defence consequences of Brexit for the UK and the European Union.

This book provides a defense of democratic politics in American public service and offers the political ethics of public service as a realistic and optimistic alternative to the cynical American view toward politics and public service.

This book provides a roadmap for successful implementation of innovation for organizations working as subcontractors or suppliers for the federal government.

Secrecy in US Foreign Policy examines the pursuit of strict secrecy by President Nixon and his National Security Advisor Kissinger in foreign policy decision making in relation to the US rapprochement with China.

Academia is not immune to gender bias, and in many public affairs programs, inequities persist in faculty academic rank, salary, career length, job security, leadership roles, professional recognition, resource allocation, and role stereotypes.

Providing an account of the policy response to COVID-19 in England, this book analyses the political and long-term systemic factors associated with the failures to control the first wave of the pandemic during 2020.

Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized.

This book presents a novel methodological framework for analysing governmental discourse.

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems.

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls.

This OECD Public Governance Monitor (PGM) provides a concise analysis of Sweden's public governance system, instruments and capabilities, and helps identify areas of opportunities for public governance reforms.

Presidential Lessons in Leadership crystallizes the methods of leadership from six of America's greatest presidents during moments of personal challenge and turns them into concrete lessons that business leaders, and anyone interested in becoming a more effective leader, can use each day.

Insightful and comprehensive and covering new subjects like globalization and IT, this text, international in its approach, provides a thorough introduction to the key phases of the contracting process and the skills required by managers in its implementation.

Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes widmen sich dem Verhältnis der Politischen Bildung gegenüber der Demokratie, der Demokratisierung und dem Demokratischen.

This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential template for assessing the health and workings of present day democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular preferences.

This book investigates the questionas to whether technological developments will ultimately mean the end of workand, if so, what the consequences will be.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime.

Provides a general, non-technical introduction to core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to public management and policy.

The Political Economy of Lula's Brazil describes the social, political and economic transformations that led to increased interest in the tropical giant at the start of the 21st century.

This book provides readers with a conceptual and applied understanding of the role of risk management in public health issues.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) combine economic activities resulting from their position on the market with non-economic functions determined by the state owner.

Privatization requires the presence of capable governments setting clear goals, addressing potential hazards of private engagement, and exploring multiple paths of improvement.

Peace operations are the UN's flagship activity.

This book explores the ways that institutions play a role - or fail to - in Japanese and American approaches to regional governance in East Asia.

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa.

Introduction to Trade Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the rules and regulations that govern trade flow.