Public administration

The tools of American statecraft-defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence-are rarely examined together.

Chaos Organization and Disaster Management offers a scholarly survey of disaster response behavior and management in the face of natural and manmade catastrophe.

Children in immigrant families represent nearly one-fourth of all children living in the United States.

We live in a world where democracy is almost universally accepted as the only legitimate form of government but what makes a society democratic remains far from clear.

Following careers in the military and in industry, Robert Grattan has devoted himself to the subject of strategy and its related theory through his research into the strategy implementation employed by business, governments and the military.

SYSTEM FAILURE provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justice-involved youth in regular public schools, juvenile court schools, probation settings, and alternative schools.

This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents.

First published in 1986.

Recent failures and rescues of large banks have resulted in colossal costs to society.

Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children's understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life.

Can and should asset-based policies such as universal capital grants become a new pillar of the welfare state?

This is a book about making choices based on the evaluation of alternatives.

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

Wie werden Organisationen beraten und wie werden dabei Kennzahlen und Steuerungsinstrumente eingesetzt?

Involved in rabies research for much of their working careers, editors David J.

Post-conflict societies are commonly constructed as weak, fragile, and failed states.

As the world's biggest polluter, the environmental challenges that China faces in controlling its airborne emissions are crucial, not only to its own population in terms of tackling the severe domestic air pollution, but also to the planet as it faces calls from the international community to accept its responsibilities in cutting greenhouse gases.

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants.

This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "e;public,"e; helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community engagement around water services.

Understanding the governance of nations is a key challenge in contemporaneous political economy.

Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with the impact of modernist social science on policy making, considering the diverse meanings that inspire governing practices across time, space, and policy sectors in urban context.

A growing problem of interest in the field of science and technology policy is that the next generation of innovations is arriving at an accelerating rate, and the governance system is struggling to catch up.

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Barbara Junne befasst sich mit der Frage, wieQualitätsmanagement in Hamburger Kitas als eine gesellschaftlich konstruiertePraktik entsteht, die die gegenseitige Rechenschaftslegung, d.

Obgleich die Relevanz von ERP-Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen in der Literatur ausführlich dokumentiert ist, lassen sich für ihre Gestaltung nur unzureichend Empfehlungen aussprechen.

This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries.

In the United States, new government employees begin their careers by pledging their allegiance to the Constitution and by committing to conscientious service dedicated to solving public problems.

When green parties emerged in the 1980s, not only did they question established ideas about nature and economic growth, they also challenged the 'iron law' of Roberto Michels that all parties inevitably follow a similar path towards informal concentration of power and oligarchy.

Off to the sidelines of the brutal western front of World War I was a nasty little campaign by British and India troops sent to secure Persian oil fields.

There is a consensus throughout much of the western world that the public sector is in urgent need of repair.

Latin American countries have for a long time been importers of public policies and institutions from the Global North.

Built Up uncovers the roots of the global real estate industry in the machinations of a patron of Shakespeare, the merged lineages of business savvy women and men, startlingly innovative collaborations with the first English architect, and the radical explorations of other denizens of early modern London - and what those colorful origins mean for the practice of property development today.

Das Gesundheitswesen befindet sich an einem Wendepunkt.

The 21st century has already seen dramatic changes affecting both journalism and politics.

This book features a lively debate between two prominent scholars-Michael A.

This volume explores the questions of what makes some goods and services fundamentally public and why.

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Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration.

The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev.

Myriad forms of communication occur within the criminal justice system as judges and attorneys speak to juries, law enforcement officers interact with the public, and the news media presents stories of events in courtrooms.

This book discusses the role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in global transportation infrastructure.

This book examines the economic and political contributions of the EU to the Northern Ireland peace process, tracing the genesis of EU involvement since 1979 and analysing how it acted as an arena in which to foster dialogue and positive cooperation.

2017 Award Winner of the ASIS Security Book of the YearNunez and Vendrell aim to provide the most current and effective resources for managing special events and critical incidents.

The American gun control debate is best understood as a battle in a war over the influence of individualism on American culture, politics, and policy.

This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result.

This insightful text rigorously examines and accounts for contemporary developments - and crucially a reversal of "e;democraticness"e; - in democratic polities and related political processes comparing 38 democracies across the world.