This comprehensive text introduces public management students and government and nonprofit administrators to the principles and practices of Knowledge Management.
Public Organizations in Asia introduces students to the fundamental theories of organizations and teaches them how to analyze different types of public organizations in East and Southeast Asia.
This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail?
Democracy can be understood as a concept as well as a system of government associated with certain values, including transparency, accountability, the protection of rights, and non-oppressive government.
A textbook that examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resourcesWhile economic research emphasizes the importance of governmental institutions for growth and progress, conventional public policy textbooks tend to focus on macroeconomic policies and on tax-and-spend decisions.
This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime.
Hospital management and administration is concerned with the organization, coordination, planning, staffing, evaluating and controlling of health services for the masses.
This book shows students entering the public service as well as professionals in the field how to become ethically competent to provide the leadership needed to advance the public interest.
This book presents a critique of dominant governance theories grounded in an understanding of existence as a static, discrete, mechanistic process, while also identifying the failures of theories that assume dynamic alternatives of either a radically collectivist or individualist nature.
This book looks into the processes sustaining the administrative reform in Chinese local government and the roles of different actors during different phases by tracing a vivid administrative reform process in Shunde district, Guangdong province between 2009 and 2014.
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international community to live up to the challenges of a planet that is out of control.
Multiple, sich überlagernde Phänomene wie geoökonomische und -politische Wirkungszusammenhänge oder Krisen haben die Ziele und Herausforderungen der öffentlichen Verwaltung zum Teil grundlegend verändert.
One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service.
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.
Wo Macht und Menschen zusammenkommen, sind kuriose Persönlichkeiten ebenso nah wie große Skandale, absurde Intrigen, revolutionärer Elan und schicksalhafte Begegnungen.
The world of public policy is becoming increasingly small due to dramatic changes in global communications, political and economic institutional structures, and to nation states themselves.
Debates about children's rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader social and political community, and the moral and political status of the child within it.
This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters.
This book provides an examination of e-Government frameworks and maturity stages in governments around the world, including an overview of the legal frameworks that have supported them.
This book assesses the extent to which good governance may contribute to enhancing economic performance and social welfare in developing countries, globally.
This book provides a stimulating presentation of the Italian administrative system through an empirical and critical perspective on the processes of administrative reform at the national level.
This title was first published in 2000: Corruption has become a major issue in East and Southeast Asia since the financial crisis of 1997, leading to widespread political change across the region.
Ihr Selbstbewusstsein als Studierender, alte Lerngewohnheiten aus der Schulzeit und Ihre innere Einstellung zum Lernen entscheiden oft mehr über den Erfolg oder Misserfolg im Studium als alle mühsamen Anstrengungen.
This book assesses the many changes that have occurred within the European Parliament and in its external relations since the Lisbon treaty (2009) and the last European elections (2014).
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of traditional as well as newer topics in local public, fiscal and financial management principles and practices.
India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic rule.
This edited volume will take an expansive view of the "e;publicness"e; of both the policies and the effects related to migration, immigration, and refugees.
This book examines the extent to which recent transformations of administrative systems and public management mechanisms in Central European (CE) countries serve the purpose of providing effective and efficient public institutions, high quality of public services, respect for the rule of law, and the citizens' trust in the state.
