Public administration

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Rural Transformation undergoes a metamorphosis after the introduction of new governance at grassroots through the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution of India.

This book attempts to identify some principal dimensions of the process of market and job restructuring by means of case studies of service companies.

The book discusses smart governments and innovation in the public sector.

This book responds to an ever-increasing call from educators, policy makers, journalists, parents and the public at large for analysis that cuts through the hype surrounding the information revolution to address key issues associated with new media in higher education and learning.

In this book the expert international contributors attempt to answer questions such as: How far is it possible to attribute change in contemporary Russia as due to cultural factors?

This book is an examination of the manner in which American presidents respond to pandemics and other public health crises.

A basic feature of the modern US administrative state taken for granted by legal scholars but neglected by political scientists and historians is its strong judiciality.

The ongoing changes in population, climate, and the availability of energy have resulted in unprecedented threats and opportunities that all project and program managers, portfolio managers, and public planners need to be aware of.

If we do stop to think on housing, what do we see?

Commissions of inquiry are a vital and ubiquitous part of the Canadian policy landscape.

This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's analytical perspectives and methodological tools.

Dagmar Liebscher setzt sich mit der Frage der adäquaten Gestaltung der Kostenrechnung unter Beachtung des EU-Beihilferechts im Bereich Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation an Hochschulen auseinander.

Provides an authoritative account of urban land reform in China, which is unique in merging the existing socialist landowner system with market mechanisms.

Designed to serve as a basic text for introductory courses in public administration, this pioneering work provides students with a clear-eyed understanding of the vital management functions covered in most standard textbooks with two important differences.

These two volumes present the most important recent developments in the institutional theory of culture and demonstrate their practical applications.

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 examines the ways in which emergency management organizations make sense and learn from natural disasters.

This new book provides a cross-country comparative analysis of the key issues shaping the latest pension reforms in Europe: political games, welfare models and pathways, population reactions, and observed and expected outcomes.

What Works is a concise methods text that represents a new approach for policy program analysis.

The provision of aid is increasingly under scrutiny with increasing demands for results.

There is no universally accepted definition of moral damages, but the concept is usually understood in the context of torts that cause psychological harm to a person or a person's rights that are difficult to quantify.

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications.

Going beyond electoral politics and government, this volume broadens the scope of the functioning of democracy in India, and explores citizens' role in the implementation of public policy.

This book provides an introduction to Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) for those in the public administration field.

In this book, leading gender scholars survey the contribution of feminist scholarship to new norms and knowledge in diverse areas of political science and related political practice.

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This book examines the controlling influences that drive macroeconomic policies in the United States.

The book presents observations concerning automated decision-making from a general point of view at the same time as it analyses the manner in which praxis in some jurisdictions has evolved as concerns automated decision-making and how the requirements that are placed by the legal orders on it are formulated.

In this ground-breaking book, Jorg Radtke offers for the first time within research, a comprehensive insight into the range of organizational structures of community energy projects in Germany and their contribution to the Energiewende.

This volume contains chapters on a range of topics which include economic methodology in macroeconomics, central bank independence, policy signalling, public policy as second best analysis, the determinants of economic growth, a continuum approach to unemployment policy, and pensions.

The Routledge Handbook of Parliamentary Administrations brings together an international, multidisciplinary group of contributors providing a systematic and comprehensive analysis of parliamentary administrations.

"e;A comprehensive textbook consisting of both historical and contemporary information and data about American public policy.

This book offers a novel explanation of the transformation of London's transport from a free market to a public corporation rooted in social and political legitimacy rather than economic rationality.

The foreign policies of presidents, prime ministers and their foreign secretaries can be influenced by the preferences of domestic and international nongovernmental actors, as well as those of other governments.

Technological innovations across the globe are bringing profound change to our society.

Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education.

This book provides a comparative analysis of Chinese property law as depicted in the newly enacted Chinese Civil Code.

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This book aims to explain the gap between Western theories and the Chinese administration reform experiences.

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As a consultant for healthcare associations working on all the healthcare laws from Medicare, the Health Manpower Act, Budget Reconciliation, Clinton healthcare efforts and the Affordable Healthcare Act, Donald Lavanty had a front-row seat from which to witness the politics and policies motivating each action.

When political parties make policy decisions they are influenced by the competition they face from other parties.

Present Guwahati was the location of many urban settlements in classical and medieval times.