Public administration

This book offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy.

This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change.

Territory and scale have been some of the most relevant topics in recent political science, but do we know enough about cooperation between local governments?

This book takes an in-depth look at the enormous challenges facing UK public services and considers what might be done to resolve them.

The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information.

Modernising School Governance examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system.

This book examines the concept and public service value of social equity in public administration research and practice outside of the Western context, considering the influence that historical, cultural, and social trends of Asian and Pacific societies may have on how social equity is conceptualized and realized in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book examines budgeting by analyzing the local government budget as a complex system, thus adding a new dimension to traditional budget textbooks.

GIS projects have previously been viewed primarily as technical exercises but it is now evident that the success of GIS projects depends as much upon organisational issues as upon technicalities.

Combining practical experience with academic analysis this book explores the social and organizational dynamics of performance indicators.

Drawing on a wide range of up-to-date research, Employment Relations under Coalition Government critically examines developments in UK employment relations during the period of Conservative-Liberal Democrat government between 2010 and 2015, against the background of the 2007-08 financial crisis, subsequent economic recession and in the context of the primacy accorded to neo-liberal austerity.

These essays focus on the intellectual and philosophical roots of religious liberty and the confrontations with the authority of secular law.

The world's governing structures are higgledy-piggledy: disorderly, heads and tails in any or every direction.

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This book examines China's remarkable success in reducing poverty the largest and most significant effort of poverty alleviation in human history.

The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and, specifically, of the politics of aggressive spatial containment and regularization of urbanity employed within the conflict in Israel/Palestine.

Assessing the consequences of Brexit on EU policies, institutions and members, this book discusses the significance of differentiation for the future of European integration.

In the West, innovations in new public management (NPM) have been regarded as part of the neoliberal project, whilst in China, these reforms have emerged from a very different economic and social landscape.

As in previous editions, this highly practical book is written with beginning MPA students and practitioners in mind.

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.

An insider account that encapsulates thirty years of experience in conducting data science in a political context.

New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India offers an analysis of India's welfare policy during the last couple of decades.

"e;This study probes deeply into the dynamics of the blame games that seem now to have become an inevitable part of advanced societies' responses to negative events.

This book explores how the fragile and lengthy process of developing a city brand can be carefully managed.

Health Disparities, Disasters, and Crises: Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness presents a roadmap to help guide the actions needed to address health disparities introduced as part of the pre-planning, planning, and mitigation phases of natural and technological disasters.

Assesses the achievements of world societies, the trends and dangers, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century.

This book reviews and analyses the comprehensive socioeconomic reforms undertaken in Uzbekistan since 2016 by the government led by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage.

The 2009 European sovereign debt crisis and the EU's policy response to it have prompted scholars to re-think whether diverse national models of capitalism can thrive within the European Union (EU).

La entrada en vigor de la Constitución española de 1978 inauguró -se ha dicho con frecuencia- un nuevo método para la construcción sistemática del Derecho administrativo.

In this work, Bridgette Wessels offers a unique insight into the ways in which core public institutions and powerful organizations develop digital communications and services within the public realm.

The book is devoted to the subject of Venezuela's politics and the different dimensions of its longstanding crisis, with various researchers exchanging ideas on the current problems affecting the country.

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.

In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "e;taxpayer citizenship--the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education.

The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together.

The purpose of the book is to elaborate a planning theory which departs from the plethora of theories which reflect the conditions of developed countries of the North-West.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

While the idea of immigration embodies America's rhetorical commitment to democracy, recent immigration control policies also showcase abysmal failures in democratic practice.

Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades.

This volume develops a theoretical and critical foundation for understanding "e;maladministration"e;-the phenomena of harmful administrative and organisational behaviours in educational systems.

The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic.

In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass.

Postcolonial African migration to the West is not only a spatial movement in search of material and physical security but also an expression of the mimetic desire for being by imitating the West or "e;whitening"e; oneself against the background of the dehumanizing historical legacies of slavery, colonialism, and Western dominance.

This book argues that the combination of a growing middle class and intense political competition leads local politicians to opt out of clientelism.