Public administration

Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development.

Governance is becoming increasingly important in universities just as it is in the wider world of commerce and banking.

This book discusses homelessness policy in the UK from 1945 to 2019.

An unprecedented number of people is currently on the move seeking refuge in Europe.

This book examines how fiscal policy and management can promote gender equality in developing as well as developed countries.

Success and failure are key to any consideration of public policy but there have been remarkably few attempts to assess systematically the various dimensions and complex nature of policy success.

This book studies how Development-Induced Displacement (DID) radically restructures gender relations in indigenous tribal societies.

The last decade has witnessed a transformation in the organization and management of primary care.

Evaluation in the Post-Truth World explores the relationship between the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation and other forms of research evidence, and the post-truth phenomena of antiscience sentiments combined with illiberal tendencies of the present day.

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning provides an essential, global, and timely overview of current realities, as well as anticipating the trajectory and evolution of campaigning in the coming years.

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

This book examines the current state of, and emerging issues in relation to, the Torrens and other systems of land registration, and the process of automation of land registration systems in jurisdictions where this is occurring worldwide.

In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "e;welfare-to-work"e; or "e;workfare"e;.

A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer.

After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice by America and its allies, the Taliban still has not been defeated, and many Afghans believe that a civil war is coming.

An important 2006 contribution to the debate about how to improve the performance of public organizations.

This book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the Internet in Russia and its impact on various aspects of social life.

The 5th World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research (GeNeDis 2022) focuses on the latest major challenges in scientific research, new drug targets, the development of novel biomarkers, new imaging techniques, novel protocols for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, and several other scientific advances, with the aim of better, safer, and healthier aging.

Title first published in 2003.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level.

This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements.

In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society.

This book analyses and evaluates the accomplishments, challenges, and approaches associated with the New Public Management (NPM) in Africa towards establishing context-specific interventions for public sector institutions' performance.

This book provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming as one of the major contemporary trends in immigrant integration governance in Europe.

This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely economic, institutional, and political constraints on the reform process.

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions.

This book focuses on the policy capacities, built up since the 2003 SARS crisis, that have contributed to Singapore's Covid-19 response efforts.

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.

The key difference between success and failure for most governance systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges that constrain adaptation.

This book explores the changing landscapes of the commercialisation of medical care in China.

By moving beyond consideration of the welfare legislation enacted in the 1940s, this book explains how government aid was actually provided in the new British welfare state created just after World War II.

This anthology, Defining Public Administration, is designed to assist beginning and intermediate level students of public policy, and to stir the imaginations of readers concerned with public policy and administration.

Welfare state governance is about tackling social issues, empowering citizens, and adding societal value.

In recent decades, claims have increasingly been made on transnational corporations to take responsibility for the promotion and protection of human and labour rights in countries where they operate.

This book introduces South Korea's public diplomacy and identifies and evaluates the goals and corresponding areas of.

Income inequality has skyrocketed in Canada over the past few decades.

Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana.

First published in 1997, this book provides an assessment of the main issues and deliberations of the Wilton Park Conference, based largely on the theme of standards in public life and consideration of measures which may be taken to allay public concern of their erosion.

Die Qualität von politischen Entscheidungen und Verwaltungshandeln hängt maßgeblich davon ab, inwieweit die Akteure in der Lage sind, sich Wissen strategisch zu erschließen und zu nutzen.

This book covers game-theoretic approaches to analyzing policies for environmental regulation in the power sector.

Managing Public and Nonprofit Organizations approaches public management learning in a unique way, examining more than 100 high-profile and little-known administrative failure and success stories to explore how failures happen, how they can be prevented, and how to replicate successes in other jurisdictions.

This book argues that neoliberal changes in health and social care go beyond resource allocations, priority setting and privatisation, and manifest in an invidious erosion of the quality of our social relationships, including relationships between care provider and care recipient.

Political scientists have always accorded interest organizations a prominent place in European Union (EU) policy-making because they connect the EU institutions to citizens, provide important information to EU policy-makers, and control resources that impact on the problem-solving capacity of EU policies.