Public administration

This book examines security and defence cooperation between the EU and third countries, in particular the United Kingdom and Norway.

Effective sourcing in the public sector is a collaborative and strategic process that does not end when the contract or purchase order is executed.

This book addresses the need for a comprehensive reappraisal of what it means to be a 'civic university'.

This book looks at the media's coverage of Climate Change and investigates its role in representing the complex realities of climate uncertainties and its effects on communities and the environment.

Managing As Mission pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a nonprofit manager by making the case that managing, as a reflection of the organizational mission - the cornerstone of any nonprofit - can bring about the change nonprofits were created to achieve: a better world for all.

Originally published in 1957, The Unservile State looks at the theme of liberty in the Welfare State.

Although Asia has a long history of governance practices, its modern governance systems have been profoundly influenced by the Western models.

First published in 1984.

Owning a property is a dream for many people, and borrowing from banks is often essential to achieve this.

In almost every liberal democratic society, an issue that is a topic of constant and passionate public discussion is how much that country's ministers, legislators, senior civil servants, and senior judges should be paid.

As the public sector in Germany will likely increasingly face staffing problems in the coming years, this book approaches the topic of employer attractiveness within the German public sector from an internal perspective, focusing on current employees' turnover intentions.

This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era.

Costly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, detailing how the state inflated the profitability of the tar sands and turned a blind eye to environmental issues.

In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system.

This book explores and analyzes gender mainstreaming in South Asia.

This edited volume explores the state of inclusive governance in South Asia.

This book presents the foundations for the future of tourism in a structured and detailed format.

This book addresses governing by numbers and human capital policy in higher education by asking how higher education is quantified, how the quantitative information is used in educational governance, and how the information is perceived by students, teachers, managers, and policymakers, and affects decision-making.

Examines the positive linkage between intellectual property and competition in jurisdictions around the world, surveying developments from a comparative perspective.

This book discusses the trajectories of creating specialized autonomous units.

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.

Intended for both students and practitioners in public administration who want to communicate more effectively with a variety of audiences, this book offers clear, easy-to-understand guidelines on how to write more clearly, concisely, and coherently, as well as correctly.

How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape.

The purpose of this book is to formulate economic models of the advantages and costs of transparency in various areas of public sector activity and to assess what level of obfuscation in politics is rational.

Entscheidungen in Polizei, Politik und Verwaltung sollen adäquat theoretisch fundiert sein und auf einer soliden empirischen Basis gründen.

A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationThe war on terrorism has raised profound questions of domestic governance not primarily about power or policy, but about the capacities of government agencies, their personnel, procedures, work habits and styles, and ability to interface with each other.

Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world.

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Walls play multiple social, political, economic and cultural roles and are linked to the fundamental question of how human beings live together.

In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system.

This book offers essential insights into how the world's second largest industry, tourism, is responding to challenges involved in expanding the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept to corporate sustainability and responsibility, referred to as CSR 2.

How does the ideal state look like?

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.

Explore the Important Role that the Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Plays within a Broader Environmental ContextFocused on the information semantics of land use and land cover (LULC) and providing a platform for reassessing this field, Land Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects presents a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and best practices for applying semantics in LULC.

What is the relationship between the financial system and politics?

This Brief provides a cutting-edge evaluation of the application of digital technologies to tackle the informal economy.

Caring for Liberalism brings together chapters that explore how liberal political theory, in its many guises, might be modified or transformed to take the fact of dependency on board.

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.

This book offers faculty teaching in public administration and public affairs programs a playbook for using popular culture as a pedagogical tool in the classroom.