Public administration

Contracting out public sector services and divesting public enterprises are reforms that have enjoyed widespread global popularity in recent years.

Multi-Level Governance (MLG) is a highly influential, supple and ductile framework for interpreting governance in complex polities.

Drawing extensively from real-life cases, Policy Analysis as Problem Solving helps students develop the analytic skills necessary to advise government officials and nonprofit executives on a wide range of policy issues.

This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.

The disputes around fracking, and oil and gas policy, follow a long tradition of complicated intergovernmental relationships.

This book is the first comprehensive international overview of maternity services.

Involving citizens in policy decision-making processes - deliberative democracy - has been a central goal of the Labour government since it came to power in 1997.

Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in contemporary planning and governance.

What has been achieved regarding Turkey's efforts at integration to the EU and what obstacles remain to it achieving full membership?

Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to analyze the role of political parties in public appointments across contemporary Europe.

Chapters How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments & Refugees in Turkey by Elif Durmus and Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From 'Hobby of the Few' to the Few Behind the Hobby by Tihomir Sabchev, Sara Miellet, and Elif Durmus are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

The volume examines how in the twenty-first century narratives built around connectivity have become a structural component of international politics expanding into a wider array of policy fields i It examines the significance of this emerging narrative from an Indian perspective with particular reference to Eurasian alternatives.

In this comprehensive account, Janice Morphet analyses the role and use of outsourcing within the UK public sector since the mid-1970s.

The book provides detailed analysis of the structure and operation of the British Civil Service along with a historically grounded account of its development in the period from Margaret Thatcher to the Tony Blair premiership.

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.

To what extent do courts make social and public policy and influence policy change?

Policy thought integrates the "e;why"e; of political philosophy and the "e;how"e; of public policy formulation.

Despite the centrality of the contributory negligence doctrine in practice, almost nothing is known about how it functions in reality.

While some people profess a disdain for politics, in a democracy politics is the primary vehicle for citizens to influence the decisions and decision makers that shape public policy at every level.

This book explores situations in which public opinion presents itself as an obstacle to the protection and promotion of human rights.

Effective Police Supervision, 9th ed.

Building the 21st Century City through Public-Private Partnerships introduces students and early-career professionals to the fundamentals of this unique form of cross-sector collaboration.

This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital.

First published in 1969, Planning and the Politicians is a collection of essays on political subjects, which ranges from a study of the British House of Commons, through a discussion of decentralization in various countries, to an examination of the problems of economic planning in a 'new' state.

Leading Colombian academics and experienced policy practitioners cast new light on their country in this systematic overview of policy analysis for an international audience.

This book provides an easy, but comprehensive and rigorous access to the main concepts, terminology, methods and procedures of risk analysis intended for all those involved in the EU policy and regulatory decision making on risks.

This collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of Realistic Evaluation, celebrates the work of Professor Nick Tilley and his significant influence on the fields of policing, crime reduction and evaluation.

In der Zusammenarbeit von öffentlicher Verwaltung und Unternehmensberatern prallen nicht selten zwei Welten aufeinander.

This book revises the existing account of the first Rudd Government's engagement with China, placing Australian foreign direct investment screening policy at the centre of the story.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Acts: Annotations and Commentary remains the indispensable guide to the key legislation governing Irish property law, written by the leading authority in this area of law, JCW Wylie.

From the early postwar period until his death at the turn of the century, Dwight Waldo was one of the most authoritative voices in the field of public administration.

The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations.

Expectations for performance management systems continue to grow in the public sector.

The growth of the administrative state and legislative gridlock has placed the White House at the center of environmental policymaking.

This edited volume highlights the latest advances in and findings from research on service automation in public sector organizations.

Problem Solving with the Private Sector presents advice and solutions for fruitful government-business alliances from the perspective of everyday public management.

This book provides original and groundbreaking insights into the development and outcomes of multigenerational workforce strategies in Australian workplaces through the combined lens of age, gender and caring.

This book considers a range of contemporary approaches to public policy studies.

This book represents the first comprehensive study of how technocracy currently challenges representative democracy and asks how technocratic politics undermines democratic legitimacy.

Much of the published work on disaster response has focused on specific disasters, highlighting what went wrong.

This book examines the interconnections between artificial intelligence, data governance and private law rules with a comparative focus on selected jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book provides an in-depth comparative exploration of gender diversity in corporate leadership roles in China and India.

This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary.

This volume proposes a capacity-centered approach for understanding American bureaucracy.