Public administration

In 1989, Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term "e;intersectionality"e; to describe the interdependent and overlapping systems of discrimination and disadvantage that result from the interconnected nature of social categorizations.

The idea of policy is ripe for critical reappraisal.

This book focuses on the international financial problems of developing countries and the ways in which international financial policy might be used to alleviate them.

The Politics of Evidence Based Policymaking identifies how to work with policymakers to maximize the use of scientific evidence.

Identities on the Move interrogates the categories given and adopted by people on the move through a transdisciplinary and global approach that includes social and political sciences and the arts.

This book mainly summarizes and analyzes the advanced research progress in the field of behavioral public administration, and also looks forward to the future of related academic research.

There is a widely acknowledged evaluation gap in the field of e-participation practice and research, a lack of systematic evaluation with regard to process organization, outcome and impacts.

The Shield of Nationality examines multinational corporations'' relations with governments in developing countries and why governments can sometimes expropriate foreign-owned property.

Performance accountability has been the dominant trend in education policy reform since the 1970s.

This book examines the introduction and ongoing development of public medical care insurance in contemporary China.

Intergovernmental agreements are an important instrument in federal systems, establishing new social programs, regulating agricultural practices, and even changing constitutions.

This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch.

This Palgrave Policy Essential maps and assesses key changes in the Whitehall model over the last two decades.

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

The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government.

Das Buch zeichnet aktuelle Entwicklungen der digitalen Transformation in der Verwaltung im Schweizer Kontext nach.

This book is primarily based on data from the third analysis of domestic energy consumption, and it combines the conclusive summarizes from the previous two investigations.

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.

Technologies and tech companies are routinely accused of creating many societal problems.

Every year the EU Commission issues thousands of rules based on powers delegated by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament.

The OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises have provided an internationally agreed benchmark to help governments assess and improve the way they exercise their ownership functions since 2005.

The soils of our planet in enabling and sustaining plant growth provide the basis of human existence, as about 98 % of all foodstuff is primarily produced by t- restrial ecosystems.

Using theoretical frameworks to explore the political, organizational, and cultural dynamics of performance budgeting, this book examines the adoption of performance budgeting in a variety of countries, how it has been implemented, and why it succeeded or failed.

Praise for the Fifth Edition of The Responsible Administrator "e;Cooper's fifth edition is the definitive text for students and practitioners who want to have a successful administrative career.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value.

The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science.

The role of public administration and social justice is an area long overlooked in Ireland and more broadly in Europe, though it is somewhat more developed in the USA.

With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war.

Cities are possibly the most dynamic and important administrative units today.

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.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the methods used in the Criminal Justice system in the United States to counsel and treat offenders.

This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and approaches from anthropology, linguistics, economics, political science, and education to create an accessible and inter-disciplinary overview of LPP as a coherent discipline.

When science changes, how does public policy respond?

Digital media and online social networking applications have changed the way in which dissent is organized with social movement leaders using online applications and digital content systems to organize collective action, activate local protest groups, network with international social movements and share their political perspectives.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of public administration in Finland.

Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practitioners who work in public and nonprofit organizations.

Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other.

This book uses cutting-edge methods, such as big data mining methods on social media, generalized difference in difference, inoperational input-output models, improved data envelopment analysis, improved computable general equilibrium and others to calculate the economic impacts of climate and environmental disasters on China.

Policing in an Age of Austerity uniquely examines the effects on one key public service: the state police of England and Wales.

No longer only the domain of corporate public relations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has now become a serious concern for many firms and a major sphere of academic research.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and efforts to protect the United States from international terrorism.

Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020-21.

The concerns of public relations operate both ways between the subject entity, which may be thought of as the client, and the publics involved.

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model.

Democracy and Civil Society in a Global Era addresses challenges to the strengthening of active citizenship.