Public administration

Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book.

'Fascinating' Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times'It's a fascinating book.

Explores the proper place that patriotism can have in a liberal, multicultural society.

This book critically examines 'smart city' discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the 'citizen' as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to urban problems.

The obesity epidemic reflects a failure to understand how meals are chosen.

This book fills a gap in the literature on the Precautionary Principle by placing the principle within the wider context of precautionary reasoning and uses philosophical arguments and case studies to demonstrate when it does-and does not-apply.

Governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but what they''re bargaining over shapes their strategy and effectiveness.

Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries.

Although the subject of "e;leadership"e; is a hot topic, it has never attracted much attention in the public sector.

Public Management: A Research Overview provides a structured survey of the state of the art of public management research.

Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear.

Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the spatial distribution of General Practitioners (GPs) via the Designated Area Allowance (DAA) which was introduced in England amid controversy in 1966.

Drawing on field-based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana, this book examines whether and how democratic decentralization and local governance reforms in developing countries have produced the anticipated development outcomes.

The rule of law paradigm has long operated on the premise that independent judges disregard extralegal influences and impartially uphold the law.

We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political discourse and as a set of international legal norms.

Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time.

Against the background of unease at the increasingly loose and conflictual relationship between citizenship and governance, this book brings together rich, ethnographic studies from EU member states and post-Communist and Middle-Eastern countries in the Mediterranean Region to illustrate the crisis of legitimacy inherent in the weakening link between political responsibility and trust in the exercise of power.

Fight rural poverty through the creation of significant policy mechanisms, microenterprises, and employment programsThe majority of the world's poor live in Asia, and most of these live in rural areas.

This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust.

Examines the demographic shifts in the Middle East and North Africa, placing them in their social, political and economic contexts.

This proceedings volume contains papers accepted by the 2022 International Conference on Business and Policy Studies (CONF-BPS 2022), which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editorial team of the conference.

Around the world, citizens in local communities are utilising ICTs to underpin the creation of a participatory and democratic vision of the network society.

As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly.

In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency.

This book examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the degree of inequality in wellbeing (income and wealth, health, access to health care, employment, and education) in a number of different countries around the globe.

US Environmental Policy: A Practical Approach to Understanding Implementation provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in an era of congressional gridlock.

Governing the Embedded State integrates governance theory with organization theory and examines how states address social complexity and international embeddedness.

The authors suggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success 'at a price we cannot afford'.

In recent decades, governments have promoted social enterprise as a means to address welfare and tackle disadvantage.

Given its geographical expanse, Canada has always faced long-term transport policy issues and challenges.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship.

Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each.

Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors; academics and policy makers.

Capitalist societies need to undergo major change to provide for the material needs of all the people who work within the system, not just the 1 percent.

This wide-ranging text analyses the key developments and changes in the management of the major public services in Britain during the 1990s.

Microsimulation as a modelling tool in social sciences has increased in importance over the last few decades.

This Element explores the relationship between political competition and resource use, an essential part of the study of public policy.

This book shows the most recent changes in China's land policy and the progress in land policy studies in terms of theory and cases.

This book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St.

Les administrations publiques du Québec et de ses municipalités, de même que celles du Canada, ont fait l’objet de nombreux scandales politico- administratifs depuis la fin des années 1990.

This book defines organizational development (OD) and discusses the philosophy of OD in terms of its assumptions and values.

The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic.