Public administration

This title was first published in 2003.

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, the forces of globalisation continue to transform both the spaces around international borders, and the social processes, cultural practices, economies, and political dynamics within and between these spaces.

Das Handbuch  untersucht interdisziplinär einen Schlüsselbegriff der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

This book offers a lucid and comprehensive account of the contributions of eminent theorists to the study of public administration and management.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive guide to involving patients in health technology assessment (HTA).

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach for studying housing and ageing issues and relevant policy analysis in China, and beyond.

This book adopts the multidimensional nature of innovation as its point of focus and offers a comprehensive analysis of contemporary governance issues in Bangladesh.

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Conventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax.

In Italy, the debate about the reform process, that has involved the water sector for several years, cannot be considered concluded.

Originally published in 1976, Welfare State and Welfare Society breaks away from the prevailing notion that the welfare state is mainly concerned with the well-being of the entire nation.

This book is a college-level introductory textbook in Christian ethics.

In rebuilding conflict-affected states, a major portion of foreign aid focuses on reforming public finance management systems and supporting annual budgets.

This edited volume discusses the resilience of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book furthers the ongoing theoretical development of the multiple streams framework, assessing its applicability to European Union (EU) policy-making processes.

This book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany.

Succession, Wills and Probate is an ideal textbook for those taking an undergraduate course in this surprisingly vibrant subject, and also provides a clear and comprehensive introduction for professionals.

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system.

The Dictionary of Public Policy and Administration offers definitions of all the key terms, concepts, processes and practices of contemporary public policy and administration.

Can Italy and Germany thrive within the confines of the common currency, or do they display two fundamentally incompatible models?

This book examines the historical and current state of health and the health of the African people, including the Arab North, impacted by such factors as geography and natural elements, cultural and colonial traditions, and competing biomedical and traditional systems.

After a century in which charities suspected the motives of cynical business people, and business people dismissed the contributions of amateur volunteers, the two sectors are coming together today as never before.

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.

Over the last thirty years Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been used to deliver transport capital projects and services.

This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia.

This book analyzes various important aspects of methodology and substance regarding economic, social, and political policy in Latin America directed toward achieving more effective, efficient, and equitable societal institutions.

This collection provides a balanced evaluation of multi-level governance.

Governments of Western Europe, Government in France: An Introduction to the Executive Power focuses on the affairs of the government of France.

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion, as such practices can favor certain values over others.

This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa.

This book serves as a comprehensive and insightful guide to the strategies and mechanisms that underpin effective climate governance on a global scale.

The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management.

Outlining the origins, motivations, strategies, implementations, and effectiveness of reform policies and programs, Handbook of Public Management Practice and Reform examines changes and challenges in major areas of public administration, including budgeting, finance, human resources, and organizational management, reviews the lessons of reform, and addresses new ideas and emerging issues.

Adopting a comparative, empirical research strategy, this book examines the government ethics rules and their enforcement in China.

EU Cohesion policy accounts for a major share of the EU budget and is central to economic and social development in many European countries.

A productive society is dependent upon high-performing government.

The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society.

Quality public education, modern highway systems, and reasonably priced housing-these are just some of the qualities that once made California one of the most desirable places to live.

The growing need for a concise and comprehensive overview of the world of interest groups, lobbying, and public affairs called for a compendium of existing research, key theories, concepts, and case studies.

Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems.

Written by experts from all over Europe, this book provides an overview of issues and developments in European local government and in-depth analysis of its changing status, functions, management and control in each of the main countries.

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.

Covering the period from Ted Heath's assumption of the leadership of the Conservative Party through to the early years of the Coalition, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the Tory Party's Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Policy-Making over the past 50 years providing an historical context for the political and economic events of today.

This book is the result of an objective analysis based on quantitative research of the situation of openness of government affairs in China in 2019.

This book seeks to explain decisions in the European Union using a revised neofunctionalist framework.