Public administration

Title first published in 2003.

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare state studies.

Despite substantial economic growth, India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world's stunted children.

This book provides a new perspective on behavioral public policy.

This book is the first to systematically map the last step of the foreign investor's journey, usually referred to as post-investment, aftercare or business retention and expansion.

This book examines trends and challenges in research on IT governance in public organizations, reporting innovative research and new insights in the theories, models and practices within the area.

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the distribution of funds by the National Program for Local Development (PNDL), Romania's largest state funded budget program.

The revolution in public management has led many reformers to call for public managers to reinvent themselves as public entrepreneurs.

This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today's society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations.

This book explains the development of the Conservative Party's immigration policy during the seven decades since 1945, up to today.

This book explores the traces of the passage of time on the protracted and intractable conflict of Western Sahara.

In recent decades, claims have increasingly been made on transnational corporations to take responsibility for the promotion and protection of human and labour rights in countries where they operate.

This book demonstrates falsified economic performance of global economies when the environment is not recognised as a capital, and when the ecosystem is overlooked towards sustainable development.

This volume constitutes a first approximation for the use of systems approaches and dynamic performance management as tools for collaborative governance.

Both the exponents and critics of neoliberalism assert the dominance of market forces in western nations.

Within the public sector, strategies are not designed to influence markets, but instead to guide operations within a complex environment of multilateral power, influence, bargaining, and voting.

This collection of essays, from leading economic experts on the UK labour market, provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market, and the policy issues surrounding it, with a focus on the recent recession and its aftermath.

Public Administration and Law has been edited for use as a supplement for an undergraduate or MPA level course on administrative law.

With the advance of an increasingly globalized market, the opportunities for, and scale of, corruption is growing.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics.

Policy analysis is a dynamic process of discovery rather than a passive exercise of memorizing facts and conclusions.

This book of critical essays explores new thinking and new evidence on the role of locally-elected representatives in Western democracies.

Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia.

This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios.

Domenica Preysing offers a critical reading of transitional justice that focuses on political dynamics in post-revolutionaryTunisia, from the ouster of president Ben Ali in January 2011 until theadoption of transitional justice bill in December 2013.

This book could be aptly entitled After Marriage What Is Next for the LGBT Community?

In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

This book offers a political analysis and sociological critique of the UK government's response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, interpreting the inadequacies of government policy with regard to COVID-19 as the results of neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism based on international trade and labour market precarity.

This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective.

Where do Canadian content requirements come from?

China's rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress passed and the President signed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act into law, with the primary goal of strengthening the security of the nation's civil aviation system.

Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector brings together scholars and experienced practitioners from different countries to investigate the relationship between regulation and relational governance for the third sector in a comparative context.

This book examines critically how the Chinese government has proactively engaged the nine cities and two special administrative regions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in Southern China for deeper collaborations in order to transform the country from the "e;World Factory"e; to become a leading world economy in innovation and entrepreneurialism.

This book explores categories of applications and driving factors surrounding the Smart City phenomenon.

The United Nations included sustainable cities and communities in its 2030 SDGs.

Contract management is a critical skill for all contemporary public managers.

This book contains another set of essays dealing with the fundamental economic problems of our time: inequality, environment degradation, and social disorder, which are analyzed in light of the unified theory of capitalism.

This study presents, for the first time, a synoptic picture of the future directions in which public policy in EU countries is likely to move based on using contemporary theories of policy-making to deduce the implications for public policy of major long-term technological, economic, environmental and social trends.

By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public health, this book attempts to connect recent research with policy developments in the Chinese health-care system.

"e;This is a very rich monograph, based on impressive fieldwork in China, which demonstrates excellent qualitative and ethnographic research skills, research integrity, and cultural perceptiveness in the analysis.

The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile, post-conflict environments.

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