Public administration

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them.

This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state.

The COVID-19 pandemic and other highly transmissible diseases outbreaks have given a new significance to the concept of "e;resilience"e;, placing it in the spotlight of built environment-related studies.

A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada.

Local government affects us all.

The political conflict over the city of Jerusalem has resulted in the breach of Palestinian Jerusalemites' civil, political and social rights.

In Northern and Western Europe, and within the EU, governance networks are increasingly conceived as an efficient and legitimate way of formulating and implementing public policy in a complex, differentiated and multilayered world.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Staat, Recht, Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt" verfügbar.

The main objective of this book has been to carry out research into the definition of industrial policy and its goals; to evaluate previously-introduced policies and instruments; and to identify the future challenges for and features of a modern EU industrial policy.

In Zeiten wachsender Herausforderungen stehen kommunale Verwaltungen zunehmend unter Druck, ihre Strukturen und Prozesse zu modernisieren.

Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race.

This book explores recent social policy reforms and innovations in Chile.

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

This book discusses how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is practiced in developed and developing economies.

Despite the unprecedented growth of arbitration and other means of ADR in treaties and transnational contracts in recent years, there remains no clearly defined mechanism for control of the system.

This book mainly introduces the research overview, research results and follow-up prospects of "e;Unconventional Emergency Management Research"e;, a major research plan of National Natural Science Foundation of China (hereinafter referred to as the Plan).

This textbook introduces students to the various arguments for and against the prohibition of recreational drugs.

First published in 1976, From Policy to Administration is not the conventional Festschrift written by many hands on many unrelated subjects- rather it is a tight collection of essays conceived and written around a unified theme.

Characterized by new research, this much-needed investigation into the undeveloped field of the sociology of diplomacy offers important new conclusions and suggestions, as well as many new ideas gained from practical diplomatic experience.

This compilation of articles, papers, excerpts and notes is intended as supplementary reading material for students and scholars of public administration.

Collectively, provincial deputy ministers command the largest assembly of government budgets, employees, and influence in Canada, but despite their importance, they have not been the subject of systematic study until now.

This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process.

Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function.

Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies.

Erweiterungen des Stimmrechts betreffen auch die Frage, wer an der Selbstbestimmung der Gemeinschaft teilnehmen darf.

This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies constitute themselves, using Bangladesh and the Philippines as case studies.

Public administration is the set of instruments - the rules, incentives, organizations, information, systems and people - to implement public policy.

This book studies the role that grassroots volunteers play in the integration and naturalization process in Singapore.

Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice.

A portrait of Washington politics during one of the most turbulent eras in American history by the twentieth century’s premier US government insider.

This book presents a unique analysis of modern Russian provincial society.

Migrant children separated from their parents.

Traditional valuation approaches are increasingly recognised as being insufficient to address the wicked valuation problems of the diverse peoples and groups that inhabit the globe from north, south, east to west.

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.

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives.

Voted one of the Guardian best books of 2014 by Owen Jones.

The ability to create and sustain partnerships is a skill and a strategic capacity that utilizes the strengths and offsets the weaknesses of each actor.

Presenting new theoretical perspective, this book shows how law and politics shape state high court use of Supreme Court precedent.

In the constant battle between human intelligence and machine intelligence, machines are close to surpassing human intelligence.

First published in 1997, this volume approaches the controversial issue of Medicare and its future.

This book presents a collection of original research papers addressing the relationship between information systems (IS) and innovation.

Lobbying is not only the subject of ongoing, heated debates in politics and the public sphere but has also been a focus of the social sciences for decades.

Government and governance will be very different in the future than anticipated by the literature in the field.