Public administration

This poignant book examines poverty, wealth and inequality in the UK, and provides insight into its history, its present-day forms and possible routes to its eradication.

Designed as a comprehensive overview of public sector compensation, the book addresses strategies for change, with the author warning that failure of the profession to address this issue will ultimately lead to citizens taking matters in their own hands.

In today's complex educational environment, it's critical for educators to understand the policy landscape.

Im Geflecht des nationalsozialistischen Staates wurden die Stadtverwaltung Mülheim an der Ruhr und ihre Bediensteten bisher wenig thematisiert.

This book discusses parliamentary oversight and its role in curbing corruption in developing countries.

This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014.

The decades after 1800 saw a fundamental redefinition of the role of the state in Ireland.

Politik und Verwaltung sollen öffentliche Unternehmen zielgerichtet, am besten "strategisch", steuern und kontrollieren.

This book provides an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up-to-date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications of intellectual capital.

War and conflict are a reality of life throughout the world.

This book presents the raging debate on one of the most brutal political realities that India has confronted in recent years: the rising conflict between Maoist insurgent groups and the Indian State.

This book applies various theoretical tools to explore the advantages and disadvantages of performance management systems, the ways in which they can be improved, and the strategies through which they can be designed and integrated into the policy making process.

No 24Les débats autour de la centralisation et de la décentralisation ont été très répandus depuis le début des années 1980.

Building on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Interactive Political Leadership develops a concept of interactive political leadership and a theoretical framework for studying the role of elected politicians in the age of governance.

SYSTEM FAILURE provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justice-involved youth in regular public schools, juvenile court schools, probation settings, and alternative schools.

Since the 1990s, government at all levels is under increasing pressure to do more with less.

As a consultant for healthcare associations working on all the healthcare laws from Medicare, the Health Manpower Act, Budget Reconciliation, Clinton healthcare efforts and the Affordable Healthcare Act, Donald Lavanty had a front-row seat from which to witness the politics and policies motivating each action.

This book summarises the latest findings of Australian and international crime prevention researchers and suggests how future policies based upon their evidence could and should be better shaped and employed by policymakers.

In this groundbreaking study, Linda Cusworth explores the impact of parental employment or unemployment on the educational and emotional well-being of their children.

After the conflagration of Tito's Yugoslavia a medley of new and not-so-new states rose from the ashes.

This title was first published in 2002.

This book consists of a single essay that speculates on the question what is housing?

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 book explores key issues on the relational and operational dimension of the professional actions aimed at ensuring the well-being and inclusion of migrants in the reception system.

This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphasizes the role played by private property rights.

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was initially intended to create 'a ring of friends surrounding the Union, from Morocco to Russia and the Black Sea' (Prodi, 2002).

In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word experts from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts many failures and misdeeds.

Combining normative analysis and theory-driven empirical research in a comparative framework, this volume clarifies and explains the connections between regional international governance, legitimacy and democracy.

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard them but themselves.

The International Conference on Research of Educational Administration and Management (ICREAM) held on October 17, 2017 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

In Spain, as in most countries, the real obstacle to effective and efficient delivery of key infrastructure is not the availability of finance, but rather problems of governance.

This book considers the status of the Greek economy and desirable economic policy for the coming decade, in the light of EC directives and 1992.

Examining various methods of debt management used in the US.

Das Standardwerk bietet einen breiten empirischen Überblick über die Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse in Deutschland und die zentralen sozialen Problemlagen.

Why and how did South Korea become the world's top digital government leader?

This book presents in detail the negotiations on the budget of the European Union, which take place every seven years, and discusses the central elements of this European budgetary system.

This book argues that bureaucracies can contribute to stability and economic development, if they are insulated from unstable democratic politics.

This book analyzes e-participation in smart cities.

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Find an interdiscliplinary view of sustainable agriculture that emphasizes the potential contributions of ecology to agricultural sustainability in this groundbreaking book.

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The Risk of Social Policy?

The first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each written in an accessible and lively manner specifically for this volume.