Public administration

This book examines the nexus of collective intelligence (CI), a feature of online projects in which various types of communities solve problems intelligently, and open policymaking, as a trend of large groups of people shaping public policies.

India Migration Report 2022 is one of the first volumes to focus comprehensively on Indian health professionals' migration.

This is the first book that analyzes public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure development in developing countries by focusing on recent developments in the Philippines.

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west.

Administering Elections provides a digest of contemporary American election administration using a systems perspective.

Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially situated.

The rise of populism across Europe and the US - first in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and then in the shape of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Brexit vote in 2016 - are indicative of a seismic shift in the terrain of economic ideas in public discourse.

This book examines the political economy of devolution in Britain from the postwar period to the present.

This book concentrates on a transportation planning process, and focuses on transportation problems.

Our understanding of hazards and disasters is rapidly changing, and it is unclear as to whether our existing management systems are adequate to adapt to current and future disasters.

This timely monograph focuses on India and Brazil's use of compulsory licensing, one of the most significant and controversial TRIPS flexibilities.

The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia.

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

Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

Examines California''s first use of the ''top-two'' primary system in 2012 from a variety of perspectives, using several different methodologies.

Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are now becoming commonplace in Europe, Asia and America but questions as to how much they hinder a party's organizational strength and cohesion or affect electoral performance have largely been ignored outside of the USA.

Students of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit management require a strong foundation in how government and NGOs are connected with information technology.

Panchayati Raj is a system of governance in which gram panchayats are the basic units of administration.

This book draws on examples from cannabis policy discourse and elsewhere to illustrate how individuals come to subscribe to a particular policy narrative; how policy narratives evolve; how narratives are employed in public policy discourse to compete with other narratives; and how, on implementation, the winning narrative is performed and subsequently institutionalized.

The second edition of the Handbook of Organizational Consultation includes more than 35 additional chapters and an expanded list of international contributors.

This innovative and thought-provoking study puts forth a compelling analysis of the constitutive nexus at the heart of the European refugee conundrum.

This book features a lively debate between two prominent scholars-Michael A.

This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics.

This book examines the development of internet policymaking over the last forty years.

This book analyzes cyberdefense from a novel and interdisciplinary perspective, offering solutions for problems that have long impeded a more efficient defense.

Land represents an important resource for the economic life of a majority of people in the world.

The central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in the age of the declining population and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the affected regions in Japan.

This textbook reviews and systematically presents the use of the Internet in public administration and politics.

This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science.

This book describes how governments formulate policies, draft legislation, and manage stocks of legislation and how approaches to these tasks are converging.

Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade.

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

This book looks at police reform in Canada, arguing that no significant and sustainable reform can occur until steps are taken to answer the question of 'What exactly do we want police to do?

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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.

Governments these days often boast about the efficiency of their electronic systems.

Performance management can be an uncomfortable topic within the discipline of public health.

Local Governments' Financial Vulnerability presents a conceptual framework developed to examine how vulnerable local finances were before and in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis by mapping and systematising its dimensions and sources.

In an effort to provide greater awareness of the necessary policy decisions facing our elected and appointed officials, Energy Policy in the U.

Originally published in 1976, Lieberthal collated notes from Central Party, government and military meetings on a national level in China between 1949 and 1975 to create this guide to Chinese policymaking.

Now in its third edition, Disaster Recovery continues to serve as the most comprehensive book of its kind and will span the core areas that recovery managers and voluntary organizations must tackle after a disaster.

This book focuses on neuroethics in higher education in the United States.