Public administration

The Community Justice Liaison Unit was established under Papua New Guinea's (PNG) law and justice sector program, with the support of the Australian government, to enhance the capacity of PNG's civil society and facilitate its involvement in policy development and delivery of services in the justice sector.

The Third Plenum of the 18 th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in November reinforced the importance of public finance reform.

Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers.

Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question in recent years by the financial and banking crises of 2008, the authors specifically seek to investigate current public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the heart of best practice.

Multi-Level Governance (MLG) is a highly influential, supple and ductile framework for interpreting governance in complex polities.

This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers.

Government at a Glance provides readers with a dashboard of key indicators assembled with the goal of contributing to the analysis and international comparison of public sector performance.

The role of public administration and social justice is an area long overlooked in Ireland and more broadly in Europe, though it is somewhat more developed in the USA.

Good governance is a prerequisite to development, improving the quality of life, and health and ensuring equity.

Good governance is a prerequisite to development, improving the quality of life, and health and ensuring equity.

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues.

With considerable turmoil in international trade and logistics it is more important than ever to understand trade and customs issues and their impact on logistics operations.

The book provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between education, sustainable development, and nation-building from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This volume is on the impact and influence of social movements Civil Society Organisations in India on the Indian Public Administration.

This book studies the variety of organizational strategies selected to cope with critical uncertainties during crises.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

The role of public administration and social justice is an area long overlooked in Ireland and more broadly in Europe, though it is somewhat more developed in the USA.

John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason.

One of the most profound changes in British public life over the last twenty years has been the increasing concern with probity and standards.

Public administration is a feature of all nations, whatever their system of government.

This book is the sequel to a well-received book titled 'Integrated Approaches to Peace and Sustainability' that aims to further advance the understanding of the dynamic interactions between various components of peace and sustainability.

The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government.

This handbook presents a comprehensive view of the current theory and research surrounding political elites, which is now a pivotal subject for academic study and public discourse.

The fully revised second edition of this textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to theories of public policy and policymaking.

This book investigates the role and effectiveness of strategic management within public governance in Europe.

This book explores the political integration of Muslims and Islam across contemporary democracies.

This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change.

This book examines the development and implementation of the EU's legislative framework on the commercial release of GMO products as a case study of social regulation operating within a predominantly technical framework.

This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making.

This book examines the impact and implications of the declaration of human right to water and sanitation access for human security in Central Asia.

The world-scale expansion of markets and market relations ranks among the most transformative developments of our times.

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

The unconditional basic income (UBI) has attracted renewed attention in academia, as well as in public discussions in recent years, and much has been written on the possible consequences of a UBI.

"e;This book is essential reading for researchers of tobacco policy change.

This book discusses blockchain technology and its potential applications in digital government and the public sector.

Encouraging more - and different - people to attend the arts remains a vital issue for the cultural sector.

This book discusses digital risk governance in a global context and provides practical solutions for sound digital policy.

At a moment when both think tanks and experts are being questioned, significant policy and technology disruptions have called into question the value and efficacy of policy advice.

This book explores the ways in which different generations think about how the welfare state is organised at present, and how it will be organised in future.

This book covers topics such as digitalization of production, operations, logistics and supply chains leading to new requirements for human capabilities and collaboration.

This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the expected impact of enacted policies.

This edited volume provides a variety of insights into the context in which ocean and wetlands policy is placed at the sub-continental level.

This book is driven by the question: what role is played by the local security research community in Kosovo's internationally-led Security Sector Reform?

This book presents both a survey of and commentary upon the penal process of England and Wales between 1945 and 2020 from the primary perspective of prisons and their operational management.

This book provides climate students with the basic scientific background to climate change management.

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context.

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.

This book focuses on Africa's challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978.