Public administration

The book provides detailed analysis of the structure and operation of the British Civil Service along with a historically grounded account of its development in the period from Margaret Thatcher to the Tony Blair premiership.

This volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South.

This book analyses the role of public sector accounting, and the relevance of accounting frameworks, in assisting financially sustainable policy making.

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time.

This handbook is the definitive resource for understanding current mental health policy controversies, options, and implementation strategies.

This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector.

This book primarily addresses various game theory phenomena in the context of management practice.

This book explains how to bring about institutional change and foster new institutional structures (institution building) by resolving power inequities in a rural ecosystem in India, and advocates the identification of an appropriate institutional champion to make this happen.

This book offers deep insights into the functioning of humanitarian organizations (HOs) from a managerial perspective.

This book assesses China's reputation as a global clean energy champion, and applies institutional and public policy theories to explain how the country has achieved so much and why there continue to be so many unintended consequences and constraints to progress.

This edited volume focuses on the links between the ongoing crisis in and around Ukraine, regional diversity, and the reform of decentralization.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse and multi-faceted research on governance in multilevel systems.

This book explores a new model for addressing the central issue of environmental and other collective actions.

This book focuses on human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement, particularly as it is expressed in Southeast Asia.

Steuerehrlichkeit ist für viele Steuerpflichtige eine Gratwanderung zwischen Aufrichtigkeit und empfundener Ungerechtigkeit, mithin ein soziales Dilemma.

This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2017, both in itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality and regional coordination.

This book explores the effects of product market and labour market reforms on firms, labour institutions and labour rights in the economic and industrial relations system in India.

This book explains how and why the New Labour governments transformed Britain's immigration system from a highly restrictive regime to one of the most expansive in Europe, otherwise known as the Managed Migration policy.

This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption.

This book focuses on the methodology of research on historical memory and contributes to theoretical discussions concerning the use of historical memory as a variable to explain political action and social movement.

This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory.

This book provides a critical realist analysis of Turkish foreign policy (TFP), covering various periods from the Turkish National Struggle to the contemporary Justice and Development Party Government.

This book investigates the extent to which depoliticisation strategies, used to disguise the political character of decision-making, have become the established mode of governance within societies.

This volume critically engages with the development of official policy and reform in relation to the support of victims of crime both within and beyond the criminal justice system of England and Wales.

This innovative resource offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach for the utilization of planning theory to eliminate health disparities in rural communities.

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics.

The book covers financial inclusion in the southern cone (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile) and its impact on public finance.

This study has two central research questions: Do democracy profiles affect policy performance?

With recent advances and investment in artificial intelligence, are we on the verge of introducing virtual public servants?

This book offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy.

This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems.

This book studies governance capacity and governance legitimacy for societal security and crisis management.

This book combines classic and recent studies investigating challenges to Emiratization - full employment of Emirati nationals who make up only about 10% of the total workforce - in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach.

This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape.

This White Paper describes the state of astrobiology in Europe today and its relation to the European society at large.

This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.

This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change.

This insightful volume examines key research questions concerning police decision to arrest as well as police-led diversion.

In the United States, government participation in education has traditionally involved guaranteeing public access, public funding, and public governance to achieve accountability, representativeness and equality.

This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries.

Cultural, economic and political trends are changing the way public administrations are organized and this book examines the new challenges managers face, with the need for a shift from a traditional bureaucratic model to a competency-based approach to organizational design and management in the areas of recruitment, training, career development and assessment.

This book provides an assessment of public financial management (PFM) reforms in developing countries using Turkey as a case study.

These proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics, supply chain management, and decision sciences.

This book shows that Hong Kong's protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also China's effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory.

This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere.

This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good.