Public administration

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.

Until the Department of Housing and Urban Development scandal in 1989, the public knew little about federal inspectors general (IGs).

This book, the 32nd volume in the Canada Among Nations series, looks to the wide array of foreign policy challenges, choices and priorities that Canada confronts in relations with the US where the line between international and domestic affairs is increasingly blurred.

This volume offers unique perspectives on how to engage in methods of inquiry in Political Science.

This book examines Croatia's economic and political transformation over the last 30 years.

This is the first book in the Interdisciplinary European Studies collection.

This book argues that contemporary society in general, and public administration specifically, can benefit from more reflexive learning processes through democracy and public involvement.

This study explores the use of precedents in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

This Palgrave Policy Essential considers the security and defence consequences of Brexit for the UK and the European Union.

This book presents a selection of contributions on the timely topic of structural reforms in Western economies, written by experts from central banks, the International Monetary Fund, and leading universities.

This book discusses how the methods and mindsets of design thinking empower large organizations to create groundbreaking innovations.

This book takes the reader through real-world examples for how to characterize and measure the productivity and performance of NFPs and education institutions-that is, organisations that produce value for society, which cannot be measured accurately in financial KPIs.

This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state.

This book addresses the central question of European solidarity in the face of a multitude of crises in Europe and focuses on its discursive manifestation in public debates.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people's participation and accountability.

This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting.

How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important.

This book explores the institutional factors in social policymaking and implementation in China.

This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's analytical perspectives and methodological tools.