Public administration

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.

This book demonstrates that there are wide-ranging potential challenges in addressing issues associated with ageing populations in both developed and developing countries of the region.

This book investigates public service broadcasting (PSB) models in post-authoritarian regimes, and offers a critical inspection of the development of a Western European-originated PSB system in Asian transitional societies, in particular in Indonesia since the 1990's.

This book is the first book that looks at both the politics of maintaining the trajectory toward humanity's final hundred years and the politics of those final hundred years.

This book provides a detailed description of Japan's telecommunications policies.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences (LISS 2020), which is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in July 25-28 2020.

This book interrogates Africa's pursuit of the Democratic Developmental State model by drawing on the experiences of Mauritius, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.

That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree.

This book analyses the politicization of immigration and the European Union in Italy, the UK, and the European Parliament (EP) from 2015 to 2020.

Examining the consequences of the outsourcing of public services, this book explores the transformation of working conditions, employment relations and the role of the state under marketisation strain.

This volume is devoted to three key themes central to studies in regional science: the sub-national labor market, migration, and mobility, and their analysis.

This book analyses neo-liberal economic policy in Hong Kong and its relationship to British colonial governance.

This book provides a general overview of intelligence in health policy, health-care organizations and health services in the light of the current EU digital agenda, which aims to make health data and e-health tools publicly available.

This study investigates regulatory reforms in the telecommunications sector of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries.

This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city's South Side blues clubs and blocks.

While the idea of immigration embodies America's rhetorical commitment to democracy, recent immigration control policies also showcase abysmal failures in democratic practice.

Since the end of the Cold War, the promotion of democracy has occupied centre stage in global politics and in the academic debate on international relations.

This unique text fills a major gap in the emergency services literature by surveying the research on fire and rescue service management in the UK.

This book analyzes state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which are still significant players in many Asian economies.

The book is a collection of essays written since 2010, and dealing, in one way or another, with the place of values in economic analysis.

The seemingly unlimited technological potential of nanotechnology brings with it new practices of governance, networking, and exercising power and agency.

The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities.

After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many formerly privatized sectors.

This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model.

This book provides essential information on emergency management.

This book defines China's road towards modernization with Chinese characteristics by systematically examining a typical Chinese political process - the National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), during which diverse opinions are collected and a unified political consensus is formed.

In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more important than ever.

This book examines the various issues and concerns faced by Indian agriculture under the obligations of WTO and the Free Trade Agreements.

This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering.

The book discusses the concepts of E-Governance from the understanding of a naive user.

This first book on Maritime Informatics describes the potential for Maritime Informatics to enhance the shipping industry.

This book examines the position and role of expertise in European policy-making and governance.