Public administration

This book studies the ongoing transition from an industrial to a creative (or post-industrial) society and how the creative society depends on a 'soft infrastructure' of individualist values and institutions.

Wesenskern der Verwaltungswissenschaft ist nach wie vor die Frage nach Dysfunktionalitäten bürokratischer Organisationen.

Different forms of city government are in widespread use across the United States.

The author's of the award-winning Emotional Labor now go inside the stressful world of suicide, rape, and domestic hotline workers, EMTs, triage nurses, and agency/deparment spokespersons, to provide powerful insights into how emotional labor is actually exerted by public servants who face the gravest challenges.

The result of the application of strategic management philosophy to the nexus of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economy, strategic entrepreneurship fosters sustainable development and competitiveness.

The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy.

This book provides an innovative re-examination of the 'recovery' phase of a disaster by one of the UK's most experienced disaster management specialists.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 situation and public policy measures needed to revive the economy in the light of the recent initiatives by the state government, including a committee to suggest post-Covid-19 revival strategy.

This book is the first volume to provide a comprehensive account of mega-event planning for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Caribbean is at a crucial phase in its development.

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City has greatly affected the wider urban and surrounding region, not to say country as a whole.

This volume presents an academic proposal, developed by a joint research group of leading scholars in the social and natural sciences from universities affected by global-scale mega disasters occurring in Asia in recent decades.

No official statistics are kept for the number of hospital patients, in particular older people, who are subjected to neglect and abuse.

This book is the first of its kind to offer an understanding, analysis, and prediction of the state of civil society in Bangladesh in relation to development and democracy.

Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments.

This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Comparative law of religions has developed in recent years as a new discipline at the intersection of legal and religious science, of theology and anthropology.

Introduction to Trade Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the rules and regulations that govern trade flow.

Explores ''simultaneity'' to show ''unresolved co-presences'' of contradictory ways through which people maintain multi-layered identities.

Most contemporary public managers will work in some type of collaborative or networked arrangement at some time in their professional careers.

In this textbook readers will acquire knowledge of problem-solving and learning to enhance both efficiency and the experience of service users in rapidly changing service environments, that can create new service models.

Based on the EU-funded CORASON research project, this volume brings together and compares studies into rural and sustainable development processes in 12 European countries.

Originally published in 1961, this book provides a clear authoritative work of reference, surveying not only constitutional form, but also actual political practice.

This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance.

Risk Communication and COVID-19 explores the "e;risk communication"e; responses by national governments to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus.

How do international students and alumni contribute to development in their countries of origin?

This Element proposes a multi-level approach to studying government transparency that integrates insights from institutional, organizational, and behavioral perspectives on transparency.

Now in a thoroughly revised third edition, Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes is designed to help students enrolled in a public policy course discuss policy issues and understand the ways in which public policy is grounded in normative theory.

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of the diverse aspects of climate change in South Asia.

Though it has been home for centuries to indigenous peoples who have mastered its conditions, the Arctic has historically proven to be a difficult region for governments to administer.

This book explores how the state can foster collective action by fisher's communities in fisheries management.

New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services.

Offers alternative corporate tax structures to avoid the problems faced by current systems.

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Electoral Geography, the analysis of spatial patterns of voting, is undergoing a renaissance with new methodological advances, theoretical shifts and changes in the political landscape.

Questions of police governance, accountability and independence have been subjected to thorough research before.

The Russian budget process has received little detailed attention in academic literature.

This book contributes an analysis of UK-based non-governmental organisations engaged in transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) activism, within a broader recognition of the complexities that British colonial legacies perpetuate in contemporary international relations.

This book examines the future trend toward "e;intelligent"e; warfare considering the global environment, the history of warfare, and scientific and technological advancement.

This groundbreaking text focuses on the application of sustainability and sustainable development theories to public administration practice.

The authors provide a summary of the main lessons learned from the past twenty-five years regarding public-private partnerships.

The ability to create and sustain partnerships is a skill and a strategic capacity that utilizes the strengths and offsets the weaknesses of each actor.

American Indian nations are sovereign political entities within the United States.

This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations.

The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, and multi-sector careers - require a 'skills triangle' of technical, ethical, and leadership abilities.

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