Public administration

City governments are going bankrupt.

In a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival.

This book provides a broad analysis of the legacy of the Obama presidency, representing multiple perspectives across the partisan and disciplinary divides.

The post Independence India opted for a planned approach for its future development and growth.

This book is a collection of essays that explore commonalities and contrasts between strategy in armed conflict and strategy in public health.

This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt systematisch in das breite Spektrum von Geschichte, Strukturen, Problemlagen und Lösungswegen der Sozialpolitik ein.

In der sozialwissenschaftlichen Debatte wird oft ein pessimistisches Bild der Bedingungen und Perspektiven europäischen gewerkschaftlichen Handelns gezeichnet.

Participation has become an orthodoxy in the field of development, an essential element of projects and programmes.

This book provides an original analysis of the trajectory of health policy reform in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the 'Thatcher reforms' in the 1980s right up to the latest changes in England in 2022.

This book examines the ways in which emergency management organizations make sense and learn from natural disasters.

Digitalisierung prägt nicht nur die Marktökonomie, sie gestaltet auch den öffentlichen Sektor neu.

This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings.

This book provides a research-based analysis of public sector reforms in Pakistan.

This book analyses two key aspects of network management in the public sector: leadership and performance.

This book explores the existence of gaps between public preferences and institutional designs in democracies, and specifically cases in which such gaps are maintained for a long period of time without being challenged by the electorate.

This book comprehensively addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous post-pandemic world.

This is the first technical book that considers tests as public tools and examines how to engineer and process test data, extract the structure within the data to be visualized, and thereby make test results useful for students, teachers, and the society.

This book offers a defense acquisition perspective that provides action orientations and decision making to increase the value-for-money (VFM) of public-private partnerships (PPPs) through public-private stewardship (PPS).

While civics textbooks describe an idealized model of how a bill becomes law; journalists often emphasize special interest lobbying and generous campaign contributions to Congress; and other textbooks describe common stages through which all policies progress, these approaches fail to conveymuch less explainthe tremendous diversity in political processes that shape specific policies in contemporary Washington.

This book provides the most comprehensive study of the Australian think-tank industry to date.

This book develops a discursive 'equalitarian' theoretical framework for studying African mining ecosystem issues and policy interventions.

This book mainly summarizes and analyzes the advanced research progress in the field of behavioral public administration, and also looks forward to the future of related academic research.

Hungary was once a frontrunner of democratization.

This book looks at how the language of the law has changed over time, and how this has empowered judges.

This book examines the roles played by transnational actors to influence poverty reduction policies in Ghana.

This book re-assesses the societal and pastoral roles of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in order to consider the function that they have in engaging, or responding, to the Vulnerability Agenda.

This book focuses on local state-society relations, understood as institutionalised relations between local municipalities across Europe and individual, collective or corporate societal actors.

This book examines security and defence cooperation between the EU and third countries, in particular the United Kingdom and Norway.

Today, the work of government often involves coordination at the federal, state, and local levels as well as with contractors and citizens groups.

This book analyzes how quality of life research results can be transferred to policy making, and considers the role of actors in this process---researchers, policy makers, and citizens---as well as their interrelationships.

The fifth volume of the Interdisciplinary European Studies series aims to explore the EU's pursuit of societal resilience and its role in the transition to a green economy.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the alterations and problems caused by new technologies in all fields of politics.

This contributed volume examines the trend whereby the EU resorts ever more often to informal arrangements and deals with third countries in an effort to curb and manage migration flows towards the EU and facilitate the return of irregular migrants to their countries of origin or transit.

There is a growing interest in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), particularly in infrastructure and public services.

This book is an excellent resource for academics and students interested in ethics and accountability in the public sector, as well as for practitioners, NGO workers and policymakers.

This book assesses the impacts of the right within the US and UK, forty years on from their initial effects upon economic and social orthodoxies.

This book explores regulatory conundrums around adolescent sexual health, abortion and assisted reproductive technologies in the UK.

The book deals with the concept of urban infrastructure and the strong evolution of globalization, in particular the driving force taken by global cities.

This book examines law and governance implications in relation to maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS).