Public administration

This book examines the role of unauthorized water use in the American West (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) and the coming demand for water accountability.

This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years.

The state of New Hampshire has played a pivotal role in Donald Trump's rise.

This book presents international experiences in urban network learning.

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives.

This book presents the evolution of Italian administrative law in the context of the EU, describing its distinctive features and comparing it with other experiences across Europe.

There are considerable differences in environmental performance and outcomes across both democracies and autocracies, but there is little understanding of how levels of democracy and autocracy influence environmental performance.

The Arctic has, for some forty years, been among the most innovative policy environments in the world.

This book explores the politics behind "e;de-liberalization"e;, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms.

This book presents an overview of European migration policy and the various institutional arrangements within and between various actors, such as local councils, local media, local economies, and local civil society initiatives.

This book provides the analytical framework for understanding the relationship between media scandals, executive accountability and the crisis of democracy.

It is widely assumed that the relationship between governance capacity and decentralization determines the success in governance, but how does this relationship function is largely contested.

This book examines the policymaking process following highly emotional events.

This book explores the way in which banks were regulated in the UK in the period from 1946 until 1971.

By now, planners everywhere know - more or less - what the ingredients of a sustainable city are, in theory.

This book examines the efforts of the European Union, both past and ongoing, to harness the socio-economic potential of the internet in public policy-making.

Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives.

This book analyses the reform of Greece's public revenue administration promoted by its international lenders under the successive bailout agreements put in place since 2010.

This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries.

This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so.

The recent rise of "e;Medicare for All"e; in American political discourse was many years in the making.

The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis.

This interdisciplinary book analyzes the nature of child justice administration in Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria and South Africa.

This book examines and analyses the complex and contradictory relationships between Higher Education Institutions in England and their local communities within a wider political and policy context.

***Winner of the Political Studies Association Conservatism Studies Group prize 2020***This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Conservative Right in Great Britain since 1945.

This book provides a stimulating presentation of the Italian administrative system through an empirical and critical perspective on the processes of administrative reform at the national level.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of traditional as well as newer topics in local public, fiscal and financial management principles and practices.

This book highlights the discontinuities and the ongoing development of the urban question in policy-making in the context of the controversial current issues of global reversal and regional revival.

Globalization and the information revolution have highlighted the catalytic role of local governments for improving economic and social outcomes at the local level as well as growing the national economy by enhancing international competitiveness.

This book provides a comprehensive approach for colleges rethinking their community policy connections.

This book analyses the contribution of the new forms of reporting adopted by Public Sector Organisations in the provision of information on value creation processes to their various stakeholders.

This book presents detailed accounts of policymaking in contemporary risk communication.

This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.

This book develops and tests a typology of local state-society relations.

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe.

No analysis of migration in Europe today can avoid consideration of the role of the EU institutions, as well as the member states, in policy-making.

This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.

This book analyses nearly 100 original interviews with Members of the European Parliament from across the European Union who were active between 1979 and 2019.

When crises occur, citizens, media and policymakers alike expect government to respond and to take a leading role in recovery.

Conventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax.

This book analyzes whistleblowing worldwide publicly known cases from Belguim, Brazil, Finland, Japan and The Philippines to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing.

Marketization is one of the most powerful reform doctrines reshaping the organization of public service delivery throughout the last four decades.

Budgeting is probably the single most important function in government, considering the amount of money a government spends each year on various expenditure programs and activities, as well as the time it spends in preparing the budget, appropriating funds for these activities and, finally, executing them.

This book explores the consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 from a global perspective, bringing together empirical research from countries where at least some 16-year-olds are able to vote.

This book is the first to explore collaborative governance arrangements in Israel.

Centering on public discourse and its fundamental lapses, this book takes a unique look at key barriers to social and political advancement in the information age.

This book contributes to the discourse on planning theory by accentuating the perspective of public innovation.

This book examines the progress of institutionalisation of evaluation in European countries from various perspectives.

This volume describes African cities in transition, and the economic, socio-political, and environmental challenges resulting from rapid post-colonial urbanization.

This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance.