Public administration

This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN.

This book examines new member states' problems with the absorption of EU funds.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant examines what it means to be a public servant in today's world(s) where globalisation and neoliberalism have proliferated the number of actors who contribute to the public purpose sector and created new spaces that public servants now operate in.

This book offers a novel approach to mapping the people and organisations working in EU affairs, allocating much of the volume to a discussion of non-EU institutional representation in Brussels.

This book offers a cross-national comparison of open data policies in Estonia and Kazakhstan.

This book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the Internet in Russia and its impact on various aspects of social life.

Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability.

This book discusses homelessness policy in the UK from 1945 to 2019.

Logistics professionals must utilize a broad array of analytic techniques and approaches for decision-making.

This book addresses what is perhaps the most salient issue in American politics today: the decline of the middle class.

In this book, Arjun Tremblay considers the future of multiculturalism, contextualised within an ideological and political shift to the right.

This book examines the state-building process in Colombia, specifically in the Pacific Coast region.

This book sets out a vision for another Europe: one that cherishes diversity, listens to its public, and is sensitive to its younger generations.

This book reflects on theoretical developments in the political theory of care and new applications of care ethics in different contexts.

This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation.

The concept of the political legacy, despite its importance for institutionalist and historically-minded political analysts more generally, remains both elusive and undeveloped theoretically.

This book addresses current challenges in public administration and regional management in Russia.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the diffusion process of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America and the role played by experts and international organizations.

This book seeks to consistently explain the role of ideas and institutions in policy outcomes, and addresses the problem of how resource nationalism causes a deficit of public accountability in oil producing countries from Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book investigates whether politics in Britain in the twenty-first century is driven more by issues of culture and identity than by "e;left versus right"e; issues of wealth distribution.

This book analyzes the connections between social policies and politics of sensibilities.

This book studies the emergence of the regulatory state in Europe and its impact on democratic governance in Scandinavia.

This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced liberal democracies, in the context of the 'revolt against uncertainty' which has underpinned the rise of populist politics across these societies in recent years.

This book investigates whether, how and where the cultural milieu of European societies has changed as a result of the socio-economics crisis.

This book examines the implications of The General Theory of Second Best for analyzing the economic efficiency of non-government conduct or government policies in an economically efficient way.

This book examines the concept and public service value of social equity in public administration research and practice outside of the Western context, considering the influence that historical, cultural, and social trends of Asian and Pacific societies may have on how social equity is conceptualized and realized in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment.

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.