Public administration

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.

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Perspectives on Emotional Labor in Public Service challenges traditional public administration theory and its disavowal of the emotive component to public service delivery.

This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement's ideas about participatory democracy.

This book fleshes out activities and initiatives in the field of education from across areas of European Union competence in order to highlight the extent to which education and training have penetrated the European Community's policymaking since its creation.

Policy knowledge derived from data, information, and evidence is a powerful tool for contributing to policy discussions and debates, and for understanding and improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of government action.

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it?

US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, increasing partisan rhetoric, and escalating debates about federal/state relations.

This book serves as a foundational reference of U.

This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated.

This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics.

Drawing on comparative politics and social network analysis, this book examines how the domestic institutional and organizational settings, as well as the network governance patterns, determine variation in administrative responses to EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in two European Union (EU) member states, Denmark and Greece.

Intergovernmental councils have emerged as the main structures through which the governments of a federation coordinate public policy making.

This book charts contemporary developments in counter-extremism within the UK education sector.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that the European Union (EU) is an example of governance without opposition.

This book identifies six ethical competencies for public leadership in contexts of pluralism.

This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence.

This book revisits the traditional general approach to sport policy by adopting an entrepreneurial perspective.

This book addresses the necessary developments and adjustments that can be regarded as a promising starting point for making accrual accounting a more practice-relevant for the public sector entities.

This book presents different research designs, their respective purposes and merits as well as their underlying assumptions.

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the distribution of public money and its political and societal implications.

This book examines the puzzle of why genetically modified organisms continue to be controversial despite scientific evidence declaring them safe for humans and the environment.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

In late 2015, against a background of growing populist opposition to international trade agreements, the European Commission announced its willingness to negotiate a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan.