Public administration

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.

This proceedings volume provides a multifaceted perspective on the unprecedented crises generated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and its ramifications for individuals, businesses, organizations, governments and systems in developing countries.

This book argues that the welfare state system should be adopted globally, not only for the purpose of achieving equality and justice within nations, but also for security between states.

This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies.

This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective.

This book examines local migration policy in Sweden in light of the European migrant crisis.

This volume presents the history and current state of the public-private partnership (PPP) sector in Russia.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe.

This book assesses the impact of the May 2019 European elections as well as the Covid-19 pandemic on the EU's politics, institutions, and policies.

This book examines the rise, spread and decline of participatory budgeting in Brazil.

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

This volume uses new empirical evidence and analytical ideas to study phenomena of fragmentation and exclusion threatening stability and cohesion in Greek society in the aftermath of the crisis.

This book explores the promissory discourses and practices associated with the bioeconomy, focusing especially on the transformation of institutions; the creation, appropriation, and distribution of value; the struggle over resources, power, and meaning; and the role of altruism, kinship, and care practices.

This book examines developments in governance reform in Britain, with a particular focus on the period since 2010.

This book analyzes how Chinese think tanks have become essential actors in today's Chinese foreign policy and diplomatic practices.

This book critically interrogates three sets of distortions that emanate from the messianic core of 21st century public discourse on LGBT+ rights in the United States.

This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes-including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

Building on hundreds of thousands of systematically collected and content-coded local policy agenda observations, this book examines - theoretically and empirically - the policy agenda effects of four central aspects of any political system: the institutions that structure politics; the problems confronting the political system; the occurrence of regular and free elections; and the actors navigating the political system.

This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior.

This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques.

This book investigates the role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and e-government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights their importance to the welfare of society.

This book analyses the struggle for social justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This volume discusses public policy making in Turkey.

This book describes the institutions and process through which the Georgia General Assembly adopts a budget, the executive-legislative branch politics that transpire during the process and the tax and spending policies that the process produces.

This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and policy reform in public administration.

This book critically explores the role of two advocacy NGOs actively involved in processes of education policymaking during the recent education reforms carried out in Chile, the country known as the first laboratory of neoliberalism around the world.

Strategic Narratives, Ontological Security and Global Policy provides a pathbreaking account of why some states successfully convince others to join their policy initiatives, and why others fail.

This book examines public administration in South Asia in the context of rapid changes and modernization of administrative traditions, thoughts, and practices.