Public administration

This book explores the various economic and institutional factors that explain why huge investments are made in unworthy transportation mega-projects in the US and other countries.

This book presents what is the state-of-the-art in the field of the food waste phenomenon at consumer level, including a thorough literature review, and it highlights trends in the field.

This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector.

This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis.

This book applies various theoretical tools to explore the advantages and disadvantages of performance management systems, the ways in which they can be improved, and the strategies through which they can be designed and integrated into the policy making process.

This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI).

This book examines user and community co-production of public services and outcomes, currently one of the most discussed topics in the field of public management and policy.

This book provides a detailed examination of public service reforms in Malta.

This book provides an innovative theoretical and analytical framework for studying the role and impact of specialized research organizations and consultancies on decision making in climate politics.

This book analyses the challenges facing the European Union through the frame of the rule of law.

This book articulates a unified theory of capitalism as an attempt to provide a comprehensive scientific theory of this social system.

This book is the result of recent research by contemporary scientists on topics which were discussed at the conference of the same name in Volgograd, Russia in April 2017.

This book presents a diverse set of decision-making methodologies to solve some of the most important decisions that most organizations face today.

This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct.

This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations-in particular, Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia-and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities, but of growing them.

This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state.

This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative 'public' interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates.

This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today's society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations.

This book answers the question: is Polish property tax legislation ready for the upcoming energy transformation?

Far from displaying a uniform pattern, European integration varies significantly across policy areas and individual countries.

This book fills a gap in the literature on the Precautionary Principle by placing the principle within the wider context of precautionary reasoning and uses philosophical arguments and case studies to demonstrate when it does-and does not-apply.

This book examines issues of race and policing through the lens of representative bureaucracy theory.

Is the Prefect an exception, surviving only in France and some countries influenced by Napoleon?

This book presents scheduling with a medium- and short-term focus, which makes it possible to capitalize on fleeting market opportunities while simultaneously working to reconcile economic and environmental priorities.

In 2020, the world is in the throes of the COVID-19 global pandemic-an epidemic the likes of which humankind has not experienced for decades.

In this book, leading gender scholars survey the contribution of feminist scholarship to new norms and knowledge in diverse areas of political science and related political practice.

The essays in this volume explore several key issues facing democracies today.

This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust.

Chambers of commerce are omnipresent in domestic public policy and play a crucial role in business self-governance.

This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship.

This Brief examines the objectives of cultural policy in Jordan, the institutional framework within which it operates, and its outcomes.

This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Institutional Grammar, an approach for analyzing the design of institutions.

This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital.

This book argues that states have a special obligation to offer asylum as a form of reparation to refugees for whose flight they are responsible.

This book elucidates fundamental governance features and issues in contemporary China.

This book takes an insider perspective of the psychological issues of creating policy.

This book illustrates the role of international economic advisors in the development of Israel's economic policies.

Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.

This book investigates the increasing circulation and transfer of public policy ideas between the UK, US and Australia since the 1990s.

Over the past two decades, society has been witnessing how technological, political, and societal changes have been transforming individual and collective urban mobility.

This book examines what role regions play in European (dis)integration and European identity building.

This book approaches migration from Marxist feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial perspectives.

This book examines de facto regulation frameworks and methods in a variety of areas, such as banking, transportation, cyberspace, the non-profit sector, and more.

This book investigates the legitimacy deficits of two potentially conflicting legal systems, namely Public and Islamic international law.

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions.

This book explores the subject of research misconduct: its definition, what behaviours should fall under its label, and the types of preventive and repressive procedures that should be put to practice to combat it.

This study of taxation in Latin America takes a novel approach to the subject, using a framework that posits three dimensions for studying taxes-historical, relational, and transnational.

This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage.

This new handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities.