Public administration

This book shows how governance regimes before the 1970s suppressed rural prospects of housing improvement and created conditions for middle-class capture.

This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland.

This book depicts and reveals the socioeconomic dynamics of the COVID-19 crisis, and its global, regional, and local perspectives.

This timely book presents a collection of expert insights into the impacts of COVID-19 in a broader socio-economic context.

This book highlights the most critical aspects of diversity and their implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), examining them in a collection of conceptual and practical contributions from researchers and practitioners alike.

This book analyzes contemporary issues in governance, policy management, and policy performance both at the central and local levels in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

The main objective of this book has been to carry out research into the definition of industrial policy and its goals; to evaluate previously-introduced policies and instruments; and to identify the future challenges for and features of a modern EU industrial policy.

This book analyses Chile's "e;truth and justice"e; policies implemented between 1990 and 2013.

This book explores the role of scientific evidence within United Nations (UN) deliberation by examining the negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), endorsed by Member States in 2015.

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of migration in the era of globalization.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the debate over the role of the state in East Asia's development history.

This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize.

This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways.

This book addresses the increasingly urgent question: How can governments be made more accountable for the quality of their environmental stewardship?

This book investigates the emergence and working of governance networks in contemporary Russia.

This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization.

This book analyzes the EU's responses to the sovereign debt crisis that hit the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 2010.

This timely monograph focuses on India and Brazil's use of compulsory licensing, one of the most significant and controversial TRIPS flexibilities.

The world is not an equal place.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

The result of the application of strategic management philosophy to the nexus of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economy, strategic entrepreneurship fosters sustainable development and competitiveness.

This book investigates what influence online incivility-through user-generated comments on news websites-has on public debate.

This book discusses the results and implications of a two-year public engagement program on nanotechnology.

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

This book provides insights on regulatory effectiveness in the field of food safety, by focusing on the variety of institutional factors affecting regulatory outcomes.

This book aims to establish a dialogue around the various "e;urban sanctuary"e; policies and other formal or informal practices of hospitality toward migrants that have emerged or been strengthened in cities in the Americas in the last decade.

This book provides  the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.

This book illustrates innovative support-decision models, methods, and advanced automation and robotic technologies aimed at enhancing the overall performance of Warehousing and Material Handling (WMH) in terms of time and space efficiency, service levels, labor safety, and ergonomics.

This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand, and accounting and management information systems on the other.

This book discusses the phenomena of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP) across several African countries.

This book analyses the transformation of European Education Policy from 1973 to 2020.

This book is the seventh volume in a series covering best practices in community quality of life indicators.

Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state.

This book examines the decade from 2004 to 2013 during which people in China witnessed both a skyrocketing number of food safety crises, and aggregating regulatory initiatives attempting to control these crises.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels.

This book adopts the managerial perspective to the study of smart cities.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

This comprehensive, up-to-date volume reports on current practices and use of Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO).

Research has paid little attention to date on how European Union law and regulation affect both the public-private mix in healthcare and the organization of private health insurance as an industry.

African nations are seeking ways to build strong institutions that are development-oriented and people-centred.

This book focuses on two key ways to improve the literature surrounding policy analysis.

This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author's extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in central and local government.

This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged.

This book utilises comparative diachronic and synchronic analyses to investigate models of national urban agendas.

This book explores the regulation of pesticides in the European Union in order to reveal the complex, controversial, and contested nature of an assessment system proudly declared by the EU to be 'the strictest in the world'.

Longer term thinking and new approaches to development and prosperity have never been more urgently required.

This book explores the causes of corruption in the Middle East and North Africa through a systematic cross-national comparative analysis of fifteen countries in the region.

This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance.

Much has been written about policy efforts to achieve 'Health in All Policies': an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts.