Public administration

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.

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.

This book describes how governments formulate policies, draft legislation, and manage stocks of legislation and how approaches to these tasks are converging.

This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective.

This volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in former Yugoslavian countries.

This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime.

This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years.

This book provides key strategic principles and best practices to guide the design and implementation of digital government strategies.

This book presents a conceptual and practical tool for those involved directly or indirectly in the planning and management of basic provision of water supply, wastewater and stormwater services in metropolitan regions by offering insights into governance paradigms and institutional arrangements for urban wastewater reuse in agriculture from Australia and India.

Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of integrated efforts in EU foreign and security policies.

This book has three primary objectives.

This book examines the role of government fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies.

This book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany.

At a moment when both think tanks and experts are being questioned, significant policy and technology disruptions have called into question the value and efficacy of policy advice.

This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector.

This book aims at presenting a conceptual apparatus and empirical analysis of the ways Nordic civil society is affected by social transformations by focusing on the Norwegian case.

The European Union, as a regulatory polity based on integration through law, arguably relies more on legal compliance with its policies than any other political system.

This book explores recent social policy reforms and innovations in Chile.

This book offers the first benchmarking study of China's response to the problems of security in cyber space.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

This book examines the nexus between City Networks, multilevel governance and migration policy.

This book analyses and evaluates the accomplishments, challenges, and approaches associated with the New Public Management (NPM) in Africa towards establishing context-specific interventions for public sector institutions' performance.

This book presents new research results on the challenges of local politics in different European countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries and Switzerland, together with theoretical considerations on the further development and strengthening of local self-government.

This book explores sub-municipal units' (SMU) role in decision making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation and, in rural areas, service delivery.

This book aims to provide a collection of early ideas regarding the results of applying risk and resilience tools and strategies to COVID-19.

This book shows how the systems approach is employed by scientists in various countries to solve specific problems concerning railway transport.

This book explores how public opinion is used to design, monitor and evaluate government programmes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book addresses the need for a better understanding of the design, implementation and improvement of process management.

Given the global crises confronting the world today, it is important to interrogate the notion of "e;the modern state"e; and to evaluate its effectiveness in providing security and services for its populations, including the most disadvantaged and vulnerable.

This book provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming as one of the major contemporary trends in immigrant integration governance in Europe.

This book aims to introduce planners to AI, outlining essential concepts, terminologies, and methodologies.

This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations - England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands - between 1970 and 2018.