Public administration

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.

This book examines the socio-political conflicts which have arisen since Hong Kong's return to China and confronts the fundamental problems in the design of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model.

This book provides an overview of the identity and sense of belonging of Muslims in the Western world.

This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates.

This book advances the debate on socio-economic development and multinational corporations (MNCs).

This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform.

This book unpacks policy and politics for health, equity, and wellbeing.

Blockchain Driven Supply Chains and Enterprise Information Systems examines initiatives for blockchain implementation in supply chain management and the integration of blockchain technology with existing enterprise management applications.

This volume examines the history and current state of Canadian studies in a number of countries and regions across the world, including Canada's major trading partners.

This book examines mass shootings and attempted shootings that occurred across 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, known as post-communist states.

This book discusses the role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in global transportation infrastructure.

This book aims to gather the insight of leading experts on corruption and anti-corruption studies working at the scientific frontier of this phenomenon using the multidisciplinary tools of data and network science, in order to present current theoretical, empirical, and operational efforts being performed in order to curb this problem.

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders.

This book explores the possible (actual, potential and imagined) future security threats migration from Nigeria could pose to Europe, the United States of America, Canada and to some extent Australia.

This volume chronicles the policy challenges and adaptations faced and made by the South Korean government during the post-industrialization and democratization period.

This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science.

This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field.

This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project.

This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis.

This book brings together insights and reflections following a set of interviews conducted with the main stakeholders involved in past, current, and future basic income experiments.