Public administration

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.

This book investigates how development institutions created and promoted marketized development financial instruments to increase the speed and scope of assistance by leveraging private financial markets for development objectives.

Natural gas markets have undergone momentous changes, worldwide.

This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries.

This handbook provides an empirically rich analysis of referendums in Europe from the end of the Second World War to the present.

By merging public and private tangible and intangible capitals, Public Private Partnerships contracts (PPP) are fundamental to generate public value and to support economic and social development; in the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, they prove critical to pave the way for the recovery.

This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level.

This volume offers new, convincing empirical evidence on topical risk- and risk management-related issues in diverse settings, using an interdisciplinary approach.

This book tells the story of the European Movement's mission to create-through education-a European spirit in order to secure the success of European integration.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of current techniques for profit shifting and tax base erosion in the area of corporate taxation and measurement.

This book challenges the common perception or assumption that greater state intervention and re-centralization will result in convergence towards a more equitable and inclusive growth model in China.

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This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities.

This volume analyzes the corruption phenomenon in Africa and how to combat it from a governance perspective with illustrated case studies from three of the most corrupt of those nations covering, respectively, the Southern Africa region (Swaziland); the Eastern Africa region (Kenya); and the Western Africa region (Nigeria).

This edited volume examines policies aimed at increasing the representation of women in governing institutions in six South Asian countries.

This book goes deep behind the scenes of school privatization campaigns to expose the complex networks of funding that sustain these efforts - often hidden from the view of the public.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the distribution of funds by the National Program for Local Development (PNDL), Romania's largest state funded budget program.

This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems.

Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list.

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

This innovative and thought-provoking study puts forth a compelling analysis of the constitutive nexus at the heart of the European refugee conundrum.

This book sets out to analyze how the OBOR initiative will influence the world's geo-political and geo-economic environment, with specific regard to the 'Belt and Road' countries and regions.

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research.

This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work.

This book is about the function and use of official statistics.

How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades.

This book provides a thoughtful and rigorous guide to coverage modeling, reviewing essential models, solution approaches, and related applications.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the dimensions and dynamics of the role of international aid in the reform and capacity development of public service in post-communist Albania.

This book describes the results of a research project on compliance and organizational integrity, financed by the German government and conducted over the last three years.

This book provides a comprehensive study of abortion politics and policy in Northern Ireland.

The book covers the topic of the role of public sector in the economic and territorial development across several dimensions of spatial planning, e.