Public administration

Symposium zu Sicherheit und Terrorismus2016 haben die Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin sowie die Senatsverwaltung für Inneres und Sport Berlin ein gemeinsames Fachsymposium ins Leben gerufen.

The book specifies infrastructure construction achievements and the present development situation in China in the 30 years after the reform and opening up in the fields of architecture, energy, transportation, environmental protection, water conservancy, telecommunications, urban arts and sports.

This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "e;public,"e; helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community engagement around water services.

International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector.

The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice.

Fiscal realities and changing social priorities are requiring a dramatic shift in the way that benefits are selected and awarded to employees, especially in the public sector.

Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management introduces readers to mitigation, one of the four foundational phases of emergency management, and to the hazard mitigation planning process.

Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private ownership; and the appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of protest.

This book studies the role that grassroots volunteers play in the integration and naturalization process in Singapore.

This book addresses timely concerns of rising African nationalism and the 2nd decolonisation in Africa.

What is the significance of heritage for how welfare is defined?

This book provides a comparative analysis of the concept and concrete application of the system of indirect review of administrative action.

Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to one another for their common good, which ultimately translates into social-environmental sustainability for all generations.

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex.

Journalism and Austerity: Digitization and Crisis During the Greek Memoranda presents an overview of press coverage focused on the Greek crisis.

This book explores how public policy advocacy can be used to approach policy issue identification, resolution or, at the least, support the management of wicked policy issues.

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems.

This book concentrates on a transportation planning process, and focuses on transportation problems.

This book re-visits the phenomenon of Japanese secular stagnation in light of the fate of the North Atlantic and developing economies and places it in a longer historical political and geopolitical economy of capitalism from a variety of political and disciplinary perspectives.

These essays explore the utility of thinking about public-private partnerships for local economic development.

This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions.

The book provides a comprehensive and long-term assessment of Turkey's evolving role in Africa at different levels ranging from political to economic, cultural and military ties.

"e;The Politics of Educational Decentralisation in Indonesia: A Quest for Legitimacy is a well written, analytically sharp, and compelling study of educational decentralisation in Indonesia.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of international and domestic tourism and sharply focused attention on the importance of tourist health, safety and wellbeing like never before.

In this far-ranging and provocative volume, Joe Colombano and Aniket Shah provide global perspectives on the most significant challenges facing modern America, seeking to inspire new ideas to redevelop America.

This book examines the ways in which the European Union's administrative structures have changed over the last decade in response to several significant political events, including Brexit, the refugee crisis, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Public Service Motivation (PSM) beschreibt eine besondere Motivation von Mitarbeitenden im öffentlichen Dienst, auch ohne externe Anreize einen Beitrag zum Gemeinwohl leisten zu wollen.

In the past two decades, Australia has been the site of major police misconduct scandals and inquiries, leading to reform initiatives at the cutting edge of police integrity management practices.

A much-needed contemporary analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy and Germany's role within it.

In the last 35 years, governments around the globe have increasingly contracted with nonprofit and for-profit entities designed to provide a portion of the public sector's portfolio of goods and services.

"e;This fine team of academics moves beyond mere descriptions of capacities, structures and processes to explain the effectiveness of Civil Protection in the EU.

This book collects articles on the achievements and experience of special economic zones during the China's Reform and Opening-up in the past 40 years.

This book offers a detailed overview of the politics of contemporary social movements in Central and Eastern Europe.

Während der Begriff der innovativen Geschäftsmodelle in der Privatwirtschaft seit längerem omnipräsent ist, war er im öffentlichen Sektor noch wenig verbreitet.

Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.

Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent satisfaction, and more vibrant school communities.

This widely acclaimed work provides a lively counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it.

The book explodes the myths that currently drive society's view of traffic safety and limit progress in reducing death and serious injury.

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2, are handbooks not only for students studying residential surveying but also for those involved in the appraisal of residential property.

A comparison between the tsarist economy on the eve of the revolution and the Soviet economy in the mid-1920s.

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014.

This eagerly awaited new edition has been updated and expanded and contains new material on assessing Personal Development Plans (PDPs).

This book explores the transformation in the healthcare system in Turkey since 2003, which has been portrayed as a benchmark for building universal healthcare systems in emerging market economies.

This comprehensive volume provides uniquely diverse insights into various aspects of decentralization and development from both developed and developing countries, with special reference to Sri Lanka.

To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity.

This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world's development-induced displacement currently takes place.