Public administration

Earthquakes are a huge global threat.

This compilation of articles, papers, excerpts and notes is intended as supplementary reading material for students and scholars of public administration.

This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world's largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

This compilation of articles, papers, excerpts and notes is intended as supplementary reading material for students and scholars of public administration.

This compilation of articles, papers, excerpts and notes is intended as supplementary reading material for students and scholars of public administration.

The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country.

An illuminating introduction to how the Lander (the sixteen states of Germany) function not only within the country itself but also within the wider context of European political affairs.

Sustainability is an increasingly urgent and important factor in logistics and supply chain management, impacting the whole supply chain lifecycle from product design and development, to supplier management, packaging, transportation, warehousing and distribution.

Volume 2 of Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Case Study Collection contains new case studies tackling Supply Chain and Procurement issues, aiming to provide solutions affecting a range of different businesses.

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today.

This volume accesses governance in public and non-profit organizations.

Unterscheidet sich die CDU im Saarland in ihren programmatischen Standpunkten und ihrem Themenprofil von den Christdemokraten in Schleswig-Holstein oder in den Stadtstaaten Berlin, Bremen und Hamburg?

Homeland Security: The Essentials, Second Edition concisely outlines the risks facing the US today and the structures we have put in place to deal with them.

How to Become an International Disaster Volunteer discusses the immense value an experienced water systems engineer, trauma surgeon, or communications specialist could bring to a disaster stricken community, while also explaining how their professional educations do not prepare them for the logistical, psychological, and physical demands of traveling to, and functioning in, an international catastrophe with little water or electricity, limited sleep and food, a chaotic working environment, and with team members from diverse backgrounds and with different personalities.

Becoming an International Humanitarian Aid Worker draws on the experiences of those currently working and those hiring people to work in humanitarian aid today, and an analysis of job postings over a 9-month period.

Exploring how the U.

The electricity sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness.

The education sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness.

The publication tells the story of the use of stakeholder participation to support public sector reform in Nauru and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).

This edited collection examines the changing character of military professionalism and the role of ethics in the 21st-century military.

Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts.

Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility.

This book provides a new perspective on behavioral public policy.

A robust and sustainable tax system requires good tax administration.

Developing countries have made rapid but highly varied progress since the 1990s.

This book examines the rise of exclusionary neoliberalism by assessing how far-right populist actors impact economic policy change.

In order to eradicate terrorism, our nation must go beyond merely shoring up military strength.

Stress tests highlight a system's weak spots.

This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021.

This book will expand the body of literature on capacity-building in science and improve public understanding of the issues regarding geographical concentration of federal research funding.

​Ein Desiderat der Verwaltungsforschung betrifft die Frage, welchen Mechanismen politisch-responsives Verhalten unterliegt.

In Policy Analysis as Problem Solving, authors Rachel Meltzer and Alex Schwartz provide a pragmatic yet fresh and original approach to the field.

The European Union is creating a Financial Union with a European Banking Union and a Capital Markets Union in reaction to lessons learned from incomplete financial markets integration, the Global Financial Crisis and European Sovereign Debt Crisis.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the role played by the EU accession process in Turkey's democratic evolution and in the empowerment of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s.

Social equity is a pillar of public service.

This book explores the impact of recent planning reforms on emergent, alternative models of local governance.

This book compares network governance practices and public service delivery in England and China.

This book provides fundamental knowledge of theories on the circular economy and circular supply chain management.

This book assesses the challenges faced by local governments when deciding on the location of public services.

The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia analyses how states in these areas have adopted different monetary, financial, and foreign exchange policies to govern financialization, which have induced varying levels of state control over financial markets.

This book serves as a comprehensive and insightful guide to the strategies and mechanisms that underpin effective climate governance on a global scale.

Ce livre revient sur les mutations exceptionnelles affrontees par la ville de Saint-Etienne depuis cinquante ans, les principales decisions politiques locales et nationales qui l'ont transformee, les defis qu'elle devra encore relever.

Discover a modern approach to understanding threats and hazards that are more complex, costly, and devastating than ever before.

This textbook examines public administration from a comparative perspective by incorporating theory and practice from two separate fields: Political Science and Development Administration.