Central Government

To Look Like America is designed to contribute a unique perspective to those interested in the challenges presented to public sector organizations ...

A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the te...

The administrative state is the nexus of American policy making in the postwar period. The vague and sometimes conflicting policy mandates of Congr...

Controls on the bureaucracy through administrative due process and presidential and congressional prerogatives are the focus of this book. The auth...

The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the original Memoir,...

"This book lays out the essential information about commonly used designs for the reader. The presentation of extremely complicated and technical i...

In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congression...

This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of major public administration journals. Recurring themes include: mo...

How do governments choose which industries to favor? If governments are largely motivated by the national economic interest, then industrial select...

Not all citizens seek to extract a '`'free lunch' from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possibl...

This volume deals with a range of contemporary issues in Indian and other world economies, with a focus on economic theory and policy and their lon...

Liu Shucheng is a famous Chinese economist who has a major impact on the study of China's macroeconomics and quantitative economics. Selecting some...

Migration to new destinations in Europe and the United States has expanded dramatically over the past few decades. Within these destinations, there...

Why do special interests defeat the majority's preference in elections and legislation?

This text examines European languages and the communities using them, from differing points of view. The volume examines: the linguistic classifica...

Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Socialist Heritage explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy ...

The administrative state is the nexus of American policy making in the postwar period. The vague and sometimes conflicting policy mandates of Congr...

The book explores the interaction of political parties, bureaucracy, media, judiciary, and civil society groups in shaping policy in contemporary I...

Using rich ethnographic data and first-hand experience, Ball presents a detailed account of Australia’s attempts to incorporate behavioural insight...

Why do politicians frequently heed the preferences of small groups of citizens over those of the general public? Breaking new theoretical ground, B...

'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP f...

Winner of the 2018 Current Events/Social Change Book Award from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner of the 2018 Bronze Current Events Book...

The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the original Memoir,...