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Open government data (OGD) has developed rapidly in recent years due to various benefits that can be derived through transparency and public access...

Exploring a variety of methods for improving the economic performance of organizations, this multidisciplinary text covers macro- and micro-perspec...

In the mid-1990s, India established an economic reform programme, initiated and sustained by a skilled yet quiet political leadership. This text pr...

Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and usi...

Using the way of storytelling, this book examines the petitions of the migrants of a dam in China. With the intensive and thorough analysis of the ...

The 10th volume of International Review of Comparative Public Policy, focuses on the Labor Markets in Transition.

This volume explores India’s role in the global governance architecture post–Cold War. It shows how, with a rise in India’s capabilities, there is ...

An expansive study shows how politics can work for, not just against, efforts to improve America’s schools.   The education reform project has alw...

Tensions between central authorities and subnational units over centralization and fiscal autonomy are on top of the political agenda in many devel...

Challenging conventional wisdom about German dominance in the new Europe, this study presents a new approach to the question of power and influence...

Fundamental changes within economies are needed to create arm's-length relations between governments, corporations, and banks. We are taking risks ...

An expansive study shows how politics can work for, not just against, efforts to improve America’s schools.   The education reform project has alw...

This is a study of government publicity activities in Britain between the wars. Mariel Grant focuses on the development of public relations bureaux...

This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies, processes, and practices across the home nations (England, Scotl...

As the public face of American has changed, so has the face of its foreign policy. Diversity and U.S. ForeignPolicy, goes beyond the traditional te...

This volume presents an approach for resolving a variety of public policy debates. It proposes that a single standard - marginal cost methodology -...

Arguing that the performance of industrial environmental regulation is determined by the level and nature of the innovation it stimulates, this tex...

Horace's Hope, Friedman's Folly explains the forces behind the current efforts to privatize education. It also works to debunk the idea that public...

A detailed analysis of economic policy in Latin America with particular attention devoted to the problem of controlling inflation and stabilization...

Unfortunately, to date, detailed information about the distribution of federal dollars has not been readily available or accessible. This volume at...

The idea of `economic planning' was a central theme of the radical economic policy debate in the 1930s. Born of the inter-war economic crisis, the ...

Addresses and analyses the increasing influence of transnational economic, commercial, political and legal policies on the national policies of dev...

Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continue...

Are ordinary citizens capable of shaping foreign policy? To answer this question, fifteen established and emerging scholars use South Africa as a c...

This book contains a number of cross-national analyses of policies and policy-processes regarding higher education. Design, dynamics and outcomes o...

A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim...

This book describes racist rule in Hawai’i during the first half of the twentieth century and how statehood made possible a fundamental transformat...

This book assesses the value and relevance of the literature on complex systems to policy-making, contributing to both social theory and policy ana...

As the public face of American has changed, so has the face of its foreign policy. Diversity and U.S. ForeignPolicy, goes beyond the traditional te...

The Minister for External Affairs, and the dominant force in the formation of Australian foreign policy for a crucial decade in the battle over Pal...

This volume clearly demonstrates the diversity of our field. Twenty-two scholars have contributed thirteen unique pieces of research on a wide vari...

In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s econo...

Organizational Behavior and Public Management reveals how organizational behavior enables managers to direct resources that advance the programs an...

This core text book takes social policy back to its basics. Concise, accessible and engaging, each chapter is structured around a key question, suc...