Civil Service & Public Sector

This book reflects China's experience, model and theory of successful inflation control. The idea of Stabilization of Expectations emphasized by th...

Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der Steuerung von sozialwirtschaftlichen Organisationen und von Unterstützungsarrangements der Sozialen Arbeit. De...

The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of peo...

The reason for the depth the 2008's global depression lies in the intractability of modern economic systems. This has led to an emergence of unprec...

Why is it that government debt in the developed world has risen to world war proportions in a time of peace? This can largely be attributed to gove...

Will history repeat itself, leaving Saudi Arabia to face another financial crisis due to drastic overspending and/or a dramatic drop in oil revenue...

Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptio...

Over the last three decades, Europe's generous social benefits have encouraged a massive surge of 'welfare migration,' especially of low skilled la...

In Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets , Ashraf analyses the role of social safety nets in a time when our global economy threatens our way of l...

Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power. Elite networks are inf...

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Var...

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing....

In the wake of the economic crisis, many public services are facing a challenging environment in which they receive less funding but are expected t...

This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms wit...

Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to add...

The Public Sector R&D Enterprise combines a primer on how government R&D programs actually work with a sophisticated methodology for prospe...

Nowadays, we all tend to be annoyed by bureaucracy and by propaganda, if only because both touch our daily lives. This book examines the intersecti...