Civil Service & Public Sector

The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficie...

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

Drawing on the most current and relevant research, this pioneering volume brings together the perspectives and experience of more than sixty leadin...

In this book, street-level bureaucracy scholars from South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America analyse the conditions that...

How well is the public sector performing? Are citizens being well served? This report compares the performance of nine public services in 36 develo...

Combined with Student Book 1, these resources cover all mandatory and optional units for the extended diploma in uniformed Public Ser...

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of coun...

Combined with our Student Book 2, these resources cover all mandatory and optional units for the extended diploma in uniformed Public Services, an...

What does it take to design effective government institutions and sustain positive changes? What have we learnt about the attempts to deliberately...

As corruption is a serious problem in many Asian countries their governments have introduced many anti-corruption measures since the 1950s. This bo...

This revised and expanded edition of a benchmark collection compares how civil services around the world have adapted to cope with managing public ...

In 1973, Betsy Ann Plank became the first woman to chair the Public Relations Society of America in its twenty-five-year history. It was a tumultuo...

Harvard University has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With three chapters on themes in Harvard ec...

This open access book offers a comprehensive analysis of Chinas way of economic development balancing between efficiency and equity, striving to in...

Hailed for its timelessness and timeliness, Public Administration in Theory and Practice examines public administration from a normative perspectiv...

This collection examines the leadership training of public administration in 19 countries and provides information on where, what, and how the trai...

This Open Access book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the water, energy, and food (WEF) security nexus with a regional focus on East and Sou...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Complex coordination across time, space, and cultures involves ...

What is the role of the public bureaucracy in social, economic, and political development? What are the alternatives of development for newly emerg...

An issue for Congress and state and local governments is whether the pay and benefits of public workers are comparable to those of workers in the p...

A LA Times Bestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders. Los...

A LA Times Bestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders. Lo...

This book aims to develop four key challenges that remain unresolved in the boundary-spanning literature, which span from the conceptual, to the pr...

This volume accesses governance in public and non-profit organizations. Building on and challenging recent research in this area, this volume criti...

New Perspectives in Policing: Stress, Public Perception and Leadership' is a new collection of articles that represent the very highest level of sc...

For those bold enough to lead in this age of austerity, the challenges are immense. Seismic shifts have taken place in the public and third sectors...

For those bold enough to lead in this age of austerity, the challenges are immense. Seismic shifts have taken place in the public and third sectors...

This study investigated the management of intellectual capital (observed as internal capital, external capital, and human capital) as a tool for no...

In recent years, a wave of reforms known as nudges or behavioural interventions have emerged in public policy and administration. Nudge policies ar...

With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and envi...

Grenfell didnt have to happen. On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid ...