Civil Service & Public Sector

In recent years, American attitudes about government have become increasingly disaffected and critical. After the 1995 bombing of the Federal build...

Although the concept of policy networks is now well-established in the field, most research has to content itself with description and analysis of ...

This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comp...

This study, with contributions from both scholars and practitioners, examines the theory and practice of public sector ethics across a broad range ...

Examining how public and nonprofit managers improve productivity in their organizations, Evan M. Berman lays out a wide range of tools and strategi...

Within this context, big data analytics (BDA) can be an important tool given that many analytic techniques within the big data world have been crea...

In this title, first published in 1996, the author uses the locus of control personality construct to show how workers who believe they can influen...

This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comp...

This study, with contributions from both scholars and practitioners, examines the theory and practice of public sector ethics across a broad range ...

Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatizati...

Networks have been described in terms of metaphors, governance arrangements and structural or institutional arrangements. These different perspecti...

′A broad-ranging and highly intelligent account of key recent developments internationally which skillfully updates the public management and gover...

Public Management and Governance is the leading text in international public management and governance and an ideal introduction to all aspects of ...

The Conservative’s privatisation programme was one of the most ambitious aspects of their attempt to redraft the political and economic map of the ...

This book provides an authoritative account of the first significant overseas diplomatic missions and forays made by Indian civil servants. It reco...

This encyclopedic reference/text provides an analysis of the basic issues and major aspects of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics and administrativ...

Innovation provides five in-depth studies on the 'state' of innovation in government today. Jonathan Walters analyzes what he has learned from stud...

A detailed study of the changes which have taken place in the British Civil Service since 1979. It is intended for political and policy scientists,...

The literature on gender and professions shows that professional careers continue to be impacted by gender – albeit with important differences amon...

Networks and other collaborations are central to the public sector’s ability to respond to their diverse responsibilities, from international devel...

This title was first published in 2003. Since the 1980s, in Australia and other developed nations, public sector management philosophies and how th...

The Routledge Handbook of Public Administration and Digital Governance is a comprehensive, cutting-edge guide for students, scholars, practitioners...