Civil Service & Public Sector

In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector i...

The importance of public financial management for the health and wellbeing of citizens became dramatically apparent as governments sought to respon...

The importance of public financial management for the health and wellbeing of citizens became dramatically apparent as governments sought to respon...

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

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...

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

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

A comprehensive guide to public sector collaboration with private and nonprofit organizations for better service delivery Governing Cross-Sector C...

This book provides practical insights into improving the effectiveness of labour negotiations in the public sector. It outlines the common concepti...

Over the past forty years, numerous theoretical advances have been made. From Ayres’ and Braithwaite’s ground breaking work on ‘responsive regulat...

This cutting-edge new casebook challenges the dominant White-centric narrative of public administration, offering a fresh array of perspectives, wi...

This cutting-edge new casebook challenges the dominant White-centric narrative of public administration, offering a fresh array of perspectives, wi...

Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more wit...

In Timing Successful Policy Change, Anna Marie Schuh examines four periods of civil service reform, especially their relation to legislative and ad...

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

This book is a bridge between the technical literature of administrative theory and philosophical discourse. It is needed because an adequate axiol...

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

Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the coll...

Governance Networks in the Public Sector presents a comprehensive study of governance networks and the management of complexities in network settin...

Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the coll...

This series presents selected research papers dealing with important methodological and theoretical issues in the policy sciences, with research in...

Originally published in 1986, this volume brings together papers on the organisational structure of select public enterprises from nine countries, ...

State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of state and local government public finance practices and issue...

State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of state and local government public finance practices and issue...

Steep socioeconomic hierarchy in post-industrial Western society threatens public health because of the physiological consequences of material and ...

The Police Misconduct Complaint Investigations Manual provides a timely and unique, step-by-step approach to conducting or reviewing police miscond...

The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality governmen...

The public sector seems to be in the early stages of a profound transition, similar in scale to the transformation of private sector industrial rel...

How do we conceive of policy and political studies? To what extent should our science be ‘normative’ or ‘objective’ or ‘positive’? Who are our audi...

In the 1990s, considerable changes in the political and social world have impacted on the character of both public and private organizations. At a ...

The Inland Revenue (1965) examines the organization and functions of the UK’s Inland Revenue Department as they stood at the beginning of 1965. The...

This book compares contemporary civil service systems across East and Southeast Asia, a dynamic region of greater diversity in local administrative...

Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets...

First published in 1998, this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives, Libe...

Public enterprises have played a central part in the development of all mixed economies in the post-war period, but they are now in a crisis phase....