Civil Service & Public Sector

Increasingly, policymaking takes place while extraordinary events threaten fundamental societal values. During turbulent times, policy entrepreneur...

Drawing on a lifetime's experience of working in the public sector, John Seddon here condenses what he has learnt about public sector 'improvement'...

This book summarizes the new economic phenomenon and problems of rural families in China from the perspective of relative poverty. Based on the dat...

This book explores the privileged powers commercial banks hold, namely, their ability to create money out of nothing and then have that money grow ...

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard t...

A New York Times bestseller, The Dying Citizen is essential reading for any American who cares about the fate of our nation (Mark R. Levin)Human hi...

The concept of hybridity, although well developed in various research areas, is relatively new in the management field, where organisational hybrid...

This handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines and from around the world to examine the history, characteristics, effects, viabili...

This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years. Compiled by leading Korean scholar...

This volume presents new research and trends in applied macroeconomics. It features contributions presented at the 2024 International Conference on...

This Cambridge Element aims to advance theory by investigating the nature of participation in public service delivery. It situates itself under the...

This Cambridge Element aims to advance theory by investigating the nature of participation in public service delivery. It situates itself under the...

The articles on which Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are based are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Design approaches to policy-making have gain...

This book portrays India as a representative of post-colonial democratic republic states with a parliamentary form of federal-structured government...

In the US, as in many other Western economies, federal and state government is working to become more involved with the nonprofit sector; a sector ...

This title was first published in 2003. Over the past two decades in Australia and other developed nations, public sector management philosophies a...

Thomas Ehrlich served in the federal administrations of six presidents, beginning with Kennedy in 1962. He was also Dean of Stanford Law School, Pr...

Thomas Ehrlich served in the federal administrations of six presidents, beginning with Kennedy in 1962. He was also Dean of Stanford Law School, Pr...

The book intends to capture the most critical issue that has cropped up as an aftermath of the Corona pandemic- the phenomenon of widening of globa...

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (...

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.In recent years, ideological s...

This book is published in English that fully reveals why the Bank of Japan (BOJ) under Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has failed to end deflation. The BO...

Innovation is seen as an interactive process that involves many actors within and across organizational boundaries. In public sector services, inno...

Fraud, corruption and bribery in and around public services have become an increasing concern in recent years. The reported level of fraud and corr...

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and pub...

This book brings together scholars based in, or had previously been based in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries, building on their respe...

After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants w...

The book examines the essential aspects of consumer behavior within the sharing economy. This thorough analysis covers the pre-adoption, active usa...

When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police office...

The more than 200,000 men and women that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workforce have been entrusted with the ultimate responsi...

Grounded in the awareness that many public sector inefficiencies remain unsolved, Identity in the Public Sector presents a critical consideration o...

Alliance Contracting in Health and Social Care is a ground-breaking and practical guide to collaborating and co-ordinating service provision across...

Alliance Contracting in Health and Social Care is a ground-breaking and practical guide to collaborating and co-ordinating service provision across...

This book is for everyone who is concerned about the successful future of a very special institution the National Health Service (NHS). It provide...

This book is for everyone who is concerned about the successful future of a very special institution the National Health Service (NHS). It provide...

This book explores the central economic and political issues defining the modern world. With contributions from a number of world renowned economis...

Housing has always had a close association with the lives refugees lead in exile and the settlement of refugees is, at its core, a housing issue. R...

Congress is expected to announce that new practices are to be adopted across the federal sector which will incite new and innovative partnerships b...

While the operation and structure of the public workforce is not a matter that is on the minds of most, the consequences for the nature and effecti...

While the operation and structure of the public workforce is not a matter that is on the minds of most, the consequences for the nature and effecti...