Public Administration

Dozens of books are published each year on leadership, but as pundits, scholars, philosophers, and public intellectuals note, what is written is to...

The Routledge Handbook of Parliamentary Administrations brings together an international, multidisciplinary group of contributors providing a syste...

The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security outlines the roles and responsibilities of various individuals and agencies...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic silently started in early 2020, and no one was prepared for it. Unlike the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003, a s...

Big data and its accompanying technological ecosystems have had a dramatic impact on business, politics and society. At the same time, the very nat...

This book offers an understanding of the current state of public management in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, highlighting the region's...

Dozens of books are published each year on leadership, but as pundits, scholars, philosophers, and public intellectuals note, what is written is to...

This book assesses the effects of globalization and neoliberal economic regimes in low- and middle-income countries, primarily on industries, inves...

The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security outlines the roles and responsibilities of various individuals and agencies...

Every year thousands of college students apply for and receive federally guaranteed loans to fund their educations in the United States. The loans ...

Featuring a pragmatic approach to coping with the legal complications surrounding pretrial release, drug-related crime, and freedom of religion, am...

Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary ru...

Devised to meet the ongoing challenge of identifying the skills and knowledge necessary for expanding the governing capacity of state and local aut...

As the study of public administration becomes more theoretically aware, researchers need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of different th...

Intense media coverage of the public pension funding crisis continues to fuel heightened awareness in and debate over public pension benefits. With...

Hearing the Voices of Children provides a fresh perspective on social policy. At the heart of the book is the emergence of 'children's voices' and ...

Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary ru...

Hearing the Voices of Children provides a fresh perspective on social policy. At the heart of the book is the emergence of 'children's voices' and ...

Policy Making in the Public Interest is the first text and workbook to provide a short and firmly focused introduction to local government policy m...

While the family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy, much of the literature is concerned with describing the ...

By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public health, this book attempts to connect ...

Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader...

While the family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy, much of the literature is concerned with describing the ...

Studies of the recent financial crisis have been largely dominated by economists, but the similarities and differences between European countries' ...

Global Governance Enterprises focuses on a specific multi-sector collaboration—the formation of an entity that carries out global governance—provid...

In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities t...

With the increasing influence of science and technology (S&T) on socioeconomic life and public affairs, there has been a growing demand for S&a...

Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector. In recent years, ...

Social media is playing a growing role within public administration, and with it, there is an increasing need to understand the connection between ...

The ability to create and sustain partnerships is a skill and a strategic capacity that utilizes the strengths and offsets the weaknesses of each a...

Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasin...

This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation.Within the field of Securit...

Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector. In recent years, ...