Public Administration

Each year unelected federal administrators write thousands of regulations possessing the force of law. What do these civil servants know about the ...

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally. The initiative in east Manchester confirmed...

This study offers the first detailed examination of the varied means by which parliament through its committees and the work of individual members ...

The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive d...

This is the first book dedicated to Australian youth gangs, exploring the subtleties and nuances of street life for young men and their quest for s...

Beginning with the premise that democracies are often deeply implicated in their own downfall, The Theory of Democide challenges the conventional v...

America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent...

What similarities exist between the reasons for Labour losing office in 2010 and those behind why previous Labour governments were defeated? This e...

The end of the Cold War has seen an international proliferation of parliamentary bodies of all types and at all levels. How can this process of par...

Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy dev...

During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the un...

During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing citiessuch as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; ...

The authors assess the constitutional and partisan powers of Asian presidents, and analyse how they are used in actual policy-making processes. Cou...

A study of processes of political party formation and change in new democracies. This book argues that to understand party organizations we need to...

Examining the complexities and tensions in relations between party members and parliamentarians through an in-depth analysis of the processes that ...

The aim of this book is to capture, the international thought and practice of Kenneth W. Thompson. His career embodied three roles in which he reve...

Exposing the stakes and consequences of the enormous bureaucracy behind the administrative surveillance of alcohol consumption, this critical study...

This book is primarily an effort at resolving the persistent problem of underperformance of successive federal governments of Nigeria in public ser...

The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention t...

France Votes analyzes the French elections of 2012 in the context of a France and Europe in crisis. With regard to the economy, Irwin Wall describe...

Spanning the history of American leadership, the book examines all facets of American thought leaders and innovators along with the models of ethic...

What explains civil society participation in policy making in Latin American democracies? Risley comparatively analyzes actors who have advocated f...

This study departs from traditional interpretations of cohabitation in French politics, which suggest French institutions are capable of coping whe...

During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing citiessuch as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; ...

Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book summarizes what we know about ca...

Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years. The program has been pres...

The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism provides a timely analysis of some of the weaknesses, as well as the successes, of the liberal multicultural...

This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors inf...

Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business and government improves industrial policy, yet little rese...

This study addresses how China's policy response to problems in Xinjiang is interpreted and implemented by officials, who are both governing agents...

This study offers an analysis of the UK's current economic policy options and a plan for improving life for ordinary citizens via a sensible and re...

New Labour was outwardly hostile to trade unions and their concerns. Yet the Blair government worked closely with the TUC on several key employment...

India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic...

This study analyses enterprise development and entrepreneurship and their relationship with the state and market building in Russia. It focuses on ...

This book analyzes and compares the police's inner city presence in France, the US, and Britain. Its authors' research points to the idea that the ...

Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and argues that govern...

Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regenerat...

Based on an insightful and innovative reading of Kant's theory of knowledge, this book explores the political implications of Kant's philosophical ...

This definitive work mixes case law, public policy, economic strategy, and examines the wide range of issues facing efforts to improve the American...

This definitive work mixes case law, public policy, economic strategy, and examines the wide range of issues facing efforts to improve the American...

This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which the Bush and Obama administr...

In the last decade, the landscape of global health policy has been transformed, with a marked expansion in the number and type of organizations ope...

Immigration enforcement is carried out by a complex legal and administrative system, operating under frequently changing legislative mandates and p...