Public Administration

High performance during catastrophic terrorist events require the ability to assess and adapt capacity rapidly, restore or enhance disrupted or ina...

At the turn of the millennium, Mexico seemed to have finally found its path to political and economic modernization; a state which had been deeply ...

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 book analyzes the theoretical and practical aspects of civil service in Polish public administration and discusses it in a European context. Wh...

′A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An imp...

′A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An imp...

American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens--Republicans and Democrats alike--hold negative pe...

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...

Improving Local Government Performance Through Benchmarking sets the record straight on benchmarking and its value for performance improvement in l...

Improving Local Government Performance Through Benchmarking sets the record straight on benchmarking and its value for performance improvement in l...

This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarsh...

More than 30 years after the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, it is still plagued with egregious problems. Issues of wrongful convict...

Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution is about a pervasive but little-studied phenomenon. Private funding of public police entails...

Practical Research Methods for Nonprofit and Public Administrators, Second Edition, covers basic principles of research design, data collection, da...

Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practition...

Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing lines withi...

Public services are increasingly delivered by organizations operating at arms’ length of governments. These organizations occupy one third of the t...

Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Bar...

This book presents contributions from migration sociologists inspired by Florian Znaniecki’s theory and the results of his studies to conduct their...

This book, first published in 1978, provides an analysis of British monetary policy and considers what techniques of monetary control were most app...

Intended as a successor to Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Croom Helm, 1978; Routledge Revivals, 2013), this book, first published in 1982 with...