Public Administration

Public administration in South Africa grapples with multifaceted challenges, from ensuring equitable service delivery to fostering democratic gover...

Ambient intelligence (AmI) was established in the late 1990s as a recent paradigm for electronic environments for the timeframe of 20102020. AmI is...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the third workshop on Business Process Model and Notation, BPMN 2011, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in Nov...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Busi...

How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine lea...

The nature of social democracy in the countries of the European Union is more significant and better understood than is indicated by the available ...

Contributors offer new approaches to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy. While the main emphasis is on the empirical assessment of the ...

De Vries argues that it is possible to explain when and in what direction policy change is likely to occur. He argues that what is neglected at pre...

This book provides a critical analysis of the employment of intelligence-led policing (ILP) strategies. It aims to convey a better understanding of...

The reality of animal experimentation and its regulation in Britain have been hidden behind a curtain of secrecy since its emergence as a political...

Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populi...

This book presents the experiences of eleven European countries in the field of territorial reforms. Based on case-studies that outline the basic f...

Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing tran...

This book examines the impact of public sector reforms and reorganisations on the experiences of the UK public sector's six million workers and tho...

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 ...