Public Administration

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; ...