Public Administration

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...

This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and im...

Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Po...

In this far-ranging and provocative volume, Joe Colombano and Aniket Shah provide global perspectives on the most significant challenges facing mod...

This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations...