Public Administration

Media coverage of presidential actions can not only serve journalistic purposes, but can also act as a check against unilateral decision making. Th...

Russia 2025 offers a compelling insight into Russia's future by exploring thematic scenarios ranging from politics to demographics. The widening ri...

Originally developed in Brazil, participatory budgeting is widely recognised as democratic innovation yet its concrete results vary greatly. Collat...

This work offers a political and historical analysis of Newark's modern politics since 1950, culminating with Mayor Cory Booker's rise to power and...

Was the victory of François Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book ...

This book explores the interplay between formal rules and real world differences, questioning to what extent size-related capacities between states...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public offic...

Ethically problematic cases occur everywhere, but rarely can the implications be as wide-reaching or the consequences as serious as with those in t...

THEORIES OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Seventh Edition, is a brief, readable overview of public administration theory that presents multiple viewpoints...

This open access book examines the roles of municipal chief executive officers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst it has long ...

Complex management issues in the public sector can not be adequately addressed with limited, short-term fixes - strategic, well-conceived approache...

In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word experts from a superlative to a near pejorative, typical...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The standard on government statements of work just got better! How to Write a Statement of Work has been a standard reference for government employ...

While the utopian vision set by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals is certainly one worth striving for, it is no secret that many ac...

Major paradigm shifts are occurring at rates that are difficult to keep up with, such as a rise in neoliberal paradigm trends, the emergence of new...

Compelling and robust, this book provides an analysis of challenges in public service outsourcing and considers how to avoid failure in the future....