Public Administration

A broad review of how nonprofits, businesses, and governments work together to tackle social problems Networks for Social Impact takes a systems a...

Using official statistics, this book explores how the SNP managed to confound expectations and win a parliamentary majority in the 2011 Scottish Ge...

Utilizing both historical and new research data, this book analyzes voting patterns for local and national elections in thirteen west European coun...

An analysis of Russia's response to globalization. This book explores how Russian domestic politics shape this international engagement. Thematical...

An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlarge...

Through a selection of in-depth interviews, a survey of experts working with the European Union and United Nations, and Qualitative Comparative Ana...

This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue ...

Drawing on cross-national European data from the European Social Survey as well as Swedish national survey data and registers, this book investigat...

This book focuses on all issues related to the human right of child primary education. It addresses issues of access to education, the benefits of ...

This is the first English language volume to offer such a wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. It constitutes the ...

Prime Ministers in Westminister style democracies are forever talking to and communicating with the electorate. This ground-breaking book explores ...

Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. By examining cases like Global Financial Crisis,...

Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence ...

This book provides a historically-informed survey critically outlining sociological, psychological, political, and economic approaches to the role ...

Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence ...

Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book exp...

The book introduces Legislative Conflict Theory. The theory suggests that conflict in legislatures in two-dimensional and that a moderate level of ...

Having destabilized dominant assumptions about the nature of religion, there is now a need to develop new ways of thinking about this ever-present ...

Using experiences of the white, English, working-classes in Manchester, this book explores the local frustrations with feeling 'ignored' and 'negle...

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...

A discussion of the case study method which develops an integrative framework for causal inference in small-n research. This framework is applied t...

Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defin...

Does theism dominant the language and practices of public life in the United States? This volume explores this question from a humanist perspective...

Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West is the first regional public policy study of American higher education. Presi...