Public Administration

This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises....

This book provides a richer understanding of democratic local politics in Indonesia after the implementation of local direct elections in 2005. Co-...

Public Personnel Management has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of ...

Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A hot topic in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it ha...

This title was first published in 2001. Based on a unique set of structured interviews with parliamentarians and additional interviews with party l...

This title was first published in 2001: In this compelling work, Matthew Flinders examines how far alternative forms of accountability have evolved...

This title was first published in 2001: In 1989, central and Eastern European countries broke free form the Soviet Union and looked upon the Europe...

This title was first published in 2001: This innovative text applies new institutional economics, public choice theory, and new public management c...

This title was first published in 2001: Based on extensive research, this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without ta...

Issues of race permeate virtually every corner of policy creation and implementation in the United States, yet theoretically driven research on int...

First Published in 1996. This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor...

As the demand and necessity for greater international and transnational cooperation increase, the bureaucratic bodies of international organization...

Now in an extensively revised tenth edition, Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need, while in...

Originally published in 1972, Gladden argues that, when more and more attention is being given to the history of particular activities, to speciali...

In recent years, the private rented sector has overtaken social housing to become the main housing provider with some of the worse housing conditio...

The present Korean public administration and policy system has shown very significant differences compared to the system in 1970s. This book provid...

Many books on performance management or evaluation are about the public sector in general or specifically about some programs or organizations. Onl...

The European Union (EU) has a compliance problem: there are persistent failures in the implementation of EU rules and policies by the member states...

This volume contains articles examining freedom of information statutes, including those protecting government employees who expose official miscon...

The United States has two separate banking systems todayone serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks c...

This open access book provides a topical overview of education, development plans, the knowledge economy, and human development in the State of Qat...

While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twent...

What happened to the Quebec sovereignty movement after 1995? In Sleeping Dogs, Andrew McDougall reveals how a change in federalist strategy, combin...

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book enga...

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book enga...

This book contains an Open Access chapter. Public policy actors spend considerable time writing policy, advising politicians, eliciting stakeholder...