Public Administration

While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and ...

The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has e...

This book moves beyond technical studies of pension systems by addressing the political economy of pension reform in different contexts. It provide...

Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, p...

Development researchers face many challenges in producing robust and persuasive analyses, often within a short time-frame. This edited volume tackl...

Combining theoretical and empirical insights, this book provides an in-depth analysis of South Asia's transition in the areas of democracy, politic...

Using the Peruvian internal armed conflict as a case study, this book examines wartime rape and how it reproduces and reinforces existing hierarchi...

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...

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

Policy-Driven Democratization  offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in ...

This collection presents the results of a research agenda which examines how information plays a key role in policymaking. As a very dynamic enviro...

Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities, civil society and citi...

Drawing on discussions of the Creative Economy, the Network Economy, and the Green Economy, Rethinking US Education Policy critiques educational po...

Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs. Where Max Weber m...

Robert Wagner was New York City's true New Deal mayor, killed Tammany Hall. The world Wagner shaped delivers municipal services efficiently at the ...

This study addresses the management of victims and victim policy under the Coalition government, in light of an increasing move towards neoliberal ...

From attempts to control inflation in the 1970s, through the reforms of the Thatcher years, to the rise and fall of New Labour, this book shows how...

Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy, and protest both insid...

US Environmental Policy: A Practical Approach to Understanding Implementation provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and ev...

This book examines the notion that while states may differ in terms of ideology, economic system, and institutional architecture, their role as an ...

Argues that autonomous agencies are not the result of a systematic design, but are produced by the interactions of political and bureaucratic force...

The first detailedanalysis of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) influence on global public sector reform. Based o...

This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital. In the grip of the current debt crisis, where the social and capital seem in...