Public Administration

This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and governed by 30 governments. It leads practitioners and researchers th...

This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and governed by 30 governments. It leads practitioners and researchers th...

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores wa...

From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, images of crisis and reform dominated talk of Cameroon's economy. Doing Business in Cameroon examines the af...

Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system,...

A CounterPunch Best Book of the YearA Lone Star Policy Institute Recommended BookIf you care, as I do, about disrupting the perverse politics of cr...

Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their partys tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped...

Humanitys best hope for confronting the looming climate crisis rests with the new science of complexity.The sheer complexity of climate change stop...

Weixing, or surname guessing, was a highly organized lottery practice in China wherein money was bet on the surnames of which candidates would pass...

A Marginal Revolution Best Book of the YearWinner of the Shulman Book PrizeA noted expert on Russian energy argues that despite Europes geopolitica...

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic ...

Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, tes...

Dieses Lehrbuch gibt einen fundierten Einblick in das Politikfeld Familienpolitik. Es zeichnet die historischen Entwicklungen in Deutschland nach u...

The electric power industry has been transformed over the past forty years, becoming more reliable and resilient while meeting environmental goals....

From two leading experts, a revolutionary new way to think about and measure aging.Aging is a complex phenomenon. We usually think of chronological...

Why do top-down reforms to public services so often over-promise and under-deliver? Using five concepts from psychology, economics and organisatio...

This open access edited book connects two strands of federal studies, fiscal federalism, and diversity accommodation, to answer two closely interre...