Public Administration

Government and market failures spur many citizens to practical action today. Around the globe people form renewable energy cooperatives, provide su...

This book examines the introduction and ongoing development of public medical care insurance in contemporary China. Based on extensive field invest...

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous com...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and th...

GIS projects have previously been viewed primarily as technical exercises, but it is now evident that the success of GIS projects depends as much o...

Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing ...

This book investigates the case of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Peoples Republic of China, mapping the changing patterns of pol...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.Critical legal...

This book explores encounters and interactions between international students and local civil society organizations (CSOs) in Japan. Based on the r...

This book examines the importance of accumulated disaster management experience and the risk awareness of civil society by analyzing Koreas COVID-1...

With a range of case studies from every continent, the contributors to this book analyze the challenges that arise for states living with much larg...

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.In recent years, ideological s...

Very little research has been conducted on how parliamentary oversight is undertaken in small countries and jurisdictions or across the southern Af...

This book outlines the history of German development policy, provides important insights into Germany's motivations for development aid and closes ...

This book analyses contemporary Mexico-China relations as a complex cultural encounter.Through an unprecedented analysis of the discursive producti...

Through a deep dive into specific problem representations in the policymaking on anti- sexual harassment at workplaces (SHW) in India, this book ma...

This book examines the experiences of refugees who populated the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany after ...

This book presents a nuanced analysis of governance in South Asia. It examines a range of themes including civil service reforms, women and develop...

Budgeting is a key aspect of governmental behaviour. Research on budgeting has taken various theoretical and methodological approaches, and these d...

Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. Unpred...

Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most o...

Children in immigrant families represent nearly one-fourth of all children living in the United States. As this population of children has increase...

African American Students in Urban Schools offers readers a critical yet comprehensive examination of the issues affecting African American student...

Good land policy provides a diversity of land uses with plural property relations. No single kind of property rules fits the purposes of all types ...

As first responders to public problems, administrators must survey situations, identify solutions, and occasionally make executive decisions that a...

American Public Administration has been the go-to introductory textbook for Public Administration courses with a focus on civil society for the bet...