Public Administration

This handbook examines policy-making processes and policy development in the Middle East and North Africa. It assesses efforts to implement policy ...

Field research - the collection of information outside a lab or workplace setting - requires skills and knowledge not typically taught in the class...

Today, the work of government often involves coordination at the federal, state, and local levels as well as with contractors and citizens' groups....

Over the past three decades, governments at the local, state, and federal levels have undertaken a wide range of bold innovations, often in partner...

Different forms of city government are in widespread use across the United States. The two most common structures are the mayor-council form and th...

Indoctrinating the Youth examines how the Guomindang (GMD or Nationalists) sought to maintain control of middle-school students and cultivate their...

Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organiza...

While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do ...

Governments worldwide struggle to remove policy deadlocks and enact much-needed reforms in organizational structure and public services. In this bo...

Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice? This new volume brings together key exper...

Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at t...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that governments can quickly respond to a fiscal crisis without becoming mired in unproductive wrangling. But the pa...

Toward a Theory of Administrative Tethering is the culmination of a seven-year commitment to investigate and explore the highly complex and chaotic...

This open access book aims at discussing the manifold consequences that the War against Ukraine bears for the European Union and EU Studies. It tak...

With this newly expanded eighth edition of CLASSICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, authors Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde introduce students to the ...

Dieses Buch bietet eine aktuelle, umfassende und differenzierte Analyse der öffentlichen Verwaltung und der Reformen in Deutschland. Es gibt einen ...

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Ethics Challenge in Public Service is the classic ethics text used in public management pr...

In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing ...

The classic biography of Lachlan Macquarie, with a new introduction by Beverley Kingston. today he lives on in the names of a bank, a university, ...

Food bankswarehouses that collect and systematize surplus foodhave expanded into one of the largest mechanisms to redistribute food waste. From the...