Public Administration

This book examines why and how different countries developed different policy positions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, by surveying a samp...

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-l...

This book provides an accessible introduction to causal inference and data analysis with R, specifically for a public policy audience. It aims to d...

The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing and researching Information and Communication T...

The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing and researching Information and Communication T...

While the operation and structure of the public workforce is not a matter that is on the minds of most, the consequences for the nature and effecti...

While the operation and structure of the public workforce is not a matter that is on the minds of most, the consequences for the nature and effecti...

On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, ...

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

Welfare state governance is about tackling social issues, empowering citizens, and adding societal value. It is also about improving public health ...

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of ...

The Covid pandemic has put all modern societies to a serious test of resilience. The interdisciplinary research on which this book is based examine...

Published annually, State Rankings features comprehensive state statistics making it easy to compare states across key measures in education, healt...

Rebooting Policy Analysis: Strengthening the Foundation, Expanding the Scope is a savvy introduction to policy analysis that gets students thinking...

This volume of The ANNALS brings together a leading set of scholars to present new research on trends in the spatial forms of immigration that are ...

Public Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects brings together exemplary contributors who provide concise essays on major contemporary pu...

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.Since the first half of the...

Learning Policy Advice in International Affairs and Diplomacy broadens understanding of, and helps develop the skills necessary for, effective writ...

Learning Policy Advice in International Affairs and Diplomacy broadens understanding of, and helps develop the skills necessary for, effective writ...

This textbook is essential reading for undergraduate and post graduate students of Public Administration, Political Science and UPSC aspirants. Luc...

This textbook is essential reading for undergraduate and post graduate students of Public Administration, Political Science and UPSC aspirants. Luc...

In 1769, the Welsh antiquary Thomas Pennant admired Stockton-on-Tees as a 'handsome town' with a 'remarkably fine high street'. Only a century earl...

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

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview covering distinct and relevant aspects of forest policy processes in Europe, presenting a fresh pers...

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview covering distinct and relevant aspects of forest policy processes in Europe, presenting a fresh pers...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) applies scientific results that have been provided by various parts of its own organization and by extern...

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nations economic success, rail has no equal. Railr...

Millions of students of noncitizen status or with undocumented family members experience financial, cultural, and socioemotional hardships that can...

This book offers a lucid and comprehensive account of the contributions of eminent theorists to the study of public administration and management. ...

This book offers a lucid and comprehensive account of the contributions of eminent theorists to the study of public administration and management. ...

Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century.This book exa...

In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. A...

Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flo...

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light ...

This book offers faculty teaching in public administration and public affairs programs a playbook for using popular culture as a pedagogical tool i...

This book offers faculty teaching in public administration and public affairs programs a playbook for using popular culture as a pedagogical tool i...

Contemporary political parties often use state resources to win elections. In this context, electoral clientelism evolved from the straightforward ...