Public Administration

A democratic society is grounded on the informed participation of the citizenry, which in turn requires access to Government information. If offici...

Growing numbers of consumer product recalls in 2007 and 2008, particularly of toys and other children''s products, focused increased attention on t...

The United States Congress conducts several types of activities for which it employs staff. These activities include assisting Members in official ...

Economic policymakers use various macroeconomic models, but how reliable are they in real-world conditions? Starting from the premise that all mode...

'America's greatest living essayist . . . Wonderful' Fintan O'TooleA panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore....

As the first book ever published for public administration statistics courses, APPLIED STATISTICS FOR PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT ADMINISTRATION makes a d...

Having celebrated its 70th year of independence in 2018, Sri Lanka, a strategically-positioned island nation, now finds itself with the potential t...

Jane Addams stands as perhaps one of the most prominent female voices in social theory of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While built throu...

Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earths lar...

Answers to environmental issues are not black and white. Debates around policy are often among those with fundamentally different values, and the w...

Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited oppor...

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...

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...

It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' to give honest, sound and sometimes unpopular advice to political leaders...

Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been a source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over th...

Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades. In Framing Inequality, Matt Guardino focuses on the ...

If 'prevention is better than cure', why isn't policy more preventive? Policymakers only have the ability to pay attention to, and influence, a tin...

What does non-hierarchical governance mean? Under what conditions are actors likely to engage in it? Which trajectory best captures its long-term e...

During the last two decades, public procurement evolved in most of the world but is often carried out by government officials with little or no exp...

This book explores a hybrid model of broadcasting and takes a close look at public TV broadcasting operating in a market-driven environment. While ...

In this timely analysis, Matthew J. Quinn plots a landmark reimagination of governance and public administration, underpinned by sustainable develo...