Public Administration

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...

This title was first published in 2000: This text collects a set of specially commissioned chapters by British and German political scientists as w...

This book is based upon and extends the theoretical and empirical work of the author over the last decade. It integrates material deriving from his...

Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the world's economic crisis. Before it can do so, the discipline must...

Studying compliance to uncover whether compliance is occurring, and what motivates it, is central to the broader study of governance. Contextualizi...

Following on from the success of the editors' previous book, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which examined the pu...