Public Administration

In Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions: The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy, the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy...

This volume presents an analysis of Japan's powerful upper bureaucracy in the post-war period. The author's aim is to provide an empirical foundati...

National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there rema...

The Consequences of Governance Fragmentation explains the ongoing legacy of Milwaukee’s longstanding school voucher policy. The book details the e...

Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and...

Often described as complex, opaque and unfair, the EU budget financing system is an “unfinished journey.” One of the most critical issues is that E...

Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especiall...

In a time of austerity, the U.S. government’s reliance on the private sector for a range of services has declined for two consecutive years. Even s...

This book argues that active citizenship and poverty are inextricably linked. A common sentiment in discussions of poverty and social policy is tha...

This book outlines a new approach to the analysis of decision making based on "cognitive maps." A cognitive map is a graphic representation intende...

This book uses the case of the rise and fall of the Internet gambling industry to illustrate a new approach to understanding how public policy is m...

In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments d...

Although there have been other studies of elite administrators in France, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia, John Armstrong has made the first sys...

Each year billions of dollars are diverted by the President and his assistants from the purposes for which Congress intended them. Billions more ar...

One increasingly popular device for achieving a balance between authority and accountability in government is the institution of the ombudsman. The...

Federal regulatory agencies are often assumed to be excessively responsive to and influenced by the corporate interests they are supposed to regula...

Professor Zolberg brings the factual material about the Ivory Coast's social, economic, and political development since 1961-1962. Originally publ...

The relative effectiveness of various institutions, such as the market or government, is based on the ability for individuals to access and use dis...