Public Administration

Political Corruption and Democratic Governance explores the effects of political corruption on important aspects of democratic governing. Jongseok ...

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

Most experts consider economic development to be the dominant factor influencing urban politics. They point to the importance of the finance and re...

In this book, Bruno Boccara argues that complex and changing psychosocial issues, in particular those related to the societal unconscious, must be ...

Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy aims to make an important contribution to the study of emergency politics by offering an up-to-da...

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. She has been at the forefront of New Institutional Economics and Public Choi...

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. She has been at the forefront of New Institutional Economics and Public Choi...

Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users. This book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political ...

This book, by Michael J. Brogan, examines government budgeting through the lens of public budget forecast errors. In examining this aspect of the b...

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

2021 ISSR Best Book Award (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious di...

This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolut...

“How could this have happened?” The question still lingers among officials and residents of the small southern California town of Bell. Corruption ...

The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays focuses on the many challenges associated with performing a speech act on behalf of a collectiv...

Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the Soviet bloc and western democratic states during th...

Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through in...

Few will doubt the importance of the role that communication technology played in American politics in 2020. The Factors and Behaviors Associated w...