Public Administration

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, w...

The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood o...

This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracy—institutions like the ballot initiative and the referendum—endangers the rights of minori...

Packed with case studies and ripped-from-the-headlines examples, Non-Profit Organizations: Real Issues for Public Administrators introduces critica...

As a book on public policy, this book is unique in addressing explicitly the role of human nature. Only with a good understanding of human nature c...

As a relatively young field, emergency management has already undergone considerable evolution and change. And now that Web 2.0 technologies and so...

This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracy—institutions like the ballot initiative and the referendum—endangers the rights of minori...

In Governance in the 21st Century, Morris Bosin offers an integrated approach in addressing real world governance challenges.Divided into four broa...

The Operator's Manual for the New Administration explains how government works and how to make it work to advance policy goals and objectives. Brin...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K–12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirm...

The Operator's Manual for the New Administration explains how government works and how to make it work to advance policy goals and objectives. Brin...

Social accounting as a discipline has challenged the methodology and focus of the larger field of accounting over the last 50 years. More recently ...

Sustainable Public Management explores key issues in public sector sustainable management that span from Nation/State to local government. It highl...

It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs an...

The European Union and the US are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), with potentially enormous econom...

Public policies are usually carefully designed to address a particular problem, but they are also shaped and influenced by the sociocultural herita...

Contemporary public policy challenges are increasingly called “wicked problems,” or problems that cannot be solved by one sector or one agency of g...

In the last 35 years, governments around the globe have increasingly contracted with nonprofit and for-profit entities designed to provide a portio...

This book advances novel tools for the study, analysis, and development of public policy, essential in a world of growing diversity, complexity, an...

The second Abe administration, which lasted for seven years and eight months, turned out to be the longest administration in Japan’s constitutional...

This book adopts a highly critical approach to the ways in which organisations have been analysed by orthodox theories and offers instead a perspec...

The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency is a persuasive, lively book that shows how systems thinking can be harness...

First Published in 1969 the Civil Service in Commonwealth Africa describes the changing role of the civil service in Africa from the colonial era, ...

In the 21st century governments are increasingly focusing on designing ways and means of connecting across boundaries to achieve goals. Whether iss...

Design for Policy is the first publication to chart the emergence of collaborative design approaches to innovation in public policy. Drawing on con...

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

As the twelfth most populous nation, the Philippines’ diverse religious and ethnic population makes it an ideal example of the changing tenet of wh...

Although emerging scholarship in the social sciences suggests that religion can be a potential catalyst of cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, ...

The Fundamentals of Developing Operational Solutions for the Government guides professionals on how to use operations research to solve problems an...

While public affairs faculty study administration and management techniques, few administrators of public affairs programs receive formal training ...

Public Value Co-Creation: A Multi-Actor & Multi-Sector Perspective addresses a fundamental gap in the scholarly field of Public Management rela...

When this book was first published in 1973 there had been little study of the relationships between the organizational structures of public bodies ...

Today, India�s education sector remains a victim of poor policies, restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools, childr...

This book aims to explain the gap between Western theories and the Chinese administration reform experiences.The book provides insights into how th...

In recent years, Israel has deeply and quickly transformed itself from a self-perceived social-democratic regime into a privatized and liberalized ...

This book reframes theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to public administration by drawing on complexity theory concepts. It aims ...

First Published in 1965, the Civil Service in New African States describes the problems and principles relating to the growth and development of th...

The customer problem in the public sector appears when too many processes are in place and staff volumes are too large to adapt to sudden change. A...

In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they ha...

The Fundamentals of Developing Operational Solutions for the Government guides professionals on how to use operations research to solve problems an...

Public affairs and nonprofit program administrators and directors interested in (or tasked with) implementing undergraduate programs require a reso...

This book investigates parliaments’ role in curbing corruption. In addition to discussing the definition, causes, and costs of corruption and the r...

Transformation of Korean Politics and Administration: A 30 Year Retrospective retraces critical junctures that were turning points in Korean histor...

Radical Civility unearths civility’s extraordinary potential by addressing why the virtue has fallen into crisis, recalling the injunctions that tr...

This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with inte...