This book provides an in-depth explanation of public pension plan management and the decision-making processes surrounding pension policies within state and local governments in the United States. This book provides an in-depth expl...Loe edasi...
This book examines the progress of institutionalisation of evaluation in Africa from various perspectives. It presents prior developments and current states of evaluation in 12 countries...Loe edasi...
As members of representative bodies at local levels of government, municipal councillors play a vital role in democratic decision-making most closely related to the daily lives of citizens. Interactions between councillors and citizens, between coun...Loe edasi...
This book generates a new connective approach to analyzing Southeast Asia alignment shifts in grand strategy and foreign and security policy. Drawing on cases across nearly a century including the Philippines and U.S.-China competition, Vietnams mu...Loe edasi...
This book advances scholarship on the infrastructural turn in migration studies by foregrounding the underexplored role of migration brokers from receiving countries and catering to foreign professionals. While existing research has predominantly fo...Loe edasi...
This handbook brings together cutting-edge academic research and expert policy analysis across fiscal, monetary, structural, and environmental domains. Public debt continues to rise at an unprecedented pace. According to OECD projections, sovereign...Loe edasi...
This book examines how Korea is pioneering the integration of data-driven innovation and artificial intelligence in public administration. It offers a comprehensive analysis of Koreas data policies since the 2010s, examining governance structures, l...Loe edasi...
Aid effectiveness remains a global concern, especially given most developing countries reliance on foreign aid for their development efforts. The aid effectiveness agenda, shaped by a series of international conferences, declarations, and high-level...Loe edasi...
The book challenges the narrative that decentralisation leads to enhanced democratic practices and higher levels of economic and social development. Its broad-ranging analysis and compelling arguments will be of interest to students, researchers,...Loe edasi...
The Decentralization Delusion challenges the narrative that decentralisation leads to enhanced democratic practices and higher levels of economic and social development.Instead, the book argues that decentralisation theory tends to r...Loe edasi...
The book categorizes Chinas food policies into four interconnected domains: food security, food safety, environmentally sustainable agriculture, and nutrition-oriented food policies. For each domain, it reviews key institutional developments, curren...Loe edasi...
This book examines how media shapes the publics perception of migration, exploring the framing strategies that dominate coverage and policy debates across Europe, with Italy as a focal case. Analyzing thirty years of media narratives, it delves int...Loe edasi...
Health crises, geopolitical issues, cyberattacks, the Great Resignation... Risks are more present than ever and come in various forms that companies try to control and interpret to avoid bankruptcy. However, the methods and tec...Loe edasi...
First published in 1966, Parliament and Administration presents a comprehensive overview of the structure and functioning of the Estimates Committee along with a number of problems affecting the Committees organization....Loe edasi...
First published in 1982, Approaches in Public Policy is an integrated, purpose-written text on the context, process, and practice of policymaking in the public sector, particularly at the local level. It will be of interest to students and researche...Loe edasi...
This volume provides an in-depth, qualitative analysis of volunteers and volunteerism in the U.S. National Parks Service (NPS). Over the course of the 50+-year history of the Volunteers-in-Parks (VIP) program, there has been no systematic research u...Loe edasi...
Voter turnout in local elections is paradoxical. It is where government is closest to those governed and where many first become politically active; yet, it is also where political participation in the form of voting is the lowest. If high partici...Loe edasi...
The trusted guide to honing your public policy writing skills and making a significant impact on the world, thoroughly updated and expanded.Effective policy writing holds the transformative power to inspire action, shape public opini...Loe edasi...
This book unveils how donor dependence and geopolitics influence the motives and activities of South Asian NGOs while operating in diverse development discourse, developing a superiority-complex challenge in upholding their core values. In doing so,...Loe edasi...
This book offers a deep exploration of recent rural land reform within China, focusing on how a central-initiated policy experimentation has played out at the county-level. Through the lens of urban theories, including local governments behavior, st...Loe edasi...
This book explores how Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) can be integrated into Indigenous engagement and consultation processes in Canadas natural resource sector. The author critiques the existing regulatory framework, which separates forma...Loe edasi...
There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. Public participation is ofte...Loe edasi...
This book provides an overview of significant ongoing global policy challenges from the climate crisis, conflicts and food insecurity to the cost-of-living crisis and global inequality. It examines how collaborative public sector entrepreneurship is...Loe edasi...
Laurie A. Buonanno, Lisa K. Parshall, Frederick G. Floss, Byron W. Brown
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807530)
Explains how New Yorks institutions and policymakers have governed the state through a series of contemporary crises. This volume takes a fresh approach to the study of New York State politics and government through an examination of gov...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807455)
Reveals how trustbuilt, broken, and rebuiltshapes the everyday work of frontline public servants and the quality of the relationship between citizens and the state. Trust at the Ground Level of Government moves beyond abstract theory to s...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1969, this book discusses specific issues in the rise of a ‘constitutional bureaucracy’ as a counter-part to constitutional monarchy. These issues, including patronage, ministerial power and responsibility and the ‘grey-emi...Loe edasi...
The appointment of a committee of inquiry to examine a question of current political controversy is a common occurrence in Britain. First published in 1975, in this new study for the Royal Institute of Public Administration, the author explores th...Loe edasi...
Inspection is one of the oldest forms of governmental influence and control. Yet the process had been largely neglected in studies of British government. Originally published in 1981, this study examines two of its major, long-standing aims: to en...Loe edasi...
This title examines the multifaceted role of traditional leadership in South African education, addressing governance, development, safety, and community partnerships in rural schools. The research analyzes land administration, school-community bo...Loe edasi...
