Administrative Law category: 861 books
by Samuel DeCanio
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio’s exhaustive...
Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh
Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women’s political participation in Bangladesh. The discussion is set against the background of the...
by Berry Tholen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged. While many scientific policy advisors routinely present themselves as neutral or value free scientists, here is demonstrated that the ideal of scientific integrity as neutrality...
Japan’s Disaster Governance
How was the 3.11 Crisis Managed?
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Natural disasters are often multifaceted and cause severe damage. Disasters initiated locally can become national and even global crises. Today’s world urgently needs a new body of knowledge and techniques for the mitigation of and response to disaster. Central to such a body of knowledge are disaster...
Policy Capacity and Governance
Assessing Governmental Competences and Capabilities in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies. The book is structured into a series of sections on policy capacity in theory and practice, each focusing on a specific...
Ambulance Services
Leadership and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of the ambulance services against the backdrop of massive cuts in health budgets around the world and the changing context of pre-hospital care within the wider healthcare networks. The challenges of funding, training...
by Paul Joyce, Anne Drumaux
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book investigates the role and effectiveness of strategic management within public governance in Europe. Using findings from qualitative studies, it explores the governance processes at the level of the European Union as a supranational institution, and the level of national governments. It presents...
Regulation in Asia
Pushing Back on Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Unlike much analysis about regulation in Asia which focuses on globalisation and the transplant effect, leaving domestic influence over commercial regulation under-researched and under-theorized, this book focuses on how local actors influence regulatory change. It explores the complex economic and...
by Pia Grazia Mistò, Roberto Mordeglia
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Il presente volume costituisce il volume n 4 della Collana "Lezioni di Condominio", un progetto editoriale volto ad approfondire la complessa materia del Condominio degli edifici,che quotidianamente offre spunti di riflessione, discussione e dibattito. Nel presente testo viene descritta...
by Julie Newton, William Tompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
A stimulating and thought-provoking collection that challenges some of the emerging conventional wisdom about contemporary Russia. It examines the role of leadership, institutions and ideas, and the interactions among them, in shaping Russia's post-Soviet transformation.
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
This revised and expanded edition of a benchmark collection compares how civil services around the world have adapted to cope with managing public services in the 21st century. The volume provides insights into multi-level governance, juridification and issues of efficiency and responsiveness as well as exploring the impact of fiscal austerity.
Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy
From Classical Republicanism to the Crisis of Modern Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Contemporary philosophy still lacks a satisfying theory of punishment, one that adequately addresses our basic moral concerns. Yet, as the crisis of incarceration in the United States and elsewhere shows, the need for a deeper understanding of punishment’s purpose has never been greater.
In...
Stress Testing the USA
Public Policy and Reaction to Disaster Events
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Meltdown that led to the Great Recession and the Giant Oil Spill. The author uses stress-testing to identify weaknesses within the "system," and examine the response to disaster.
Russia
Strategy, Policy and Administration
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
This book examines how Russia, the world’s most complicated country, is governed. As it resumes its place at the centre of global affairs, the book explores Russia’s overarching strategies, and how it organizes itself (or not) in policy areas ranging from foreign policy and national security to...