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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration. By starting out from a broad concept of mistakes as “something [considered to have] gone wrong”...
Energy Policy in the Emerging Economies
Climate Change Mitigation under the Constraints of Path Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Energy has always been essential to economics and politics. While global energy consumption increases, fossil fuels are depleting. The countries that will be hit hardest by declining energy resources are the emerging economies of the Global South, where the relevance of the industrial sector is only...
Critical Issues in Public Art
Content, Context, and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In this groundbreaking anthology, twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators, and philosophers explore the role of public art in creating a national identity, contending that each work can only be understood by analyzing the context in which it is commissioned, built, and received....
The Regulation of Standards in British Public Life
Doing the Right Thing?
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
One of the most profound changes in British public life over the last twenty years has been the increasing concern with probity and standards. Some of that concern has been the product of scandals such as the cash for questions affair and the expenses scandal; some of it reflects the erosion of trust...
by Zeger van der Wal
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Truly global in scope and ambition, the 21st Century Public Manager addresses key trends, challenges, and opportunities facing public managers across contexts and regimes. This accessible textbook aims to inspire public managers in rethinking their roles, skills, and values as they enter a VUCA world—one...
Understanding Korean Public Administration
Lessons learned from practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most of the literature has been written in Korean. This book aims to provide more accessible knowledge internationally by filling that gap, covering both the...
Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis
National Trajectories and International Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies. Based on the results of COST research entitled, ‘Local Public Sector Reforms: an International...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Public procurement is vulnerable on many levels. Therefore, to increase protection and improve efficiency, governments across the globe are looking to introduce electronic-based infrastructures. Digital Governance and E-Government Principles Applied to Public Procurement is an essential reference publication...
After the Projects
Public Housing Redevelopment and the Governance of the Poorest Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public housing projects. In After the...
The Not-So-Special Interests
Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
"Lobbyist" tends to be used as a dirty word in politics. Indeed, during the 2008 presidential primary campaign, Hillary Clinton was derided for even suggesting that some lobbyists represent "real Americans." But although many popular commentators position interest groups as representatives...
Building Service-Oriented Government
Lessons, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Providing quality public service is one of the essential functions of a government. In the turbulent time, however, governments worldwide are experiencing a variety of unprecedented challenges to meet citizens' increasing demands and expectations. In China, building a service-oriented government and...
Public Service Accountability
Rekindling a Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important. Yet austerity, recent changes to accountability frameworks, and the loss of the Audit Commission have created a huge deficit in our understanding of how well services are delivered. The time is thus right to re-examine...
Building the New American Economy
Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this passionate and powerful book—part manifesto, part plan of action—the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes...
Foreign Policy for America in the Twenty-first Century
Alternative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In its unprecedented position as sole world superpower, the United States must judiciously consider what course to take in foreign affairs. Foreign Policy for America's Twenty-first Century: Alternative Perspectivespresents six carefully crafted and bold approaches to this problem from some of the...