Public Administration & Management

Designed to serve as a basic text for an introductory course in Public Administration, this innovative work provides students with an understanding of the basic management functions that are covered in all standard textbooks with two important differences: It is written with the needs of both the ex..

Designed to serve as a basic text for an introductory course in Public Administration, this innovative work provides students with an understanding of the basic management functions that are covered in all standard textbooks with two important differences: It is written with the needs of both the ex..

Frontline work plays a crucial role in determining what welfare-to-work practically means and how they affect the lives of the people they target, yet few books have deliberatively focused on comparing what happens when professional social workers/welfare to work actors meet clients.  Pioneering the..

Based on the editor and his team of leading contributors collective years of work and experience at the forefront of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) issues, this book presents fresh information and insights into the GLBT debate. As GLBT policies evolve and take shape, and new voices o..

This is the first book to focus on select global cases from the perspective of best and worst practices in the context of crisis and emergency management. It brings together the most established scholars and experts in the field, offering theories along with an empirical success-and-failure analyses..

Exploring the development and contributions of the comparative public administration perspective, this book explains how the comparative approach is essential for developing authentic generalizations of management that are applicable beyond national boundaries. It builds upon the 2002 edition, with ..

This book brings together scholars and experienced practitioners from different countries to investigate the relationship between regulation and relational governance for the third sector in a comparative context...

This book brings together scholars and experienced practitioners from different countries to investigate the relationship between regulation and relational governance for the third sector in a comparative context...

Policy Informatics is an emerging area of inter-disciplinary exploration focused on infusing sound information management and computational sciences mechanisms into the policy design, deliberation, and implementation processes with regard to the contexts of larger systems.  This book will bring toge..

Highlighting the interplay between public actors and policy tools, this  text describes the skills and functions of public administrators in the context of networked relationships and presents the theoretical foundations required to analyze governance networks. It identifies reforms and trends in go..

Governing in a Global World captures the panorama of women governing around the world. Taken together, the chapters illustrate the worldwide importance of, and challenges to, promoting gender equality and women governing...

Governing in a Global World captures the panorama of women governing around the world. Taken together, the chapters illustrate the worldwide importance of, and challenges to, promoting gender equality and women governing...