Public Administration & Management

Public Administration and Society..

Public Administration and Society..

This book demonstrates how the theory and practice of public administration has evolved since the early decades of the twentieth century. It presents major trends in theory and practice in the field, provides an overview of its intellectual development, and demonstrates how it has professionalized...

This book demonstrates how the theory and practice of public administration has evolved since the early decades of the twentieth century. It presents major trends in theory and practice in the field, provides an overview of its intellectual development, and demonstrates how it has professionalized...

This public administration and policy volume studies the unique African perspective, as presented by leading regional scholars. The editors bring together a cohesive study of the major issues and regions by taking an analytic approach with the strong problem-solution application. Regions addressed r..

Written by leading experts, this book examines the inner workings of governments in East Asia, in particular its public administration and related public policy processes. It focuses on the apparatus of government — the agencies, their values, context, and policies within which they operate. Organiz..

Specifically crafted to give new life to public administration theory and practice by helping readers view the discipline through a variety of perspectives, this unique book brings together what has been learned in previous MPA courses without simply reha..

Specifically crafted to give new life to public administration theory and practice by helping readers view the discipline through a variety of perspectives, this unique book brings together what has been learned in previous MPA courses without simply reha..

In this work, expert contributors provide an overview and analysis of public administration in select post-communist countries, including Russia, Georgia, Czech Republic, Romania, and Mongolia. Because these countries were largely closed off to the world, there has yet to be a comprehensive study on..

While public administration practice and education has become considerably professionalized in the last decade, existing knowledge on public administration in Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, and Hong Kong is fragmented at best, and devoid of a useful reference. Sufficiently in-depth and w..

Continuing in the standard of excellence set by previous editions, this sixth edition assesses the bureaucracies and development of governments around the world-providing helpful and revealing analyses of the relationships between bureaucracies and political regimes. With over 1000 literature refere..

Africa stands at a public budgeting and fiscal administration cross-road. On the one hand, incomes, education, and life-expectancy rates are all on the rise. On the other hand, poverty is still widespread and economic inequality is widening. Now more than ever, it is important for administrators to ..