Public Management

This title was first published in 2000:  Set in the appropriate political and administrative contexts, this comprehensive study of Bangladesh develops our understanding of the issues faced by developing countries embarking on the path of democracy and economic development...

This volume compiles a dozen essays, by one of the most prolific proponents of co-production as a solution for many of the challenges facing public services and democratic governance at the outset of the 21st Century. Co-production is considered a partnership between citizens and public service prov..

Insightful and comprehensive and covering new subjects like globalization and IT, this text, international in approach, provides a thorough introduction to the key phases of the contracting process and the skills required by managers in its implementation...

Governments are increasingly focusing on designing ways and means of connecting across government ministries and departments, across jurisdictions and sectors in order to solve policy problems or enable more efficient and effective policy development. Using the most international research, this book..

Hazards, both natural and man-made, pose a major risk to vast swathes of the world’s population. In the post 9/11 world, the scale, frequency, and intensity of these disasters and crises have dramatically increased, and the failures in public sector response have prompted a critical need to re-evalu..

Ethics in Public Policy and Management: A global research companion showcases the latest research from established and newly emerging scholars in the fields of public management and ethics...

Ethics Management in the Public Service examines the role of sense-making, and highlights how the five senses intersect with ethical discourse...

The financial crisis has largely been studied by economists, but the diversity of European countries' response has both an economic and a political perspective. By exploring national responses not just in fiscal terms, but also from a political-administrative perspective, it reveals that decision ma..

Innovation is seen as an interactive process that involves many actors within and across organizational boundaries.  In public sector services, innovation is a frequent, often holistic, and multi-layered process that involves many actors and many services at the same time. However, most of the exist..

Gender Equality in Public Services offers an analysis of how the organization of gender equality work in British public services is changing in response to legislation, the privatisation of and reduced state expenditure on public services, the devolution of power from central to regional and local g..

This book presents the most recent theoretical and empirical insights into governance networks. It provides a conceptual framework and analytical tools to study the complexities involved in handling wicked problems in governance networks in the public sector...

This book presents the most recent theoretical and empirical insights into governance networks. It provides a conceptual framework and analytical tools to study the complexities involved in handling wicked problems in governance networks in the public sector...