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Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans 9781032924090
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the... -
Policy-Making as Designing: The Added Value of Design Thinking for Public Administration and Public Policy by Arwin van Buuren
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $136.11The articles on which Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are based are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Design approaches to policy-making have gained increasing popularity among policy makers in... -
Advanced Introduction to Public Policy by B. G. Peters 9781789908268
Booksplease Price: $193.38Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
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The Governance in a World without Frontiers: Governance in a World without Frontiers by Thomas J. Courchene 9780886451967 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $21.39The Art of the State includes contributions from Ron Daniels (University of Toronto) on corporate governance, Rick Harris (Simon Fraser University) on the new economic order, Pierre Marc Johnson... -
Reasserting the Public in Public Services: New Public Management Reforms by M. Ramesh 9781138874152
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many formerly privatized sectors. The change of direction is a... -
Resolving Messy Policy Problems: Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy by Steven Ney 9780415850353
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29Our lives increasingly take place in ever more complex and interconnected networks that blur the boundaries we have traditionally used to define our social and political spaces. Accordingly, the... -
Paying Our High Public Officials: Evaluating the Political Justifications of Top Wages in the Public Sector by Teun J. Dekker
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40In almost every liberal democratic society, an issue that is a topic of constant and passionate public discussion is how much that country's ministers, legislators, senior civil servants, and senior... -
Policy Analysis in Belgium by Marleen Brans 9781447317258
RRP: $218.38Booksplease Price: $178.50This unique book presents the first systematic overview of policy analysis activities in Belgium. Contributors from both sides of the Dutch-French language border (from research institutes in... -
Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance by Magdalena Bexell 9780230239067
Booksplease Price: $90.25There has been rapid proliferation of public-private partnerships in areas of human rights, environmental protection and development in global governance. This book demonstrates how different forms... -
Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies Mark Considine (University of Melbourne) 9780745627540
Booksplease Price: $40.37Mark Considine's new book explores the nature of public policy-making in a world undergoing cataclysmic change. Running through the text is the core assertion that policy-making can best be seen as a... -
Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries: Paradoxes and Practices Charles Conteh 9781032927015
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development... -
Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies Mark Considine (University of Melbourne) 9780745627533
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $104.93Mark Considine's new book explores the nature of public policy-making in a world undergoing cataclysmic change. Running through the text is the core assertion that policy-making can best be seen as a... -
Policy Learning and Policy Failure Claire A. Dunlop 9781447352006
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $136.11First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable opportunities for learning that they offer. Policy successes and failures... -
The Theory of Institutional Design by Robert E. Goodin 9780521636438
Booksplease Price: $62.63Problems of institutional design and redesign, structuring and restructuring, acquired particular poignancy through recent developments from eastern Europe to southern Africa. At the same time,... -
The Theory of Institutional Design by Robert E. Goodin 9780521471190
RRP: $187.18Booksplease Price: $178.93Problems of institutional design and redesign, structuring and restructuring, acquired particular poignancy through recent developments from eastern Europe to southern Africa. At the same time,... -
Transcending New Public Management: The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms Per Laegreid 9780754671176
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $93.95Following on from the success of the editors' previous book, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which examined the public reform process up to the end of the last... -
Success and Failure in Public Governance: A Comparative Analysis by Mark Bovens 9781843762171
RRP: $122.75Booksplease Price: $114.52Why do some policies succeed so well while others, in the same sector or country, fail dramatically? The aim of this book is to answer this question and provide systematic research on the nature,... -
Modernizing Civil Services by Tony Butcher 9781843762010
Booksplease Price: $226.55Civil services in Western liberal democracies have undergone significant changes since the early 1980s, so much so that many of the traditional assumptions underpinning their role and operating... -
The Experimenting Society: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Campbell by William N. Dunn
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37An experimenting society is one in which policy-relevant knowledge is created. It is then critically assessed and communicated in real-life or natural settings, with the aim of discovering new forms... -
Public Administration in the Middle East and North Africa by Shahjahan Bhuiyan 9781032485348
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72This book examines the status of public administration in eight countries-the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan, and Libya-in the Middle East and North... -
The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions: The Eastern Touch on Brussels by E. Heidbreder 9780230110960
Booksplease Price: $91.14How does policy-making trigger the institutionalization of steering capacities? This book investigates this question by tackling why the European Commission expanded competences that were... -
Theories of Democratic Network Governance by Eva Sorensen 9780230220362
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $176.59This book seeks to renew and refocus the debate on the use of governance networks in public policy making. It raises and answers a series of questions about the dynamics, conditions and functions of... -
Policy Sectors in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies: Volume Four by Iris Geva-May 9781032081885
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Volume Four of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis, "Policy Sectors in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies" contains chapters concerned with comparison within disciplinary policy sectors. The... -
Policy Analysis in Israel by Gila Menahem 9781447308041
RRP: $218.38Booksplease Price: $178.50Israel is considered a developed country yet both security issues and its frequently changing demographic makeup set Israel apart and imply that Israeli policy analysts must operate in a unique... -
Theory and Methods in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies: Volume One by Iris Geva-May
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Volume One of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis, "Theory and Methods in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies" includes chapters that apply or further theory and methodology in the... -
Institutions and Governance in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies: Volume Two by Iris Geva-May
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Volume Two of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis, contains chapters concerned with "Institutions and Governance in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies". They highlight that at the core of... -
Institutions And Democratic Statecraft by Metin Heper
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $100.60This volume of fifteen original essays examines the role of political institutions in establishing democratic stability around the globe. Leading scholars survey well-established democracies, such as... -
International Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships by Graeme A. Hodge 9780857932488
RRP: $116.90Booksplease Price: $109.36Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) promise much and present an exciting policy option. Yet as this Handbook reveals there is still much debate about the meaning of partnership, and the degree to... -
The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions: The Eastern Touch on Brussels by E. Heidbreder 9781349293575
Booksplease Price: $90.25How does policy-making trigger the institutionalization of steering capacities? This book investigates this question by tackling why the European Commission expanded competences that were... -
Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform Steven Van de Walle 9781138340824
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.56Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform offers readers differing theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform, combined with an overview of major trends in the... -
Governance, Politics and the State by Jon Pierre 9780230220454
Booksplease Price: $71.06Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in understanding national, subnational... -
Policy Styles and Policy-Making: Exploring the Linkages Michael Howlett (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 9781138085688
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $76.30Richardson et al.'s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) shed valuable light on how countries tend to establish long-term and distinctive ways to make policies that transcend... -
Governance for the Digital World: Neither More State nor More Market by Fernando Filgueiras 9783030552473
Booksplease Price: $109.43“This enlightening book provides unique insights into the governance of the digital world, and the impact of that digital world on governance of the economy and society.” —B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk... -
Advanced Introduction to Governance by Jon Pierre 9781784712129
Booksplease Price: $193.38Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
Regional Comparisons in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies: Volume Three by Iris Geva-May 9781032081878
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Volume Three of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis, contains chapters concerned with "Regional Comparisons and Policy Analysis" - one of the most prevailing approaches in comparative public... -
The Political Process of Policymaking: A Pragmatic Approach to Public Policy by Philippe Zittoun 9781349467440
Booksplease Price: $91.14Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering... -
The Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles by Michael Howlett 9780367713690
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $86.27This Handbook provides a systematic overview of the study of policy styles provided by leading experts in the field. The book unites theoretical bases and advancements in practice, ranging from the... -
The Political Process of Policymaking: A Pragmatic Approach to Public Policy by Philippe Zittoun 9781137347657
Booksplease Price: $176.59Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering... -
The Relevance of Political Science by Gerry Stoker 9780230201095
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $49.26What does political science tell us about important real-world problems and issues? And to what extent does and can political analysis contribute to solutions? Debates about the funding, impact and... -
Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration: How Populists in Government Transform State Bureaucracies by Michael W. Bauer 9781009010412
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $50.54Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions - political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law-are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe...