In Protests and Riots: Past, Present and Future Perspectives, the authors analyse a variety of civil disturbances in Manchester and Salford, beginn...

"A really interesting and provocative take on 1968. This book addresses the truly global dimensions—and the unexpected, often long-term consequence...

"A really interesting and provocative take on 1968. This book addresses the truly global dimensions—and the unexpected, often long-term consequence...

The opening chapter of Public Administration: Perspectives, Management and Challenges is devoted addressing new challenges in public administration...

Public administration is the study of methods for improving and understanding how governmental programs are implemented, especially in terms of per...

Thirty readings that explore modern thinking of public administration: the philosophy, theory and practice and includes the most important document...

Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government policy. The pursuit of the pu...

Public diplomacy involves U.S. government activities to conduct U.S. foreign policy and promote U.S. national interests through direct outreach and...

To critics, public campaign financing, generally in conjunction with spending limits, is the ultimate solution to perceived problems arising from e...

This book reviews past proposals for and debate over congressional public financing. It also discusses experiences with the presidential and state ...

This book provides the reader with an introduction to Public Governance. To achieve such goal it enlarges upon six broad issues, each of them requi...

There are approximately 640 million surface acres of federally owned land in the United States. This book introduces some of the broad themes and i...

Twenty-four news networks, a plethora of newspapers and magazines, vibrant news-talk radio, and the ubiquitous Internet highlight our society as in...

Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the adult population. The principal approaches to the study of public op...

After the break-up of the USSR, the former Soviet countries took different paths. While many of them face severe economic problems or have become o...

In this book, the evolution of building a modern and creative society in China is explored in juxtaposition with the development of school educatio...

In any society, governmental entities enact laws, make policies, and allocate resources. This is true at all levels. Public policy can be generally...

Public policy analysis can be defined as determining which of various alternative public or governmental policies will most achieve a given set of ...

This compilation opens with an analysis of the way in which developing competition policies in the provision of health services in Vietnam could cr...

Puerto Rico has access to many federal programs, and is subject to certain federal tax laws; however, for some programs and for some aspects of tax...

Puerto Rico lies approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Miami and 1,500 miles from Washington, DC. Despite being far outside the continental United...

In this concluding volume in the trilogy that begins with On Power and moves to Sovereignty, Bertrand de Jouvenel proposes to remedy a serious defi...

In this concluding volume in the trilogy that begins with On Power and moves to Sovereignty, Bertrand de Jouvenel proposes to remedy a serious defi...

In this unique collection, noted historian Edmund Morgan focuses upon three ideas that lay at the root of Puritan political theory and have had a c...

In this unique collection, noted historian Edmund Morgan focuses upon three ideas that lay at the root of Puritan political theory and have had a c...

Russia made uneven progress in democratisation during the 1990s, but this limited progress was reversed after Vladimir Putin rose to power in 1999-...

This book provides a unique evolutionary perspective on the privacy debate by examining how technological advances enabled, and subsequently are er...

Qatar, a small peninsular country in the Persian Gulf, emerged as a partner of the United States in the mid-1990s and currently serves as host to m...

Qatar, a nation surrounded by the sea and only a sliver of land, has made it to the forefront of leading the world by example. The book is organise...

The quasi government, not surprisingly, is a controversial subject. To supporters of this trend toward greater reliance upon hybrid organisations, ...

Quebec's provincial government alarmed many when it enacted its odious sign law restricting the use of English. Although this blatant human rights ...

Jakarta based Andreas Harsono is one of the most knowledgeable, experienced, high-profile and courageous of reporters and commentators on contempor...

In recent years, racial profiling has drawn the attention of state and federal governments. In this book, racial profiling is defined as the practi...

The apartheid era in South Africa lasted more than 40 years. It was marked by political repression and the attempt to create a homogeneous white So...

This work, Radical Islam and Civil Conflict in Africa, is written by a two-time Fulbright-Hays Fellow who currently serves as course director of gl...

Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in mode...

Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in mode...

Very little is known--not only by the Western world but also by the Romanian youth--about the magnitude of the horrors the communist regime in Roma...

Designed to include all of the texts from Presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in an undergraduate course on classical political thou...

Designed to include all of the texts from Presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in an undergraduate course on classical political thou...

A reprint of the Routledge edition of Medieval Political Theory, a Reader: The Quest for the Body Politic, 1100-1400. This anthology includes writi...

A reprint of the Routledge edition of Medieval Political Theory, a Reader: The Quest for the Body Politic, 1100-1400. This anthology includes writi...

Loss of jobs, loss of young people, the ageing demographic, the apparently irresistible magnet of Auckland . . . the economic fortunes of New Zeala...

Since 2003, the United States has reported obligating $642 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq and provided about $24 billion for training...

Under the Constitution (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2), the President and the Senate share the power to make appointments to high-level policy-ma...

Twenty years after NGOs first emerged as objects of development research, much of the research on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and develop...

Reconstructions is a book about international development and several of its conceptual, theoretical, and some of its practical and behavioural fac...

In the American democratic system, incumbency has an inherent advantage at election time. Because the senator or representative already holds elect...