Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, the federal government entered a new phase -- the rise of the administrative state. Among the forc...

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 included a provision "to assess the panoply of benefits and programs available governme...

National Performance Review

This book presents a rigorous empirical study of various aspects of poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh. The themes include the trend and struc...

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

Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland. Typically, they are escaping wa...

The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers several programs to support small businesses, including the Historically Underutilized Business...

Beginning with the widespread use of e-mail by Congress in the mid-1990's, the development of new electronic technologies has altered the tradition...

This book summaries the background, methods, and key findings of the final report produced for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and N...

The Child Welfare System: Perspectives, Challenges and Future Directions opens with a description of the empirical results of a study on bird's nes...

What is wrong with democracy as we know it? Too many decisions are the result of political deals based on the power strategies and tactics of polit...

The "Veterans Choice Program" requires the VA to furnish hospital care and medical services through eligible non-VA health care providers to eligib...

An Amazon.ca Editor's Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012Shortlisted, Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Coh...

As governments around the world look for ways to curb fossil fuel emissions, more and more countries are adopting renewable energy sources. Wind po...