The Capacity of Local Governments in Europe

Sabine Kuhlmann, Benoît Paul Dumas, Moritz Heuberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book compares local self-government in Europe. It examines local institutional structures, autonomy, and capacities in six selected countries - F... Lees meer

Finnish Public Administration

• Paperback | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book provides a comprehensive analysis of public administration in Finland. Many of the basic structures of Finnish public administration have re... Lees meer

Networks Governance, Partnership Management and Coalitions Federation

Christophe Assens, Aline Courie Lemeur

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• Using examples from the European Union and the Regional Health Federation of Networks, this book explores the political and socio-economic challenges ... Lees meer

International Trends in Participatory Budgeting

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book analyses the participatory budgeting practice as it has evolved in evaluated countries, focusing on what is substantially at stake concernin... Lees meer

Value and Virtue in Public Administration

• Paperback | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways ... Lees meer

Public Administration in Italy in Political and Historical Context

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book is one of three volumes that provide a systematic overview of public administration, public management and public governance in Italy. This ... Lees meer

Local Public Services in Times of Austerity Across Mediterranean Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) ac... Lees meer

Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book explores sub-municipal units' (SMU) role in decision making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation and, in rural areas, ... Lees meer

Public Administration in Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book considers the ways in which public administration (PA) has been studied in Europe over the last forty years, and examines in particular the ... Lees meer

Developments in Strategic and Public Management

Paul Joyce, Marc Holzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• Through up-to-date studies of public services, an outstanding cast of contributors provide in-depth and innovative perspectives on the state of strate... Lees meer

Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe

Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Harald Baldersheim, Nikos Hlepas, Pawel Swianiewicz, Kristof Steyvers, Carmen Navarro

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations ... Lees meer

Value and Virtue in Public Administration

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways ... Lees meer

Innovation in the Public Sector

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• Innovation in the Public Sector addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. ... Lees meer

Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• Offers a comprehensive comparative study of the different aspects of the governance capacity of Inter-municipal Cooperation (IMC) Examines decentralis... Lees meer

Public Administration in Germany

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany's public administration and reforms. It provides an ove... Lees meer

Improving Local Government

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• Introduction; P.S.Reddy, M.S.Haque & M.S.de Vries Metropolitan Governance in Latin America; C.A.Rodriguez-Acosta & A.Rosenbaum Local Governance in Sou... Lees meer

Strategic Management for Public Governance in Europe

Anne Drumaux, Paul Joyce

• Paperback | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book investigates the role and effectiveness of strategic management within public governance in Europe. Using findings from qualitative studies,... Lees meer

Swiss Public Administration

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services... Lees meer

Public Administration in Conflict Affected Countries

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the... Lees meer

International Trends in Participatory Budgeting

• Paperback | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book analyses the participatory budgeting practice as it has evolved in evaluated countries, focusing on what is substantially at stake concernin... Lees meer

The Importance of Neglect in Policy-Making

Kenneth A Loparo

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• How could the small country called the Netherlands -- almost totally destroyed during WW II, being very poor and judged to be primitive at that time -... Lees meer

Organizational Innovation in Public Services

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• Reforming public services has become an integral part of instituting austerity measures as governments around the world struggle to balance the books ... Lees meer

Performance-Based Budgeting in the Public Sector

• Hardcover | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both devel... Lees meer

Developments in Strategic and Public Management

Paul Joyce, Marc Holzer

• Paperback | Engels | Governance and Public Management
• Through contemporary case studies of strategic management at work in the US and Europe, this collection shows that it can no longer be seen as a disci... Lees meer