Public Administration & Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Civil Society and Participatory Governance

   Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

   By Maureen M. Donaghy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Beyond Inclusion

   The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education

   Edited by Satish Deshpande, Usha Zachariah

   In India, two critical aspects of public policy — social justice and higher education — have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
3. India Infrastructure Report 2012

   Private Sector in Education

   By Idfc Foundation

   Today, India’s education sector remains a victim of poor policies, restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools, children are not learning adequately. Increasingly, parents are seeking alternatives through private inputs in school and tuition. Students are dropping out...

   Published December 25th 2012 by Routledge India
4. The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation

   The Perspective of State Regulators

   By Michelle C. Pautz, Sara R. Rinfret

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics

   When we think about environmental policy and regulation in the U.S., our attention invariably falls on the federal level and, more specifically, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Although such a focus is understandable, it neglects the actors most responsible for the implementation...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Formula Funding of Public Services

   By Peter C. Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   The use of formulae has become widespread in recent years across most developed countries. In the UK, a conservative estimate is that annually £150 billion of public service expenditure is distributed using formulae, in services such as health care, local government, social security and higher...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Sars

   Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities

   Edited by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Ethics and Management in the Public Sector

   By Alan Lawton, Julie Rayner, Karin Lasthuizen

   Series: Routledge Masters in Public Management

   Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services. Such services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and amidst this constant change, there are fears that a public service ethos, a tradition of working in the...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

   The Scars of Violence

   By Brent Steele

   Series: Interventions

   In fields such as politics, international relations, public administration and international law, there is a rapidly growing interest in the topic of ‘accountability’. In this innovative new work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form of accountability in global politics has...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. Paying Our High Public Officials

   Evaluating the Political Justifications of Top Wages in the Public Sector

   By Teun J. Dekker

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

   In 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 judges should be paid. Nor is this surprising; the issue has considerable voyeuristic appeal,...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
10. Microfoundations of Policy Implementation

    Towards European Best Practices

    By Phedon Nicolaides

    Series: Routledge/EIPA Managing the European Union Series

    The European Union (EU) has a compliance problem: there are persistent failures in the implementation of EU rules and policies by the member states. This book examines how policy implementation may be improved. It explains the nature of policy mistakes, proceeds to consider how individual public...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge