Public Administration and Public Policy
Ethnic Interest Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Albanian-American Movements
1st Edition
By Fron Nahzi
October 28, 2025
In 1999, Albanian-American community leaders sat with President Bill Clinton in the White House, discussing NATO’s intervention in Yugoslavia—a moment that played a pivotal role in Kosovo’s path to independence. How did a small ethnic community of roughly 250,000 people gain such remarkable ...
Labor Relations in the Public Sector
6th Edition
By Patrice M. Mareschal, Richard C. Kearney
September 14, 2025
In the last decade, public sector unions have encountered threats in the form of privatization of public services and the retrenchment of collective bargaining rights, as well as opportunities in increasing labor union popularity and activity. Retaining the structure that made the previous editions...
Rulemaking: The Creation of Law and Policy by Government Agencies
6th Edition
By Cornelius M. Kerwin, Scott R. Furlong
July 21, 2025
Rulemaking refines, and in some instances defines, the mission of every government agency and affects the lives and activities of all citizens and often non-citizens. It provides directions and content for budgeting, program implementation, procurement, personnel management, dispute resolution, and...
Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Comparative Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Jae Moon, Dong-Young Kim
December 30, 2024
This book examines why and how different countries developed different policy positions and responses to the COVID‑19 pandemic, particularly in the early phase, by surveying a sample of countries that are geographically, politically, and culturally diverse, particularly those representing the East ...
Social Equity in a Post-Roe America: Gender, Race, and the Rule of Law
1st Edition
By Lorenda A. Naylor, Heather Wyatt-Nichol
April 30, 2024
Despite hundreds of federal laws and U.S. Supreme Court decisions prohibiting discrimination based on sex and race, American women and people of color continue to face pervasive individual and structural discrimination. Women often lack equal pay for equal work, affordable childcare, and ...
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government
1st Edition
By Joanna Podgórska-Rykała
March 05, 2024
This book examines deliberative democracy and its practical forms and applications in local government public policy. Author Joanna Podgórska-Rykała explores the topic of democracy, leaning in particular on the origins of its representative variant. Analyzing the elite dimension of the concept of ...
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management: A Primer
1st Edition
By Robert Agranoff, Aleksey Kolpakov
June 30, 2023
Although one often thinks of collaborative management and related group problem-solving as different interests coming together in "peaceful harmony," nothing could be further from reality. Collaboration in real-world action requires steering and negotiation in virtually every situation, with a ...
Public Management Reform in the Gulf Cooperation Council and Beyond
1st Edition
By Mhamed Biygautane
May 16, 2023
This book offers an understanding of the current state of public management in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, highlighting the region's institutional and human capital constraints. Drawing on case studies from GCC states and beyond, the book provides a policy-oriented analysis of these ...
Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies: Best Practices for Public Procurement
3rd Edition
By William Sims Curry
September 09, 2022
Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies: Best Practices for Public Procurement, Third Edition provides state-of-the-art tools for best practice in the procurement of services at state and local levels, throughout the procurement cycle. Including lively case studies and ...
Handbook of Global Legal Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart Nagel
April 18, 2022
Featuring a pragmatic approach to coping with the legal complications surrounding pretrial release, drug-related crime, and freedom of religion, among other issues, this timely reference presents a host of legal policy problems in diverse political and cultural settings throughout the world. ...
Cost and Optimization in Government: An Introduction to Cost Accounting, Operations Management, and Quality Control
3rd Edition
By Aman Khan
March 31, 2022
The careful management of costs and operations are two of the most essential elements for successful operation of any organization – public, private, or nonprofit. This book demonstrates that a good grounding in cost basics, especially those related to cost accounting, operations management, and ...
The Public Productivity and Performance Handbook
3rd Edition
Edited
By Marc Holzer, Andrew Ballard
August 12, 2021
A productive society is dependent upon high-performing government. This third edition of The Public Performance and Productivity Handbook includes chapters from leading scholars, consultants, and practitioners to explore all of the core elements of improvement. Completely revised and focused on ...