Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
Public Procurement for Innovation: Research and Development at the US Federal Level
1st Edition
By Dolores Kuchina-Musina, Benjamin McMartin
July 30, 2025
In this book, nationally recognized public procurement experts Dolores Kuchina-Musina and Benjamin McMartin present a comprehensive analysis of the alternative contract vehicles used to promote innovation in the United States (US). Kuchina-Musina and McMartin begin by introducing the innovation ...
Oil and Gas Waste Governance: State Politics of Induced Seismicity in Ohio and Oklahoma
1st Edition
By Zachary Mahafza, Jonathan Fisk, Joseph A. Aistrup, Lorraine W. Wolf
May 22, 2025
In Oil and Gas Waste Governance, Zachary Mahafza, Joseph A. Aistrup, Jonathan M. Fisk, and Lorraine W. Wolf tell the story of unconventional oil and gas production, earthquakes, and how they both relate to the much broader conversation centering on private property, energy production, and the role ...
The Public Policy Perspective: A Personal Analysis of Public Work
1st Edition
By Benjamin H. Deitchman
May 11, 2025
Public policy and public administration are fundamental to a functioning society. These fields are embedded into our institutions, everyday lives, and the greater culture. This book will explore public interest roles in 2025 from the student, scholar, and practitioner perspective, as well as from ...
Name, Image, and Likeness Policies: Institutional Impact and States Responses
1st Edition
By Darrell Lovell, Daniel Mallinson
May 05, 2025
This book examines the path that name, image, and likeness (NIL) has taken in the first years of the policy, how the expansion has led to differing approaches across state and universities, and how administrators in selected states are dealing with the rulemaking power they have. After an ...
Creating Human Value as Public Management Theory
1st Edition
By Joseph Drew
April 16, 2025
Creating Human Value (CHV) is a powerful public management theory that places the person at the centre of all decision-making. It is founded on millennia-old natural law philosophy, updated to cope with contemporary problems. At the heart of CHV is the ideal of human flourishing – this is achieved ...
Political Storms and the Federal Workforce: How Volatile Environments Alter Career Choices
1st Edition
By Susannah Bruns Ali
April 09, 2025
Under today’s divisive political rhetoric with direct assaults on agencies and career employees, practitioners and academics need to evaluate the impacts of working in contentious political environments. Encouraging a healthy discourse on what it means to work in a politicized agency, Susannah ...
Public Administration in Hong Kong: Dynamics of Reform and Executive-Led Public Policy
1st Edition
By Wei Li
November 29, 2024
This book investigates the case of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of People’s Republic of China, mapping the changing patterns of political-administrative relations affected by the sovereignty change and structural reforms. It identifies the conditions that account for the varied ...
Enhanced Parliamentary Oversight: Promoting Good Governance in Smaller States
1st Edition
Edited
By Rick Stapenhurst, Anthony Staddon, Isabelle Watkinson, Lesley Burns
November 28, 2024
Very little research has been conducted on how parliamentary oversight is undertaken in small countries and jurisdictions or across the southern African region (excluding South Africa). This groundbreaking book fills that void, providing rich insights into how oversight works in these countries. ...
Complex Governance Networks: Foundational Concepts and Practical Implications
1st Edition
By Göktuğ Morçöl
August 26, 2024
What are the roles of governments and other actors in solving, or alleviating, collective action problems in today’s world? The traditional conceptual frameworks of public administration and public policy studies have become less relevant in answering this question. This book critically assesses ...
Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice
1st Edition
By Sarah Ball
May 27, 2024
Using rich ethnographic data and first-hand experience, Ball presents a detailed account of Australia’s attempts to incorporate behavioural insights into its public policy. Ball identifies three competing interpretations of behavioural public policy, and how these interpretations have influenced ...
Governance in the 21st Century: An Expanded View
1st Edition
By Morris Bosin
May 27, 2024
In Governance in the 21st Century, Morris Bosin offers an integrated approach in addressing real world governance challenges. Divided into four broad sections, Bosin begins in Part 1 by introducing the nature of governance, its use in the public and private sector, and at different levels in our ...
Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience: Partnerships for Social Good
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Velotti, Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner, Elizabeth A. Dunn
May 27, 2024
This book is the first to discuss, in practical and theoretical terms, the pedagogical approach of service-learning to establish partnerships for social good that build disaster resilience. Across 12 chapters a collection of academics and practitioners provide insights on the benefits of ...