Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting: Creating an Ideal Democracy
1st Edition
By George Robert Bateman, Jr.
June 30, 2021
In this book, George Robert Bateman, Jr. presents a philosophical examination of the potential benefits of participatory budgeting (PB), with recommendations of how they might be realized. The work of social philosophers like Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, Robert Putnam are studied to better ...
Corruption Prevention and Governance in Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Ian Scott, Ting Gong
December 18, 2020
This book analyses central questions in the continuing debate about success factors in corruption prevention and the efficacy and value of anti-corruption agencies (ACAs). How do ACAs become valued within a polity? What challenges must they overcome? What conditions account for their success and ...
Contextualizing Compliance in the Public Sector: Individual Motivations, Social Processes, and Institutional Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Saba Siddiki, Salvador Espinosa, Tanya Heikkila
September 30, 2020
Studying compliance to uncover whether compliance is occurring, and what motivates it, is central to the broader study of governance. Contextualizing Compliance in the Public Sector: Individual Motivations, Social Processes and Institutional Design develops an interdisciplinary approach for ...
The Politics of Fracking: Regulatory Policy and Local Community Responses to Environmental Concerns
1st Edition
By Sarmistha R. Majumdar
September 30, 2020
Over the last decade, the oil and gas industry has garnered a lot of support from the United States federal and state governments in the name of energy independence and economic prosperity. More specifically, hydraulic fracturing or fracking is said to not only make the production of affordable ...
Community Development and Public Administration Theory: Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashley E. Nickels, Jason D. Rivera
August 14, 2020
The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines. Moreover, the concept of community development has been historically abstracted, not only in the way the concept has been conceptualized in academic studies, but also by ...
The Data Economy: Implications from Singapore
1st Edition
By Sree Kumar, Warren Chik, See-Kiong Ng, Sin Gee Teo
June 30, 2020
"The data economy" is a term used by many, but properly understood by few. Even more so the concept of "big data". Both terms embody the notion of a digital world in which many transactions and data flows animate a virtual space. This is the unseen world in which technology has become the master, ...
Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions: Channeling and Containing Administrative Discretion
1st Edition
By Chad B. Newswander
July 16, 2019
As first responders to public problems, administrators must survey situations, identify solutions, and occasionally make executive decisions that are binding upon the government as a whole. The ability for administrators to assert claims that orient the government in a particular direction is not ...
Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting: When Service Delivery Trumps Democracy
1st Edition
By Anna A. Amirkhanyan, Kristina T. Lambright
July 16, 2019
Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is based on a simple premise: in democracies, power originates with citizens. While citizen participation in government remains a central tenet of democracy, public service delivery structures are considerably more complex today than they were fifty ...
Advancing Collaboration Theory: Models, Typologies, and Evidence
1st Edition
Edited
By John C. Morris, Katrina Miller-Stevens
October 23, 2017
The term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental ...
Anticipatory Policymaking: When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult
1st Edition
By Rob A. DeLeo
June 16, 2017
Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence in which government develops solutions for clearly evident and identifiable problems. While this depiction holds true in many cases, it fails to account for instances in which public ...
The Politics of Foster Care Administration in the United States
1st Edition
By Rebecca H. Padot
November 16, 2016
Government-by-proxy and intergovernmental relations profoundly affect the public administration of foster care. Using examples from foster care systems in the states of Delaware, Michigan, New York, and Rhode Island, Rebecca Padot eloquently combines a rigorous methodology and theory work to expose...
Environmental Justice Through Research-Based Decision-Making
1st Edition
By William M. Bowen
July 21, 2016
This book discusses whether and to what extent there are widespread injustices and inequities caused by the distribution of environmental hazards in America today....