Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
About the Book Series
In recent years governance has become an increasingly significant source of debate within political theory. This series provides detailed analysis of the exercise of power in institutional contexts and within the public sector. Subjects covered include:
* legitimacy and ethics
* accountability
* decentralization
* political management and public affairs
* management of public resources
Global Public Leadership for an Inclusive and Innovative Future: Issues, Models, and Strategies in the Era of Globalization 4.1
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Guo-Brennan, Linyuan Guo-Brennan, Maria Guajardo, Khalid Arar
May 27, 2026
Global Public Leadership for an Inclusive and Innovative Future analyzes the role leadership plays in balancing the competing forces of economic and social integration and the potential threats to sovereignty and cultural identity that result from globalization. This book depicts how, rather than ...
Innovation in the Local Public Sector: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
By Lorraine Johnston, John Fenwick
March 02, 2026
This book provides a critical exploration and assessment of public sector innovation, challenging conventional assumptions about the ways in which innovation is generated and how it may succeed or fail. Focussing on the local level of public sector, the book systematically reviews the ...
Globally Competent Governance: Strategies for Building Welcoming and Inclusive Communities
1st Edition
By Michael Guo-Brennan
December 26, 2025
Globally Competent Governance explores promising policies and practices developed by local governments and other community leaders across the United States and beyond in their efforts to build welcoming and inclusive communities and globally competent governments. Cities of the future, be they ...
Radicalized Real Estate Agents and the Rise and Resilience of the Australian Policy for Real Estate Carry
1st Edition
By John S. F. Wright
August 21, 2025
This is a book about policy change that focusses on a single case study: the rise and resilience of the Australian policy for Real Estate Carry. The text tracks investments of meaning and identity in the Australian policies for Negative Gearing (1987) and the Capital Gains Tax Discount (1999), ...
The Global Politics of Census Taking: Quantifying Populations, Institutional Autonomy, Innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Walter Bartl, Christian Suter, Alberto Veira-Ramos
June 27, 2025
This book examines in detail the state of the art on census taking to spark a more vivid debate on what some may see as a rather technical – and hence uncontroversial – field of inquiry. Against the backdrop of controversy between instrumental and performative theoretical stances towards census ...
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
1st Edition
By Mika Aaltola
October 14, 2024
Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political ...
The Structure of Policy Evolution: Painting an Integrated Picture of Change in Policy and Institutional Systems
1st Edition
By Oldrich Bubak
October 08, 2024
This book advances novel tools for the study, analysis, and development of public policy, essential in a world of growing diversity, complexity, and accelerating change. Inspired by research in technology innovation, the book brings its forward applications into the studies of policy and ...
Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
1st Edition
By Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst, Anders Molander
May 27, 2024
This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that ...
The Culture of Accountability: A Democratic Virtue
1st Edition
By Gianfranco Pasquino, Riccardo Pelizzo
May 27, 2024
This important book explores the cultural conditions that favour political accountability. It examines the channels through which accountability can be secured and the role that accountability plays in ensuring good governance. In addition to problematizing the notion of accountability, the book ...
Coping with Migrants and Refugees: Multilevel Governance across the EU
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiziana Caponio, Irene Ponzo
January 29, 2024
This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers’ reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance (MLG). It challenges the tendency of the MLG literature to overlook political controversies ...
Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe
1st Edition
By Paweł Swianiewicz, Adam Gendźwiłł, Kurt Houlberg, Jan Erling Klausen
January 29, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the municipal level across all European countries. Taking a thematic and comparative perspective, the book builds on extensive quantitative data and a large survey of academic experts in 33 European countries. ...
The Politics of Local Innovation: Conditions for the Development of Innovations
1st Edition
Edited
By Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner, Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas
September 25, 2023
Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not. This book solves this problem by answering the following question: what are the conditions for the development of local ...