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Describes major policy and administration issues that are critical to understanding the field of sustainable development. This book emphasizes the need to promote the objectives of sustainability while exploring ways to meet the needs of future generations. It features discussion of major dimensions, theoretical frameworks and institutions.

Presents an overview of the juvenile justice system and policy implications. This book offers a representation of theoretical, research, policy, and legal related materials associated with the juvenile justice system. It presents both historical and modern accounts of issues pertaining to juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice and juvenile law.

Examines the local, national, and international impacts of globalization as well as the solutions that support healthy economic growth and environmental protection. This book presents global environmental issues and politics, examines environmental management and accountability, and explores global environmental organizations and institutions.

Identifies common patterns and the variations that different contexts may generate. This work covers the mainstream methods of decision making such as cost-benefit analysis, linear programming and queuing. It also explains alternative and emerging methods such as geographic information systems, Q-methodology and narrative policy analysis.

Using a compilation of articles on various topics relating to technology management, this work addresses the management, implementation and integration of technology across a variety of disciplines. It raises questions about the productivity, violence, and intrusions of technology into the personal and social environments as we move forward.

Few subjects are more influenced by philosophy than the form of governance that guides and administers public affairs, yet much of the literature about public administration remains silent about this connection. This book discusses many of the most important philosophies and movements that have influenced contemporary public administration.

Covers diverse issues, aspects, and features of public administration and policy around the world. This book focuses on bureaucracy and bureaucratic politics in developing and industrialized countries. It emphasizes administrative performance and policy implementation, as well as political system maintenance and regime enhancement.

The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the current state of digital divides, ranging from global challenges in universal access to new opportunities for greater digital inclusiveness (e-inclusion). The first part of the book illustrates current challenges and provides examples from emerging markets and developed countries alike. It covers digital divides facing a developing country like Ghana and the range of divides in large places like Australia, China, and Russia. It also discusses digital skill divides in Europe and the digital gender divide, which shows that there are more men online than women. The second part of the book focuses on e-inclusion and describes recent efforts to bridge digital divides through a number of initiatives. It explores the inclusion programs in Singapore, the efforts in India to leverage mobile devices, and how a UK nongovernmental organization attempts to bridge existing gaps there. It also assesses programs in several countries that provide computers to youth. The book concludes with a view toward the future, including challenges in determining outcomes in ICT for development (ICT4D) and anticipated new divides. It introduces the cyber dependency matrix to illustrate where countries are in their journey toward an information society and what happens as they reach higher levels. Emerging concerns include a global information divide, courtesy of cyber security and data policies.

There is a lot of chatter in the media about whether the pride that Americans have felt towards their citizenship and the connection they¿ve felt towards their democratic values, can ever be restored. This book brings together a set of stellar scholars and practitioners to discuss and advance the cross-cutting themes and methods of engagement in sections 1) citizens and democracy, 2) institutional design, 3) cross-sector collaboration, and 4) value creation. The book contains illustrative case studies spanning local to global, analytical to creatively synthesized, and broad based to specific.

Explores how systematic research methods could aid in understanding traditional questions in public administration as well as theoretical and practical questions. This book offers encyclopedic treatment of research designs with case studies; surveys research designs used in public administration and relates these designs to analytical methods.

Presents a comprehensive review of tax policy from political, legal, constitutional, administrative, and economic perspectives. This book charts the influence of taxation on economic activity and economic behavior. It describes how taxes affect individual and business behavior. It shows how taxes operate as work and investment incentives.

Despite the US government spending about 15 to 20 percent of the GDP on contracts, public procurement remains an underdeveloped area of research. Focusing on the managerial, economic, political, and legal aspects, this book presents a conceptual framework along with case studies to describe each phase of the public procurement process.

This book sheds light on the concepts, processes, strategies, and institutions of development in a rapidly changing world, incorporating ideas and interpretations that have previously been neglected or given inadequate attention in the discourse on developing countries. The authors examine how to manage development with a new perspective that links the phenomenon with changing demands and the interplay of internal/external actors and a host of stakeholders. They assess real-world situations and provide insight into the operational dynamics of development policies, programs, and institutions.

Presents a set of broad-based bibliographic essays on strategic management. This book covers synoptic approaches, complexity theory, organizational capacity, financing strategy, networks, and chaos theory. It also looks at the use of strategic management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Focuses on developments in public administration in countries which are among the fastest growing economies in the world. This book explores their practices and approaches.

Offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of policy studies - discussing concepts, methods, utilization, formation, and implementation both internationally and across each level of government.

First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reviews a broad range of topics, including US decision-making foreign policies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, and Haiti, and rebel conflicts and restored relations among Eritrea, the Sudan, and Ethiopia, and Spanish enclaves in Northern Africa. This book also addresses pre- and post-Cold War policies in East Asia.

Reveals how organizational behavior enables managers to direct resources that advance the programs and policies of public and government. This book offers a public sector perspective of topics, such as communication, decision-making, leadership, management ethics, motivation, organizational change, participation and performance appraisal.

Addresses the aspects of public IT projects while emphasizing a common theme: Information technology initiatives are neither simple nor routine. This title covers issues such as network governance, cross organizational integration and operability, enterprise architecture design, development, and management.

Analyzes the ways in which constitutional law regulates how administrators interact with public. This book documents the growth of the rights of public employees and prisoners, explains how the courts have made it easier to pursue lawsuits preserving these rights, and examines the liability of public administrators who have violated these rights.

"High praise for the previous editions. . . . . .should be required reading for all Americans as a corrective to the administration's manipulations of perception." ---New Political Science ." . .The serious theoretical intentions of this volume distinguish it from the bulk of the literature on terrorism, much of which is policy-oriented or loosely descriptive." ---The American Political Science Review ." . .Among the works that deserve a permanent place on the bookshelf. . . .sober and non-ideological." ---Violence, Aggression, and Terrorism ." . .surprisingly broad in its coverage." ---Terrorism, Violence, Insurgency Journal ." . .provocative and innovative." ---Library Journal

Traditionally, resources on terrorism and counterterrorism tend to focus on the social, behavioral, and legal aspects of the subject, with minimal emphasis on the scientific and technological aspects. Taking into account these practical considerations, this text discusses the nature of terrorism and the materials used by terrorists.

Examines the inner workings of governments in East Asia, in particular its public administration and related public policy processes. This book focuses on the apparatus of government - the agencies, their values, context, and policies within which they operate.

Assesses the bureaucracies and development of governments around the world - providing helpful and revealing analyses of the relationships between bureaucracies and political regimes. This book reflects changes in the political systems of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the developing world.