A Research Agenda for Public Administration

A Research Agenda for Public Administration
Author: Andrew Massey
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 1788117255

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This book addresses salient current issues in public administration research. It seeks to suggest where future research may or indeed ought to be focussed. To advocate the future routes for the development of research, this book is divided into themes, with a clear overlap between different approaches. The book has contributions that will assist students of public administration/public sector management and public policy, especially new PhD students, but will also be a useful resource for more established researchers to understand the major emerging issues within the field.

Public Service Improvement

Public Service Improvement
Author: Rachel E. Ashworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199545480

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The performance of public services is a matter of concern in many countries. Issues of public service efficiency, cost, and effectiveness have moved to the forefront of political debate. This book applies the latest thinking from Management and Organization Studies to public organizations to examine how the public sector can perform better.

A Research Agenda for Governance

A Research Agenda for Governance
Author: Peters, B. Guy
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788117999

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This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of existing and emerging general principles of EU law by scholars from a wide range of expertise in EU law, international law, legal theory and different areas of substantive law. It explores the theory, content, role and function of general principles in EU law to better understand general principles as a mechanism for the substantive openness of the EU legal order as well as for cross-fertilization and coherence of legal orders. Their potential as a tool to manage the interaction of legal regimes and orders is a particular focal point and will make this Handbook a must-read for scholars of EU Law.

A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government

A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government
Author: Mark Callanan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839106646

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This insightful Research Agenda takes a thematic approach to analysing reform in regional and local government, exploring central concepts such as devolution, Europeanisation and globalisation. Expert contributors address key trends in structural change and reorganisation, subnational autonomy and decentralisation, metropolitan governance, and multi-level governance.

A Research Agenda for Multilevel Governance

A Research Agenda for Multilevel Governance
Author: Benz, Arthur
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-12-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178990837X

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This Research Agenda provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the field of multilevel governance. Illustrating theoretical and normative approaches and identifying prevailing gaps in research, it offers a cutting-edge agenda for future investigations.

Innovation in the Public Sector

Innovation in the Public Sector
Author: V. Bekkers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011-04-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230307523

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Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?

A Research Agenda for Digital Politics

A Research Agenda for Digital Politics
Author: William H. Dutton
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-05-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789903092

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This Elgar Research Agenda showcases insights from leading researchers on the charged issues and questions that lie ahead in the multidisciplinary field of digital politics. Covering the political implications of the Internet, social media, datafication and computational analytics, it looks to the future of how research might address the political challenges of the digital age and maps the key emerging trends in this field.

A Research Agenda for Evaluation

A Research Agenda for Evaluation
Author: Peter Dahler-Larsen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1839101083

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This unique Research Agenda addresses salient current issues in evaluation research, offering a broad perspective on the role of evaluation in society.

A Research Agenda for Public–Private Partnerships and the Governance of Infrastructure

A Research Agenda for Public–Private Partnerships and the Governance of Infrastructure
Author: Hodge, Graeme A.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1839105887

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This timely Research Agenda examines the ways in which public–private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure continue to excite policy makers, governments, research scholars and critics around the world. It analyzes the PPP research journey to date and articulates the lessons learned as a result of the increasing interest in improving infrastructure governance. Expert international contributors explore how PPP ideas have spread, transferred and transformed, and propose a range of future research directions.