Bidding contests for sporting and cultural events are attracting increasing media and public attention. Yet, despite the cost, size and scale of these bidding contests, relatively little academic attention has been paid to the strategies and tactics used to develop successful bi…
"The Handbook gives a comprehensive picture of the varieties of governance in areas of limited statehood from interdisciplinary perspectives including political science, geography, history, law, and economics. Twenty-nine chapters review the academic scholarship and explore the …
The public service has changed dramatically during the past several decades. Reviewing these changes, this book presents contributions from top international experts on public management and public administration. It provides a global assessment of reform and the lessons governm…
This volume examines recent changes in central governmental administration in contemporary democracies by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. It studies and explains how New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM reforms affect the organizational proliferation and …
"Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world's poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto li…
"This is a unique collection of papers bringing together those who work in and with EU business associations at the very highest level, with many of the leading academic authors on associations over the past two decades. It examines the factors that influence the effectiveness o…
What does EU law truly mean for the member states? Do they abide or don't they? This book presents the first encompassing and in-depth empirical study of the effects of 'voluntaristic' and (partly) 'soft' EU policies in all 15 member states.
