This unique book offers a comprehensive survey of the privatization and deregulation of the public sector in a number of important developed and developing economies.
Agricultural politics and policy retain a central place in the politics of advanced industrial societies. Governments in most countries continue to subsidise agricultural production and regulate markets for farm commodities. The growth o...
Privatization is now a universal practice and is the result of a set of interrelated factors, all of which are explored in this collection. Privatization has also become an academic industry, generating a vast outpouring of books and art...
This book examines the special connections linking politics, administration and technology in the ‘information society’. Paul Frissen describes recent developments both within public administration and in postmodernism and uses examples...
There have been dramatic changes in education policy throughout the world in the final quarter of the 20th Century. This important volume presents an invaluable collection of previously published and specially commissioned articles whic...
This innovative book examines the concept of Eurogovernance and the parameters of public policymaking in contemporary Europe. It argues that government and governance can only be understood from a multi-theoretical perspective and analy...
This innovative book sheds new light on the various transfer processes of economic knowledge from the academic environment to the outside world. The internationally acclaimed group of authors considers the transfer of knowledge in the t...
Edited by Arvind Panagariya, Paul R. Portney, Robert M. Schwab
Wallace E. Oates has made a pioneering contribution to environmental and public economics. This original selection of essays honors his seminal work in both these fields.
Migration and Public Policy brings together the most significant papers by leading scholars on both international and internal migration. It investigates the role of governments in encouraging, discouraging or forcing such migration. T...
Edited by Wyn P. Grant, Anthony Perl, Peter Knoepfel
Improving urban air quality has become a policy priority for the European Union, national governments and city authorities as more evidence comes to light of the harmful health effects of road traffic pollution. This book clearly illust...
Comparative Public Policy provides the first truly systematic and comprehensive account of the transformation of the post-war state in the advanced countries of the Western world. The author generates new research findings which show how...
Persistent Disparity provides a comprehensive examination of the magnitude and scope of racial economic disparity in the United States. The authors directly assess the extent of black economic progress in the US since World War II and a...
