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Public Management and Administration: An Introduction
In recent years there has been a transformation in the management of the public sector. The rigid, bureaucratic form of public administration which dominated for most of the 20th century has been replaced by a flexible, market-based form of …
Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West
Michael Robinson tracks America's wolves and attitudes toward predators through U.S. history, detailing the evolution of federal wildlife-extermination programs.
Modernising British Local Government
There are many questions about the effectiveness of local government reforms and, in particular, their impact on democracy, accountability and local autonomy, argues John Stewart in this critical assessment of the challenges and prospects for …
What Went Wrong in Ohio: The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election
This fascinating and disturbing book is the official record of testimony taken by the Democratic Members and Staff of the House Judiciary Committee, presided over by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the Ranking Member. Originally published in …
The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities
Each of Siegel's three urban portraits—New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, — shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they once seemed to embody. In a narrative that …