Administrative Law category: 861 books
Government e-Strategic Planning and Management
Practices, Patterns and Roadmaps
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Various e-strategies have been developed since the late '90s in an attempt to describe the governmental vision for administrative and for societal change, the objectives and priorities with regard to the development of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at national and at supranational...
Governance in Modern Society
Effects, Change and Formation of Government Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book is the immediate result of the co-operation of a great number of scholars in the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). NIG is an interuniversity research school. As such it has a double task. In addition to offering a Ph.D program to students in Public Administration it also is a research...
Managing Democracies in Turbulent Times
Trust, Performance, and Governance in Modern States
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book discusses some of the main challenges that arise in the management of modern democracies, with a focus on the role of citizens and their perceptions of government. A theoretical and practical framework is suggested for dealing with some of the most urgent problems that governments face today:...
Smarter as the New Urban Agenda
A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This book will provide one of the first comprehensive approaches to the study of smart city governments with theories and concepts for understanding and researching 21st century city governments innovative methodologies for the analysis and evaluation of smart city initiatives. The term “smart...
Between Globalization and Integration
The Europeanization of Romania
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This volume focuses on the integration and globalization of Romania, a prominent emerging market in South-Eastern Europe and one of the major players in the securitization of the Black Sea and the Eastern European border, as both a part of NATO since 2004 and a fully integrated EU Member State since...
Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe
Decentralization Beyond the Municipal Tier
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This book explores sub-municipal units’ (SMU) role in decision making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation and, in rural areas, service delivery. Focusing on fourteen European countries, the book examines the impact of political cultures, administrative traditions and local...
Fundamental Rights and Private Law in Europe
The Case of Tort Law and Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
The book explores, from a comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective, the relationship between fundamental rights and private law in Europe, a debate usually referred to as Drittwirkung or ‘horizontal effect of fundamental rights’. It discusses the different models of ‘horizontal effect’...
A Radically Democratic Response to Global Governance
Dystopian Utopias
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book presents a critique of dominant governance theories grounded in an understanding of existence as a static, discrete, mechanistic process, while also identifying the failures of theories that assume dynamic alternatives of either a radically collectivist or individualist nature. Relationships...
Local Government in Australia
History, Theory and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems. Conceived in an international comparative context and primarily from within the discipline of political studies, it also incorporates elements of economics and public...
Contrôle et évaluation de la gestion publique
Enjeux contemporains et comparaisons internationales
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Dans un contexte mondialisé et rendu plus instable par la succession des crises économiques et financières, les exigences de la société se sont accrues face à la dépense publique. Elle attend de l’argent public qu’il assure efficacement, et au meilleur coût, le financement de la protection...
Social Media and Local Governments
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Today, social media have attracted the attention of political actors and administrative institutions to inform citizens as a prerequisite of open and transparent administration, deliver public services, contact stakeholders, revitalize democracy, encourage the cross-agency cooperation, and contribute...
Modes of Politicization in the Irish Civil Service
Ministers and the Politico-Administrative Relationship in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book presents a study of the relationship between Cabinet-level Ministers and top civil servants in Ireland. The nature of this relationship can potentially have far-reaching effects on people’s lives as it can influence the type of public policy agreed at top levels of government. A total...
by Steven G. Koven
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
This book explores contemporary and historical examples of bureaucratic discretion to describe a continuum of resistance to authoritative directives by hierarchical superiors. Resistance ranges from blind obedience or complete nonresistance to street-level opposition; in between these extremes, however,...
Actualités en droit public et administratif
La responsabilité des pouvoirs publics
Language: French
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Les thèmes et points abordés dans ce module tendent à faire le bilan sur les questions classiques, mais qui ont sensiblement évolué, relatives à la responsabilité des pouvoirs publics. Depuis le début des années 80 et la consécration par la Cour de cassation de l’illégalité comme équivalente...