Public management increasingly takes place in multilevel settings, since most countries are decentralized to one degree or another and most problems transcend and cut across administrative and geographical borders. A collaboration of scholars in the Transnational Initiative on Governance Research …
Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad; Lukamba-Muhiya. Tshombe; Ernest Peprah Ababio
With contributions from leading regional scholars, Public Administration in Africa: Performance and Challenges examines complexities of art of governance from the unique African perspective. The editors bring together a cohesive study of the major issues and regions by taking an analytic approach …
Comprehensive, but not overly technical, this book provides a legal-policy framework to the discussion of how coastal managers can best approach the problem of sea level rise. It identifies legal barriers and offers proposed solutions to mitigate the impact of those barriers. The book introduces …
A clear and practical examination of complex issues, Local Economic Development and the Environment: Finding Common Ground provides a broad, academic look at the intersection of two important areas for local administrators. In addition to managing development in a strained economic climate, most …
Saltanat Liebert; Stephen E. Condrey; Dmitry Goncharov
Although it has been more than 20 years since Communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, many scholars and politicians still wonder what the lifting of the Iron Curtain has really meant for these former Communist countries. And, because these countries were largely …