Politik und Wirtschaft

The Politics of Public Spending

Peter Spác / Petr Voda / Michal Tóth / Miroslav Nemcok / Lenka Hrbková

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the distribution of public money and its political and societal implications. Drawing on evidence from central and eastern Europe, it offers an innov...

China's Plan for Economic and Social Development

Jun Yin / Jia Xu

<p>This book reviews the basic process of China’s fourteen five-year plans with systematic theoretical overview and rich historical data and moves on to discuss the theoretical logic of pl...

European Economic Governance

Fabio Masini

<p>This book examines the economic theories and policies that underline the governance of the European Union. Through exploring the history of European economic governance and how this frame...

The Capacity of Local Governments in Europe

Sabine Kuhlmann / Moritz Heuberger / Benoît Paul Dumas

This book compares local self-government in Europe.&nbsp;It examines&nbsp;local institutional structures,&nbsp;autonomy,&nbsp;and capacities&nbsp;in six selected countries - Fr...

Dilapidation of the Rural

Sudhir Kumar Suthar

<p>This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor. By bringing in politics as a variable the research presented in the book reveals tha...

Collaboration and Public Policy

Helen Sullivan

Collaboration is a ubiquitous yet contested feature of contemporary public policy. This book offers a new account of collaboration’s appeal to human actors drawing on empirical examples across t...

Brazil and China in Knowledge and Policy Transfer

<p>This book examines knowledge and policy transfer from the perspectives of Brazil and China. It assesses how these two nations have emerged as providers of ideas and models that contribute...

Dynamiken lokaler Flüchtlingshilfe

Verena Schmid

Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung, Formen und Funktionen zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in Krisenzeiten einnimmt. Expliziert wird dies am Beispiel der sogenannten Fl...

Illuminating Policy for Health

Patrick Harris

<p>This book unpacks policy and politics for health, equity, and wellbeing. With a critical realist lens, the book provides a methodology for sophisticated health focussed policy analysis wh...

Der Nahe Osten und Europa im Spannungsfeld von Migration und Terrorismus

Yousry Hammed

Der Nahe Osten ist seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs die Region in der Welt, welche am meisten von Kriegen und den daraus einhergehenden Folgen wie Instabilität, Terrorismus, Migration und Flucht ...

Leadership and Performance in Public Sector Networks

Denita Cepiku / Marco Mastrodascio / Filippo Giordano

<p>This book analyses two key aspects of network management in the public sector: leadership and performance. It investigates what integrative leadership is, and how it differentiates from l...

Unsere Wirtschaft ethisch überdenken

Detlef Pietsch

Es läuft ganz und gar nicht rund in unserer Wirtschaft: Kam bereits vor der Pandemie der Wohlstand nicht mehr bei allen an, wurde die soziale Ungleichheit durch Corona noch weiter verschärft. Vo...

Ending war for a social construct that addresses new conflicts

Durand Castro Ndjimou

By not adopting a straightforward approach in exploring the risk analysis to stakes of peace in a global world, the author, as a convinced Durkheimian, presents in this book a conceptual and empir...

Political Economy of New Pragmatism

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

<p>This book provides answers to fundamental questions of sustainable development and international cooperation in light of irreversible globalization.&nbsp;Based on comprehensive resear...

The Belt and Road: Industrial and Spatial Coordinated Development

This book mainly addresses China's Belt and Road Initiative in terms of the connectivity industrial and spatial development, as well as current world's economic and trade pattern under suc...

Offene Grenzen oder Festung Europa

Matthias Wagner

Die Etablierung einer langfristig tragfähigen Asyl- und Migrationspolitik stellt eine der größten Herausforderungen für die Fortentwicklung der Europäischen Union dar. Gleichwohl ist der dies...

The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty

Brian Caterino

This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI). Poverty has once again become a major issue in American cities, and nowhere more so than Roc...

Public Sector Accounting, Financial Accountability and Viability in Times of Crisis

<p>This book examines the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for public-sector accounting and finance. It provides a holistic overview of government initiatives to navigate the pandemic, ...

Policy Learning and the Euro

Jonathan C. Kamkhaji

<div>This book analyzes the EU’s responses to the sovereign debt crisis that hit the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 2010. After reviewing the events that led to the crisis, it examin...

The Covid-19 Crisis

The threats of emerging diseases have shaken certainties about health systems, the effectiveness of governance, lifestyles and the reality of national sovereignty.<br style="box-sizing: bor...