How can public-sector regimes, agencies, programs, and activities be organized and
managed to achieve public purposes? This question, of fundamental importance in the fields …

What counts as critical policy analysis in education? Over the past 30 years, a tightening of
national educational policies can be seen in the USA and across the globe. Over this same …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

In life, delegation is fundamental. But it is difficult, especially when attempted internationally,
as in the long delegation chains to the United Nations family and other global governance …

Written by B. Guy Peters, a leading authority in the field, this comprehensive exploration of
the political and policy making roles of public bureaucracies is now available in a fully …

As public and private sector organizations work more frequently in partnership, managing
uncertainties, problems and controversies becomes increasingly difficult. Despite …

This book is an English version of a successful text* on public policy analysis originally
written for policy practitioners in Switzerland and France. It presents a model for the analysis …

Los últimos años han contemplado una expansión en la utilización de la teoría de la
elección racional (TER) como herramienta aplicada al análisis de procesos políticos e …

Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is
maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in …

'Die theoretische Perspektive des Institutionalismus war in den letzten Jahren sehr
erfolgreich, weist aber immer noch einige wesentliche theoretische und methodologische …