Within the public sphere, the most important reform movement of the last quarter of a century
has been the New Public Management (NPM). It is of particular interest in the post-autistic …

Transparency has become a global concept of responsible government. This book argues
that the transnational discourse of transparency promotes potentially contradictory policy …

This paper discusses how local governments can team up for joint service provision, be
more adaptive towards new technological and organisational changes and introduce novel …

This essay argues that there are (at least) three paradigms of governance and especially
public administration: Chinese, Western, and Islamic–paradigms understood here as …

Sustainable Development (SD) and its pillars are well known, and the need for integrating
the social, economic and environmental aspects in development is widely accepted. A topic …

Abstract The New Public Governance approach advocates a more flexible and participatory
public administration as means to higher efficiency and increased legitimacy. Increasing …

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 …

Since the early 1990s there has been a surge in international efforts to calculate the
comparative performance of states in terms of various characteristics of governance. In this …

The politics of Tamil working-class identity in Malaysia continue to be articulated in subaltern
terms, employing term such as 'coolie', which is elsewhere an archaic usage from colonial …

To understand fully the process of European integration, it is necessary to consider
developments at the sub-national and local level. EU integration scholars have been …