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"Globalization transcends borders and cultures as it develops both from the natural flow of information and communication technologies and as a directed and driven quest for global hegemony by self-serving corporations and world political heavyweights. It bears a multifaceted web of influence that manifests in inequalities in growth, prosperity, and accountability in varying social, cultural, and economic contexts.The Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration is the first comprehensive resource that untangles this complex knot of issues. Mapping the multi-layered relationships among the individuals, local and national governments, international organizations, global corporations, natural resources and the world market, this encyclopedic volume is both a primer and a guide for researchers, academics, and policymakers both public and private. The book demonstrates in broad terms how globalization presents new threats to national sovereignty, the environment and public health, tends to increase worldwide inequality, and produces global insecurity. Using country-specific cases, the essays examine the role of bureaucracy and market orientation in Hong Kong and China, the new position of public-private partnerships in Africa as protectors instead of exploiters of the people, a Russian implementation of incentive systems to maintain local growth, and the fruitless corruption of a land development scheme in India. Ethics and the need for future global consciousness is illustrated by energy policy, which pits consumers and business interests against local communities and is moderated only by supranational organizations. The solution calls for sustainable development to be grounded in community-based institutions while governments seek growth through market expansion worldwide. Concerns for public health, climate change, and sustainable energy are growing in the global village and understanding the multi-dimensional chess game is key to survival."--Provided by publisher.

#SBIB:35H100 --- Bestuurlijke organisatie: algemene werken --- Globalisering --- Openbaar bestuur. --- Algemeen. --- Public administration --- Globalization --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- International economic relations

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A study of how public service has changed in this new era of interconnectedness.

Public administration --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- History --- Philosophy. --- #SBIB:35H100 --- Philosophy --- Bestuurlijke organisatie: algemene werken

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The European Union is the world's most advanced international organization, presiding over a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this achievement, many observers point to its formal rules that entail strong obligations and delegate substantial power to supranational actors such as the European Commission. This legalistic view, Mareike Kleine contends, is misleading. More often than not, governments and bureaucrats informally depart from the formal rules and thereby contradict their very purpose. Behind the EU's front of formal rules lies a thick network of informal governance practices.If not the EU's rules, what accounts for the high level of economic integration among its members? How does the EU really work? In answering these questions, Kleine proposes a new way of thinking about international organizations. Informal governance affords governments the flexibility to resolve conflicts that adherence to EU rules may generate at the domestic level. By dispersing the costs that integration may impose on individual groups, it allows governments to keep domestic interests aligned in favor of European integration. The combination of formal rules and informal governance therefore sustains a level of cooperation that neither regime alone permits, and it reduces the EU's democratic deficit by including those interests into deliberations that are most immediately affected by its decisions. In illustrating informal norms and testing how they work, Kleine provides the first systematic analysis, based on new material from national and European archives and other primary data, of the parallel development of the formal rules and informal norms that have governed the EU from the 1958 Treaty of Rome until today.

Political sociology --- European Union --- Decision making --- #SBIB:327.7H220 --- #SBIB:35H100 --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Decision making. --- Europese Unie: instellingen en besluitvorming --- Bestuurlijke organisatie: algemene werken --- European Union countries --- Politics and government. --- E.U.

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Fischer critically examines the range of perspectives on policy discourse and discursive policy analysis that have emerged in recent years to challenge the dominant technocratic approaches that have shaped the theory and practices of the field of public policy and policy analyses.

Policy sciences. --- Political planning. --- Planning in politics --- Public policy --- Policy-making --- Policymaking --- Public policy management --- Planning --- Policy sciences --- Politics, Practical --- Public administration --- Political planning --- #SBIB:041.IOS --- #SBIB:35H006 --- #SBIB:35H100 --- Bestuurswetenschappen: theorieën --- Bestuurlijke organisatie: algemene werken --- Beleidskunde. --- Bestuurskunde. --- Sciences de la politique --- Politique publique

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The prevailing notion that the best government is achieved through principles of management and business practices is hardly newùit echoes the early twentieth-century gospel of efficiency challenged by Dwight Waldo in 1948 in his pathbreaking book, The Administrative State. Asking, Efficiency for what?, Waldo warned that public administrative efficiency must be backed by a framework of consciously held democratic values. Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State brings together a group of distinguished authors who critically explore public administration's big ideas and issues and question whether

Organizational change -- United States. --- Public administration. --- Waldo, Dwight. Administrative state. --- Organizational change --- Waldo, Dwight. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Government --- History, Political --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Public administration --- #SBIB:35H001 --- #SBIB:35H100 --- Bestuurswetenschappen: algemene werken, referentiewerken, documentatie --- Bestuurlijke organisatie: algemene werken