Politics and the Environment has established itself as one of the most comprehensive textbooks in this area. This new edition has been completely revised and updated whilst retaining the features and the theory-to-practice focus which made the first two editions so successful.

This text is designed to introduce students to the key concepts and issues which surround environmental problems and their political solutions. The authors investigate the people, movements and organisations that form and implement these policies, and explore the barriers which hinder successful introduction of international environmental politics.

The 3rd edition has been expanded to include:

The shift in focus in environmental politics from sustainable development to climate change governance

An extensive discussion on climate change: including institutional, national and global responses in the aftermath of the Kyoto protocol

An increased international focus with more case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia and North America

More discussion of global environmental social movements: including the US environmental organisations, in particular the Green Party and the environmental justice groups

This textbook is an invaluable and accessible resource for undergraduates studying environmental politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Environmental Thought and Political Action 1. Environmental Philosophy 2. Green Ideology 3. Environmental Movements Part 2: The Background to Environmental Policy Making 4. Rationality and Power in Environmental Decision Making 5. Choosing the Means 6. Valuation of the Environment Part 3: Multi-Level Environmental Governance: Global to Local 7. Greening Global Governance 8. European Integration 9. Constructing the Green State 10. Local Democracy and Local Authorities. Conclusion

Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of public policy. In keeping with prior editions, author Tom Birkland conveys the best current thinking on the policy process in a clear, conversational style. Designed to address new developments in both policy theory and policy making, the Fifth Edition includes examinations of:

the Brexit referendum result and its effects on the UK, European Union, and world politics, as well as the 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and the ways in which these events have caused voters and policy makers to rethink their assumptions;

changes to the media environment, including the decline of newspapers and television news, the growth of social media, and the emergence of "fake news";

new policy theory developments like the emergence of the Narrative Policy Framework and continued and newer applications of existing theories of policy process like Advocacy Coalitions, Multiple Streams, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Institutional Analysis and Development; and

all-new and updated chapter "at a glance" outlines, definitions of key terms, provocative review questions, recommended reading, visual aids and case studies, theoretical literature, and preentation slides and Test Banks to make teaching from the book easier than ever.

Firmly grounded in both social science and political science, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides the most up-to-date and thorough overview of the theory and practice of the policy process, ideal for upper-level undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in Public Policy, Public Administration, and Political Science programs.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing the Policy Process. 2. Elements of the Policy Making System. 3. The Historical and Structural Contexts of Public Policy Making. 4. Official Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy. 5. Unofficial Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy. 6. Agenda Setting, Power, and Interest Groups. 7. Policies and Policy Types. 8. Decision Making and Policy Analysis. 9. Policy Design and Policy Tools. 10. Policy Implementation, Failure, and Learning. 11. Science and Theory in the Study of Public Policy. Index.

This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent.

Charting trends in government over six decades of the post-colonial era, the book tackles key questions such as: How have African states made sense of their colonial inheritance? How relevant are ethnic and religious identities? Why have some states collapsed and others prospered? Why did the one-party state fail? Why is contemporary Africa now dominated by electoral authoritarian states, and not the multi-party democracies promised in the 1990s?

Key features include:

thematically organised, with chapters exploring issues such as colonialism, ethnicity, nationalism, religion, social class, ideology, legitimacy, authority, sovereignty and democracy;

new five-part structure makes clearer Africa’s political evolution over time;

new chapter on the emergence of ‘hybrid states’ and ‘electoral authoritarianism’;

more coverage of twenty-first century governance trends such as China’s impact, the changing role of the military, different uses of ‘client–patron’ networks, Western conditionality and the ‘Africa rising’ debate;

colour presentation of maps, photos and data;

boxed case studies including Mali, Tanzania, Nigeria, Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Somalia, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tunisia and Angola;

each chapter concludes with key terms and definitions, questions and further reading.

An Introduction to African Politics is essential reading for students seeking an accessible introduction to the complex social relationships and events that characterise the politics of post-colonial Africa.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introductions and the Historical Inheritance

1. Introduction: State, civil society and external interests

2. History: Africa’s pre-colonial and colonial inheritance

Part 2: The Dominant African State, 1960s-1970s

3. Ideology: Nationalism, socialism, populism and state capitalism

4. Ethnicity and religion: ‘Tribes’, gods and political identity

5. Social class: The search for class politics in Africa

6. Legitimacy: Neo-patrimonialism, personal rule and the centralisation of the African state

7. Coercion: Military intervention in African politics

8. Sovereignty I: External influences on African politics

Part 3: The Weakened Africa State, 1980s-1990s

9. Sovereignty II: Neo-colonialism, structural adjustment and Africa’s political economy

10. Authority: The crises of accumulation, governance and state collapse

Part 4: The Re-fashioned African State, 1990s-present

11. Democracy: Multi-party elections re-legitimising the African state?

12. Hybrid regimes: ‘Africa rising’, stalled transitions, or something in-between?

Part 5: Conclusions

13. Conclusions: The changing relationship between state, civil society and external interests in post-colonial Africa

In a revolutionary revision of this best-selling text, David Balaam and Bradford Dillman show how the postwar world order is at once under threat and yet resilient. This classic text surveys the theories, institutions, and relationships that characterize IPE and highlights them in the context of a diverse range of regional and transnational issues.

Introduction to International Political Economy positions students to critically evaluate the global economy and to appreciate the personal impact of political, economic, and social forces. New to the Seventh Edition Streamlined yet comprehensive coverage-reducing the text from 20 to 17 chapters. There is also one unified chapter on global finance and a single chapter on energy and the environment. A new chapter on Constructivism shows sociological and ideational forces at work. A new chapter on Global Production encompasses transnational corporations and labor. A new chapter on Global Health incorporates food and refugee issues. Substantial revisions to 10 chapters, including new material on Brexit, the EU debt and refugee crises, populist-nationalist movements, inequality, trade conflicts and negotiations, cyber weapons, the rise of China, Middle East conflicts, and international responses to climate change. Significant focus is made throughout on President Trump's impact on U.S. foreign policy, international order, and global security. Extensive new graphs and tables of data, plus 27 fascinating new text boxes throughout.

An author-written Instructor's Manual and Test Bank are provided along with additional online resources.

A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, Democratic Tragedy in the Postcolony engages with two of the defining political sagas of the postcolonial era. The book presents Michael Manley of Jamaica and Nelson Mandela of South Africa as tragic political leaders at the helm of popular democratic projects that run aground in the face of the constraints that a subordinate position in the global economy presents for such endeavors. Jamaica’s experiment with democratic socialism as an alternative path to development at the height of the cold war is considered alongside post-Apartheid South Africa’s search for a development model consistent with the demand for civic empowerment and equitable distribution of social goods in the aftermath of Apartheid.

Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony theorizes the defining tragic impasse and the telling vacillations by which the postcolonies in question are brought to the neoliberal catastrophes that currently prevail.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Democratic Political Tragedy

2. Thinking with Hegel: Experience, Conflict, and Reversal

3. Creolizing Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy

4. Manley’s Jamaica: The Tragedy of Democratic Socialism

5. Mandela and The Tragedy of the Post-Apartheid state

6. The Aftermath of Tragedy: Patterson, Mbeki, and The Neoliberal Age (Postscript)

Conclusion

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates:

Each chapter includes an all-new "big ideas" case study in policy analysis to stimulate student interest in timely and important problems.

The dedicated chapter on evidence-based policy and the role of field experiments has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded.

New sections on important developments in the field have been added, including using scientific evidence in public policymaking, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and "big data."

Data sets to apply analytical techniques are included online as IBM SPSS 23.0 files and are convertible to Excel, Stata, and R statistical software programs to suit a variety of course needs and teaching styles.

All-new PowerPoint slides are included to make instructor preparation easier than ever before.

Designed to prepare students from a variety of academic backgrounds to conduct policy analysis on their own, without requiring a background in microeconomics, Public Policy Analysis, Sixth Edition helps students develop the practical skills needed to communicate findings through memos, position papers, and other forms of structured analytical writing. The text engages students by challenging them to critically analyze the arguments of policy practitioners as well as political scientists, economists, and political philosophers.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Part 1. Methodology of Policy Analysis

1. The Process of Policy Analysis

2. Policy Analysis in the Policy-Making Process

Part 2. Methods of Policy Analysis

3. Structuring Policy Problems

4. Forecasting Expected Policy Outcomes

5. Prescribing Preferred Policies

6. Monitoring Observed Policy Outcomes

7. Evaluating Policy Performance

Part 3. Methods of Policy Communication

8. Developing Policy Arguments

9. Communicating Policy Analysis

Appendix 1. Policy Issue Papers

Appendix 2. Executive Summaries

Appendix 3. Policy Memoranda

Appendix 4. Oral Briefings

Now in its twelfth edition,Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal continues the book's tradition of offering a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the ideas and ideals that shake and shape our political world. The text outlines a framework defining each ideology in terms of the four functions ideologies performs — explanation, evaluation, orientation, and political program — allowing students to compare, contrast, and analyze the various ideologies, developing their own unique views and critical thinking skills.

New to this Edition

A new co-author, Jennet Kirkpatrick, recognized for her teaching and scholarship in political theory, feminist theory, and resistance.

Chapter 2; updated material on voter suppression and populism.

Chapter 3; expanded discussion of the relationship between Adam Smith’s moral and economic theories; how John Stuart Mill’s views on free speech might apply to contemporary controversies; differences between John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and between neoclassical and welfare liberals more generally. Updated; discussion of the “Great Recession” and broader issues of economic inequality.

Chapter 4; extended discussion of Edmund Burke’s place within the conservative tradition. Updated; assessment of contemporary conservatism in light of Donald Trump’s presidency; new section on Christian Nationalism.

Chapter 5; extended discussion of Marx’s theory of history.

Chapter 6; updated the status of the socialist and communist traditions in China, Russia, and the United States.

Chapter 7; charted the resurgence of far right and neo-fascist politics in Europe. Discussion of the “Alt-Right” in the United States has been expanded, including new sections on QAnon and the “Great Replacement” theory. Also expanded upon; discussion of whether fascism could gain serious traction in the United States, and a new section on the reasons why some critics say Donald Trump is either a fascist, or dangerously close to becoming one.

Chapter 8; updated sections on Black liberation and feminism, including reference to George Floyd’s murder and the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Also, new material on settler colonialism and on the issues for all liberation ideologies raised by the case of undocumented immigrants, and extended discussion of liberation theology.

Chapter 9; updated material on the severity of the climate crisis, and the variety of responses that have emerged to address it.

Chapter 10; a new section on Hamas, and extended discussion of protests against Islamist rule in Iran focusing on the responses to Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody. Also updated; sections on ISIS and the Taliban in light of the former’s erosion and the latter’s return to power, in addition to references to internecine conflicts among radical Islamists.

Chapter 11; updated reasons for the conclusion that there will be no end of ideological conflicts soon, especially with the continued power of religious worldviews, globalization, and---perhaps most especially---the return of fascism worldwide.

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Part 1. Ideology and Democracy 1. Ideology and Ideologies 2. The Democratic Ideal Part 2. The Development of Political Ideologies 3. Liberalism 4. Conservatism 5. Socialism and Communism: From More to Marx 6. Socialism and Communism After Marx 7. Fascism Part 3. Political Ideologies: Today and Tomorrow 8. Liberation Ideologies and the Politics of Identity 9. "Green" Politics: Ecology as Ideology 10. Radical Islamism 11. Postscript: The Future of Ideology

This long-awaited new edition has been fully updated and revised by the original authors as well as two new members of the author team. Based on many years of active research and teaching it takes the discipline's most difficult aspects and makes them accessible and interesting.

Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world. The clarity of presentation allows students to rapidly develop a theoretical framework and to apply this knowledge widely as a way of understanding both more advanced theoretical texts and events in world politics.

Suitable for first and second year undergraduates studying international relations and international relations theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Liberalism

2. Realism

3. Structuralism

4. Critical theory

5. Postmodernism

6. Feminist Perspectives

7. Social Constructivism

8. Green Perspectives

Conclusions, Key Debates and New Directions

Glossary of key or problem terms

Fully updated and expanded, the second edition of this still compact text on British politics expertly analyses the major changes in British political life, placing them revealingly within the context of the evolution of British society from absolute monarchy to representative democracy.

The author considers each of the major components of British politics in digestible chapters, such as the Monarchy and the House of Lords, the Commons, voting behaviour, parties and pressure groups, the prime minister and cabinet, devolution, local government, and foreign policy. The book includes two new chapters on the EU referendum and Brexit, and the extraordinary December 2019 election, as well as coverage of events such as the coronavirus pandemic, and the respective travails of the increasingly split two major political parties.

This readable and comprehensive introduction will be of key interest to A-level students, undergraduates and those new to the study of British politics.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction

1. British Politics in Flux

2. The Evolution of Britain’s Political System

Part II: The Political Context

3. Introductory Overview of the British Political System

4. The Social and Economic Context

5. Political Culture

6. The Flexible Unwritten Constitution

7. Political Ideas I: Up to New Labour

8. Political Ideas II: From New Labour to Brexit

Part III: The Mediating Agencies

9. Political Parties

10. Pressure Groups

11. The Mass Media

Part IV: The Legislature

12. The Monarchy

13. The House of Lords

14. The House of Commons

15. Voting Behaviour in the UK

16. The 2019 General Election

Part V: The Executive

17. The Prime Minister and Cabinet

18. Ministers and Civil Servants

19. Policy-Making in British Government

Part VI: Sub-national Government

20. Devolution

21. Local Government: Provenance and Decline

22. The Judiciary and Politics

23. The Extraordinary Brexit Saga

24. Britain and the World

25. Concluding Comments: An Uncertain Future

This volume delineates the critical link among security, education and development in Africa and provides a multidisciplinary framework of analyses and possible solutions. Africa has had a long history that embodies layers of mass-scale criminality and exploitation not merely from neocolonial and apartheid policies but also from political greed. This has impacted adversely on security, education and development in a way that deprivation of education and underdevelopment, in turn, re-creates security issues.

The volume aims firstly to help augment scholarly inquiry into the nexus among in/security, education and development through the multidisciplinary framework of analyses; secondly to provide policymakers and educators with tools and a framework to comprehend the complexity and magnitude of the issues to which they ought to be sensitive and respond; and finally to provide caregivers and childcare agencies of the state a comprehensible framework of underlying, multifaceted sources of trauma experienced by children in extraordinary circumstances. It is organized in four sections: theoretical conceptualization on security and development; country cases on security and development; security and educational development; and country cases on security and education.　

Serving as a significant compass to understand and respond to the complex interplay and impact of security, education and development in Africa, it is of great use to graduates and scholars interested in Africa Politics, IPE, security studies and development studies.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Conceptualising Africa’s Realities in the 21st Century: The Security – Education – Development Nexus

[M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure and Edward Shizha]

SECTION I: THEORETICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION ON [IN]SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT

1. Criminological Perspectives on African Security

[Declan Ihekwoaba Onwudiwe]

2. Policing Inconsequence in Africa: Towards a Theory of Government Indifference to Citizenship and Insecurity

[Kingsley Ejiogu]

3. From Fragility to Resilience: Social Enterprise at the Nexus of Conflict and Development in Africa

[Joanne Benham Rennick and Timothy Donnais]

SECTION II: COUNTRY CASES ON [IN]SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT

1. Insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Militarised politics, Predatory Governance and Neoliberal Development

[Maritza Felices-Luna]

2. Impact of Piracy on Somalia: Society, Economy and State-Building

[Afyare Elmi, Said Mohamed and Ladan Affi]

The Gender Dimensions of Insecurity in Mauritius

[Ramola Ramtohul]

SECTION III: [IN]SECURITY AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Impact of Civil Conflict

War on Children’s Rights to Education in Africa

[Edward Shizha]

2. Human Trafficking and Education in Africa

[Oliver Masakure]

3. How Civil Conflict and Gender-Based Violence Affect the Education of Women in Africa

[Efiritha Chauraya and Oliver Masakure]

SECTION IV: COUNTRY CASES ON [IN]SECURITY AND EDUCATION

1. Challenges in Curriculum and Language of Instructions in Post-conflict Somalia- A Case Study

[Abdullahi Hussein]

2. Insecurity and Education System in a Developmental State: A Tale of South Africa’s Post 1994 Democratic Breakthrough

[Frank Gadiwele Lekaba and Palesa Sekhejane]

3. Reconstructing Education in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

[Grace Pai]

4. The Paradoxes of Peace Education During Escalating Conflict: Nigeria’s Sesame Square

[Naomi Moland]

14. CONCLUSION: Looking Ahead: The Convergence of Realities of Security, Education, and Development in Africa

[M. Raymond Izarali]

This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size.

In the past, African foreign policy has largely been considered within the context of reactions to the international or global “external factor”. This groundbreaking book, however, looks at how foreign policy has been crafted and used in response not just to external, but also, mainly, domestic imperatives or (theoretical) signifiers. As such, it narrates individual and changing foreign policy orientations over time—and as far back as independence—with mainly African-based scholars who present their own constructs of what is a useful theoretical narrative regarding foreign policy on the continent—how theory is adapted to local circumstance or substituted for continentally based ontologies. The book therefore contends that the African experience carries valuable import for expanding general understandings of foreign policy in general.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Foreign Policy Analysis, Foreign Policy Studies, African International Relations/Politics/Studies, Diplomacy and more broadly to International Relations.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Paul-Henri Bischoff

2. What Next? Past and present African foreign policy concepts and practices

Paul-Henri Bischoff

3. The African Union as a Foreign Policy Player: African Agency in International Cooperation

Tshepo Gwatiwa

4. Unprincipled Pragmatism and Anti-Imperialist Impulses in an Interconnected World: The Zuma Presidency, 2009-2017

Mzukisi Qobo

5. Towards A Strategic Culture Approach to Understanding and Conceptualising Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy Towards Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab Countries

Makonnen Tesfaye

6.Nigeria’s Foreign Policy and Intervention Behaviour in Africa: What Role for Agency?

Olumuyiwa Amao

7. Zimbabwe and New Signifiers: Towards a cultural political economy of Foreign Policy Making

Mike Mavura

8. Realist Conceptions of Kenya’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Behaviour: A Theoretical and Contextual Disposition

Korwa Gombe Adar and Mercy Kathambi Kaburu

9. Addressing the Conceptual Void of African Small State Foreign Policy in Orthodox Theory: A Case Study of Botswana's Principled Pragmatism

Kabelo M. Mahupela

10. Tunisia’s Foreign Policy Towards France Before and After an Undemanding ‘Revolution’: A Theoretical Explanation of the An-Nahdha-led Interim Governments’ Soft Policy

Ahmed Ali Salem

11. Straddling Between Convergence and Divergence: A Constructivist’s View of Malawi’s Foreign Policy in Post-independence Africa

Eugenio Njoloma

12. Strategies of a Small State Between Realism and Liberalism: Sixty Years of Guinea’s Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (1958-2018)

Issaka K. Souaré

13. Rethinking SADC: A mixed actor approach to collective policymaking on external relations

Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe

14. Towards an Understanding of the Interplay Between Ghana’s Foreign and Defence Policies

Kwesi Aning and Kwaku Danso

15. Conclusion

Paul-Henri Bischoff/

Through a multidisciplinary approach, African Frontiers counters the superficial, Eurocentric and gender insensitive dominant discursive representation of Africa within the discourse of war and conflict management, and security and peace/nation-building. The chapters historicize and theorize the realities in postcolonial African states, and the ramifications on the continents future. Situating the study within the context of the prevailing cultural and geo-political realities in the postcolonial African states, the chapters illustrate the complex ways in which events and processes are experienced at the local level, and how these local realities in turn impact and shape the patterns of political and military engagement in Africa and beyond. Organized along three major themes: Insurgency, governance and peacebuilding, expert researchers from around the world contribute chapters on: Rebel and insurgent formations such as the RUF, the LRA, and Boko Haram; state governance and corruption; terrorism and counter terrorism; security and peacebuilding; focussing on the tensions and challenges facing post-conflict societies such as Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and the newest nation-state on the continent, South Sudan. This highly significant and topical study problematizes the impact of wars on African nations, as well as the epistemological framing of the local realities and fallouts of armed conflict on post-colonial states.

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Part I Insurgency and Governance; Chapter 1 Understanding Postcolonial African Frontiers: History, Theory, Policy and Practice, John Idriss Lahai, Tanya Lyons; Chapter 2 The West African Warscapes: Rebel Factions, Insurgent Opportunism and State Governance, John Idriss Lahai, Tanya Lyons; Chapter 3 Reconsidering Rebel Governance, Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Georg Frerks, Boukje Kistemaker, Nora Stel, Niels Terpstra; Chapter 4 Embracing Neo-Liberalism in Uganda and Rwanda, Noel Twagiramungu; Chapter 5 The International Responsibility to Protect and the Conflict in Darfur, John Idriss Lahai; Chapter 6 State Collapse, Counter-Insurgency and Security Governance in Somalia, Oscar Gakuo Mwangi; Chapter 7. The paper is revised here with copyright permission., Daniel E. Agbiboa; Part II Peacebuilding; Chapter 8 Coping with Vulnerability: Civil War Avoidance in Guinea 1984–2010, Mamadou Diouma Bah; Chapter 9 Breaks with the Past: Conflict, Displacement, Resettlement and the Evolution of Forest Socio-Ecologies in Sierra Leone 1 Funding for this research was provided by the European Union and the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) through the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) support program, as well as the Promoting Agriculture, Governance and the Environment (PAGE) program sponsored by USAID, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada., Paul Munro, Greg van der Horst; Chapter 10 Arming Community Vigilantes in the Niger Delta: Implications for Peacebuilding, Kialee Nyiayaana; Chapter 11 Neo-Liberal Peacebuilding in Libya: Sketching the Path to Reconciliation, Saira Bano Orakzai; Chapter 12 Building Peace with Warlords in South Sudan: A Gendered Structure, David John Duriesmith; Chapter 13 Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mbekezeli Comfort Mkhize; Chapter 14 From Insurgency to Governance and Peacebuilding: Africa’s Future, John Idriss Lahai, Tanya Lyons;

Building on the strengths of the third edition, this highly regarded textbook continues to provide the best introduction to the strategies of comparative research in political science. Divided into three parts, the book begins by examining different methods, applying these methods to dominant issues in comparative politics using a wealth of topical examples from around the world, and then discusses the new challenges in the area. This thoroughly revised and updated edition features:

Additional contemporary case studies including the democratisation of technology and the Arab Spring;

Detailed discussion of regression analysis and diffusion;

More analysis of justice, inequality, and compliance;

Reflection on new methods and treatments of contemporary comparative politics.

Balancing reader friendly features with high quality analysis makes this popular academic text is essential reading for everyone interested in comparative politics and research methods.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: WHY, HOW, AND PROBLEMS OF COMPARISON

1. Why Compare Countries?

Reasons for comparison

The science in political science

Scientific terms and concepts

Summary

Further reading

2. How to Compare Countries

Methods of comparison

Comparing many countries

Comparing few countries

Single country studies as comparison

Choosing countries and problems of comparison

Summary

Further reading

3. Comparing Many Countries

Starting assumptions

Measuring concepts

Basic regression analysis

Extending the basic regression model

Limitations to global comparative analysis

Summary

Further reading

4. Comparing Few Countries

Assumptions

Case selection and research design

Combining quantitative and qualitative comparison

Limitations of few-country comparisons

Summary

Further reading

5. Single-Country Studies as Comparison

Functions of single-country studies

Raising observations in single-country studies

Limitations of single-study studies

Summary

Further reading

PART II: COMPARING COMPARISONS

6. Economic Development and Democracy

The research problem

Comparing many countries

Comparing few countries

Single-country studies

Summary

Further reading

7. Violent Political Dissent and Social Revolution

The research problem

Comparing many countries

Comparing few countries

Single-country studies

Summary

Further reading

8. Non-Violent Political Dissent and Social Movements

The research problem

Comparing many countries

Comparing few countries

Single-country studies

Summary

Further reading

9. Transitions to Democracy

The research problem

Comparing many countries

Comparing few countries

Single-country studies

Summary

Further reading

10. Institutional Design and Democratic Performance

The research problem

Comparing many countries

Comparing few countries

Single-country studies

Summary

Further reading

11. Human Rights

The research problem

Comparing many countries

Comparing few countries

Single-country studies

Summary

Further reading

12. International Relations and Comparative Politics

Research problems

Comparing many countries

Comparing few countries

Single-country studies

Summary

Further reading

PART III: COMPARATIVE METHODS AND NEW ISSUES

13. Common Themes and Different Comparisons

Methodological trade-offs

Building theory

Conclusion: drawing the lessons

Further reading

14. New Challenges For Comparative Politics

Full circle

New methods

Maintaining relevance

Summary

Further reading /

The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century is about the rise of antizionism and antisemitism in the first two decades of the 21st century, with a focus on the UK.

It is written by the activist-intellectuals, both Jewish and not, who led the opposition to the campaign for an academic boycott of Israel. Their experiences convinced them that the boycott movement, and the antizionism upon which it was based, was fuelled by, and in turn fuelled, antisemitism. The book shows how the level of hostility towards Israel exceeded the hostility which is levelled against other states. And it shows how the quality of that hostility tended to resonate with antisemitic tropes, images and emotions. Antizionism positioned Israel as symbolic of everything that good people oppose, it made Palestinians into an abstract symbol of the oppressed, and it positioned most Jews as saboteurs of social ‘progress’. The book shows how antisemitism broke into mainstream politics and how it contaminated the Labour Party as it made a bid for Downing Street.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students researching antizionism, antisemitism and the Labour Party in the UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction

David Hirsh

1 Demonisation blueprints: Soviet conspiracist antizionism in contemporary left-wing discourse

Izabella Tabarovsky

2 Turning full circle: From the Anti-Nazi League to Corbynism: how so much of the radical left in the UK abandoned Jews and embraced antisemitism

Philip Spencer

3 Durban antizionism

David Hirsh and Hilary Miller

4 Demystifying antisemitism: A return to critical theory

David Seymour

5 Is Palestine a feminist issue?: Intersectionality and its discontents

Karin Stögner

6 Cancelling Israel and displacing Palestine: Narratives of a boycott

John Strawson

7 The legal construction of Jewish identity as a ‘protected characteristic’ through an examination of Fraser v UCU (2013), Parker v Sheffield Hallam University (2016) and the Report of the EHRC into Antisemitism in the Labour Party (2020)

Lesley Klaff

8 Seven Jewish Children and definitions of antisemitism

Sarah Annes Brown

9 Learning and teaching about antisemitism

Mira Vogel

10 Climate catastrophe, the ‘Zionist Entity’ and ‘The German guy’: An anatomy of the Malm–Jappe dispute

Matthew Bolton

11 Whither liberal Zionism?

Anthony Julius

Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism.

Starting with an overview of how scholars have attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an examination of the various types of terms used, helping the reader think about how these terms do – and do not – apply to different ideologies and governments. Easily accessible language and the use of numerous examples aid readers in seeing the connections between certain types of ideologies and some forms of organization/movements in their relation to historically well-known totalitarian regimes. Gray concludes with the tools necessary to think through how to distinguish between an actual (or potential) totalitarian system and regimes that, while oppressive or authoritarian, would not be totalitarian in nature. A rich bibliography containing additional readings bookend the text.

Totalitarianism: The Basics offers an essential introduction for students from all backgrounds seeking to understand totalitarianism and for general readers with an interest in political ideologies and extremism. For those knowledgeable in this field, it adds conceptual relevance and a variety of ways of thinking about the term.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: What is Totalitarianism?

2. Ideology: How Totalitarianism Thinks

3. Movement/Party: How Totalitarianism Organizes

4. Regime: How Totalitarianism Governs

5. Totalitarianism in History

6. The Future of Totalitarianism

Bibliography

Contemporary, thoughtful and extensively illustrated, Modern Diplomacy examines a broad range of current diplomatic practice. This leading and widely used book - now in its fifth edition - equips students with a detailed analysis of important international issues that reflect and impact upon diplomacy and its relations. The subject is brought to life through case studies and examples which highlight the working of contemporary diplomacy within the international political arena.

Organised around five broad topic areas, including the nature of diplomacy, diplomatic methods, negotiation, the operation of diplomacy in specific areas and international conflict, the book covers all major topic areas of contemporary diplomacy.

New features for this edition:

Developments in diplomatic practice

Strategies in diplomacy

International trade, geopolitics and agreements

Diplomacy of new regional organisations and groupings

Developing country diplomacy

Non-traditional diplomacy

New concepts – parallel and counter diplomacy

New case studies include: the Paris Climate Agreement, Brexit, international finance and trade agreements, and the UN security forces.

Modern Diplomacy is essential reading for students and practitioners of international relations, foreign policy, international law, international political economy, international economics, the Foreign Services Institutes and the National Diplomatic Academies.

Table of Contents

1. The Changing Nature of Diplomacy

2. Foreign Policy Organisation

3. Diplomatic Methods

4. Negotiation

5. Developing Diplomatic Practice

6. Groups and Networks

7. Regional Organisations and Diplomacy

8. Cyber Diplomacy

9. International Financial Relations

10. Trade, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

11. Environmental Diplomacy

12. Environmental Diplomacy: Case Examples

13. Disaster and Emergency Diplomacy

14. Diplomacy and Security

15. Diplomacy and Mediation

16. The Diplomacy of Normalisation

17. Diplomatic Correspondence: Case Examples

18. International Treaties

19. International Agreements: Case Examples

20. Paris Agreement

Conclusion

Introduction to Global Politics, Fourth Edition, is an accessible, comprehensive, and well-written introductory textbook which emphasizes the evolution of major global issues from the past to the present. By integrating theory and political practice at individual, state, and global levels, students are introduced to key developments in global politics, helping them make sense of major trends that are shaping our world.

This completely revised and updated edition includes new material on:

the dramatic shift in US policies under President Donald Trump and the post-Trump moves to redo the global scene

the coronavirus pandemic and its impact around the world

Brexit, and its consequences for the European Union

the rise of China and Russia in the international order

technological developments in weaponry and the militarization of outer space

the growing importance of the politics of identity, the environment, nationalism and populism while retaining much of the structure and many of the features of past editions, including a revised range of faculty and student aids– a test bank, flashcards, glossary, web links, PowerPoint slides, chapter outlines, suggested video clips, map exercises, cultural references, and boxed features

Stimulating and provocative, the book is designed to appeal to students and instructors interested in international relations as a broadly defined, multidisciplinary subject encompassing politics, history, economics, military science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Part I Theory and Global Politics

1.Theoretical approaches to global politics

Part II The Past as Prologue to the Present

2.The evolution of the interstate system

3.The world wars

4.The Cold War

5.Decolonization and the global South

Part III Living Dangerously in a Dangerous World

6.Globalization: The new frontier

7.Great issues in contemporary global politics

8.Power in global politics and the causes of war

9.Technology and the changing face of warfare

10.Managing conflict: international law and international and transnational organization

Part IV Global Issues

11.Identity politics

12.International political economy

13.Human rights: The individual in global politics

14.Human security

15.The environment: A global collective good

Part V Epilogue

This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events.

It covers the impacts generated by novel infectious disease outbreaks across various dimensions – from social and ethical to medical and political, from media to economic and legal implications. The author discusses the preparedness strategies developed globally, the lessons learned from various outbreaks and the mitigation measures deployed — from quarantine and social distancing to data sharing and surveillance systems — including their unintended impacts. While the risk of global pandemics is certainly intensely debated by the scientific community, and increasingly by policy makers at various levels, the threat is hardly discussed in the public domain. It only permeates the media during crisis events, such as during the SARS outbreak in 2003, the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014–15, and most notably the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic crisis. This book is thus highly timely and topical. It has a global scope, whilst at times zooming in on the implications of pandemic risk and mitigation for the Global North or the Global South.

Given the interdisciplinarity of the topic, this book will be of great interest to a wider non-academic audience, as well as students from a range of subjects including politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, and international development, along with entry-level medical students keen to widen their appreciation of the social dimensions of the medical work they set out to conduct.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Threat of Global Pandemics

2. A Step Change in Security and Preparedness

3. The Media

4. Ethical and Social Tensions in Pandemic Preparedness and Response

5. Pandemic Simulations and Modelling

6. All for One, One for All

This three-volume anthology comprises diverse intellectual responses to the Hamas-organised day of murder, sexual violence and kidnapping.

Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse focuses on the ideology that motivated it and the antisemitism that shaped many responses to it. It examines the provenance of the Jew-hatred, from English history to Palestinian Islamism; from toxic 19th century ‘Jewish Question’ rhetoric to the perversion of the Trotskyist tradition that allowed parts of the left to embrace antisemitism. It includes Howard Jacobson’s lecture of 22 October on antisemitism and it focuses on what was significant about this attack. There is discussion from Britain, Germany, Poland, and Norway, and a linguistic account of responses.

Responses to 7 October: Law and Society begins with a legal, and a genocide studies critique of the claim that Israel is genocidal; another reflects on the absence of an understanding of antisemitism in international legal discourse. There are reflections on experiences in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the twists that discourse there takes. Contributions draw on Judaism, feminism, and sociology to face what happened and to trace how Israelis were transported back to a quintessentially pre-Israel Jewish experience. Others survey reports of antisemitism around the globe in the wake of 7 October, including pieces about Britain and Germany.

Responses to 7 October: Universities focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, which is scholarship; and its reflection in student discourse on campus. Contributions go back to Sartre and to debates of Marx’s time; another looks at the New Left forged in the civil rights movement, and shows how antisemitic responses to the 2023 violence were anticipated by some of the responses to the 1967 Arab League aggression. The feminist movement and ‘progressives’ more generally come under scrutiny, and there is analysis of antisemitism on campus after 7 October, showing how it is tolerated and protected there; including in archaeological attempts to deny that there is an ancient Jewish history in Israel.

As a set or individually, these important volumes will appeal to scholars, students and activists with an interest in antisemitism, Jewish studies and the politics of Israel.

Table of Contents

Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse

Introduction

Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh

Editor’s Note

1. What has changed?

Anthony Julius

2. 7 October and the precariousness of being Jewish

David Hirsh

3. Introduction to Howard Jacobson’s chapter

David Hirsh

The text of Howard Jacobson's LCSCA Robert Fine Memorial Lecture, 22 October 2023

Howard Jacobson

4. The Ideology of Mass Murder

Jeffrey Herf

5. Echoes of the Past: Understanding Today's Antisemitism Through a Medieval Lens

Flora Cassen

6. Where are Jews at home?

Robin Douglas

7. Disenchanting Palestine: Moralism and Hyperpolitics in the aftermath of October 7th

Matthew Bolton

8. ‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the radical Left’s degenerate response to 7 October

Alan Johnson

9. October Reflections: Antisemitism, Antizionism and the Jewish Question

David Seymour

10. The German Press, Israel, and October 7, 2023: Initial research findings on reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Jonas Hessenauer and Lukas Uwira

11. The King’s “No”: Anti-Israelism and antisemitism in Norway after the 7 October massacre

Torkel Brekke

12. A View from the “Second World”: Holocaust and Colonialism in Contemporary Contexts of Eastern Europe

Anna Zawadzka

13. ‘It’s all about context’: Antisemitism in the discursive space post 7 October

Yaron Matras

Responses to 7 October: Law & Society

Foreword: 'My grandmother was killed in a pogrom. Then my daughter was, too'

Ilan Troen

Introduction

Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh

Editor’s Note

1. International Law and the Conflict in Gaza

Robbie Sabel

2. The Holocaust, Genocide, and October 7th

Philip Spencer

3. International Law Is Not Antisemitism-Proof

Ulf Haeussler

4. ‘But Israel claims to be a democracy!’ – Hypocrisy, double standards, and false equivalences

Eric Heinze

5. A Visit to Kibbutz Kfar Azza, November 28, 2023: Reflections on the Jewish Present and the Jewish Past

John Strawson

6. From the River to the Sea

Jeffrey Herf

7. Indecent Jewish theology, post October 7th: the G-d of the bathroom floor

Yehudis Fletcher

8. Collective Trauma and Resilience for the Jewish People in the Aftermath of 7th October

Leslie Morrison Gutman and Samuel D. Landau

9. After the Pogrom: A shift in the Jewish Configuration

Danny Trom and Bruno Karsenti

10. Global Leaders, Experts Must Reject Surging Antisemitism and Affirm Jews’ Equal Rights

Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

11. Antisemitic Reactions to October 7: The German Case

Julius Gruber, Bianca Loy, Daniel Poensgen

12. The worst month in my lifetime for UK antisemitism

Jack Omer-Jackaman

Responses to 7 October: Universities

Introduction

Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh

Editor’s Note

1. ‘A Tool to Advance Imperial Interests’: Leftist Self-Scrutiny and Israeli Wrongdoing

Eric Heinze

2. Thinking with and against Sartre about Reactions to the October 7th Pogrom

Chad Alan Goldberg

3. The rise and rise of the ‘Israel Question’

Daniel Chernilo

4. Jewish “Whiteness” and its Effects in the Aftermath of October 7

Linda Maizels

5. A History of Feminist Antisemitism

Kara Jesella

6. The Return of the Progressive Atrocity

Susie Linfield

7. Rain of Ashes Over Elite American Universities

Günther Jikeli

8. The Professors and the Pogrom: How the theory of ‘Zionist Settler Colonialism’ reframed the 7 October massacre as ‘Liberation’

Derek Spitz

9. October 7 and the Antisemitic War of Words

Cary Nelson

10. Ancient Historians Embrace Debunked Conspiracy Theories Denying that Jews are Indigenous to Israel

Brett Kaufman

11. From Eighteenth-Century Germany to Contemporary Academia: Combating the Conspiracy Theory of Antisemitism in Scholarship

Rebecca Cypess

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Fully revised for a second edition, this essential guide provides a concise and accessible overview of the public policy process: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation.

The book provides an introduction to the key policy functions, the challenges they entail, and how the challenges may be addressed by policy actors. Written from a comparative perspective, the authors include examples from a diverse range of countries at different stages of development, highlighting key principles and practices through which policy actors can effectively manage their policy processes and outcomes.

Key features of the second edition:

fully updated and revised content throughout;

expanded references and further reading;

more guidance towards understanding the key concepts in public policy.

This important tool offers students of public policy and policy practitioners guidance on how to make, implement, and evaluate public policies in ways that improve citizens' lives.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: managing the policy process

2. Agenda-setting

3. Policy formulation

4. Decision-making

5. Policy implementation

6. Policy evaluation

7. Conclusion: influencing the policy process

Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition of Understanding Global Security considers the variety of ways in which peoples’ lives are threatened and

or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of security studies - war, deterrence and terrorism - are analyzed alongside non-military security issues such as famine, crime, disease, disasters, environmental degradation and human rights abuses to provide a comprehensive survey of how and why people are killed in the contemporary world. Key concepts of International Relations and globalization are defined and explained, prominent political thinkers and activists are profiled in short biographies and the human impact of the various security threats considered graphically illustrated in ‘top ten’ tables. Hence, this textbook introduces students to the full range of security issues in a clear and concise format that is easy to follow.

Specific updates include:

A refresh of the evolving theoretical literature on security including more analysis of feminist and post-colonial thought

Key recent international political developments- such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan - are appraised and incorporated

A new section on hybrid warfare is included in Chapter 2, misogynistic terror is profiled in Chapter 3, whilst gun-smuggling and cybercrime are considered in more depth in Chapter 10

Chapter 5 features analysis of the rise of ‘genocide diplomacy’

The rise of private legal challenges to governments for failing to implement commitments to the Paris 2015 Climate Change Accords is reviewed and analysed

Greater evaluation of global governance, in the face of populist nationalist challenges to international cooperation, is offered

User-friendly and easy to follow, this textbook is designed to make a complex subject accessible to all. Key features include:

‘Top ten tables’ highlighting the most destructive events or forms of death in those areas throughout history

Boxed descriptions elaborating key concepts in the fields of security and International Relations

‘Biographical boxes’ of key individuals who have shaped security politics

Further reading and websites at the end of each chapter guiding you towards classic texts and the most up-to-date information on the various topics

Glossary of political terminology

This highly acclaimed and popular academic text will continue to be essential reading for everyone interested in security.

Table of Contents

1. Security and securitization

2. Military Threats to security from states

3.Threats to security from non-state actors

4.Economic threats to security

5.Identity, society and insecurity

6.Environmental threats to security

7.Health threats to security

8.Natural threats to security

9.Accidental threats to security

10.Criminal threats to security

11.Towards global security

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policymaking, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process.

Fully revised and updated for an eighth edition, The Public Policy Process provides:

Clear exploration, using many illustrations, of how policy is made and implemented;

Examines challenges to effective policy making in critical areas – such as inequality and climate change – including the influence of powerful interests and the Covid-19 pandemic;

New material on unequal democracies, interest groups influence, behavioural policy analysis, global policies and evidence-based decision making;

Additional European and comparative international examples.

This text is essential reading for students of public policy, public administration and management, as well as more broadly highly relevant to related courses in health and nursing, social welfare, environment, development and local government.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Policy Theories

1. Studying the policy process

2. Theories of power and the policy process

3. Interests and groups

4. Institutional theory

5. Comparative policy process studies

6. Integrating theoretical approaches

Part 2: Analysis of the Policy Process

7. Policy and politics

8. Agenda setting

9. Policy formulation

10. Implementation: an overview

11. Bureaucracy: organisational structures and processes

12. Discretion, rules and street-level bureaucracy

13. The policy process in the age of governance

14. Conclusion: evaluation and accountability

Fully updated to include the new Treaty of Lisbon, this is the best short and accessible introduction to the politics of the European Union, written by one of the world's most well-known authorities in the area. Ideal starting reading for students and the general reader, it explains in clear jargon-free language:

the EU's development to date

how the EU works, and why it works this way

the EU's major policies

the EU's biggest problems and controversies

the EU's likely evolution in the coming years.

The new edition builds on the strengths of the previous edition and now includes extra material on:

the Treaty of Lisbon

the EU's development since 2003, including its enlargements in 2004 and 2007

recent EU policies and rule changes

the EU's role in the world.

Key features to help learning and understanding are:

boxed descriptions of key issues and events

a guide to further reading at the end of each chapter

a glossary of key terms, concepts and people

helpful appendices about the EU's member states and good internet sources.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Evolution of European Integration 3. Institutions and Decision-making in the European Union 4. Key Policies of the European Union 5. Current Controversies in European Integration 6. Which Future for the European Union? Glossary Appendix I: Internet Sources of Information Appendix II: List of Member States, with Voting Weights and Number of MEPs

The ninth edition of Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector grounds students in the fundamentals of public administration while embracing its complexity. It describes, explains, and analyzes public administration through the lenses of three well-established perspectives: management, politics, and law. In addition to thoroughly refreshed examples and case studies, significant updates to this new edition include the following:

The discussion of management has been collapsed into a single category, contemporary public management, to better reflect the blending of traditional/orthodox and new public management approaches in the field.

Significant changes to federal administration initiated by the Trump administration, the emergence of "hyper-" partisanship, major court decisions affecting public administration, and newer scholarship and foci in public administration.

A thoroughly rewritten chapter on budgeting and public finance.

New public governance material is incorporated throughout the book, including collaborative models for coordinating administration with private organizations, particularly nonprofits.

Additional attention is paid to public participation in public administration, including public administration's potential contribution to strengthening democratic citizenship.

Thorough discussion of the latest managerial techniques and concepts as well as the contemporary performance orientation in the public sector.

Downloadable instructor support materials including Key Points, Discussion and/or Test Questions, Multiple Choice Questions, True or False Questions, and an Answer Key to accompany each chapter in the book.

Together these revisions reinvigorate the book yet retain its core structure, ideas, and familiarity for students and instructors alike. While the new edition retains its focus on the U.S. context, the focus on managerial, legislative, and judicial functions lends itself well to public administration in many developed nations, making the book a popular choice with instructors around the globe. This time-tested and fully up-to-date textbook is required reading for all students of public administration, public management, and nonprofit management.

Table of Contents

Preface. PART I Introduction: Definitions, Concepts, and Settings CHAPTER 1

The Contemporary Practice and Discipline of Public Administration: Managerial, Political and Policy, and Legal Perspectives. Some Definitions. Constitutions. The Public Interest. Public Value and Public Values. The Market. Sovereignty. Regulation and Service. Managerial, Political and policy, and Legal Approaches. The Managerial Approach to Public Administration. Traditional Managerial Legacies in Contemporary Public Administration. Organizational Structure. View of the Individual Cognitive Approach. Resource Allocation. Decision Making. The Contributions of New Public Management to the Contemporary Managerial Approach. Organizational Structure. View of the Individual. Cognitive Approach. Resource Allocation. Decision Making. Human Resources Management. The Political and Policy Approach to Public Administration. Organizational Structure. Cognitive Approach. View of the Individual. Resource Allocation. Decision Making. Human Resources Management. The Legal Approach to Public Administration. Main Sources. Constitutional law. Increasing Relevance of the Law. Legal Values. Organizational Structure. View of the Individual. Cognitive Approach. Resource Allocation. Decision Making. Human Resources Management. From New Public Management to New Public Governance: Current Trends in Public Administration. Broadening Performance Measurement. Using Networks, Partnerships, and Collaborative Coproduction. Capacity Building. Civic Participation and Engagement. Conflict Resolution. Conclusion: Public Administration Reconsidered. STUDY QUESTIONS/ADDITIONAL READING/PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION THEORY WEB SITES. CHAPTER 2 The American Administrative State: Development and Political Environment. The Rise of the American Administrative State. The Political and Policy Roots of the American Administrative State. Goals of Government. Public Policy. "Third-Party Government". Drivers of Growth. The Legal Origins of American Public Administration. Regulation. Balancing Liberty and Equality. The Administrative Procedure Act. The Managerial Origins of the Contemporary American Administrative State. Administrative Authority and Responsibility. The Paradox of Administrative Power. Administrative Independence. Public Policy Making. Responses to the Rise of the Administrative State. The President and Public Administration. The Mythical Presidency. Limits to Presidential Authority. Tools of Presidential Management. Congress and the Administrative State. The Courts: A Judicial Response to Modern Public Administration, Strengthening and Articulating Constitutional Rights. Stricter Scrutiny of Administrative Decisions. Public Law Litigation or Remedial Law. Liability and Immunity. Interest Groups. Advisory Committees. Negotiated Rule Making. Legislative Review of Rules. Other Avenues of Influence. Public Employee Unions and Contractors’ Associations. The Public. Political Parties. State and Local Governments. Extensions to the Administrative State. The Managerial Approach. The Political and Policy Approach. The Legal Approach. Conclusion: The Administrative State. Study Questions/Additional Reading/Federal, State, and Local Web Sites/Notes. CHAPTER 3 Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations. The Structure of the American Administrative State. Why Federalism? The Political Approach. What Federalism Does. Dual Sovereignty. Bicameralism. Multiple Layers of Representation. Administrative Decentralization: The Managerial Approach. The Quest for Uniformity: The Legal Approach. The Fourteenth Amendment. The Commerce Clause. The Tenth Amendment. The Eleventh Amendment. Evolving Models of American Federalism. American Government: The Building Blocks. Municipalities. Townships. Counties. School Districts and Other Special Districts. States. Federal. Intergovernmental Relations. Federal-State Relations and Fiscal Federalism. "Horizontal Federalism": Interstate Relations. Relationships among Local Governments. Conclusion: Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations. Study Questions/Additional Reading/Federalism Web Sites/Notes. PART II Introduction: Definitions, Concepts, and Settings. CHAPTER 4. Core Functions. Organization: Structure and Process. Organizations and Organization Theory. What Are Organizations? Organization Theory. Commonalities in Public Administrative Organizations. Bureaucracy. Scientific Management. The Human Relations Approach. Leadership. Motivation. Contemporary Approaches to Organization Theory. Managerial Perspectives on Public Organizations . Orthodox Public Administration: POSDCORB. Challenges to the Orthodoxy. What Will Replace POSDCORB. The Political and Policy Approach to Public Organizations. Pluralism. Autonomy. The Legislative Connection. Decentralization. A Checklist of Political Questions on Administrative Organization. The Legal Approach to Public Organizations. Independence. The Commission Format. Insulation from Ex Parte Influences. Independent Hearing Examiners – Administrative Law Judges. Staffing for Adjudication. Alternative Dispute Resolution. Conclusion: The Future . Fundamental Assumptions. Democratic Organization. Market-Based Organization. The Networked Organization. New Public Governance, an Emerging Synthesis of Trends? Study Questions

Notes

Additional Readings. CHAPTER 5 Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining. Historical Background. Public Personnel Administration According to "Gentlemen". Public Personnel Administration According to "Spoils". Public Personnel Administration According to "Merit". Management, Politics and Policy, and Law in Public Personnel Administration. Civil Service Reform, 1978. HRM Reform in the 1990s through the 2010s. Managerial Public Personnel Administration. Position Classification. Recruitment, Selection, and Promotion. Performance Appraisal. Pay. Workforce Planning. Cutbacks. Quality of Work Life (QWL). Political Neutrality. The Political and Policy Approach to Public Personnel Administration. Responsiveness. Representativeness. The Legal Approach to Public Personnel Administration. The Constitutional Rights of Public Employees and Applicants. The Liability and Immunity of Public Employees. Collective Bargaining and Labor-Management Partnerships. Collective Bargaining. Labor-Management Partnerships. Conclusions: Three Possible Futures for HRM. Study Questions

Notes

Additional Readings. CHAPTER 6 Budgeting and the Public Finances The Size and Growth of Budgets. Sources of Revenues. Revenue Evaluation Criteria. Governmental Fiscal Policy Making. The National Debt: Is it a Burden? The Federal Budgetary Process. Stages in the Budgetary Process. The Distinction between Authority and Appropriations. The Continuing Saga of the Budget: Execution. Continuing Problem Areas. A Budget Theory or Theories about Budgeting? The Managerial Approach to Public Budgeting. The Political and Policy Approach to Public Budgeting. The Legal Influence on Budgeting. Study Questions

Notes

Additional Readings

Budgeting Websites. CHAPTER 7 Decision Making. Practical Realities: "Small World" and "Large World" Decisions. The Traditional Managerial Approach to Decision Making. Specialization. Hierarchy. Formalization. Merit. The Rational-Comprehensive Model. Critique of the Rational-Comprehensive Model. The Political and Policy Approach to Decision Making: The Incremental Model. Components of the Incremental Model. Incrementalism and Small- and Large-World Problems. A Critique of the Incremental Model. The Legal Approach to Decision Making. Advantages of Adjudication. Critique of Adjudication as a Decision Making Model. The Case of Benzene in the Workplace. New Public Management and New Public Governance Approaches to Decision Making. New Public Management and Decision-Making. New Public Governance and Decision-Making. The Impact of Context on Decision Making. Individual Level: Recognition-Primed Decision Model. Organizational Level: The Governmental Process Model and Decision-Making Inside the "Garbage Can" Conclusion: Synthesizing Decision Making Approaches. What to Avoid. Impact of Information Technology. Study Questions

Notes

Additional Readings

Budgeting Websites. PART III. The Convergence of Management, Politics and Policy, and Law in the Public Sector. CHAPTER 8. Policy Analysis and Implementation Evaluation. The Growing Concern with Policy Analysis. Approaches to Analyzing Public Policies. Outcomes Analysis. Process Analysis and Implementation Studies. Big Data: An Emerging Methodology in Policy Analysis. Implementation Evaluation. Managerial Perspectives on Implementation. Contemporary Public Management. Discretion, Customer Satisfaction, and Performance. Monitoring and Measuring Performance. The Political and Policy Perspective on Implementation. Representation. Responsiveness. Accountability. The Legal Perspectives on Implementation. Constitutional Integrity. Equal Protection. Procedural Due Process and Protection of Individual Rights. Estoppel. Using Analysis and Evaluation. Conclusion: The Complexity of Policy Design. Study Questions

Notes

Additional Readings. CHAPTER 9. Regulatory Administration. An Illustration of Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector. Key Learning Objectives. The Development and Growth of Regulatory Administration. Origins of Government Regulation. Market Failure. Regulatory Federalism. Regulatory Policy and Administration. Political Patterns. Social Factors. The Structure and Process of Regulatory Administration. Independent Regulatory Commissions (IRCs). Regulatory Agencies. Rule Making. Adjudication. Common Criticisms of Regulatory Administration. Regulation Is Expensive. Regulation Dampens Economic Performance. Regulation Produces Delay, Extravagant Red Tape, and Paperwork. Incompetence and Impropriety. Overinclusiveness of Regulation. Determining Success. DEREGULATION AND REGULATORY REFORM. Deregulation. Behavioral Economics and "Nudging". Formal and Informal Rule Making. Negotiated Rule Making. Perspectives on Regulatory Administration. Traditional Managerial Legacies for Regulatory Administration. The New Public Management Contributions to Contemporary Regulatory Management. The Political Approach to Regulatory Administration. The Legal Approach to Regulatory Administration. Conclusion: Synthesizing Approaches toward Regulatory Administration. Study Questions. Additional Reading. REGULATORY AFFAIRS WEB SITES. NOTES. PART IV. Public Administration and the Public. CHAPTER 10. Public Administration and the Public. The Public’s Interaction with Public Administration. Clients Customers. The Regulated Public. Participants. Litigants. Street-Level Encounters. Contractors. The Individual in the Administrative State. The Individual in Society. The Individual in the Political System. The Individual in the Economy. The Public’s Evaluation of Public Administration. Client and Customer Satisfaction. A Look at Typical Government Services. Public Administrative Approach to the Public. The Managerial Approach to the Public. The Political and Policy Approach to the Public. The Legal Approach to the Public. Conclusion: Putting the Public Back in Public Administration. Study Questions

Notes

Additional Resources. CHAPTER 11. Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism. Key Learning Objectives. Why Public Administrators Must Understand the Constitution. Administrative Structure and Constitutional Structure. Administrative Separation of Functions. Constitutional Separation of Powers. Collapse of the Separation of Powers. The Phillips Case. Administrative Discretion and "Guerrilla Government". The Three "Masters" of Public Administration. Constitutional Values. Legitimacy. Diversity among the Citizenry. Freedom and Liberty. Property Rights. Procedural Due Process. Equal Protection. Individuality. Fourth Amendment Privacy Rights. Equity. State Action. Conclusion: An Ongoing Partnership. Study Questions. Additional Reading. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW WEB SITES. Notes. CHAPTER 12. Accountability and Ethics. Why the Guardians Need Guarding. Misconception of the Public Interest. Corruption. Subversion. Why It Is Difficult to Guard the Guardians. The Accretion of Special Expertise and Information. The Advantage of Full-Time Status. The Protective Nature of Personnel Systems. The "Law of Counter Control". The Problem of Coordination. The Lack of Political Direction. The Fragmentation of Agency Structures and Functions. The Large Size and Scope of Public Administration. "Third-Party" Government. Ethics and Public Administrators: Three Broad Approaches to Ethical Decision Making. Perspectives on Accountability and Ethics. The Traditional Managerial Perspective. Recent Variants: New Public Management and New Public Governance. The Political and Policy Perspective. The Legal Perspective. Conclusion: Personal Responsibility. Study Questions

Notes

Additional Readings

Government Ethics Websites. CHAPTER 13. The Future. Key Learning Objectives. LESSONS TO BE LEARNED. Presidential Authority Over the Federal Executive Branch. Complexity. Public Administration Will Be Defined by Politics. Law Will Continue to Be Central to Public Administration. Performance. Disaggregation of Public Administration. Fragmentation of the Civil Service. The Changing Face of Management. Personal Responsibility. Conclusion: A New Administrative Culture. Study Questions. Additional Readings. Public Administration Web Sites. Notes. Glossary. Credits. Index.

　

A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public trust, these reform efforts seek to improve policy decisions and public management. Along the way, program efficiency and effectiveness help rebuild public confidence in government. Whether through regular measurement of program inputs, activities, and outcomes, or through episodic one-shot studies, performance monitoring plays a central role in the most important current reform efforts. Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector, now available in paperback, is based on experiences derived from comparative analysis in different countries. It explains why there is interest in perfor!mance monitoring in a given setting, why it has failed or created uncertainties, and identifies criteria for improving its design and use.

One of the challenges this book offers is the need to consider dimensions of performance beyond the traditional ones of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. With an increasingly diverse, interdependent, and uncertain public sector environment, for some stakeholders meeting objectives fixed some time ago may not be as important as the capacity to adapt to current and future change. In this vein, the contributors address a number of themes: the criti!cal importance of organizational support for performance monitoring and making it consistent with the organizational culture, the need for active and effective leadership in defining criteria and implementing practical performance monitoring, the value of linking ongoing measurement with more than the traditional, strictly quantitative aspects of public sector performance.

As we gain experience with performance monitoring and its uses, such systems should become more cost effective over time. This book will be of deep interest to public managers, government officials, economists, and organization theorists, and useful in courses on public administration..

Table of Contents

I: Performance Monitoring: An Overview; 1: Effective Performance Monitoring: A Necessary Condition for Public Sector Reform; II: Designing and Implementing Effective Performance Monitoring; 2: Establishing Performance Monitoring: The Role of the Central Unit; 3: Performance Monitoring for Budget Management: A New Role of the Budget Center; 4: Public Sector Reform Strategy: A Giant Leap or a Small Step?; 5: Performance-Monitoring Systems: A Basis for Decisions?; 6: Accountability for Program Performance: A Key to Effective Performance Monitoring and Reporting; III: Comparing Performance Monitoring in Policy Areas; 7: The Performance-Monitoring System in the Korean Government, With Special Reference to Health Care; 8: A System for Monitoring and Control of Health Services: The Case of Mexico; 9: Measuring Police Performance; 10: Monitoring the Efficiency, Quality, and Effectiveness of Policy Advice to Government 1; 11: Performance Monitoring: Implications for the Future