A comprehensive discussion and analysis of two and a half millennia of Western political theory In the absence of noble public goals, admired leaders, and compelling issues, many warn of a dangerous erosion of civil society, which includes families, religious organizations, and all other NGOs. Are they right? What are the roots and ......
Network-based collaboration between public and private stakeholders may bring about a renaissance in creative governance. The author draws on extensive research to analyze and promote the emerging field of collaborative innovation. His exploration of processes and the roles of specific systems combine the analytical and theoretical.
Collaborative Governance Regimes breaks new conceptual and practical ground by presenting an integrative framework for working across boundaries to solve shared problems, a typology for understanding variations among collaborative governance regimes, and an approach for assessing both process and productivity performance.
Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue, the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health has convened experts on gun policy and violence from the United States and selected other countries to summarize relevant research and its implications for ......
The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink
Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming. Now that climate emergency is upon us, claims that geoengineering is inevitable are rapidly proliferating. How did we get into this situation where the most extreme path now seems a plausible ......
During the 2016 presidential campaign, millions of voters, concerned about the economic impact of illegal immigration, rallied behind the notion of a wall between the United States and Mexico. Not quite two years into the Trump presidency, immigration endures as a hotly contested topic in United States politics. In Dreams Derailed sociologist ......
Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge, updated edition
This updated classic on public administration highlights advances in the field Since the publication of the first edition of Public Administration in 2010, this field has seen numerous advances in and augmentations to its logic of inquiry. While the foundational concepts examined in the book's first edition remain unchanged, Norma Riccucci has ......
Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge, updated edition
This updated classic on public administration highlights advances in the field Since the publication of the first edition of Public Administration in 2010, this field has seen numerous advances in and augmentations to its logic of inquiry. While the foundational concepts examined in the book's first edition remain unchanged, Norma Riccucci has ......
A Civil Society Response to Counter the Tide of Populism
The UK has an existential crisis happening before our eyes. The lack of leadership and the exceptional low turnout at elections are producing outcomes that is a threat to democracy. Citizenship has no relevance in a world of nomads. We aim to offer solutions to this problem.
