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Public Procurement
Theory, Practices and Tools
2023 || Paperback || Jolien Grandia e.a. || Springer
This upper-level open access textbook uses an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the 'what and why' of public procurement, providing insight into the 'how' of contemporary procurement in the public sector. The authors use theories and exemplary practices to show the next generation of public procurement professionals how public value can be created via the acquisition of works, supplies, or services by organizations operating in the public domain. Perfectly tailored to university studen...
The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Public Administration / 1st edition (rev.)
Concepts and Cases
2023 || Paperback || Murat Onder e.a. || Springer
This handbook discusses different countries' bureaucratic, institutional, constitutional, reforms and governance system. It analyses the legislative and policy making processes and applications, local structures and functions of public administration in a given country. It presents the comparative aspects of public administration across the globe with recent developments in the field.
The Art and Craft of Policy Advising / 2nd edition
A Practical Guide
2023 || Paperback || David Bromell || Springer
This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author’s extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in New Zealand’s Westminster-style system of government.
A key message is that effective policy advising is less about cycles, stages and steps, and more about relationships, integrity and communication. Policy making is incremental social problem solving. Policy advising is mostly learned on the job, like an apprenticeship. It starts wit...
Global Food Systems, Diets, and Nutrition
Linking Science, Economics, and Policy
2023 || Paperback || Jessica Fanzo e.a. || Springer
Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues. To achieve food security for all and protect health, we need functional, equitable, and sustainable food systems. Food systems are highly complex networks of individuals and institutions that depend on governance and policy leadership. This book explains how interconnected food systems and policies affect diets and nutrition in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. In ...