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National Approaches to the Administration of International Migration

Pub. date: August 2010
Editor: Arnold, P.E.
Volume: 31
Price: US$123 / €85
ISBN: 978-1-60750-598-3
Subject: Public Administration, Social Sciences

Migration has always been a part of the human experience: human history began with the migration …

Winning The Needed Change: Saving our Planet Earth

Pub. date: February 2009
Editors: Pichardo Pagaza, I., Argyriades, D.
Volume: 30
Price: US$104 / €72
ISBN: 978-1-58603-958-5
Subject: Public Administration, Social Sciences

Winning The Needed Change: Saving our Planet Earth represents the outcome of long deliberations and …

National Approaches to the Governance of Historical Heritage over Time. A Comparative Report

Pub. date: April 2008
Editor: Fisch, S.
Volume: 29
Price: US$112 / €80
ISBN: 978-1-58603-853-3
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

The five elements - governmental authorities, public discourse, corporate and market interests, c…

New Technologies in Public Administration

Pub. date: September 2005
Editors: Petroni, G., Cloete, F.
Volume: 28
Price: US$104 / €72
ISBN: 978-1-58603-548-8
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

Research on the relationship between technology dynamics and Public Administration (PA) began som…

The World We Could Win

Pub. date: September 2005
Editor: Fraser-Moleketi, G.
Volume: 27
Price: US$119 / €82
ISBN: 978-1-58603-547-1
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

Global Governance represents a new way of thinking about the world we live in. This new vision of…

IIAS/IISA Administration & Service 1930-2005-

Pub. date: September 2005
Editors: Rugge, F., Duggett, M.
Volume: 26
Price: US$96 / €66
ISBN: 978-1-58603-542-6
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

75 years is a remarkable lifetime for any institution, especially if one considers the impressive…

Contracts, Performance Measurement and Accountability in the Public Sector

Pub. date: February 2005
Editors: Drewry, G., Greve, C., Tanquerel, T.
Volume: 25
Price: US$119 / €82
ISBN: 978-1-58603-496-2
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

This book addresses issues to do with public accountability, audit and performance measurement, that…

The Institutional Arrangements for Water Management in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Pub. date: December 2004
Editor: Raadschelders, J.C.N.
Volume: 24
Price: US$136 / €94
ISBN: 978-1-58603-482-5
Subject: Environmental Sciences, Information Sciences, Public Administration

Water, either as a resource or as a threat, has always been a matter of concern to governments and t…

Windows on China

Pub. date: January 2004
Editors: Gordon, M.T., Meininger, M.-C., Chen, W.
Volume: 23
Price: US$136 / €94
ISBN: 978-1-58603-397-2
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

The papers included in this publication represent windows through which others can view candid debat…

Governing Networks

Pub. date: January 2003
Editor: Salminen, A.-L.
Volume: 22
Price: US$158 / €109
ISBN: 978-1-58603-321-7
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

The EGPA Yearbook provides an overall view of current scientific discussion concerning networks, par…

The History of Corruption in Central Government

Pub. date: January 2003
Editor: Tiihonen, S.
Volume: 21
Price: US$141 / €97
ISBN: 978-1-58603-316-3
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

The International Institute of Administrative Sciences has published a study of administrative corru…

The Turning World

Pub. date: November 2002
Editors: Bertucci, G., Duggett, M.
Volume: 20
Price: US$67 / €61
ISBN: 978-1-58603-309-5
Subject: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cell, Medicine & Health

It is the task of the IIAS and the UNDESA to track and focus on changes in the atmosphere of world g…

Competency Management in the Public Sector

Pub. date: November 2002
Editors: Horton, S., Hondeghem, A., Farnham, D.
Volume: 19
Price: US$97 / €88
ISBN: 978-1-58603-293-7
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

Competency Management is increasingly being adopted as an approach to HRM in both the private and pu…

East-West Cooperation in Public Sector Reform

Pub. date: June 2002
Editors: Van Den Berg, F., Jenei, G., Leloup, L.T.
Volume: 18
Price: US$97 / €88
ISBN: 978-1-58603-235-7
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

Building on the experience of hundreds of projects and programs over more than a decade, this volume…

Managing Diversity in the Civil Service

Pub. date: January 2001
Editor: UNDESA - IIAS,
Volume: 17
Price: US$73 / €66
ISBN: 978-1-58603-224-1
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

This volume was prepared for publication jointly by the Division for Public Economics and Public Adm…

Managing Parliaments in the 21st Century

Pub. date: January 2001
Editors: Falconer, P., Smith, m, Webster, C.W.R.
Volume: 16
Price: US$94 / €85
ISBN: 978-1-58603-154-1
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

This book reports on the endeavour, undertaken by EGPA, to make the discipline of public administrat…

Towards an Intelligent State

Pub. date: January 2001
Editor: Kliksberg, B.
Volume: 15
Price: US$73 / €66
ISBN: 978-1-58603-190-9
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

The new millennium is beginning with formidable historical challenges for mankind. Such questions as…

The Challenge of Change for European Judicial Systems

Pub. date: January 2000
Editors: Fabri, M., Langbroek, P.M.
Volume: 14
Price: US$84 / €76
ISBN: 978-1-58603-062-9
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

Throughout Europe, judicial systems are under an increasing societal and political strain to increas…

Righting Wrongs

Pub. date: January 2000
Editors: Gregory, R., Giddings, P.
Volume: 13
Price: US$106 / €96
ISBN: 978-1-58603-044-5
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

This international comparative study of the Ombudsman institution began life in March 1994 when Phil…

Contracting in the New Public Management

Pub. date: January 2000
Editors: Fortin, Y., Van Hassel, H.
Volume: 12
Price: US$97 / €88
ISBN: 978-1-58603-037-7
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

This book focuses on internal management contracts and includes contributions analyzing the economic…

Equality Oriented Personnel Policy in the Public Sector

Pub. date: January 2000
Editors: Nelen, S., Hondeghem, A.
Volume: 11
Price: US$51 / €46
ISBN: 978-1-58603-004-9
Subject: Public Administration

This book is the result of the cooperation on a European level between both academics and civil serv…

Citizens and the New Governance - Beyond New Public Management

Pub. date: January 1999
Editor: Rouban, L.
Volume: 10
Price: US$84 / €76
ISBN: 978-0-9673355-3-7
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

This book addresses the relationship of citizenship and public management in Europe. After fifteen y…

Essays in Economic Globalization, Transnational Policies and Vulnarability

Pub. date: January 1999
Editors: Kouzmin, A., Hayne, A.
Volume: 9
Price: US$76 / €69
ISBN: 978-90-5199-504-6
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

The liberalization of trade and its questionable benefit; the increasing fluidity in the movement of…

Management of Public Service Reform

Pub. date: January 1998
Editors: Corkery, J., Ould Daddah, T., O'Nuallain, C., Land, T.
Volume: 8
Price: US$68 / €64
ISBN: 978-90-5199-421-6
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

Today the reform of public administration to adapt to the pressures and new requirements of an ever …

Ethics and Accountability in a Context of Governance and New Public Management

Pub. date: January 1998
Editor: Hondeghem, A.
Volume: 7
Price: US$63 / €59
ISBN: 978-90-5199-419-3
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

Ethics and accountability have become important themes for modern government as in most of the count…

Governmental Response to Environmental Challenges in Global Perspective

Pub. date: January 1998
Editors: Jabbra, J.G., Dwivedi, O.P.
Volume: 6
Price: US$60 / €54
ISBN: 978-90-5199-411-7
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

In our drive to improve human standards of living, we have paradoxically paid scant attention to the…

Public Administration and Development Improving Accountability, Responsiveness and Legal Framework

Pub. date: January 1997
Editors: IASM, , United Nations,
Volume: 5
Price: US$61 / €55
ISBN: 978-90-5199-383-7
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

This publication addresses the complex questions of improving accountability, responsiveness and leg…

New Challenges for Public Administration in the 21st Century

Pub. date: January 1997
Editor: IIAS,
Volume: 4
Price: US$61 / €55
ISBN: 978-90-5199-350-9
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

This work contains reports of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. The scientific…

Transformations in Social Security Systems

Pub. date: January 1997
Editor: IIAS Working Group on Social Security Systems,
Volume: 3
Price: US$61 / €55
ISBN: 978-90-5199-338-7
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

In this book comparative analysis is given of the way governments and social security systems reacte…

Public Productivity through Quality and Strategic Management

Pub. date: January 1995
Editors: Halachmi, A., Bouckaert, G.
Volume: 1
Price: US$146 / €132
ISBN: 978-90-5199-189-5
Subject: Information Sciences, Public Administration

The book deals with the complexity of several concepts, like the following example. Quality is by no…

Aims & Scope
Editors

The International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) is a prestigious, unique, and global non-governmental organisation based in Brussels that specialises in the subject of governance and public administration at the national and international level. Its scope is broad and it can call upon experts from many fields and many countries. IOS Press has been publishing the IIAS Monographs series since 1996. These volumes combine high academic standing with practical relevance, and are a rich seam of insight, research and data. The series also includes reports and books by the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA), one of the specialized associations of the Institute.

Prof. G. Timsit
IIAS Publications Director

Mr. R. Loretan
IIAS Director General

Prof. W. Van De Donk
Member

Prof. M. De Vries
Member

Prof. C. Pollitt
Member, IRAS Editor in Chief

Dr. F. Maron
Scientific Aministrator & Publications Coordinator

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