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Cover The Politics of the Public Encounter
The Politics of the Public Encounter
What Happens When Citizens Meet the State
Edited by
Peter Hupe

On the ground floor of government, citizens interact with teachers, medical staff, police officers and other professionals in public service. It is during these encounters that laws, public policies and professional guidelines gain further substance and form. In this insightful book, Peter Hupe brings together expert contributions from scholars across the globe to study the social mechanisms behind these public encounters. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

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Monograph Book
Published:
29 Nov 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889330
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2022
Cover Speaking Truth to Power
Speaking Truth to Power
Expertise, Politics and Governance

Truth and power have a difficult relationship. Decision makers are often required to make judgements that depend upon specialized knowledge and thus reluctantly surrender power. They are apt to reject advice inconsistent with their perceived interests, experiences and cognitive capacities. Speaking Truth to Power aims to guide the reader through the tangled relationship between truth and power, manifesting as the interplay between experts and decision-makers in society.

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Monograph Book
Published:
06 Sep 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803927633
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2022
Cover The Role of the Public Sector
The Role of the Public Sector
Economics and Society

At last – a textbook on the public sector for students of social policy, public policy, political science and sociology. This book explains why we have a public sector and what tasks it is expected to perform.

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Monograph Book
Published:
05 Aug 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803925615
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover Defining Public Goods
Defining Public Goods
An Institutional Approach to Community-Building and Negotiating Inter-Community Conflict
Through the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. The author describes in detail how seemingly intractable community-level problems and inter-community conflicts have been substantially reduced by framing them in terms of the self-interest of a larger polity. O’Brien’s extensive community-level research experience in urban and rural communities that covers multiple historical periods, will appeal to inter-disciplinary social scientists, development specialists and persons looking for a hopeful, practical approach to solving the challenges of globalization.
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Monograph Book
Published:
15 Jul 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885431
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Politics for Hire
Politics for Hire
The World and Work of Policy Professionals
This ground-breaking book investigates the work of policy professionals. They consist of political actors who, although not elected to office, are nonetheless employed to affect policy and politics on a partisan basis. Through an analysis of the influence and power they wield, this book sheds light on how the growth of this group represents a major transformation of the organization of politics and policy-making in advanced democracies.
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Monograph Book
Published:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375192
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020