This book examines the development of regulatory policy since the 1960s, focusing on how each president, from Nixon to Biden, stimulated reform. Highlighting the increasingly dominant role of the president in the modern administrative st...
The Elgar Companion to The World Bank provides a comprehensive review of the past 80 years for this powerful development institution. Using different theoretical approaches from an expert group of scholars as well as practitioners, it pr...
Providing an authoritative global overview of theoretical and empirical research in the field, this Handbook explores the complex relationship between gender and corruption in democracies. Through an analysis of the gendered dynamics of ...
Providing a comprehensive overview of the key fields in political network research, Volker Schneider demonstrates that relational structures play a crucial role in many areas and levels of politics and policymaking as interaction, commun...
Exploring the evolution and resilience of systems for the separation of powers, this prescient book rethinks how different architectures can defend democracies against adverse shocks and help them adapt to change. Frank Vibert cuts acros...
Edited by Patrick Lucas, Tina Nabatchi, Janine O’Flynn, Paul ‘t Hart
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Situated in an era of low trust in government and a pervasive negativity bias that has shape...
This thought-provoking book follows the EU''s journey into the digital age, explaining how it uses legislation and policy to tackle challenges such as the abuse of market power by Big Tech companies and the spread of hate speech and disi...
This book focuses on the urban and regional planning systems under conditions of economic crisis and austerity, focusing in particular on the systems of Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Spatial Planning as Institutiona...
In this insightful book, Arthur Benz introduces a novel analytical approach to comparative research on multilevel governance. Confronting the intricate problems of coordinating local, regional, national and international policies in the ...
This book explores the metamorphosis of fundamental social interactions and communal experiences, fuelled by technologies such as artificial intelligence, immersive online environments, augmented reality, blockchain, crypto and FinTech. ...
Edited by Giulio Mecacci, Daniele Amoroso, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, David Abbink, Jeroen van den Hoven, Filippo Santoni de Sio
This prescient Research Handbook analyses the ethical development of Artificial Intelligence systems through the prism of meaningful human control. It encapsulates a multitude of disciplinary lenses including technical, philosophical and...
