This book analyzes issues related to economic challenges for Japan’s regional revitalization. Japan’s responses to such challenges and to the problem of an aging population are of deep interest to the nations outside of Japan. This book brings together 19 articles contributed by Japan’s...

Batley and Larbi examine how governments of developing countries are organized to deliver public services. The book is based on comparative international studies of four service sectors: Health care, urban water, business promotion and agricultural marketing. Governments everywhere are being...

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy. Modern political economy has implied the interaction between politics and economics to understand political, electoral and public issues in different nations,...

Managementnotwendigkeit der öffentlichen Wertschöpfungskette -- Status Quo zum Management öffentlicher Wertschöpfungsketten -- Abgrenzung öffentlicher und privater Wertschöpfungsketten -- Institutionelle Besonderheiten der öffentlichen Wertschöpfungskette als Herausforderung für die...