Rejecting conventional approaches, the author offers a view of public finance as one
element of a broader scheme of social theorizing. The book assumes a working knowledge …

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how important public sector capacities and capabilities
are in terms of reacting to crises, and re-configuring existing policies and implementation …

Philosophy and Public Administration provides a systematic and comprehensive
introduction to the philosophical foundations of the study and practice of public …

The Politics of Justice in European Private Law intends to highlight the differences between
the Member States' concepts of social justice, which have developed historically, and the …

After a short case study of (Good) Governance in Estonia, this article focuses on one of the
key shortcomings in Estonian government, especially after EU accession: the administrative …

In this introduction, we introduce the concept of methodological Americanism to describe
and explain the epistemological problem plaguing the public administration discipline. We …

Germany has long been at the centre of European debates surrounding the modern role of
national constitutional law and its relationship with EU law. In 2009 the German …

This essay aspires to explore the contours of a theory of value based on the commons. Its
starting point is an understanding of value as a means through which empirical economic …

This essay surveys some general features of continental public finance analysis,
emphasizing its distinctiveness from Anglo-Saxon public economic theory. Starting from the …

Anything regarding the state will be immediately regarded with suspicion by most of the
protagonists of peer production and, indeed, of the cooperative movement. This chapter …