Purpose – The aim of this paper is to add to understanding of how cities function. Specifically, through the lens of power relationships in political organisations, it seeks to study the manner in which accounting and politics are involved in the development of city transport strategies....

The aim of this paper is to offer a contribution to the study of the relationship between the physical elements of a sidewalk and people’s perception of it by applying the rough sets approach. In previous studies in this context statistical methods such as variance analysis and regression...

This paper aims to develop a new approach to investigating the relationships between people’s perceptions and physical components of sidewalk environments. A psychological survey composed of semantic differential items was administered to 112 participants in order to assess their perceptions...

<title>Abstract</title> This article investigates the contribution of public administration (PA) reforms to sustainable development, with particular reference to countries in transition. The case study of Albania is analysed with a specific focus on the scope, contents and sequence of reforms as well as on the...

The paper presents a statistical analysis exploring public administration education in Italian universities. It highlights the main specificities of PA education in Italy with reference to the disciplinary character, the geographical distribution, the type and level of PA programs, etc. and aims...

A general trend is easily observable in the literature on public administration reforms in post-communist countries and it consists in analyses of the degree of adoption and success of the New Public Management (NPM) model. A relevant implementation gap for some areas of reform which cannot be...

The article investigates the divide between research and practice in public management. The article does not discuss the advice-giving role of academia which has been dealt with by other authors. Instead, it focuses on gaining an understanding of its core business: research and teaching. The...

This thesis first investigates various issues related with model averaging, and then evaluates two policies, i.e. West Development Drive in China and fiscal decentralization in U.S, using econometric tools. Chapter 2 proposes a hierarchical weighted least squares (HWALS) method to address...