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Innovation in the Public Sector
Linking Capacity and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?
by Bill Hulet
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The human race is facing an existential crisis in the form of climate change, yet most of humanity---even if it believes in global warming---seems incapable of making the lifestyle changes necessary to prevent the worst from taking place. _Walking the Talk_ argues that this is because the traditional...
Looking for Consensus
Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The peak of the crisis might be passing but the crisis for civil society and civic institutions of governance and leadership...
Public Sector Reform in Ireland
Countering Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland. It presents a timely and apposite examination of how a crisis can be used to overcome barriers and...
Mastering Public Administration
From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In Mastering Public Administration, each chapter spotlights a significant theorist in the field, covering his/her life, research, writings, and impact, introducing the discipline's most important scholarship in both a memorable and approachable manner. The combination of biographical narrative with...
The New Enlightenment
A Twenty-First Century Peaceful American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Imagine living in a more prosperous and fundamentally more just, democratic and egalitarian society. We can make this dream real with The New Enlightenment’s thoroughly detailed public policies that will: • End unemployment mainly by reducing full-time work hours 10%, to 36 hours per week. Less...
Value and Virtue in Public Administration
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.
Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity
Analysis, Reception and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptions have recently led...
Gender Images in Public Administration
Legitimacy and the Administrative State
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002
Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women's historical...
Reporting at the Southern Borders
Journalism and Public Debates on Immigration in the U.S. and the E.U.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Undocumented immigration across the Mediterranean and the US-Mexican border is one of the most contested transatlantic public and political issues, raising fundamental questions about national identity, security and multiculturalism—all in the glare of news media themselves undergoing dramatic transformations.
This...
by Thomas A. Heberlein
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awareness, changing attitudes, and finally altering behaviors among the general public-and fast. New information, attitudes, and actions, it is conventionally...
Online Incivility and Public Debate
Nasty Talk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
This book investigates what influence online incivility—through user-generated comments on news websites—has on public debate. Built on the premise that public discussions about important topics are vital to a healthy democracy, the book analyzes 3,508 online comments in order to understand what...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically...
Public Administration in Europe
The Contribution of EGPA
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
This book considers the ways in which public administration (PA) has been studied in Europe over the last forty years, and examines in particular the contribution of EGPA, the European Group for Public Administration, both to the growth of a truly pan-European PA, and to the future of PA in Europe....