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The PerformanceStat Potential
A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments...
Public Sector Accounting and Auditing in Europe
The Challenge of Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The book provides an overview of the governmental accounting status quo in Europe by analysing the public sector accounting, budgeting and auditing systems in fourteen European countries. IT sheds light on the challenges faced by European countries as they move towards adoption of the European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS).
by Owen E. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Introducing the scope and scale of government, competing approaches to the study of management in the public sector, different forms of service delivery and the major topics in the subject such as strategic management, leadership and performance management, this book continues to be a key point of reference for lecturers and students in the field.
Democratic Professionalism
Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls “democratic...
“Civilizing” Rio
Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1996
A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, widened streets, modernized...
Public Administration and the Modern State
Assessing Trends and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied. Civil services at the forefront of tackling pressing problems in a whole range of areas from climate change to income inequality are being allocated less money to do so. This collection explores how public sectors have adapted to address the demands placed on them in the 21st Century.
Traversing Digital Babel
Information, E-Government, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A groundbreaking approach to information sharing among government agencies: using selective incentives to “nudge” them to exchange information assets.
The computer systems of government agencies are notoriously complex. New technologies are piled on older technologies, creating layers that...
by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to...
Defiant Publics
The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Social activism and dissent have become global phenomena for our times. Ordinary people across the world are fighting back. This newly potent political force has defeated governments in India and Spain, and has brought down the EU draft constitution. Disaffected by the triumph of markets, public goods,...
by Michael O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The public service: home of the lengthy lunch and the idle underworked and overpaid. Right?
Wrong. Michael, we really have to talk . . . details a public service more likely to be a place of over-work, overt and covert bullying and denial of obvious dysfunction.
This book is an...
by James Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Gain a complete understanding of the important controversy over hydraulic fracturing for shale gas production with this outstanding six-hundred page collection of up-to-date official documents and publications on the risks and rewards of shale gas. It includes the new report from the House Committee...
Environmental and Health Regulation in the United States and the European Union
Protecting Public and Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the United States increasingly has relaxed its regulatory posture in the face of critical challenges to public health and the environment. This is true for regulation of recycling of end-of-life products, including autos and electronic components;...
Improving Access and Quality of Public Services in Latin America
To Govern and To Serve
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability. The innovative, multi-disciplinary studies in this volume discuss the outcomes of decentralization,...