Public Policy category: 4660 books
The Public Understanding of Political Integrity
The Case for Probity Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused approach to understanding citizen disaffection with politicians. It shows that perceptions of public probity are coherent, substantively meaningful, responsive, and, most importantly, that they do matter.
Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems
The Sub-Saharan African Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare...
Results-Based Public Sector Management
A Rapid Assessment Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This guide highlights the key features for a results-based public sector management system, and is a principle-based approach to identifying capacity development needs. The guide also shows how results-based public sector management assessments can be integrated into the business processes of the Asian Development Bank.
IT in the Public Sphere
Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
To be successful in the 21st century, governments must make use of digital and communication technologies in order to coordinate resources and collaborate with their citizens. IT in the Public Sphere: Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning evaluates current research and best...
Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue
New Conversations in Public Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and...
Re-imagining Government
Public Leadership and Management in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In an age of austerity, public leaders and managers face a range of external challenges - fiscal, social and political. Combining theoretical insight, empirical commentary and practical experience, this book examines how democratic political systems work and how public decisions are made - and how they could be made better.
The Return of the Public
Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Under the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous in recent years. At the same time, journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s News International and elsewhere have been breaking the law on an industrial scale....
Water and Politics
Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Most of the world’s population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Water and Politics shows how politicians benefit politically from manipulating public service provision...
Business Improvement Districts in the United States
Private Government and Public Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This book examines how privatization has transformed cities, particularly through the role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the revitalization of America’s downtown. These public-private partnerships between property owners and municipal government have developed retail strips across...
Congress Whispers, Reservation Nations Endure
A Century of Public Acts of Aggression, Confusion, & Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
A unique body of federal actions rests in near silence within the shadowy margins of all other U.S. public law. The reason is simple. It consists of laws that specifically apply to just one group of Americans: members of American Indian tribes. As such, the laws apply most directly to less than 1.5%...
The Political Economy of Local Regulation
Theoretical Frameworks and International Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the interactions between regulators, public officers,...
The Infrastructure We Ride On
Decision Making in Transportation Investment
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book explores the various economic and institutional factors that explain why huge investments are made in unworthy transportation mega-projects in the US and other countries. It is based on research, the general literature, economic analyses, and results from a specifically collected database...
A History of the German Public Pension System
Continuity amid Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
A History of the German Public Pension System: Continuity amid Change provides the first comprehensive institutional history of the German public pension system from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the major reform period in the early twenty-first century. Relying on a wide range sources,...
by Richard Rose, Caryn Peiffer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
This book explains why the role of corruption varies greatly between public services, between people, between national systems of governance, and between measures of corruption. More than 1.8 billion people pay the price of bad government each year, by sending a bribe to a public official. In developing...