Administration category: 6852 books
Intergovernmental Relations in Transition
Reflections and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The field of intergovernmental relations has changed substantially over the past five decades. It maintains a critical and evolving role in the US federal system as well as in public policy and administration. Building upon the legacy of Deil S.Wright’s scholarship, this collection of essays by...
Assessment, Bureaucracy, and Consolidation
The Issues Facing Schools Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
American education has changed dramatically over the last century. The small, locally controlled school, supported by a concerned educational village fostered learning, personal accountability, patriotism and economic growth for a young nation. Today, however, American schools are typically large,...
The Trump Secret
Seeing Through the Past, Present, and Future of the New American President
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election surprised almost all major vote forecasters who predicted Hillary Clinton’s victory. But 10 months earlier, in January 2016, Ryuho Okawa, Global Visionary, a renowned spiritual leader, and international best-selling author, had already foreseen...
Belonging Together
Dealing with the Politics of Disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Affairs Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Comprehensive and optimistic, this examination describes current Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period following the end of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in 2004. It provides a unique overview of the trajectory of current policy, advancing a new...
Emerging and Potential Trends in Public Management
An Age of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question in recent years by the financial and banking crises of 2008, the authors specifically seek to investigate current public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the heart of best practice.
Managing to Be Different
Educational Leadership as Critical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Ron Scapp moves teaching back to the center of scholarship on educational administration, asking how school leaders might connect their work more integrally with the ideals and practices of critical pedagogy.
A Pocket Guide to Mentoring Higher Education Faculty
Making the Time, Finding the Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This book is written for senior faculty and administrators at resource-strapped institutions who are not trained in higher education administration who are concerned with mentoring. It is written in accessible, nontechnical language but references the more scholarly and statistically based journals...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The research in A Guide to LGBTQ+ Inclusion on Campus, Post-PULSE is premised on the notion that, because we cannot choose our sexual, racial, ethnic, cultural, political, geographic, economic, and chronological origins, with greater advantage comes greater responsibility to redistribute life’s...
Democratic Vanguardism
Modernity, Intervention, and the Making of the Bush Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book assesses in greater depth the Bush administration’s claim to comprehend the purpose of historical progress. Developing a concept termed “democratic vanguardism,” this study investigates the idea of liberal modernity, the role of the United States as a force for democracy, and the implications...
Implementing Public Policy
An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Building on the success of the previous two editions, this book provides students with an exemplary overview of the theory and practice of public policy implementation and how it relates to contemporary public management. In doing so, this new edition makes use of more illustrative examples, delves...
Accounting for Culture
Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural...
Long Beach State
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Long Beach State grew up right along with the sprawling Southern California suburbs. Born in 1949, it swelled to accommodate the post-world war enthusiasm for education and land. The rapid expansion brought its share of growing pains. Students took classes in a cramped converted apartment with no...
Making Public Policy Decisions
Expertise, skills and experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little account of this, preferring instead to frame...
Transformational Government Through EGov Practice
Socio-Economic, Cultural, and Technological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The progression of information and communication technology (ICT) eGovernment systems has substantial implications for the future of government as we know it. eGov presents major challenges and advantages for policy makers as fundamentally different nations are adopting ICT in public administration...