Administration category: 6852 books
Public Policy, Governance and Polarization
Making Governance Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Polarization is widely diagnosed as a major cause of the decline of evidence-based policy making and public engagement-based styles of policy making. It creates an environment where hardened partisan viewpoints on major policy questions are less amenable to negotiation, compromise or change. Polarization...
The School Principal
Visionary Leadership and Competent Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010
Over the past two decades, efforts to improve schools have significantly modified role expectations for principals. Today, school-level administrators are expected to be both visionary leaders and competent managers. Based on the conviction that administration is an amalgam of leadership and management,...
Understanding Systems of e-Government
e-Federalism and e-Centralism in the United States and Kazakhstan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The main purpose of the book was to analyze heterogeneous political and institutional aspects in the development of such an arguably universal tool of modern democracy as e-government from the perspectives of two nations with completely different systems of governance and traditions of public administration...
Open Government
Opportunities and Challenges for Public Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
On January 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. The memorandum declares the new Administration’s commitment to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government and establishing a system linking three principles: transparency, public participation...
Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis
National Trajectories and International Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies. Based on the results of COST research entitled, ‘Local Public Sector Reforms: an International...
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Accountability and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory—to help students develop an analytic...
Ethics for Bureaucrats
An Essay on Law and Values, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories...
Failing at School
Lessons for Redesigning Urban High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Roughly half of all incoming ninth graders across urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma. Failing at School starts with the premise that urban American high schools generate such widespread student failure not because of some fault of the students who attend them...
by Ami J. Abou-bakr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, generated a great deal of discussion in public policy and disaster management circles about the importance of increasing national resilience to rebound from catastrophic events. Since the majority of physical and virtual...
by Vince Meconi
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
A Practical Guide to Government Management provides a comprehensive yet one-volume work on high-level government management and can be described as a mangement book, reference book, and textbook all in one. It is geared towards any upper level government manager, public administration student, or...
by Lina Svedin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions. Using Sweden as the case study, this book provides a framework to analyse accountability in crises and looks at how this affects trust in government.
Crises test the fabric of governing...
The Provincial Performance Improvement Initiative
Papua New Guinea: A Case Study on Subnational Capacity Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Provincial Performance Improvement Initiative (PPII) is an undertaking of the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) that seeks to improve public administration at the subnational level. The case study describes how PPII has benefited from "enthusiastic leadership" and a high level of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book presents a nuanced analysis of governance in South Asia. It examines a range of themes including civil service reforms, women and development, environmental governance and public sector programmes, together with the impact of globalization on local issues and its influence on governance...
by Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
A complete guide to applied research, featuring original data and detailed case studies
Applied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizations takes an integrative approach to applied research, emphasizing design, data collection, and analysis. Common case studies across chapters illustrate...