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by Shaun Hendy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ... the Fonterra botulism scare ... the Christchurch earthquakes in all these recent crises the role played by scientists has been under the spotlight.What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis to the government, to their employer, or to the wider public desperate...
Public Speaking In A Week
Presentation Skills In Seven Simple Steps
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Sunday: Write a speech to which people will want to listen that is well-researched, uses stimulating content and is tailored to the needs of the audience
Monday: Learn how to use effective speaking techniques such as projection, commanding the space and interaction with your audience
Tuesday: Discover...
by Keith Dowding, Aaron Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general speeches,...
Place Branding through Phases of the Image
Balancing Image and Substance
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
As places face increased competition for human and capital resources, public managers turn toward corporate-like governance strategies and branding practices to shape places and organizations. However, for better or worse, these organizations begin to resemble highly competitive, private-sector public...
Thinking Outside the Box
Innovation in Policy Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Thomas Courchene is the author or editor of numerous books and has published hundreds of academic papers on a wide range of Canadian public policy issues. Thinking Outside the Box honours his outstanding contributions to Canadian public policy thinking and practice. Research papers included in the...
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments, ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy that...
Backrooms and Beyond
Partisan Advisers and the Politics of Policy Work in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Though they serve in many roles and under many titles, no one doubts that political staffs now wield substantial influence in the making of government policy. Backrooms and Beyond draws on interviews with ministers, senior public servants, and political advisers to offer the first detailed Canadian...
Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Cities
Economy, Environment and Community in Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city. Sustainability, as a concept guiding public action, encourages city officials to integrate policy and programs addressing the economic, environmental,...
No Debt, High Growth, Low Tax
Hong Kong's Economic Miracle Explained
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Governments around the world are wrestling with the problems of enormous debts, low growth, high unemployment and a gap between the demands of public expenditure and what can be raised through taxation. There are two small islands with no natural resources which have enjoyed high growth combined with...
The Federal Management Playbook
Leading and Succeeding in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Stories of government management failures often make the headlines, but quietly much gets done as well. What makes the difference? Ira Goldstein offers wisdom about how to lead and succeed in the federal realm, even during periods when the political climate is intensely negative, based on his decades...
Taking the Right Road to Inclusive Growth
Industrial Upgrading and Diversification in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This report discusses key policy challenges that need to be addressed if the Philippines were to embark on sustainable and inclusive growth. We take the view that the main reason behind the Philippines' lagging growth and development outcomes in the regional context lies in a sluggish transformation...
Applied Policy Research
Concepts and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Where many textbooks on policy research focus on methodological and statistical theories, leaving students to wonder how they will apply those theories to future policy positions, this innovative textbook takes theories of policy research and puts them into practice, demystifying the subject by translating...
Challenging governance theory
From networks to hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Theories heralding the rise of network governance have dominated for a generation. Yet, empirical research suggests that claims for the transformative potential of networks are exaggerated. This topical and timely book takes a critical look at contemporary governance theory, elaborating a Gramscian...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology...