Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Transformational Public Policy
A new strategy for coping with uncertainty and risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. Unpredictable and changing circumstances often bring nasty surprises that can increase waste in governance and public debt. This book illustrates how new methods...
Environmental Sustainability and American Public Administration
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators...
Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy
Public Administration in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
In this well-informed yet anxious age, public administrators have constructed vast cisterns that collect and interpret a meteoric shower of facts. In Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy, Akhlaque Haque demonstrates that this pervasive use and increasing dependence on information technology...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The growing ‘constitutional school’ of public administration has roots in the Federalist Papers, constitutional law, and the writings of several contemporary leaders and contributors in the field. It is comprised of a loose grouping of scholars who subscribe to the proposition that constitutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book...
The Administrative State
A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This classic text, originally published in 1948, is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory and the history of ideas. It seeks to review and analyze the theoretical element in administrative writings and to present the development of the public administration...
Building Service-Oriented Government
Lessons, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Providing quality public service is one of the essential functions of a government. In the turbulent time, however, governments worldwide are experiencing a variety of unprecedented challenges to meet citizens' increasing demands and expectations. In China, building a service-oriented government and...
Advancing Collaboration Theory
Models, Typologies, and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental relationships....
by Tayo Demola
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
I believe in Nigeria. I love Nigeria. I know that Nigeria is a great nation with good people and highly talented individuals. It is a beautiful country highly endowed with both human and natural resources. Nigeria is indeed a blessed nation.The socio-political issues in Nigeria should concern all...
by David A. Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Public money is one of the primary currencies of influence for politicians and public servants. It affects the standards by which they undertake the nation’s business and impacts the standard of living of the nation’s citizens. David A. Good’s The Politics of Public Money examines the extent...
Dynamic Governance
Embedding Culture, Capabilities and Change in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
In a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival. Even if the initial chosen set of principles, policies and practices are good, static efficiency and governance would eventually lead to stagnation and decay. No amount of careful planning can assure a...
by Phillip J. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Promises of justice and equality made in the U.S. Constitution, numerous Amendments, and decisions of the Supreme Court are hallmarks of American civil rights. Yet the realities of inequality remain facts of modern life for too many Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans, even though...
The First 90 Days in Government
Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges-from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments-that will make their transitions...
by Leisha DeHart-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape...