Public Affairs category: 1291 books
A Journey through Governance
A Public Servant's Experience Under Six Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
A Journey through Governance: A Public Servant’s Experience under Six Presidents
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
“Change (Transformation) in Government Organizations” discusses recent efforts to bring about change in government organizations. The book brings together contributions by a number of managers, practitioners, academics and consultants in the study of international, federal, state, and local government...
Thinking Government
Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources...
Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias
Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Canada is known for its inclusive citizenship and multiculturalism policies that have been largely successful in integrating an increased diversity of Canadians. In contrast to the previous approach, in 2007, the Conservative government initiated a fundamental change to make citizenship more meaningful...
Public Accountability and Health Care Governance
Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book deals with the critical empirical void created by the speed at which healthcare restructuring has taken place in Europe. Chapters explore the political uncertainty and budgetary pressures which have led governments increasingly to turn to New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms to attempt...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The effects of recent economic and financial crises have reached an international scale. A number of different nations have experienced the fallout of these events, calling into question issues of accountability and reform in public management. The Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability...
Public Management in Israel
Development, Structure, Functions and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
As government management in Israel is gradually replaced by private sector management, it is becoming apparent that the collective-oriented mission of government cannot be fulfilled by the private sector or by the non-profit organizations of civil society. This book provides an analysis of the machinery...
Democracy When the People Are Thinking
Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democracy...
Governing by Contract
Challenges and Opportunities for Public Managers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Is the public getting a good deal when the government contracts out the delivery of goods and services? Phillip Cooper attempts to get at the heart of this question by exploring what happens when public sector organizations—at the federal, state and local levels—form working relationships with...
Comparing Public Policies
Issues and Choices in Industrialized Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The study of comparative public policy reveals the intensely political nature of policy choices. While policy analysts often look to policy successes and failures outside their borders to draw valuable lessons and insights, cultural, economic, political, and institutional conditions vary from country...
Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries
Paradoxes and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development management is characterized by processes of mutual adjustment among individuals, agencies, and interest groups...
Local Public Finance Management in the People's Republic of China
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The People's Republic of China is a highly decentralized unitary state with local governments having a dominant share of public service delivery responsibility. Local governance is critically linked to a local public finance system that creates incentives and accountability mechanisms. To ensure the...
Searching for Leadership
Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
Although the subject of "leadership" is a hot topic, it has never attracted much attention in the public sector. Searching for Leadership is the first book to examine the evolving role and leadership of the highest-ranking public servant in Ottawa or in any of Canada's Provinces and Territories,...
Public Administration
Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Public Administration: Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods explores how scholars of public administration and institutional politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual particularities of their research problems and considering the use of multiple theories and methods....