Public Affairs category: 1291 books
by Adam B. Masters
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book explores how professional and organisational cultures influence global public-private partnerships, which form a key element of global governance. Using case studies, the partnerships of three international government organisations – the International Telecommunication Union, Interpol...
Administrative Law in the Political System
Law, Politics, and Regulatory Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Emphasizing that administrative law must be understood within the context of the political system, this core text combines a descriptive systems approach with a social science focus. Author Kenneth F. Warren explains the role of administrative law in shaping, guiding, and restricting the actions of...
The Art of Public Strategy
Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian...
Public Policy
Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authors Michael Kraft...
Public Value
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
This text provides a concise and internationalized restatement of the public value approach, an assessment of its impact to date - in theory and practice - and of its particular relevance to the challenges of public management in a time of crisis and austerity.
The People Factor
Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Successful businesses have spent the past two decades retooling and rethinking how to manage their people better. Most big companies that have survived and prospered in the 21st century view employees as a vital strategic asset. In comparison, the U.S. federal government is a Stone Age relic, with...
Digital Public Administration and E-Government in Developing Nations
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
In recent years, it has become apparent that there are very distinct gaps between developed and developing regions in the world, especially in regards to e-government systems, infrastructures, and processes. Digital Public Administration and E-Government in Developing Nations: Policy and Practice examines...
Studying public policy
An international approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
This unique book is the first to explore the public policy process through 19 contributions from diverse scholars from all over the world. It uses empirical material to demonstrate how many of the key theories and concepts may be applied to its analysis. These are linked by substantive commentary...
Public Sector Records Management
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Records management has undergone significant change in recent years, owing to the introduction of freedom of information legislation as well as the development of e-government and e-business and the need to manage records effectively in both the private and public sector. There are very few purely...
Co-Production and Co-Creation
Engaging Citizens in Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States will bring the CQ Press reference guide approach to topics in urban politics and policy in the United States. If the old adage that “all politics is local” is even partially true, then cities are important centers for political...
Human Rights and the Impact of ICT in the Public Sphere
Participation, Democracy, and Political Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The creation of a new public realm through the use of the Internet and ICT may positively promote political liberties and freedom of speech, but could also threaten the political and public autonomy of the individual. Human Rights and the Impact of ICT in the Public Sphere: Participation, Democracy,...
Bureaucracy and Self-Government
Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions...
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.