Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Making Public Policy Decisions
Expertise, skills and experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little account of this, preferring instead to frame...
Public-Private Partnership Operational Plan 2012-2020
Realizing the Vision for Strategy 2020: The Transformational Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Asian Development Bank Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Public-Private Partnership Operational Plan 2012-2020 provides a consistent analytical and operational framework for scaling up public-private partnerships (PPPs) in support of Strategy 2020. The PPP operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are based on four pillars: (i) advocacy and capacity...
Public Administration's Final Exam
A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance.
Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first “written” in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field’s answers to the...
Public Administration and the State
A Postmodern Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In this critical examination of public administration's pervasive vision of a powerful state, Spicer thoughtfully reconsiders the relationship between activities of governance and concepts of the state.
Woodrow Wilson argued for a state led by a powerful government, guided by science and enlightened...
by Mary Venner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country. The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors all played a role in restoring stability and establishing governance...
Ethics for Governance
Reinventing Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of India’s public services and bureaucratic systems, and explores why widespread corruption and inefficient delivery have slowed development. It:
discusses the underlying reasons for the prevailing inefficiency in public services;
examines the...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Guide to U.S. Health and Health Care Policy provides the analytical connections showing students how issues and actions are translated into public policies and institutions for resolving or managing health care issues and crises, such as the recent attempt to reform the national health care system....
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...
Mastering Public Administration
From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In Mastering Public Administration, each chapter spotlights a significant theorist in the field, covering his/her life, research, writings, and impact, introducing the discipline's most important scholarship in both a memorable and approachable manner. The combination of biographical narrative with...
It's Time for High-Performance Government
Winning Strategies to Engage and Energize the Public Sector Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Leadership teams taking the reins of government in 2017 will have to overcome the demoralizing effects of years of budget deficits, a heavy loss of talent, frequent criticism, and mounting pressure to ‘do more with less,’ all of which have contributed to declining interest in public sector careers...
by John W. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
As the United States faces increasingly difficult and trenchant public health problems, from the Zika virus to the obesity epidemic to the opioid crisis, population health is a growing area of concern for public health organizations, particularly how to care for populations effectively on a shoestring...
Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services
Mid-term Evaluation of India's National Rural Health Mission
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
This book presents a systematic mid-term evaluation of the processes of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), India's biggest rural health programme. Data from District Level Health Surveys (DLHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) and Sample Registration System (SRS) as well as primary data...
Gender Images in Public Administration
Legitimacy and the Administrative State
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002
Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women's historical...