Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Under New Public Management
Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private...
Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America
State, Society and Industry in Brazil’s AIDS Program
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and economic...
Restoring Good Governance in Nigeria Volume 1
The Civil Service Pathway
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In this two-volume compendium, Goke Adegoroye draws from his wealth of experience in governance and public service to deliver invaluable insights on the civil service and its crucial role in governance in Nigeria. A seasoned academic and civil servant, Adegoroye chronicles the history of civil service,...
Ports in a Storm
Public Management in a Turbulent World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In Ports in a Storm a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. Their aims are two: to understand how a public manager might confront that complex undertaking, and to explore the...
Governing in a Global World
Women in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Governing in a Global World captures the panorama of women governing around the world. Even though the modern era marks history’s greatest advancements for women, worldwide they hold fewer than 30 percent of decision-making positions and are often missing from negotiating tables where policies are...
High-Stakes Reform
The Politics of Educational Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Performance accountability has been the dominant trend in education policy reform since the 1970s. State and federal policies set standards for what students should learn; require students to take “high-stakes” tests to measure what they have learned; and then hold students, schools, and school districts...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The various and different Middle Eastern countries are addressing new key reform and governance reform processes but also administration and policy issues of enduring importance; decentralization and local government, non-profit organizations, political culture, and reform of the policy process. This...
Institutional Reforms in the Public Sector
What Did We Learn?
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
What does it take to design effective government institutions and sustain positive changes? What have we learnt about the attempts to deliberately design and redesign public sector institutions in different countries? What works and what doesn't, and why? What happens when reforms fail? This book...
Public Sector Enterprise Risk Management
Advancing Beyond the Basics
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Through a series of case studies and selected special topics, Public Sector Enterprise Risk Management presents examples from leading Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programs on overcoming bureaucratic obstacles, developing a positive risk culture, and making ERM a valuable part of day-to-day management....
The Social Issue in Contemporary Society
Relations Between Companies, Public Administrations and People
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
It is widely observed that societies are changing, and new social issues are raising. The relationship between actors in the global environment and in the local as well, is changing because of financial crisis, new technological revolution, climate change, richness reallocation and concentration....
Public Administration Evolving
From Foundations to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Public Administration Evolving: From Foundations to the Future demonstrates how the theory and practice of public administration has evolved since the early decades of the twentieth century. Each chapter approaches the field from a unique perspective and describes the seminal events that have been...
The “big society” and the british welfare state: a paradigm shift or just incremental policy change?
The “big society” and the british welfare state: a paradigm shift or just incremental policy change?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The main topic of the dissertation is the innovative Conservative-Liberal Democratic plan of the Big Society, aiming at liberalizing the public sector from an excessive incidence and influence by public institutions and reaching a new conception of “human needs”, empowering local people and communities.
Consequently,...
by E. William Ebomoyi
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In 2003, the secrets of the human genome were cracked open, creating a flurry of anticipation (and more than a little commercial buzz) about the role that genetic modification would play in years to come. This burgeoning field stands poised to redefine old paradigms and reshape industries such as medicine,...
The Public Administration (P. A.) Genome Project
Capturing, Mapping, and Deploying the "Genes" of P. A.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
What is it? The Public Administration Genome Project (PAGP) is a grand attempt to digitally “map” and then usefully employ the full set of topics, variables, and interrelationships that comprise and involve all of the “genes” that make up public administration. It is based on the highly regarded...