Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Public Service Ethics
Individual and Institutional Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Ethics—in all its exemplary and exhausting forms—matters*.* It deals with the most gripping question in public life: "What is the right thing to do?" Now in a thoroughly revised second edition, Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilitiesintroduces readers to...
by V. Bhaskara Rao
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
This volume is on the impact and influence of social movements Civil Society Organisations in India on the Indian Public Administration. In response to the demands of the public The Indian state enacted certain laws created institutions and allocated budget. This study evaluates the results of the...
by Patrick B. Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
The citizens of the United States love to hate their own government, and much of the disdain is particularly directed at the bureaucrats. Part of the problem is contained within the idea of bureaucracy itself. Most government agencies operate under a rational system which results in the 'victory of...
From Government to E-Governance
Public Administration in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of the ICTs so as to manage and steer the multi-sectoral stakeholder relations on a non-hierarchical way. Keeping this simple notion in mind, From Government...
by Susan M. Opp, Samantha L. Mosier, Jeffery L. Osgood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Local officials are responsible for a number of important tasks that have a significant impact on the quality of life of most Americans. Arguably, the policy choices made by local governments in the United States more directly impact individual well-being than do the choices made at any other level...
Matters of Life and Death
Public Health Issues in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die...
by Edward Ebert II, Darlene M Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This inexpensive PRIMER introduces the cultural identity crisis in the United States and the myth of educational reform as explored, explained, and opened for dialogue in “Culture X Goes to School: Public Education and the American Culture.” Essentially two books in one, the full text of “Culture...
E-Government and Websites
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance. E-government refers to the practice of online public reporting by government to citizens, and to service delivery via the Internet. E-governance represents the initiatives for citizens to participate...
Politics and Public Policy
Strategic Actors and Policy Domains
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Getting beyond the traditional policy cycle discussed in most textbooks, the fully updated fourth edition of Politics and Public Policy offers a more comprehensive and realistic view of policymaking in the United States—one that looks beyond the jockeying between presidents and members of Congress,...
E-Government for Public Managers
Administering the Virtual Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This handy guide and supplemental text examines trends in information and communication technology (ICT) that impact the day-to-day operations of federal, state, and local government. It seeks to improve service delivery, human resource administration, political participation, education, and citizen...
by Kirk Emerson, Tina Nabatchi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and private sectors. While the academic literature...
Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations
Technologies for Value Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Economic globalization and the application of information and communication technologies have offered firms the opportunity to develop and distribute new knowledge. Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations: Technologies for Value Creation analyzes open innovation in a global context and proposes...
Bad Time Stories
Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts between...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
In a world of earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks, it is evident that emergency response plans are crucial to solve problems, overcome challenges, and restore and improve communities affected by such negative events. Although the necessity for quick and efficient aid is understood, researchers...