Public Affairs category: 1291 books
How Information Matters
Networks and Public Policy Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
How Information Matters examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for successful policy change by public administrators. Hale examines drug courts, programs that typify the highly networked, collaborative environment of public administrators...
Understanding Trust in Government
Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough,...
by Suzanne Mccorkle, Stephanie Witt
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This book fills the need for a communication-based, public sector framed book. The authors combine just enough basic theory about communication with specific skill development in areas of immediate interest to those who work in the public sector. It also features a strong "practice" orientation,...
From Idolatry to Advertising: Visual Art and Contemporary Culture
Visual Art and Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The true measure of the practice of public service is its ability to remain faithful to the tenets of democratic society. This introductory text links the practice of public administration to the core concepts of American democracy. It covers the nuts and bolts of public administration in the context of "delivering democracy" in public service.
The Government-Industrial Complex
The True Size of the Federal Government, 1984-2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower famously referred to the emergence of a "military-industrial complex" so powerful that it threatened to warp America's political institutions and economy. However, the military was not the only part of a blended government workforce that was growing...
by Colin Copus
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In defence of councillors is an unashamed defence of local representative democracy and of those elected to serve as councillors from the often ill-informed, ill-judged and inaccurate criticism made by the media, government and public, of councillors' personal, political and professional roles. By...
by Robert A Cropf
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This book is designed to serve either as a companion to current introductory public administration textbooks or as a stand-alone casebook. It presents several case studies around several main themes or topics of public administration, including leadership, budgeting, ethics, and decision making.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Memory institutions such as archives, libraries, and museums collect, arrange, describe, and preserve their collections and holdings in order to make them accessible to the community. However, these institutions remain underutilized and are struggling to raise awareness of their existence and attract...
by Donald F. Kettl
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy brings to life the quest to make better policy with better evidence. This brief book frames the big puzzles and, through lively stories and clear examples, provides a valuable how-to guide for producing analysis that works—that speaks persuasively to policy...
Serving With Pride in the Public Eye
A Story About Striving for Success in Local Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book is about the difficulty of serving in local government. It’s about finding meaning in public service and developing a deep sense of pride in making a difference to the well being of our communities. I wrote this book to provide hope and guidance to my colleagues in administration and their...
The Politics of Historic Districts
A Primer for Grassroots Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose. This how-to guide will give citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political...
Deputy Ministers in Canada
Comparative and Jurisdictional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Collectively, provincial deputy ministers command the largest assembly of government budgets, employees, and influence in Canada, but despite their importance, they have not been the subject of systematic study until now. This unique volume, which deals with a uniquely significant topic, reviews the...
E-Government in Canada
Transformation for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government's first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing...
Reforming Federal Land Management
Cutting the Gordian Knot
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
For over a century, American have created laws, processes, objectives, priorities, and rules for federal land management that often conflict, contradict, and undermine each other. We now find ourselves with inconsistent laws, unclear priorities, procedural mazes, and an antiquated bureaucratic structure....