Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Nonprofit Organizations
Theory, Management, Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In this new edition of his popular textbook, Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy, Helmut K. Anheier has fully updated, revised and expanded his comprehensive introduction to this field. The text takes on an international and comparative dimensions perspective, detailing the background...
The Handbook of Federal Government Leadership and Administration
Transforming, Performing, and Innovating in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Public management is context dependent, rather than generic. That may sound obvious, but in the late 1920s through the 1930s, a dominant strand of thought considered public administration to be a "single process," wherever practiced. Today by contrast, federal administration is distinguished...
by Douglas Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.
Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal...
The Public Administrator's Companion
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Help your students make the leap from theory to practice. This handy guide emphasizes application with straightforward instruction and abundant case material. It provides brief, tested steps for addressing management, resource, and operational needs, encouraging students to develop and hone...
Private Financing of Public Transportation Infrastructure
Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book discusses a unique combination of best practices and lessons learned, including evaluation and transparency issues not found elsewhere in other texts. Given that P3s are evolving and changing, it contains the most up to date information and review of relevant sources. Other topics that have...
by Sandford Borins, Kenneth Kernaghan, David Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2007
The impact of information technology (IT) on government in the last five years has been profound. Using the governments of Canada and Ontario (both recognized as international leaders in the use of IT) as case studies, Digital State at the Leading Edge is the first attempt to take a comprehensive...
by Richard Mulgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
A systematic and engaging new text that analyses accountability and transparency in contemporary public services, and examines how open government can be both a challenge and an aid to more effective public management. This text is an ideal guide for both practical and conceptual understanding of the possibilities of open government.
Modernising Irish Government
The Politics of Administrative Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Modernising Irish Government presents the major historical turning points in the development of Irish public services with a particular focus on the civil service, covering the mid-nineteenth-century reforms, the foundations of the State and the Lemass-Whittaker economic initiative. It introduces...
Resisting Reform?
Water Profits and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A wide range of people and organisations, united by either a belief in market-based economics or a financial stake in the water business or both, are convinced that water should primarily be treated as a commodity to be bought and sold so that all water services can cover their costs. To this end,...
Open Budgets
The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. So it should not be remarkable that around the world, public officials responsible for public budgeting are facing demands-from their own citizenry, other government officials, economic...
The Consequences of Governance Fragmentation
Milwaukee's School Voucher Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book explains the impacts of Milwaukee’s voucher policy on enrollment and financial health of Milwaukee Public Schools, academic achievement in the city, and ways in which it challenges traditional notions of accountability and democratic control. Ford concludes this has fragmented public education...
Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector
Advances in E-Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Electronic Government is continually advancing in topics such as hardware and software technology, e-government adoption and diffusion, e-government policy, e-government planning, management, e-government applications, and e-government impacts. Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector:...
Money Matters
Local Government Finance in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in November reinforced the importance of public finance reform. Drawing on recent technical assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), special reports, and the work of ADB staff, the publication offers observation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Guide to U.S. Economic Policy shows students and researchers how issues and actions are translated into public policies for resolving economic problems (like the Great Recession) or managing economic conflict (like the left-right ideological split over the role of government regulation in markets)....