Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Agents of Change
Strategy and Tactics for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
While governments around the world struggle to maintain service levels amid fiscal crises, social innovators are improving social outcomes for citizens by changing the system from within. In Agents of Change, three cutting-edge thinkers and entrepreneurs present case studies of social innovation that...
Femocratic Administration
Gender, Governance, and Democracy in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Femocratic Administration examines the gendered nature of public administration through a study of the Ontario Women’s Directorate (OWD) between 1985 and 2000. Analysing the OWD from the perspective of feminist political economy, this book combines a detailed case study with a theoretical framework...
Work and the Welfare State
Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK,...
True Green
Executive Effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Drawing on the careers of senior executives of the US Environmental Protection Agency, True Green identifies the concrete actions that work in protecting our nation’s environment. By examining the exquisitely difficult tasks of executive leadership in environmental protection, one of the most conflicted...
Taking Action on Internet Gambling
Federal Policymaking 1995–2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This book uses the case of the rise and fall of the Internet gambling industry to illustrate a new approach to understanding how public policy is made in the United States. The theory advanced is that different phases of the policy process are governed by three distinct political dynamics: constraint,...
Making Democracy Work Better
Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details...
China's Sent-Down Generation
Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
During China’s Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong’s "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be published in either English or Chinese...
The Trusted Leader
Building the Relationships that Make Government Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Improving government on a macro level is only possible with public managers who herald change on a micro level. While many studies of government reform focus on new policies and programs, these public managers—building relationships built on trust—are the real drivers behind many successful reforms.
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by L Shanthakumari Sunder
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Values and Influence of Religion in Public Administration is a study of the influence of religion on the values and ethics of the ‘steel frame of India’—the Indian Civil Service (ICS) and its successor, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Examining pertinent subjects like the historical...
Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies
Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
While the balance between private and public sectors are based primarily on the experiences of the wealthy societies in Western Europe and North America, the global reach and increased political weight of East Asian economies is bound to influence other societies as well. Contemporary Social Issues in...
New Public Governance
A Regime-Centered Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system.
by Claudius Wagemann
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling conventional market, state, or community-based forms of public order. This book examines how these institutional arrangements have changed since their identification....
Governance and the Democratic Deficit
Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Governance Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. Governance is used to describe policy making and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical,...
Beyond Machiavelli
Policy Analysis Reaches Midlife, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In this new edition of Beyond Machiavelli, Beryl Radin updates her popular overview of the field of policy analysis. Radin, winner of the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association, considers the critical issues that confront the policy analysis practitioner, changes in the field,...