Public Affairs category: 1291 books
by Jim Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them.
Operating...
Wiki Government
How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Collaborative democracy-government with the people-is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative,...
Is Congress Broken?
The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Making Congress Work, Again, Within the Constitutional System
Congress for many years has ranked low in public esteem-joining journalists, bankers, and union leaders at the bottom of polls. And in recent years there's been good reason for the public disregard, with the rise of hyper-partisanship...
The Blame Game
Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed....
The Congressional Budget Office
Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Created in 1974, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. A critical component of our system of checks and balances, the CBO has given Congress the analytical capacity to challenge the president on budget issues while it protects...
by Lowdon Wingo Jr., Alan Evans
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Microfoundations of Policy Implementation
Towards European Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The European Union (EU) has a compliance problem: there are persistent failures in the implementation of EU rules and policies by the member states. This book examines how policy implementation may be improved. It explains the nature of policy mistakes, proceeds to consider how individual public authorities...
by The Hertie School of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Infrastructure is a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development. Yet, unmet investment needs coexist with white elephants and bridges to nowhere, while major construction projects face huge cost overruns and citizen protest. The governance of infrastructure is already complex, involving...
Getting It Done
A Guide for Government Executives
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Getting It Done was written for those who have answered the call to public service. Now, in this 2017 edition, the editors of IBM’s Center for The Business of Government series have assembled a comprehensive guide to navigating the current environment of government, and what government leaders ought...
The Life Cycles of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency
1970 - 2035
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
In 1970, due to increasing public concern about the environment, a dramatic series of bipartisan actions were taken to expand the national government's efforts to control pollutants. In that year, the Congress and President Nixon established two key federal agencies to address the nation's growing...
Community Action Leaders
Rooting Out Poverty at the Local Level
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Nationwide, approximately 1,000 Community Action agencies advocate for the poor and provide diverse but critical services such as (but not limited to) emergency food and shelter, energy bill assistance, weatherization, education, job training, transportation, housing, and health services. In the face...
Democratizing Public Governance in Developing Nations
With Special Reference to Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both the externally prescribed and home-grown governance initiatives geared toward democracy and development,...
by Beryl A. Radin
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Proposals for reform have dotted the federal management landscape in the United States for more than 50 years. Yet these efforts by public management professionals have frequently failed to produce lasting results. In her new book, Federal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions, renowned public...
Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy
Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea...