Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Presidential Administration and the Environment
Executive Leadership in the Age of Gridlock
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
After sweeping environmental legislation passed in the 1970s and 1980s, the 1990s ushered in an era when new legislation and reforms to existing laws were consistently caught up in a gridlock. In response, environmental groups became more specialized and professional, learning how to effect policy...
Learning to School
Federalism and Public Schooling in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Among countries in the industrialized world, Canada is the only one without a national department of education, national standards for education, and national regulations for elementary or secondary schooling. For many observers, the system seems impractical and almost incoherent. But despite a total...
Leaders in the Shadows
The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrative Officers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager. Compared to elected politicians such as the mayor and the council, the work of a CAO is often overlooked and not well understood. In Leaders in the Shadows, David Siegel brings the...
Bush on the Home Front
Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq consumed so much attention during his presidency that few people appreciated that George W. Bush was also an activist on the home front. Despite limited public support, and while confronting a deeply divided Congress, Bush engineered and implemented reforms...
Soul, Self, and Society
The New Morality and the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account...
Accounting for Culture
Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the...
Transparency to the People
Using Stakeholder Participation to Support Public Sector Reform in Nauru and the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The publication tells the story of the use of stakeholder participation to support public sector reform in Nauru and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). The report provides important lessons for donor agencies, for Nauru and the RMI, and for other Pacific island nations that mainly live off...
Open Government (Routledge Revivals)
A study of the prospects of open government within the limitations of the British political system
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems such...
by Rebecca H. Padot
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Government-by-proxy and intergovernmental relations profoundly affect the public administration of foster care. Using examples from foster care systems in the states of Delaware, Michigan, New York, and Rhode Island, Rebecca Padot eloquently combines a rigorous methodology and theory work to expose...
Building a Capable State
Service Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The sustainable development goals signed in 2016 marked a new phase in global development thinking, one which is focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements. Few countries offer a better testing ground for their attainment than post-apartheid South Africa. Since the coming to...
Ganga Rejuvenation
Governance Challenges and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Attempts over the past three decades to clean up and rejuvenate one of the world's greatest rivers have proved futile. The major reasons for...
Pathways of Power
The Dynamics of National Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
While civics textbooks describe an idealized model of “how a bill becomes law;” journalists often emphasize special interest lobbying and generous campaign contributions to Congress; and other textbooks describe common stages through which all policies progress, these approaches fail to convey—much...
Corruption and Reform in India
Public Services in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Why do some governments improve public services more effectively than others? Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital technologies may be used to facilitate citizens' access to the state, Jennifer Bussell's analysis provides unanticipated insights into this...