Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Substance not spin
An insider's view of success and failure in government
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Why does policy succeed or fail? Nick Raynsford, a former MP, Minister and campaigner, tells us how it looks from the front line of policymaking. Based on his vast personal experience at the very heart of government and the voluntary sector, Raynsford explores what works and what doesn’t in making...
Collaboration
Using Networks and Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2004
As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop services and cross-agency results. This...
A Presidential Civil Service
FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
A Presidential Civil Service offers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt’s Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the evolution of...
Comparing Quebec and Ontario
Political Economy and Public Policy at the Turn of the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Can sub-units within a capitalist democracy, even a relatively decentralized one like Canada, pursue fundamentally different social and economic policies? Is their ability to do so less now than it was before the advent of globalization? In Comparing Quebec and Ontario, Rodney Haddow brings these...
The Politics of Disgust
The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Ange-Marie Hancock argues that longstanding beliefs about...
by Stuart Shapiro, Debra Borie-Holtz
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Regulation has become a front-page topic recently, often referenced by politicians in conjunction with the current state of the U.S. economy. Yet despite regulation’s increased presence in current politics and media, The Politics of Regulatory Reform argues that the regulatory process and its influence...
Environmental Policy
New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for the twenty-first century. You will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional...
The Art of Policymaking
Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Art of Policymaking: Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch, Second Edition is a practical introduction to the specific tools, techniques, and processes used to create policy in the executive branch of the U.S. government. George E. Shambaugh, IV and Paul Weinstein, Jr....
Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences
Methods that matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Drawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making. Chapter by chapter this expert group of social scientists showcase their chosen method or approach,...
Whenever Two or More Are Gathered
Relationship as the Heart of Ethical Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
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This study of the critical role of ethics and moral responsibility in the field of public administration, Michael M. Harmon and O. C. McSwite posit that administrative ethics, as presently conceived and practiced, is largely a failure, incapable...
Building the Federal Schoolhouse
Localism and the American Education State
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Over the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system...
Challenging the Performance Movement
Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
"Accountability" is a watchword of our era. Dissatisfaction with a range of public and private institutions is widespread and often expressed in strong critical rhetoric. The reasons for these views are varied and difficult to translate into concrete action, but this hasn't deterred governments and nongovernmental...
Surviving Government: Part Four - Political Integrity
Surviving Government, #4
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Surviving Government presents an understanding of Canadian local government for the individual citizen, and how each citizen can influence, modify, and survive the decisions, actions, and effects of government.
The work is in four volumes, each concentrating on one of four aspects of government:...
Varieties of Legal Order
The Politics of Adversarial and Bureaucratic Legalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Across the globe, law in all its variety is becoming more central to politics, public policy, and everyday life. For over four decades, Robert A. Kagan has been a leading scholar of the causes and consequences of the march of law that is characteristic of late 20th and early 21st century governance....