Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Cook Islands 2008 Social and Economic Report
Equity in Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Cook Islands has transformed its economy since the public debt crisis of the mid-1990s. The economy is private sector-led, the Government is now on a sound financial footing and well placed to address key development issues, and the economy has proved its resilience in the face of five cyclones in...
Organizational Learning at NASA
The Challenger and Columbia Accidents
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation...
The Forest Ranger
A Study in Administrative Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
It is the rare book that remains in print for nearly fifty years, earning wide acclaim as a classic. The Forest Ranger has been essential reading for generations of professionals and scholars in forestry, public administration, and organizational behavior who are interested in the administration of...
Toward Resilient Communities
Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In June 2011, the city of Minot, North Dakota sustained the greatest flood in its history. Rather than buckling under the immense weight of the flood on a personal and community level, government, civic groups, and citizens began to immediately assess and address the event’s impacts. Why did the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the state of policy analysis in Turkey for an international audience. Noting Turkey’s traditionally strong, highly centralised state, the book documents the evolution of policy analysis in the country, providing an in-depth review of the context,...
Policy Transformation in Canada
Is the Past Prologue?
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Canada's centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant growth in the area of cultural diversity, including multiculturalism and bilingualism. Meanwhile, the rising...
Bureaucratic Manoeuvres
The Contested Administration of the Unemployed
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada. While policy makers previously approached unemployment as a social and economic problem to be addressed through macroeconomic policies, recent labour market policy reforms have placed...
by Yanzhong Huang
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves into a diverse set of policy areas, including...
The New and Changing Transatlanticism
Politics and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The European Union and the US are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), with potentially enormous economic gains for both partners. Experts from the European Union and the US explore not only the groundwork laid for TTIP under the "New Transatlanticism,"...
Challenging times, challenging administration
The role of public administration in producing social justice in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Explores the relationship between public administration and social justice in Ireland
by Jean-Louis Bianco
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 20, 2016
La laïcité est au centre du débat public. On l’invoque sans cesse mais sait-on vraiment ce que c’est ? A-t-on par exemple le droit d’exprimer ses convictions, y compris quand elles sont religieuses, dans l’espace public, dans la rue, sur les places... ou sur les plages ? Dans la République,...
by Vincent Ostrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom’s analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.
by Charles Albouy, Patrice Cornille
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Les régions, départements et communes contractent depuis toujours des ventes, acquisitions et locations immobilières de toute nature avec les administrés : depuis toujours aussi ces derniers peuvent leur consentir des donations ou legs de terrains ou de bâtiments. Ce n’est cependant qu’à...