Public Affairs category: 1291 books
by Gerald E. Caiden
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
What is administrative reform? How is it differentiated from other kinds of social reform? Who are administrative reformers and how do they approach their task? And who benefits and who suffers from it? Does a theory of administrative reform exist?A survey of published research on administrative reform...
by Michael Oxley
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies. The core focus is on providing students with a substantive and sophisticated understanding of the relation of the state and market and such key current issues as...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right? In...
How Ottawa Spends, 2013-2014
The Harper Government: Mid-Term Blues and Long-Term Plans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The 2013-14 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics, priorities, and policies with a close lens on Stephen Harper's Conservative party during the middle of their first term as a majority. Contributors from across Canada examine the federal government and its not uncommon mid-term...
by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
In 2004, Paul Martin asked Justice John Gomery to lead a public inquiry into potential misspending in the federal Sponsorship Program, a relatively small investment of taxpayers' money to try to convince Quebeckers of the benefits of Canadian federalism in the aftermath of the 1995 referendum on Quebec...
The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise
Rhetoric, Reality and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable...
The Price of Loyalty
George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2004
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times.
This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that has been written about the Bush presidency -- or any that is likely to...
by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities....
Deconcentration and Decentralization Reforms in Cambodia
Recommendations for an Institutional Framework
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This study analyzes strategic and programming issues arising from the emerging deconcentration and decentralization reforms in Cambodia and informs the debate on the pace and strategic direction of these reforms. The study looks at the evolving legal and regulatory framework pointing to the gaps and...
by Henry Vira
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Vanuatu Legal Sector Strengthening Program (VLSSP) was launched in 2002 at a time when "the public was calling for a revamp of the whole judiciary." This case study describes how VLSSP, which was funded by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), contributed to Vanuatu's...
by Robert J. Hume
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside agencies...
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis
The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In the Fifth Edition of A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, Eugene Bardach and new co-author Eric Patashnik draw on more than 40 years of experience teaching students to be effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. This bestselling...
Beyond behaviour change
Key issues, interdisciplinary approaches and future directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
‘Behaviour change’ has become a buzz phrase of growing importance to policymakers and researchers. There is an increasing focus on exploring the relationship between social organisation and individual action, and on intervening to influence societal outcomes like population health and climate...
The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing
Understanding the Rise and Significance of a New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years, leading to new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed specifically at enhancing wellbeing. This book provides the first theoretically informed account of the rise and...