Public Affairs category: 1291 books
by Sreechinth C
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Malcom X the activist and outspoken public voice of the Black Muslim faith challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the nonviolent pursuit of integration championed by Martin Luther King Jr. He urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary”. For...
The Smart Society
Strengthening Americas Greatest Resource, Its People
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all Americans-not just a privileged elite-smarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation’s safety net.” The spectacular,...
Voluntary Environmental Programs
A Policy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Protecting the environment is often not the primary objective of businesses. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the necessity of environmental regulations becomes apparent. Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective examines different approaches to environmental protection...
by Merilee S. Grindle
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Patronage systems in public service are reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. Grindle considers why patronage has been ubiquitous in history and explores the processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service systems.
by Sandi Parkes Pershing, Eric K. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Applying organization theory to public and governance organizations, Organization Theory and Governance for the 21st Century presents readers with a conscious and thoughtful awareness of the history and evolving nature of organizations. Authors Sandra Parkes Pershing and Eric Austin address emerging...
Turn This Car Around
The Roadmap to Restoring America
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Our nation has become one full of apologies and Politically Correct (PC) statements. It’s time for the true right to make a political comeback. Former Governor Robert Ehrlich has written the roadmap – Turn This Car Around. He urges the American public to make a real change and address (with him)...
The Media War in Hungary I
Media & Power in Hungary from 1989-2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Noted journalist and former member of the Hungarian national media regulator Peter Gyuricza explores key historical events surrounding the development of the media environment in Hungary since the regime change in 1989. His unique perspective having not only lived through, but having witnessed first...
by Robert H. Blank, Viola Burau, Ellen Kuhlmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle income countries, as well as broadened coverage relating to healthcare outside of hospitals and the ever-increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce today.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
This unique ebook provides an essential up-to-date reference guide to the health and medical implications of natural disasters such as flooding and hurricanes, with detailed, expert advice from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and FEMA. Some of the specific...
Healthy, Wealthy or Wise?: Issues in American Health Care Policy
Issues in American Health Care Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
This book focuses on the problems in America's health care system that have developed over the past 30 years and that will be with us for the next 30 years. It goes beyond mind-numbing quantitative data to probe the underlying causes of the nation's difficulties. Three broad questions are addressed:...
The new politics
Liberal Conservatism or same old Tories?
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Does the Coalition government represent a new politics in Britain, or is the new government just the same old Tories hiding behind an opportunist pact with the Liberal Democrats? Does Cameron differ from past Conservatives like Margaret Thatcher, and if so, how? This book looks at the Coalition government...
The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party: Documents and Analysis
Documents and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This collection of documents covers the rise to power of the Chinese communist movement. They show how the Chinese Communist Party interpreted the revolution, how it devised policies to meet changing circumstances and how these policies were communicated to party members and public.
Federal Service and the Constitution
The Development of the Public Employment Relationship, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Conceived during the turbulent period of the late 1960s when ‘rights talk’ was ubiquitous, Federal Service and the Constitution, a landmark study first published in 1971, strove to understand how the rights of federal civil servants had become so differentiated from those of ordinary citizens. Now...
The Right to Be Wrong
Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In the running debate we call the "culture wars," there exists a great feud over religious diversity. One side demands that only their true religion be allowed in the public square; the other insists that no religions ever belong there. The Right to Be Wrong offers a solution, drawing its lessons...