Public Affairs category: 1291 books
by Jay M. Shafritz, E. W. Russell, Christopher P. Borick
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Now in an extensively revised 9th edition, Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need, while introducing them to important trends in the discipline. Known for its lively and witty writing style, this beloved textbook examines the most important issues...
The High Representative and EU Foreign Policy Integration
A Comparative Study of Kosovo and Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of integrated efforts in EU foreign and...
Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector
Future Directions from International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public trust, these reform efforts seek to improve policy decisions and public management. Along the way, program efficiency and effectiveness help rebuild...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This volume aims to shed light on how public service value is identified, managed, measured and reported. The concept of public value has been increasingly associated with the process of modernisation and in recent years the debate has shifted away from 'what' to 'how' public value is conceptualised...
Public Personnel Management
Contexts and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Now in a thoroughly revised 7th edition, Public Personnel Management focuses on the critical issues and common processes in the management of public sector personnel. In keeping with prior editions, the text centers on the core processes within public human resource management: strategic workforce...
Public Management Reform and Innovation
Research, Theory, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced,
treatment of public management reform and innovation available.
The subject of reform in the public sector is not new;
indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics.
Still, as the contributors...
by Professor Kjell A Eliassen, Prof Nick Sitter
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
'A broad-ranging and highly intelligent account of key recent developments internationally which skillfully updates the public management and governance literatures' - Ewan Ferlie, Royal Holloway
'Public management has been radically changed and reformed... this book gives students a fine introduction...
The Next Public Administration
Debates and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component of democratic governance and fostering a state-citizen...
Public Policy
Preferences and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Now in a thoroughly revised third edition, Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes is designed to help students enrolled in a public policy course discuss policy issues and understand the ways in which public policy is grounded in normative theory. This approachable book examines the role of political...
The Language of Public Administration
Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an...
Inception Point
The Use of Learning and Development to Reform the Singapore Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Inception Point: The Use of Learning and Development to Reform the Singapore Public Service fills a gap in current literature on Singapore's modernisation. While the political leadership of the late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his People's Action Party (PAP) government were key to Singapore's...
by Tina Nabatchi, Matt Leighninger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
A comprehensive text on the theory and practice of public participation
Written by two leaders in the field, Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy explores the theory and practice of public participation in decision-making and problem-solving. It examines how public participation...
Public Policy and Administration
Formulation, Implementation and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Public Policy has emerged as an important discipline in social sciences, since the early 1970s. This discipline deals basically with the analysis of complex societal problems. To this extent Public Policy provides perspective on analysis implementation and evaluation of a problem.This volume is a...
Public Policy Praxis
A Case Approach for Understanding Policy and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Public administration and policy analysis education has long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed by, and sometimes defeated by, value conflict. Too often public administration education has failed...