Public Affairs category: 1291 books
by Mark H. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Moore’s classic Creating Public Value offered advice to managers about how to create public value, but left unresolved the question how one could recognize when public value had been created. Here, he closes the gap by helping public managers name, observe, and count the value they produce and sustain or increase public value into the future.
by George Amedee, David Anderson, Cal Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...
Managing the Next Generation of Public Workers
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Managing the Next Generation of Public Workers is a fresh and energetic look at the changing climate of diversity in the public and nonprofit workplace.
The workforce of the twenty-first century represents unparalleled complexity: Baby Boomers, GenX, GenY, and Millennials. Although that diversity...
Public Management
Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Managing in the public sector requires an understanding of the interaction between three distinct dimensions—administrative structures, organizational cultures, and the skills of individual managers. Public managers must produce results that citizens and their representatives expect from their government...
Purchase for Profit
Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more...
The Evolving Physiology of Government
Canadian Public Administration in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2009
Canadian public administration has provided a rich ground for examining the changing nature of the state. Currents of political change have rippled through the administration of the public sector, often producing significant alterations in our understanding of how best to organize and administer public...
Implementing Public Policy
An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Building on the success of the previous two editions, this book provides students with an exemplary overview of the theory and practice of public policy implementation and how it relates to contemporary public management. In doing so, this new edition makes use of more illustrative examples, delves...
Public Policy, Governance and Polarization
Making Governance Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Polarization is widely diagnosed as a major cause of the decline of evidence-based policy making and public engagement-based styles of policy making. It creates an environment where hardened partisan viewpoints on major policy questions are less amenable to negotiation, compromise or change. Polarization...
Community Development and Public Administration Theory
Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines. Moreover, the concept of community development has been historically abstracted, not only in the way the concept has been conceptualized in academic studies, but also by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
What can public art do for a community? How can city governments and others that create public art develop projects that build community and engage civil society?
Creating Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art addresses these and other critical questions. It demonstrates how public art can build...
The Transformation of Governance
Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has grown less hierarchical, managers have adopted a wide variety of non-authoritarian strategies. This growing gap between theoretical ideas and actual...
by Lina Svedin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions. Using Sweden as the case study, this book provides a framework to analyse accountability in crises and looks at how this affects trust in government.
Crises test the fabric of governing...
by Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
A complete guide to applied research, featuring original data and detailed case studies
Applied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizations takes an integrative approach to applied research, emphasizing design, data collection, and analysis. Common case studies across chapters illustrate...
Comparative Public Management
Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. Why, for example, is managerial networking important in the United States, moderately effective in the United Kingdom, and of little...