Public Affairs category: 1291 books
The Future of Public Administration around the World
The Minnowbrook Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of distinguished authors—both seasoned and...
The Trojan Horse
The Growth of Commercial Sponsorship
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served...
Public Service Operations Management
A research handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
How do policy makers and managers square the circle of increasing demand and expectations for the delivery and quality of services against a backdrop of reduced public funding from government and philanthropists? Leaders, executives and managers are increasingly focusing on service operations improvement....
Comparing Public Bureaucracies
Problems of Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears unfulfilled. What accounts for this decline in intellectual fortunes and change in intellectual...
Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Before 1946 the congressional role in public administration had been limited to authorization, funding, and review of federal administrative operations, which had grown rapidly as a result of the New Deal and the Second World War. But in passing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Legislative...
Public Administration
Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Is public administration an art or a science? This question of whether the field is driven by values or facts will never be definitively answered due to a lack of consensus among scholars. The resulting divide has produced many heated debates; however, in this pioneering volume, Norma Riccucci embraces...
Using Social Marketing for Public Emergency Preparedness
Social Change for Community Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Less than half of the public in the U.S. have taken the three steps to prepare for emergencies that are recommended by FEMA and the Red Cross: having a 3-day emergency kit, a family communication plan, and knowing where to get information during an emergency. Although emergency managers attempt to...
Collaborative Public Management
New Strategies for Local Governments
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Local governments do not stand alone—they find themselves in new relationships not only with state and federal government, but often with a widening spectrum of other public and private organizations as well. The result of this re-forming of local governments calls for new collaborations and managerial...
by Tobin Im
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Public Organizations in Asia introduces students to the fundamental theories of organizations and teaches them how to analyze different types of public organizations in East and Southeast Asia. Moving away from traditional Western theory and examples, this textbook provides numerous case studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Since the 1970s, globalization has created an economic environment of interdependency between nations. Now, many countries in European and the MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) regions must grapple with the need to increase public revenue while maneuvering through a global “race-to-the-bottom”...
Public and Social Services in Europe
From Public and Municipal to Private Sector Provision
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the institutional changes that have occurred to the local level delivery of public utilities and personal social services in countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and written by leading country experts, the book pursues...
Collaborating to Manage
A Primer for the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoff examines current and emergent approaches...
The administration and you – A handbook
Principles of administrative law concerning relations between individuals and public authorities
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The public administration is above all for us, the protection of our rights and the pursuit of the public good. This handbook will be of interest to all those concerned with the proper functioning of public administration: individuals who apply for public services and action and the public officials...
by Kevin J. Fandl
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Laws exist to incentivize us to act in a certain manner, in accordance with the policies that our community has deemed right for us. And when we disagree with those laws, we must re-examine our policies, and thus our beliefs and ideas, to decide whether our community has changed. This is a book...