Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Public management in transition
The orchestration of potentiality
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This textbook is the first to examine how new trends such as “radical innovation”, “co-creation” and “potentialization” challenge fundamental values in the public sector. The authors bridge traditional public management approaches that tend to exclude social and societal problems, with...
Ethics in Fiscal Administration
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Ethics in Fiscal Administration: An Introduction integrates ethics into the public administration curriculum by weaving ethical dilemmas into the financial management and budgeting process of the public and nonprofit sectors. Inquiry-based discussion prompts challenge students to examine scenarios...
The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration
A Conflict in World Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Viewed alternately as an obstacle to justice, an impediment to efficient government, and a tool by which some groups gain benefits and privileges at the expense of others, public administration threatens to become the whipping boy of American government. In this innovative look at the nation's bureaucracy,...
Philosophy and Public Administration
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This book provides a systematic introduction to the philosophical foundations of the study and the practice of public administration. It reviews all the main philosophical streams, from ancient Greek philosophy to the contemporary strands, and discusses their significance for public governance and public...
Public Leadership Ethics
A Management Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Designed to help midlevel and senior managers in organizations dedicated to public purposes, this book provides trained self-awareness to deploy values to guide decisions and build the culture of their organizations. The book explores how all managing involves leading and identifies the levels of...
In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
A Value Pluralist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Scholars of public administration have historically too often been disdainful towards politics in the field, viewing political activities and interests as opportunities for corruption, mismanagement, and skewed priorities. Supporters of this anti-political stance have become even more strident in...
Public Human Resource Management
Strategies and Practices in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Public Human Resource Management: Strategies and Practices in the 21st Century offers a novel take on public human resource management (PHRM) by providing practical guidance for practitioners operating in a drastically reformed HR environment. Author R. Paul Battaglio assesses how the traditional...
Public Administration in the 21st Century
A Global South Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century.
This book examines the transformations happening in global societies, the economy and in politics, to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic...
Creating and Implementing Public Policy
Cross-sectoral debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In order to address major social policy problems, governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Currently, major blockages exist, and stereotypes abound. Academics are seen as out-of-touch and unresponsive,...
Making Governments Accountable
The Role of Public Accounts Committees and National Audit Offices
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in public administration and public sector accounting around the world, with increasing emphasis on good governance and accountability processes for government entities. This is all driven both by economic rationalism, and by changing expectations...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships...
Leading-Edge Research in Public Sector Innovation
Structure, Dynamics, Values and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Government and non-profit innovation has emerged as a strong cross-disciplinary research field with its own schools of study. Innovation is studied in fields and organizations that are open to trying out new policies, programs and processes. In twenty-two years of publication, The Innovation Journal:...
Policy Analysis
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political, managerial, and administrative discourse but also the object of much scholarly analysis across a broad range of social and administrative sciences. This handbook provides a state of the art overview of recent...