Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
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...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This publication provides an overview of 145 successful innovations in governance and public administration from 50 countries that received the United Nations Public Service Awards, which is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. The purpose of this book is to disseminate,...
Had Enough?
A Handbook for Fighting Back
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Have you had enough of George W. Bush and the Republican right? Are you sick and tired of the tax-cutting, environment-desecrating, secret-keeping, influence-peddling, war-mongering, free speech-hating hypocrites who occupy America's halls of power? If so, you have company -- James Carville.
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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...
Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis
National Trajectories and International Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies. Based on the results of COST research entitled, ‘Local Public Sector Reforms: an International...
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...
Defending a Contested Ideal: Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008
Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2008
In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history,...
Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy
Public Administration in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
In this well-informed yet anxious age, public administrators have constructed vast cisterns that collect and interpret a meteoric shower of facts. In Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy, Akhlaque Haque demonstrates that this pervasive use and increasing dependence on information technology...
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...
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...
Advancing Collaboration Theory
Models, Typologies, and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental relationships....
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...