Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Challenging the Performance Movement
Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
"Accountability" is a watchword of our era. Dissatisfaction with a range of public and private institutions is widespread and often expressed in strong critical rhetoric. The reasons for these views are varied and difficult to translate into concrete action, but this hasn't deterred governments and nongovernmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
South Korea is renowned as one of the success stories of fast economic development. The Korean developmental state was a highly efficient, meritocratic, and fully monopolized coercive force. These resources were skilfully leveraged to shape the direction of private sector actors towards strategic...
Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions
Channeling and Containing Administrative Discretion
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
As first responders to public problems, administrators must survey situations, identify solutions, and occasionally make executive decisions that are binding upon the government as a whole. The ability for administrators to assert claims that orient the government in a particular direction is not...
The Last Refuge
Patriotism, Politics, and the Environmin an Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 "a tightly reasoned, excellently written book that should be lethally effective in helping readers who aren't experts understand the contours of the crisis." -TOLEDO BLADE Updated and revised following the 2004 elections, The Last...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Given the global crises confronting the world today, it is important to interrogate the notion of “the modern state” and to evaluate its effectiveness in providing security and services for its populations, including the most disadvantaged and vulnerable. This book investigates the modern state’s...
Toward Resilient Communities
Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In June 2011, the city of Minot, North Dakota sustained the greatest flood in its history. Rather than buckling under the immense weight of the flood on a personal and community level, government, civic groups, and citizens began to immediately assess and address the event’s impacts. Why did the...
L'avenir des administrations locales en Europe
Leçons tirées de la recherche et de la pratique dans 31 pays
Language: French
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Au cours des dernières décennies, les administrations locales en Europe, de plus en plus pressurisées, ont fait face à de multiples défis. Il en a résulté une vague de réformes politiques et administratives, visant à alléger cette pression, qui a modifié la gestion des collectivités locales...
Politics of Public Money
Spenders, Guardians, Priority Setters, and Financial Watchdogs inside the Canadian Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2007
Public money is one of the primary currencies of influence for politicians and public servants. It affects the standards by which they undertake the nation's business and it impacts on the standard of living of the nation's citizens. The Politics of Public Money examines the extent to which the Canadian...
The Hawks of Peace
Notes of the Russian Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Hawks of Peace. Notes of the Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand the past and...
by Matt Margolis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“I’m proud of the fact that [...] we’re probably the first administration in modern history that hasn’t had a major scandal in the White House.”
So President Barack Obama boldly declared before leaving office, and numerous times since. But is it true?
Not according to Matt...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform offers readers differing theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform, combined with an overview of major trends in the core areas of the functioning of the public sector. The book consists of three parts, the first addresses...
by Odugbemi,Sina; Lee,Taeku
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Accountability has become a buzzword in international development. Development actors appear to delight in announcing their intention to ?promote accountability??but it is often unclear what accountability is and how it can be promoted. This book addresses some questions that are crucial to understanding...
Leading public design
Discovering human-centred governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This powerful new book provides a clear framework for understanding and learning an emerging management practice, leading public design. Drawing on more than a decade of work on public sector innovation, Christian Bason uses his extensive practical experience and research conducted among public managers...
The Responsible Contract Manager
Protecting the Public Interest in an Outsourced World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Contract management is a critical skill for all contemporary public managers. As more government duties are contracted out, managers must learn to coordinate and measure the performance of private contractors, and to write contract requirements and elicit bids that obtain important services and products...