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Cover of Strategic Management in the Public Sector
by Paul Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015

Strategic management is widely seen as essential to the public services, leading to better performance and better outcomes for the public. In fact, the private sector idea of strategic management has become so powerful in the public sector that politicians and policy makers have begun to talk about...
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The High Representative and EU Foreign Policy Integration

A Comparative Study of Kosovo and Ukraine

by Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018

Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of integrated efforts in EU foreign and...
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Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector

Future Directions from International Experience

by John Winston Mayne
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public trust, these reform efforts seek to improve policy decisions and public management. Along the way, program efficiency and effectiveness help rebuild...
Cover of Public Value Management, Measurement and Reporting
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014

This volume aims to shed light on how public service value is identified, managed, measured and reported. The concept of public value has been increasingly associated with the process of modernisation and in recent years the debate has shifted away from 'what' to 'how' public value is conceptualised...
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Public Personnel Management

Contexts and Strategies

by Jared J. Llorens, Donald E. Klingner, John Nalbandian
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017

Now in a thoroughly revised 7th edition, Public Personnel Management focuses on the critical issues and common processes in the management of public sector personnel. In keeping with prior editions, the text centers on the core processes within public human resource management: strategic workforce...
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Public Management Reform and Innovation

Research, Theory, and Application

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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015

Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced, treatment of public management reform and innovation available.   The subject of reform in the public sector is not new; indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics. Still, as the contributors...
Cover of Understanding Public Management
by Professor Kjell A Eliassen, Prof Nick Sitter
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008

'A broad-ranging and highly intelligent account of key recent developments internationally which skillfully updates the public management and governance literatures' - Ewan Ferlie, Royal Holloway 'Public management has been radically changed and reformed... this book gives students a fine introduction...
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Public Policy

Preferences and Outcomes

by Christopher A. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Now in a thoroughly revised third edition, Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes is designed to help students enrolled in a public policy course discuss policy issues and understand the ways in which public policy is grounded in normative theory. This approachable book examines the role of political...
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Rulemaking

How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy

by Scott R. Furlong, Cornelius Martin Kerwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018

In this thought-provoking new edition of their highly regarded text, authors Cornelius M. Kerwin and Scott R. Furlong help you grasp the dynamics of today’s American politics by showing you how rulemaking remains an elemental part of our government system. Rulemaking, Fifth Edition, brings concepts...
Cover of Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy
by Tina Nabatchi, Matt Leighninger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

A comprehensive text on the theory and practice of public participation Written by two leaders in the field, Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy explores the theory and practice of public participation in decision-making and problem-solving. It examines how public participation...
Cover of Rethinking Public Strategy
by Sean Lusk, Nick Birks
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014

Strategy is vital to effective and efficient public service delivery as well as successful governance and leadership. This new text provides a concise yet systematic overview of the achievements, downfalls and complexities of public strategy in today's globalized and often market-driven world. It...
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Policing and Public Management

Governance, Vices and Virtues

by Kevin Morrell, Ben Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

Policing and Public Management takes a new perspective on the challenges and problems facing the governance of police forces across the UK and the developed world. Complementing existing texts in criminology and police studies, Morrell and Bradford draw on ideas from the neighbouring fields of public...
Cover of Politics of the Administrative Process
by Donald F. Kettl
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

Politics of the Administrative Process shows how efficient public administration requires a delicate balance—the bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective, but also accountable to elected officials and citizens.  Author Don Kettl gives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched...
Cover of Public Sector Management
by Norman Flynn, Dr. Alberto Asquer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

The seventh edition of the bestselling Public Sector Management is a rich and insightful description, analysis and critique of the management of the public sector by the UK government. NEW to the seventh edition: Now set in an international context with comparative global examples throughout Three...
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