Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
by Mark H. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Moore’s classic Creating Public Value offered advice to managers about how to create public value, but left unresolved the question how one could recognize when public value had been created. Here, he closes the gap by helping public managers name, observe, and count the value they produce and sustain or increase public value into the future.
by George Amedee, David Anderson, Cal Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...
Managing the Next Generation of Public Workers
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Managing the Next Generation of Public Workers is a fresh and energetic look at the changing climate of diversity in the public and nonprofit workplace.
The workforce of the twenty-first century represents unparalleled complexity: Baby Boomers, GenX, GenY, and Millennials. Although that diversity...
Public Management
Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Managing in the public sector requires an understanding of the interaction between three distinct dimensions—administrative structures, organizational cultures, and the skills of individual managers. Public managers must produce results that citizens and their representatives expect from their government...
Purchase for Profit
Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more...
The Trump Secret
Seeing Through the Past, Present, and Future of the New American President
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election surprised almost all major vote forecasters who predicted Hillary Clinton’s victory. But 10 months earlier, in January 2016, Ryuho Okawa, Global Visionary, a renowned spiritual leader, and international best-selling author, had already foreseen...
Democratic Vanguardism
Modernity, Intervention, and the Making of the Bush Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book assesses in greater depth the Bush administration’s claim to comprehend the purpose of historical progress. Developing a concept termed “democratic vanguardism,” this study investigates the idea of liberal modernity, the role of the United States as a force for democracy, and the implications...
Transformational Government Through EGov Practice
Socio-Economic, Cultural, and Technological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The progression of information and communication technology (ICT) eGovernment systems has substantial implications for the future of government as we know it. eGov presents major challenges and advantages for policy makers as fundamentally different nations are adopting ICT in public administration...
Understanding Systems of e-Government
e-Federalism and e-Centralism in the United States and Kazakhstan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The main purpose of the book was to analyze heterogeneous political and institutional aspects in the development of such an arguably universal tool of modern democracy as e-government from the perspectives of two nations with completely different systems of governance and traditions of public administration...
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Accountability and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory—to help students develop an analytic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
What can public art do for a community? How can city governments and others that create public art develop projects that build community and engage civil society?
Creating Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art addresses these and other critical questions. It demonstrates how public art can build...
Ethics for Bureaucrats
An Essay on Law and Values, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Public opinion is the aggregate of the views men hold regarding the matters that affect the State. Some scholars perceive public opinion as unanimity, but it does not actually mean unanimity because it is often always difficult to have unanimity on fundamental issues. This book clearly explains the...
The Provincial Performance Improvement Initiative
Papua New Guinea: A Case Study on Subnational Capacity Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Provincial Performance Improvement Initiative (PPII) is an undertaking of the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) that seeks to improve public administration at the subnational level. The case study describes how PPII has benefited from "enthusiastic leadership" and a high level of...