Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Public Sector Records Management
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Records management has undergone significant change in recent years, owing to the introduction of freedom of information legislation as well as the development of e-government and e-business and the need to manage records effectively in both the private and public sector. There are very few purely...
Human Rights and the Impact of ICT in the Public Sphere
Participation, Democracy, and Political Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The creation of a new public realm through the use of the Internet and ICT may positively promote political liberties and freedom of speech, but could also threaten the political and public autonomy of the individual. Human Rights and the Impact of ICT in the Public Sphere: Participation, Democracy,...
Public-Private Partnership Operational Plan 2012-2020
Realizing the Vision for Strategy 2020: The Transformational Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Asian Development Bank Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Public-Private Partnership Operational Plan 2012-2020 provides a consistent analytical and operational framework for scaling up public-private partnerships (PPPs) in support of Strategy 2020. The PPP operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are based on four pillars: (i) advocacy and capacity...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Guide to U.S. Health and Health Care Policy provides the analytical connections showing students how issues and actions are translated into public policies and institutions for resolving or managing health care issues and crises, such as the recent attempt to reform the national health care system....
It's Time for High-Performance Government
Winning Strategies to Engage and Energize the Public Sector Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Leadership teams taking the reins of government in 2017 will have to overcome the demoralizing effects of years of budget deficits, a heavy loss of talent, frequent criticism, and mounting pressure to ‘do more with less,’ all of which have contributed to declining interest in public sector careers...
by John W. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
As the United States faces increasingly difficult and trenchant public health problems, from the Zika virus to the obesity epidemic to the opioid crisis, population health is a growing area of concern for public health organizations, particularly how to care for populations effectively on a shoestring...
Under New Public Management
Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private...
Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America
State, Society and Industry in Brazil’s AIDS Program
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and economic...
Helping America Vote
The Limits of Election Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A repeat of the Florida debacle in the 2000 presidential election is the fear of every election administrator. Despite the relatively complication-free 2008 election, we are working with fairly new federal legislation designed to ease election administration problems. The implementation of the Help...
Restoring Good Governance in Nigeria Volume 1
The Civil Service Pathway
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In this two-volume compendium, Goke Adegoroye draws from his wealth of experience in governance and public service to deliver invaluable insights on the civil service and its crucial role in governance in Nigeria. A seasoned academic and civil servant, Adegoroye chronicles the history of civil service,...
Ports in a Storm
Public Management in a Turbulent World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In Ports in a Storm a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. Their aims are two: to understand how a public manager might confront that complex undertaking, and to explore the...
Governing in a Global World
Women in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Governing in a Global World captures the panorama of women governing around the world. Even though the modern era marks history’s greatest advancements for women, worldwide they hold fewer than 30 percent of decision-making positions and are often missing from negotiating tables where policies are...
Institutional Reforms in the Public Sector
What Did We Learn?
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
What does it take to design effective government institutions and sustain positive changes? What have we learnt about the attempts to deliberately design and redesign public sector institutions in different countries? What works and what doesn't, and why? What happens when reforms fail? This book...
Public Sector Enterprise Risk Management
Advancing Beyond the Basics
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Through a series of case studies and selected special topics, Public Sector Enterprise Risk Management presents examples from leading Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programs on overcoming bureaucratic obstacles, developing a positive risk culture, and making ERM a valuable part of day-to-day management....