Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Public Service Ethics
Individual and Institutional Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Ethics—in all its exemplary and exhausting forms—matters*.* It deals with the most gripping question in public life: "What is the right thing to do?" Now in a thoroughly revised second edition, Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilitiesintroduces readers to...
by Patrick B. Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
The citizens of the United States love to hate their own government, and much of the disdain is particularly directed at the bureaucrats. Part of the problem is contained within the idea of bureaucracy itself. Most government agencies operate under a rational system which results in the 'victory of...
Matters of Life and Death
Public Health Issues in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die...
by Edward Ebert II, Darlene M Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This inexpensive PRIMER introduces the cultural identity crisis in the United States and the myth of educational reform as explored, explained, and opened for dialogue in “Culture X Goes to School: Public Education and the American Culture.” Essentially two books in one, the full text of “Culture...
E-Government and Websites
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance. E-government refers to the practice of online public reporting by government to citizens, and to service delivery via the Internet. E-governance represents the initiatives for citizens to participate...
Politics and Public Policy
Strategic Actors and Policy Domains
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Getting beyond the traditional policy cycle discussed in most textbooks, the fully updated fourth edition of Politics and Public Policy offers a more comprehensive and realistic view of policymaking in the United States—one that looks beyond the jockeying between presidents and members of Congress,...
Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations
Technologies for Value Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Economic globalization and the application of information and communication technologies have offered firms the opportunity to develop and distribute new knowledge. Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations: Technologies for Value Creation analyzes open innovation in a global context and proposes...
Bad Time Stories
Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts between...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
In a world of earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks, it is evident that emergency response plans are crucial to solve problems, overcome challenges, and restore and improve communities affected by such negative events. Although the necessity for quick and efficient aid is understood, researchers...
by Morphet, Janice
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) is frequently viewed as simple by the media and politicians. In ways - never really explained - the EU has managed to 'take away' Britain's sovereign powers and has the ability to determine much of its legislation. The history of how this has occurred...
Commissions of Inquiry and Policy Change
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Commissions of inquiry are a vital and ubiquitous part of the Canadian policy landscape. Established to answer the tough questions, they have been charged with examining almost every aspect of public life.
This collection brings together leading Canadian scholars working in political science,...
Fields of Authority
Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and...
by Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, François Pétry
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Heated debate surrounds the topic of health care in both the US and in Canada. In each country, these debates are based in some measure on perceptions about health care in their neighboring country. The perceptions held by Canadians about the US health care system, or those held by Americans about...
Dealing with Dysfunction
Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? De Jong examines the roots of this dysfunction and presents a novel approach to solving it. Drawing from academic literature on bureaucracy and problem solving in the public sector, and the clinical work...