Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Public Human Resource Management
Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Public Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects by Richard C. Kearney and Jerrell D. Coggburn brings together exemplary contributors who provide concise essays on major contemporary public human resources management issues. Organized into four parts – setting, techniques, issues and prospects...
Beyond the Welfare State
Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia?
In...
Public Service Ethics
Individual and Institutional Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
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?” In Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities, James Bowman and Jonathan West examine individual-centered and organization-focused...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The information revolution has increased the pressure on governments to utilize technology to increase efficiency, transparency, and access. Cases on Public Information Management and E-Government Adoption provides real world examples of the successes and pitfalls faced by public sector organizations....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The era of rapidly progressing technology we live in generates vast amounts of data; however, the challenge exists in understanding how to aggressively monitor and make sense of this data. Without a better understanding of how to collect and manage such large data sets, it becomes increasingly difficult...
Rethinking Public Accounting
Policy and Practice of Accrual Accounting in Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
This volume argues for reforms in India's public spending and accounting systems. According to the author, it will help set performance standards and provide reliable information to monitor government expenditure. Critically analysing the cash accounting system, he shows that it is inadequate to respond...
Breaking the Bargain
Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Canada's machinery of government is out of joint. In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged. He argues that the...
by Richard Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In this important book, Richard Davis looks at the issue of ‘responsibility’ in public services – on both the government’s part and that of the users. While government wrestles with how to cut the cost of services, Davis shows that government can provide responsible, sustainable and effective...
A Conservative Consensus?
Housing Policy Before 1997 and After
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes...
Cultivating political and public identity
Why plumage matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Public and political life can no longer be seen as simply the pursuit of material gain or even as the struggle for enough food and shelter by which to live. The interests people pursue are shaped by the identities they both inherit and cultivate. In generating identities, everything is important,...
Re-imagining Government
Public Leadership and Management in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In an age of austerity, public leaders and managers face a range of external challenges - fiscal, social and political. Combining theoretical insight, empirical commentary and practical experience, this book examines how democratic political systems work and how public decisions are made - and how they could be made better.
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The present structures of public information in Pakistan were created more on the basis of their technologies than their intended functions. The long gaps between their creations also had their impact. The prevailing conditions too had their influence. The result is that the Federal Government ended...
Water and Politics
Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Most of the world’s population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Water and Politics shows how politicians benefit politically from manipulating public service provision...
Analysis and Public Policy
Successes, Failures and Directions for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
How do we incorporate analytical thinking into public policy decisions? Stuart Shapiro confronts this issue in Analysis and Public Policy by looking at various types of analysis, and discussing how they are used in regulatory policy-making in the US. By looking at the successes and failures of incorporating...