Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
The Politics of Historic Districts
A Primer for Grassroots Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose. This how-to guide will give citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political...
E-Government in Canada
Transformation for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government's first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing...
Reforming Federal Land Management
Cutting the Gordian Knot
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
For over a century, American have created laws, processes, objectives, priorities, and rules for federal land management that often conflict, contradict, and undermine each other. We now find ourselves with inconsistent laws, unclear priorities, procedural mazes, and an antiquated bureaucratic structure....
by Douglas Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.
Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal...
Private Financing of Public Transportation Infrastructure
Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book discusses a unique combination of best practices and lessons learned, including evaluation and transparency issues not found elsewhere in other texts. Given that P3s are evolving and changing, it contains the most up to date information and review of relevant sources. Other topics that have...
by Richard Mulgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
A systematic and engaging new text that analyses accountability and transparency in contemporary public services, and examines how open government can be both a challenge and an aid to more effective public management. This text is an ideal guide for both practical and conceptual understanding of the possibilities of open government.
Modernising Irish Government
The Politics of Administrative Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Modernising Irish Government presents the major historical turning points in the development of Irish public services with a particular focus on the civil service, covering the mid-nineteenth-century reforms, the foundations of the State and the Lemass-Whittaker economic initiative. It introduces...
Resisting Reform?
Water Profits and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A wide range of people and organisations, united by either a belief in market-based economics or a financial stake in the water business or both, are convinced that water should primarily be treated as a commodity to be bought and sold so that all water services can cover their costs. To this end,...
Open Budgets
The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. So it should not be remarkable that around the world, public officials responsible for public budgeting are facing demands-from their own citizenry, other government officials, economic...
The Consequences of Governance Fragmentation
Milwaukee's School Voucher Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book explains the impacts of Milwaukee’s voucher policy on enrollment and financial health of Milwaukee Public Schools, academic achievement in the city, and ways in which it challenges traditional notions of accountability and democratic control. Ford concludes this has fragmented public education...
Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector
Advances in E-Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Electronic Government is continually advancing in topics such as hardware and software technology, e-government adoption and diffusion, e-government policy, e-government planning, management, e-government applications, and e-government impacts. Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector:...
Money Matters
Local Government Finance in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in November reinforced the importance of public finance reform. Drawing on recent technical assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), special reports, and the work of ADB staff, the publication offers observation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Guide to U.S. Economic Policy shows students and researchers how issues and actions are translated into public policies for resolving economic problems (like the Great Recession) or managing economic conflict (like the left-right ideological split over the role of government regulation in markets)....
Budget Tools
Financial Methods in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The thoroughly updated and expanded** Second Edition** of Greg G. Chen, Lynne A. Weikart, and Daniel W. Williams’ Budget Tools: Financial Methods in the Public Sector brings together scores of exercises that will take students through the process of public budgeting, from organizing data through...