Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
by Thomas E. Drabek
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Since the first edition of The Human Side of Disaster was published in 2009, new catastrophes have plagued the globe, including earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand, tornadoes in Alabama and Missouri, floods in numerous locations, Hurricane Sandy, and the infamous BP oil spill. Enhanced with new cases...
by Bernie Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
IN 2017 a man named Paul Pisasale is facing criminal charges including corruption in public office, extortion, assault, and attempting to pervert justice. In 2016 Mr. Pisasale was re-elected Mayor of the Queensland City of Ipswich with 83.45 per cent of the popular vote.
Something is broken...
The Politics of Public Budgeting
Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Using a “power struggles” theme to examine the dynamics of budgeting, Rubin’s classic text shines a bright light on the political jockeying between interest groups, parties, officials, policymakers, and the public. Expert at explaining budgeting changes over time, Rubin sets issues like the...
From Austerity to Abundance?
Creative Approaches to Coordinating the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
This volume explores the ways in which civil society and governments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinating efforts toward the common good. The chapters highlight alternatives that are philosophically and pragmatically different from neoliberal austerity measures, which...
Führung, Steuerung und Aufsicht von öffentlichen Unternehmen
Public Corporate Governance für die Praxis
Language: German
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Die Steuerung, Führung und Kontrolle von öffentlichen Unternehmen - auch bekannt unter dem Begriff «Public Corporate Governance» - ist ein aktuelles und wichtiges Thema. Dies zeigt schon die Tatsache, dass die Kantone der Schweiz rund 1000 Beteiligungen an 600 Unternehmen halten. Wie sollen diese...
Patience and Fortitude
Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
**A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people’s interests—by the reporter who broke the story
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In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost...
Posh Boys
How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are plucked from their nurseries and sent to beautiful compounds far away from all the other children. They are provided with all the teachers they need, the best facilities, doctors and food. Every day...
by Paul Richards
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Spin doctors are seldom out of the news for long. But who really understands what 'spin' is, or what spin doctors do? The media has moved on from a world where press officers carried piles of newspapers to the office each morning, when Twitter was what birds did and mobile phones were the size of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
E-Government describes the utilization of technologies to improve the lives of citizens and business organizations while facilitating the operation of the government. With the rise of new technologies, governments need to consider implementing Web 2.0 and mobile technologies as a way to offer relevant...
Why the Third Way failed
Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises...
Internal Improvement
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans...
by Abdou Karim GUEYE
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Si cet ouvrage a été écrit, c’est que dans le métier d’Inspecteur général d’Etat et celui de Consultant international que j’exerce depuis quelques années, je rencontre souvent des experts, des citoyens et bien d’autres personnes qui constamment...
Understanding the Social Economy
A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission –...
Global Governance Enterprises
Creating Multisector Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Global Governance Enterprises focuses on a specific multi-sector collaboration—the formation of an entity that carries out global governance—providing a detailed analysis of the context of their emergence, as well as how they are created, managed, and sustained.
Forrer considers the growing...