Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Redesigning Work
A Blueprint for Canada's Future Well-being and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Canada’s future prosperity is of utmost concern to citizens, industry leaders and policy makers. Using original public opinion research from EKOS, Redesigning Work argues that improving people’s jobs and workplaces can unlock the potential to strengthen Canada’s economy and improve the well-being...
Wiki Government
How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Collaborative democracy-government with the people-is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative,...
Is Congress Broken?
The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Making Congress Work, Again, Within the Constitutional System
Congress for many years has ranked low in public esteem-joining journalists, bankers, and union leaders at the bottom of polls. And in recent years there's been good reason for the public disregard, with the rise of hyper-partisanship...
The New Geo-Governance
A Baroque Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Over the last few decades, the Westphalian nation-state has lost its hegemonic position in the system of geo-governance. A dispersive revolution has led to the emergence of powerful newly networked business organizations, new subsidiary-focused governments, and increasingly virtual, elective, and...
by Winston Dookeran
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Power, Politics and Performance outlines a convincing case that the best route for the optimum development of Small States requires the dynamics of a Partnership Approach – with its citizens, regional institutions and the global community.
Most Hon. Percival Patterson, ON, OCC,...
The Blame Game
Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed....
The Congressional Budget Office
Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Created in 1974, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. A critical component of our system of checks and balances, the CBO has given Congress the analytical capacity to challenge the president on budget issues while it protects...
by Lowdon Wingo Jr., Alan Evans
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Microfoundations of Policy Implementation
Towards European Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The European Union (EU) has a compliance problem: there are persistent failures in the implementation of EU rules and policies by the member states. This book examines how policy implementation may be improved. It explains the nature of policy mistakes, proceeds to consider how individual public authorities...
Getting It Done
A Guide for Government Executives
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Getting It Done was written for those who have answered the call to public service. Now, in this 2017 edition, the editors of IBM’s Center for The Business of Government series have assembled a comprehensive guide to navigating the current environment of government, and what government leaders ought...
Democratizing Public Governance in Developing Nations
With Special Reference to Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both the externally prescribed and home-grown governance initiatives geared toward democracy and development,...
Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy
Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea...
Learning to School
Federalism and Public Schooling in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Among countries in the industrialized world, Canada is the only one without a national department of education, national standards for education, and national regulations for elementary or secondary schooling. For many observers, the system seems impractical and almost incoherent. But despite a total...
Leaders in the Shadows
The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrative Officers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager. Compared to elected politicians such as the mayor and the council, the work of a CAO is often overlooked and not well understood. In Leaders in the Shadows, David Siegel brings the...