Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Bush on the Home Front
Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq consumed so much attention during his presidency that few people appreciated that George W. Bush was also an activist on the home front. Despite limited public support, and while confronting a deeply divided Congress, Bush engineered and implemented reforms...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Government is a body of people who determine common policies, regulate common affairs, and promote common interests in the State.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you government.
It analyzes the functions of government and outlines how a government must act.
It...
Soul, Self, and Society
The New Morality and the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account...
My Career as U.S. Consul and Diplomat
A Conversation with Carl A. Bastiani
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
This volume reviews highlights of the authors twenty-eight-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service while he served in Romania, Italy, Poland, and Washington, as elicited in a multi-session conversation with the founder of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. Historians and other readers may find...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the...
Kiribati Social and Economic Report 2008
Managing Development Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
After two impressively peaceful decades, there are signs of a dangerous degree of complacency in Kiribati's view of its domestic and external affairs. Forms of cultural and political resistance to change have thus been encouraged, and these are handicapping the nation's response to development risks....
Transparency to the People
Using Stakeholder Participation to Support Public Sector Reform in Nauru and the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The publication tells the story of the use of stakeholder participation to support public sector reform in Nauru and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). The report provides important lessons for donor agencies, for Nauru and the RMI, and for other Pacific island nations that mainly live off...
Open Government (Routledge Revivals)
A study of the prospects of open government within the limitations of the British political system
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems such...
Building a Capable State
Service Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The sustainable development goals signed in 2016 marked a new phase in global development thinking, one which is focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements. Few countries offer a better testing ground for their attainment than post-apartheid South Africa. Since the coming to...
Ganga Rejuvenation
Governance Challenges and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Attempts over the past three decades to clean up and rejuvenate one of the world's greatest rivers have proved futile. The major reasons for...
Pathways of Power
The Dynamics of National Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
While civics textbooks describe an idealized model of “how a bill becomes law;” journalists often emphasize special interest lobbying and generous campaign contributions to Congress; and other textbooks describe common stages through which all policies progress, these approaches fail to convey—much...
Corruption and Reform in India
Public Services in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Why do some governments improve public services more effectively than others? Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital technologies may be used to facilitate citizens' access to the state, Jennifer Bussell's analysis provides unanticipated insights into this...
Making Things Simpler?
Harmonizing Aid Delivery in the Cook Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A 2001 report by the Australian Agency for International Development and the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade marked the beginning of efforts by both governments to increase their emphasis on aid harmonization in the Pacific. This was followed by a decision to pilot a cofunded program...
Substance not spin
An insider's view of success and failure in government
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Why does policy succeed or fail? Nick Raynsford, a former MP, Minister and campaigner, tells us how it looks from the front line of policymaking. Based on his vast personal experience at the very heart of government and the voluntary sector, Raynsford explores what works and what doesn’t in making...