Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
by Tim Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Is America a nation under God or a nation getting over God? In the United States, the Christian cause is in full retreat: Courts enshrine the counterfeit right of same-sex marriage Prayer, long since made illegal in public school, is increasingly pushed from other public places and occasions Policies...
Does Policy Analysis Matter?
Exploring Its Effectiveness in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
How well can democratic decision making incorporate the knowledge and expertise generated by public policy analysts? This book examines the historical development of policy analysis, as well as its use in legislative and regulatory bodies and in the federal executive branch. The essays show that policy-analytic...
Dealing with Differences
Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is a perennial challenge for activists, politicians,...
Understanding the policy process (Second edition)
Analysing welfare policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
This book draws on the latest and best social science to explain how and why social policy change occurs. Focusing on the policy making process as the key to change, it uses core concepts of policy analysis, one in each chapter, to build up a fully worked explanation of social policy change and to...
Regulatory Breakdown
The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the most contested domains of American domestic politics. Critics from the left blame lax regulation for the housing meltdown and financial crisis—not to mention major...
The Evaluation Enterprise
A Critical View
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation leads to betterment. However, evaluation itself is seldom analyzed from a critical perspective. In this book, Jan-Eric Furubo and Nicoletta Stame have assembled an international...
Providing a Sure Start
How government discovered early childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
This book tells the story of Sure Start, one of the flagship programmes of the last government. It tells how Sure Start was set up, the numerous changes it went through, and how it has changed the landscape of services for all young children in England. Offering insight into the key debates on services...
by Professor 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.
15 Minutes of Power
The Uncertain Life of British Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
Aside for the secretaries of state, those lofty roles at the Home Office, MOD, Exchequer, and Foreign office, the ministers of the UK are a cast of roles that expand, and contract based on the whims and political needs of the Prime Minister. Within their portfolios those MPs and Lords are immensely...
East Asia in Transition: Toward a New Regional Order
Toward a New Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
"Has uniformly good essays on economic and political change, the policies of the great and local powers, and the prospects for building a new regional order". -- Foreign Affairs
Cook Islands 2008 Social and Economic Report
Equity in Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Cook Islands has transformed its economy since the public debt crisis of the mid-1990s. The economy is private sector-led, the Government is now on a sound financial footing and well placed to address key development issues, and the economy has proved its resilience in the face of five cyclones in...
Organizational Learning at NASA
The Challenger and Columbia Accidents
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the state of policy analysis in Turkey for an international audience. Noting Turkey’s traditionally strong, highly centralised state, the book documents the evolution of policy analysis in the country, providing an in-depth review of the context,...
Policy Transformation in Canada
Is the Past Prologue?
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Canada's centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant growth in the area of cultural diversity, including multiculturalism and bilingualism. Meanwhile, the rising...