Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books

The development of a national science policy for Canada – and the priorities to be set within any such policy – have been topics of a mounting debate within government and the scientific community. The questions involved are of concern in every country today: Can governments now afford to support...

This classic study brings to bear the findings and principles of political science, sociology, psychology, and economics on various proposals for the solution of ills traditionally associated with governmental administration.

The executive branch of government in Europe is being gradually transformed in several significant respects. First, executive power has been continuously strengthened at the EU level in the form of the European Commission, EU-level agencies and diplomatic and military staff in the Union Council secretariat....

The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic lawyer Miguel Alemán. Supporters hailed them as modernizing visionaries whose policies laid the foundation for unprecedented economic growth, while critics...

This text provides an analysis of the variety of consequences that elections may have for the operation of American political institutions and the formulation and administration of policy.

Managing America's Small Communities charts several key aspects of the largely unexamined world of small city management. This book describes the democraphic trends, structural features, executive behavior and service quality among small communities. Are small cities growing, declining or have they...

During the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson and his administration substantially altered the structure of the American administrative state. Creating intergovernmental programs to forward the goal of the Great Society, they changed the contours of national-state-local relationships, and these changes...

Formal systems of comprehensive planning and performance-based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the failure of program budgeting (PPB) in the 1960s and resurrection of that management technique in a handful of agencies over...

In this timely book Irene Rubin focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the U.S. federal budget in 1998. With characteristic insight and a lively narrative, Rubin describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure.

Ce Château inaccessible, hôte d'une administration qui l'est tout autant, apparaît comme le but à atteindre pour K... Absurdité de la bureaucratie, misère de certains types d'emplois, espoir et déceptions quant à l'ascension sociale, tels sont les thèmes principaux que Franz Kafka aborde dans « Le château ». Format professionnel électronique © Ink Book édition.

Présentation du paysage politique et administratif en Belgique La sagesse populaire le dit : nous aimons mieux ce que nous connaissons mieux. Or, qui ne s'est jamais ouvert sur la complexité des rouages de l’État belge ? Sur l'incapacité d'en expliquer simplement les structures, voire...

Communes, départements, régions et territoires d'outre-mer ont vu leur organisation et leurs compétences profondément modifiées par la politique publique de décentralisation engagée à partir de 1982. Réputées proches des citoyens, ces institutions sont pourtant fort mal connues. Qu'est-ce...

"Gottes Werk und unser Beitrag" ist das erste Kompendium, das sich der Kirchenfinanzierung in Österreich systematisch widmet. Die beiden Autoren, ausgewiesene Spezialisten zum Thema, haben Informationen zusammengetragen und gebündelt. Zeitgleich zum Volksbegehren gegen Kirchenprivilegien in Österreich...

Un matin, Joseph K. est arrêté. Qui l'accuse ? De quoi ? Quand aura lieu son procès ? À ces questions, une réponse implacable: "C'est la loi." L'erreur est donc impossible. Ainsi, lentement, au rythme de l'administration, la vie de K. tourne au cauchemar. Avocats désabusés, juges...