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Community Development and Public Administration Theory
Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines. Moreover, the concept of community development has been historically abstracted, not only in the way the concept has been conceptualized in academic studies, but also by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
What can public art do for a community? How can city governments and others that create public art develop projects that build community and engage civil society?
Creating Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art addresses these and other critical questions. It demonstrates how public art can build...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
A favorable reputation is an asset of importance that no public sector entity can afford to neglect because it gives power, autonomy, and access to critical resources. However, reputations must be built, maintained, and protected. As a result, public sector organizations in most OECD countries have...
Organizational Public Relations
A Political Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Public relations practitioners are often called upon to help chart their organization's strategic development, thus functioning as managerial decision makers linking the organization to its larger environment. This book is about understanding organizations, especially the role played by organizational...
Professionalizing Public Relations
History, Gender and Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This groundbreaking study offers new insights into public relations history with a focus on the changing relationship between women and public relations, the institutionalization of public relations education, and the significance of globalization in Australia in the second half of the twentieth century....
by Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
A complete guide to applied research, featuring original data and detailed case studies
Applied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizations takes an integrative approach to applied research, emphasizing design, data collection, and analysis. Common case studies across chapters illustrate...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This document articulates fundamental Air Force principles for conducting public affairs (PA) operations and provides commanders with operational level guidance for employing and integrating those capabilities across the range of air, space, and information operations.
America's national security...
by Susan R. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In the twenty-first century, public health is everyone’s business. The nursing and medical professions are well placed to provide advice to their clients, especially in respect to lifestyle change, and public health initiatives are supported by a range of statutory and voluntary organisations and...
Comparative Public Management
Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. Why, for example, is managerial networking important in the United States, moderately effective in the United Kingdom, and of little...
The Future of Public Administration around the World
The Minnowbrook Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of distinguished authors—both seasoned and...
Speaking Power to Truth
Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals—intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is rooted...
Public Health Perspectives on Disability
Epidemiology to Ethics and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Traditionally, the public health viewpoint on disability was geared toward primary prevention of disabling conditions or events. More recently, with the movement for disability rights and the emergence of disability studies, the challenge to the field has been to promote positive health outcomes in...
Public Policymaking by Private Organizations
Challenges to Democratic Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
How private groups increasingly set public policy and regulate lives-with little public knowledge or attention.
From accrediting doctors and lawyers to setting industry and professional standards, private groups establish many of the public policies in today’s advanced societies. Yet this...
The Public Good and the Brazilian State
Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, citizens thrive and crises are averted. When public...