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Cases in Public Relations Management
The Rise of Social Media and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Developed for advanced students in public relations, Cases in Public Relations Management uses recent cases in public relations that had outcomes varying from expected to unsuccessful. The text challenges students to think analytically, strategically, and practically. Each case is based on real events,...
Purchase for Profit
Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more...
European Union Public Health Policy
Regional and global trends
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for...
The Evolving Physiology of Government
Canadian Public Administration in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2009
Canadian public administration has provided a rich ground for examining the changing nature of the state. Currents of political change have rippled through the administration of the public sector, often producing significant alterations in our understanding of how best to organize and administer public...
by Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world. Editors...
Visual Public Relations
Strategic Communication Beyond Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book brings together a broad and diverse range of new and radical approaches to public relations focussing on the increasingly vital role that visual, sensory and physical elements factors play in shaping communication. Engaging with recent developments in critical and cultural theories, it outlines...
Implementing Public Policy
An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Building on the success of the previous two editions, this book provides students with an exemplary overview of the theory and practice of public policy implementation and how it relates to contemporary public management. In doing so, this new edition makes use of more illustrative examples, delves...
American Public Administration
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This collection of essays highlights the “peculiarly American” issues of public administration ranging from 1870 to 1974, when they were first published. Every contributor was assigned a period of American history and given the opportunity to write on what he or she deemed the most important or...
Public Policy, Governance and Polarization
Making Governance Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Polarization is widely diagnosed as a major cause of the decline of evidence-based policy making and public engagement-based styles of policy making. It creates an environment where hardened partisan viewpoints on major policy questions are less amenable to negotiation, compromise or change. Polarization...
by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting text is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management. Putting the American model in perspective, it establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical, practical and future foundations...
The Transformation of Governance
Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has grown less hierarchical, managers have adopted a wide variety of non-authoritarian strategies. This growing gap between theoretical ideas and actual...
by Lina Svedin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions. Using Sweden as the case study, this book provides a framework to analyse accountability in crises and looks at how this affects trust in government.
Crises test the fabric of governing...
Public Produce
Cultivating Our Parks, Plazas, and Streets for Healthier Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Plum and pear trees shade park benches in Kamloops, British Columbia. Tomatoes and cucumbers burst forth from planters at City Hall in Provo, Utah. Strawberries and carrots flourish along the sunny sidewalks of a Los Angeles neighborhood.The idea that public land could be used creatively to grow fresh...