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The Intersection of Food and Public Health
Current Policy Challenges and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Presently, ideas about food are in flux from a variety of sources. Examples of this evolution include recognizing the importance of food on health by public health and medical professionals; changing consumer desires around the production methods and components of their food; a greater focus on injustices...
by Kevin J. Fandl
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Laws exist to incentivize us to act in a certain manner, in accordance with the policies that our community has deemed right for us. And when we disagree with those laws, we must re-examine our policies, and thus our beliefs and ideas, to decide whether our community has changed. This is a book...
Public management in transition
The orchestration of potentiality
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This textbook is the first to examine how new trends such as “radical innovation”, “co-creation” and “potentialization” challenge fundamental values in the public sector. The authors bridge traditional public management approaches that tend to exclude social and societal problems, with...
Ethics in Fiscal Administration
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Ethics in Fiscal Administration: An Introduction integrates ethics into the public administration curriculum by weaving ethical dilemmas into the financial management and budgeting process of the public and nonprofit sectors. Inquiry-based discussion prompts challenge students to examine scenarios...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Public Technology Procurement and Innovation studies public technology procurement as an instrument of innovation policy. In the past few years, public technology procurement has been a relatively neglected topic in the theoretical and research literature on the economics of innovation. Similarly,...
by Richard Helweg
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Public speaking is an art, and some of the most effective communicators in history have been artists. Think of Steve Jobs, John F. Kennedy, Dale Carnegie, Martin Luther King, Jr., and even President Barack Obama — all public figures known for their eloquence when delivering a speech. A perfectly...
The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration
A Conflict in World Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Viewed alternately as an obstacle to justice, an impediment to efficient government, and a tool by which some groups gain benefits and privileges at the expense of others, public administration threatens to become the whipping boy of American government. In this innovative look at the nation's bureaucracy,...
Philosophy and Public Administration
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This book provides a systematic introduction to the philosophical foundations of the study and the practice of public administration. It reviews all the main philosophical streams, from ancient Greek philosophy to the contemporary strands, and discusses their significance for public governance and public...
British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy
Neoliberalism, Citizenship and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point. Unlike most books on broadcasting,...
Public Leadership Ethics
A Management Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Designed to help midlevel and senior managers in organizations dedicated to public purposes, this book provides trained self-awareness to deploy values to guide decisions and build the culture of their organizations. The book explores how all managing involves leading and identifies the levels of...
Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street
How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street offers a modern guide for how to practice public relations and strategic communication around the globe. Drawing upon interviews with public relations professionals in over 30 countries as well as the author’s own experience as a global public relations practitioner...
In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
A Value Pluralist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Scholars of public administration have historically too often been disdainful towards politics in the field, viewing political activities and interests as opportunities for corruption, mismanagement, and skewed priorities. Supporters of this anti-political stance have become even more strident in...
Healing Gotham
New York City’s Public Health Policies for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Throughout its history, New York City has been challenged by a variety of public health crises. Since the nineteenth century—when it became one of the first American cities to develop a comprehensive public health infrastructure—New York has also stood at the forefront of formulating and implementing...
Media Messages and Public Health
A Decisions Approach to Content Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Media Messages and Public Health addresses the full range of methodological and conceptual issues involved in content analysis research, specifically focused on public health-related messages and behaviors. Uniquely tailored to the challenges faced by content researchers interested in the study of...