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by Brian Solis, Deirdre K. Breakenridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
A brand new collection of state-of-the-art insights into public relations, from practitioner Deirdre Breakenridge.
Master Supercharged PR Techniques Based on the Latest Social and Online Platforms!
Three great books help you leverage the latest social media and online platforms to transform...
by Shawn Brodof
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Even to the most casual observer, it is clear that America has seen better days. How did we get here? According to author Shawn Brodof it is due to apathy! He believes the nation’s woes can be solved by applying critical thinking and common sense to the arena of politics and public policy.When...
Malaysia@50
Economic Development, Distribution, Disparities
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Malaysia has grown and changed a great deal since it was formed on 16 September 1963. It was then seen as an unlikely nation hastily put together as a federation of British controlled territories in the region. Brunei's refusal to join at the eleventh hour and Singapore's secession before its second...
Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure
Managing the Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public‐Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice. Infrastructure bottlenecks are generally considered the most important constraint to growth in many countries worldwide. Historically, infrastructure...
by Zeger van der Wal
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Truly global in scope and ambition, the 21st Century Public Manager addresses key trends, challenges, and opportunities facing public managers across contexts and regimes. This accessible textbook aims to inspire public managers in rethinking their roles, skills, and values as they enter a VUCA world—one...
Public Administration Research Methods
Tools for Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
The best decisions made by public managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what’s happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public manager is often, therefore,...
Governing by Network
The New Shape of the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services...
Pathways to Public Relations
Histories of Practice and Profession
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Over the centuries, scholars have studied how individuals, institutions and groups have used various rhetorical stances to persuade others to pay attention to, believe in, and adopt a course of action. The emergence of public relations as an identifiable and discrete occupation in the early 20th century...
The Cult and Science of Public Health
A Sociological Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In contemporary manifestations of public health rituals and events, people are being increasingly united around what they hold in common—their material being and humanity. As a cult of humanity, public health provides a moral force in society that replaces ‘traditional’ religions in times of...
Understanding Korean Public Administration
Lessons learned from practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most of the literature has been written in Korean. This book aims to provide more accessible knowledge internationally by filling that gap, covering both the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This is the seventh volume of The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series, which is the first to offer an authentic worldwide view of the history of public relations freed from a corporatist framework..
The series features seven books, six of which...
by Peter John
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis:
institutions
groups and networks
society...
by Ola Abegunde
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Public policy analysis has been an area of great interest in Political Science and Public Administration. The contributions of scholars like, Yehezkel Dror, Thomas Dye, Bruce Doern and others have helped to examine the style and approaches that have added to our understanding of public policies. In...
Law for Advertising, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Public Relations
Law for Advertising, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This exceptional new text offers an up-to-date and integrated approach to communication law. Written by two practicing attorneys with extensive experience teaching the communication law course, Law for Advertising, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Public Relations covers the areas of communication law...