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Communication of Politics
Cross-Cultural Theory Building in the Practice of Public Relations and Political Marketing: 8th Inte
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Learn how political marketing and public relations affect the electoral process!
Communication of Politics: Cross-Cultural Theory Building in the Practice of Public Relations and Political Marketing examines how communication and marketing experts influence politics. The book reviews the state...
by Justin Dallas
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Public speaking is actually the act and process of giving a lecture or speaking to a people’s crowd in a deliberated and structured manner that is planned to influence, inform, or entertain a listening audience.
In this quick guide book, you'll learn all about
• Identifying yourself
•...
Contemporary Public Health
Principles, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Public health refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. and an esteemed group of scholars and practitioners offer...
Defending a Contested Ideal: Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008
Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2008
In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Pharmacists are on the frontlines of public health. Their public-facing roles uniquely position them to identify and address emerging disease challenges, discrepancies in health literacy, and barriers to treatment in the communities they serve. In today's interconnected world, the clients consulting...
The GM Debate
Risk, Politics and Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public participation: the government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of ‘GM’ crops in the UK. Giving a unique and systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume sets it within its political and intellectual...
After the Projects
Public Housing Redevelopment and the Governance of the Poorest Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public housing projects. In After the...
by Joshua Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Governments around the world are clamouring to engage the private sector in order to build infrastructure and deliver public services. However, the role of the state in managing new relationships with companies is often murky. Is the government a slow and wasteful bureaucracy that must be held at bay...
Public Policy in the United States
Challenges, Opportunities, and Changes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Offering the widest breadth of policy issue coverage on the market, the sixth edition of this well-regarded text covers events through the 2016 elections and beyond. Though the content has been extensively and thoughtfully revised and updated, the sixth edition maintains its clear approach, without...
by John Diamond, Joyce Liddle
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Despite different legal and constitutional arrangements, in many states across Europe, public leaders are forging new collaborative relationships with non-state and civic actors to seek innovative ways of providing public services. Leadership varies between situations and contexts, but is still seen...
Hybrid Public Policy Innovations
Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Political discourse in much of the world remains mired in simplistic ideological dichotomies of market fundamentalism for efficiency versus substantial socialism for equity. Contemporary public policy design is far more sophisticated. It blends market, government and community tools to simultaneously...
Cases in Public Policy and Administration
From Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Writing the perfect complement to their bestseller, Introducing Public Administration, Shafritz and Borick highlight the great drama inherent in public policy -- and the ingenuity of its makers and administrators -- in this new casebook that brings thrilling, true life adventures in public administration...
by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The rapid advancement of genetic science, fuelled by the Human Genome Project and other related initiatives, promises a new kind of public health practice based on the pre-detection of disease according to calculations of genetic risk. This book by two well-known sociologists:
* explores the implications...
Transformational Public Policy
A new strategy for coping with uncertainty and risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. Unpredictable and changing circumstances often bring nasty surprises that can increase waste in governance and public debt. This book illustrates how new methods...