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by Narayana R. Kocherlakota
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this...
Public Debt
An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Over the past decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. This book provides an alternative orientation that explains why concepts of public debt that are relevant for authoritarian regimes are not relevant for democratic...
Collaborative Governance
Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they...
The Practical Playbook
Public Health and Primary Care Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
The entrenched separation of primary care and public health in the United States has been damaging and self-perpetuating. As both sectors struggle to meet their own challenges, population health has deteriorated due to their failure to integrate. For the first time, The Practical Playbook offers professionals...
Cases in Public Policy Analysis
, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist, this new third edition of Cases in Public Policy Analysis offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing...
Managing Public Services - Implementing Changes
A thoughtful approach to the practice of management
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The work of a manager in a service organisation is not the same as the work of a manager in an organisation that manufactures goods. Managing Public Services, Implementing Changes – A Thoughtful Approach 2e, is for students and managers who intend to work in a service organisation whether it is...
by A. Premchand
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1993
This book, by A. Premchand, a former Assistant Director of IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, provides a comprehensive discussion of the expenditure process in public authorities from a management perspective. It covers the various aspects, ranging from budget formulation to the courteous delivery of services...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Whereas there is plenty of work looking at macroeconomic effect of public spending on growth and poverty in Africa as well as studies of the impact of spending or investment in one economic sector on outcomes in that sector or on broader welfare measures, this book fills a much needed gap in the research...
The First 90 Days in Government
Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges-from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments-that will make their transitions...
by Leisha DeHart-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape...
International Public Relations
Perspectives from deeply divided societies
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
International Public Relations: Perspectives from deeply divided societies is positioned at the intersection of public relations (PR) practice with socio-political environments in divided, conflict and post-conflict societies. While most studies of PR focus on the activity as it is practiced within...
Public Relations in the Nonprofit Sector
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Nonprofit organizations are managing to carry out sophisticated public relations programming that cultivates relationships with their key audiences. Their public relations challenges, however, have routinely been understudied. Budgetary and staffing restraints often limit how these organizations carry...
A Journey through Governance
A Public Servant's Experience Under Six Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
A Journey through Governance: A Public Servant’s Experience under Six Presidents
City Halls and Civic Materialism
Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with the citizenry. In subsequent centuries, as the idea and built...