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Bureaucratic Ambition
Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration "entrepreneurs" do not profit from their innovations....
Understanding E-Government
Information Systems in Public Administration
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Governments these days often boast about the efficiency of their electronic systems. Information communication technologies (ICTs) apparently allow public service to become cheaper, faster and more democratic. E-government has become another buzzword, the shining future of the public realm. Critics...
Gaining Influence in Public Relations
The Role of Resistance in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Gaining Influence in Public Relations explores how professionals can increase their influence in practice to help their organizations achieve success. This provocative book explores the largely uncharted territories of power, resistance, dissent, and activism in public relations, arguing that practitioners...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
“Change (Transformation) in Government Organizations” discusses recent efforts to bring about change in government organizations. The book brings together contributions by a number of managers, practitioners, academics and consultants in the study of international, federal, state, and local government...
by Jennifer Bean, Lascelles Hussey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Quality in the Public Sector is one of a series of books entitled “Essential Skills for the Public Sector”. It sets out ways in which those providing public sector services can clarify what is meant by quality and how quality can be achieved. It considers issues such as setting standards, measuring...
Global Public Relations
Spanning Borders, Spanning Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This text provides a structured and practical framework for understanding the complexities of contemporary public relations. It is an instructional book that guides the reader through the challenges of communication and problem solving across a range of organizations and cross-cultural settings.
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Putting the Public Back in Public Relations
How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Forget the "pitch": Yesterday's PR techniques just don't work anymore. That's the bad news. Here's the great news: Social Media and Web 2.0 offer you an unprecedented opportunity to make PR work better than ever before. This book shows how to reinvent PR around two-way conversations, bring the "public"...
Learning From Comparative Public Policy
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This textbook offers a fresh approach to the study of comparative politics and public policy. Instead of concentrating on why countries differ, Learning From Comparative Public Policy explores how countries can learn from each other about the success and failure of policy initiatives. With its theory...
by Andrew J. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound science. The public, on the other hand, is skeptical...
The Future of Public Housing
Ongoing Trends in the East and the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are exceptions, too. By including...
Thinking Government
Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources...
The Public Policy Primer
Managing the Policy Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Fully revised for a second edition, this essential guide provides a concise and accessible overview of the public policy process: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation.
The book provides an introduction to the key policy functions, the challenges...
The Fundamentals of Public Relations
A Practical Overview Of The Art and Business of Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The Fundamentals of Public Relations is the first practical, real world overview of the art and business of Public Relations. Robert Z. Chew, a 30-year veteran of PR agencies from New York to Singapore to California, provides the inside story on what skills are needed, where the jobs are, how to improve...
Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias
Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Canada is known for its inclusive citizenship and multiculturalism policies that have been largely successful in integrating an increased diversity of Canadians. In contrast to the previous approach, in 2007, the Conservative government initiated a fundamental change to make citizenship more meaningful...