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Leading public sector innovation (second edition)
Co-creating for a better society
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
The second edition of this significant text has been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest literature, case studies and international developments in the field. Drawing on global research and practical examples, Bason illustrates the key triggers and practices of public sector innovation....
The Institutions of American Democracy
The Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
From curriculum standards and testing to school choice and civic learning, issues in American education are some of the most debated in the United States. The Institutions of American Democracy , a collection of essays by the nation's leading education scholars and professionals, is designed to inform...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is the initial volume coming out of the "excellence project"--a comprehensive research effort commissioned by the IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) Research Foundation. The purpose of this project was to answer two fundamental questions about public relations:...
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational...
Public Accountability and Health Care Governance
Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book deals with the critical empirical void created by the speed at which healthcare restructuring has taken place in Europe. Chapters explore the political uncertainty and budgetary pressures which have led governments increasingly to turn to New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms to attempt...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The effects of recent economic and financial crises have reached an international scale. A number of different nations have experienced the fallout of these events, calling into question issues of accountability and reform in public management. The Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability...
Public Management in Israel
Development, Structure, Functions and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
As government management in Israel is gradually replaced by private sector management, it is becoming apparent that the collective-oriented mission of government cannot be fulfilled by the private sector or by the non-profit organizations of civil society. This book provides an analysis of the machinery...
Pedagogies of Public Memory
Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Memorials, and Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Pedagogies of Public Memory explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives, and memorials. Readers will follow students working and writing at well-known sites of international interest (e.g., the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the U.S....
Public Policy and Private Interest
Ideas, Self-Interest and Ethics in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Public Policy and Private Interest explains the complexities of the policy making process in a refreshingly clear way for students who are new to this subject. The key topics it explains are:
How policy originates, is refined, legitimised, implemented, evaluated and terminated in the forms of...
The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change
Public Understanding and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial...
by Michael Pease
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Overcome Your Fear of Speaking and Conquer Your Audience
To become a great and versatile public speaker requires mastering the public speaker skills, arts and techniques. These skills are something adds flavor, variety and dynamics to your speech that might be in front of dissimilar gathering....
Political Public Relations
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Political Public Relations maps and defines this emerging field, bringing together scholars from various disciplines—political communication, public relations and political science—to explore the area in detail. The volume connects differing schools of thought, bringing together theoretical and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Reputation is becoming an imperative business function that influences strategic decisions including the direction of a business plan and how an organization should be communicating with its stakeholders and publics. It is crucial for an organization to measure public relations outputs and outcomes...
Public Relations, Cooperation, and Justice
From Evolutionary Biology to Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Modern approaches to public relations cluster into three camps along a continuum:
conflict-oriented egoism, e.g. forms of contingency theory that focus almost exclusively on the wellbeing of an entity;
redressed egoism, e.g. subsidies to redress PR’s egoistic nature; and
forms of self-interested...