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Right Moves
The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism. Positioning themselves against the alleged liberal bias of the media, academia, and the federal bureaucracy, conservative think tanks gained the attention of politicians and the...
Governing by Contract
Challenges and Opportunities for Public Managers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Is the public getting a good deal when the government contracts out the delivery of goods and services? Phillip Cooper attempts to get at the heart of this question by exploring what happens when public sector organizations—at the federal, state and local levels—form working relationships with...
Comparing Public Policies
Issues and Choices in Industrialized Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The study of comparative public policy reveals the intensely political nature of policy choices. While policy analysts often look to policy successes and failures outside their borders to draw valuable lessons and insights, cultural, economic, political, and institutional conditions vary from country...
Public Affairs and Administration
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Effective administration of government and governmental organizations is a crucial part of achieving success in those organizations. To develop and implement best practices, policymakers and leaders must first understand the fundamental tenants and recent advances in public administration. Public...
Securing Development
Public Finance and the Security Sector
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Securing Development: Public Finance and the Security Sector highlights the role of public finance in the delivery of security and criminal justice services. This book offers a framework for analyzing public financial management, financial transparency, and oversight, as well as expenditure policy issues...
Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries
Paradoxes and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development management is characterized by processes of mutual adjustment among individuals, agencies, and interest groups...
Local Public Finance Management in the People's Republic of China
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The People's Republic of China is a highly decentralized unitary state with local governments having a dominant share of public service delivery responsibility. Local governance is critically linked to a local public finance system that creates incentives and accountability mechanisms. To ensure the...
by Whitney Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2018
Delivering A Presentation as a Foreign Professional
When English is your second language, it doesn’t matter if it’s your first presentation or your fiftieth. Every time you step before an audience you may feel varying degrees of stage fright. It is natural. But what’s not natural is to...
by Anneliese Dodds
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them. This new edition pays particular attention to the international contexts of ideas, interests and institutions in which decision...
by Professor Jacquie L'Etang
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
"Recognizing and emphasizing business and sociocultural influences, this is a timely and unique examination of public relations in the sport industry. Along with providing a broad and well-researched theoretical foundation, L’Etang embeds throughout the text relevant examples and strategic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach.
The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients...
Searching for Leadership
Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
Although the subject of "leadership" is a hot topic, it has never attracted much attention in the public sector. Searching for Leadership is the first book to examine the evolving role and leadership of the highest-ranking public servant in Ottawa or in any of Canada's Provinces and Territories,...
Public Administration
Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Public Administration: Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods explores how scholars of public administration and institutional politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual particularities of their research problems and considering the use of multiple theories and methods....
Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy
Essays commemorating Interpreting British Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy offers the latest perspectives on the interpretive approach to governance and public policy research.
This book commemorates more than a decade of governance research by Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes, the leading exponents of interpretive...