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by Mary Venner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country. The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors all played a role in restoring stability and establishing governance...
Ethics for Governance
Reinventing Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of India’s public services and bureaucratic systems, and explores why widespread corruption and inefficient delivery have slowed development. It:
discusses the underlying reasons for the prevailing inefficiency in public services;
examines the...
Open Government
Opportunities and Challenges for Public Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
On January 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. The memorandum declares the new Administration’s commitment to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government and establishing a system linking three principles: transparency, public participation...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Guide to U.S. Health and Health Care Policy provides the analytical connections showing students how issues and actions are translated into public policies and institutions for resolving or managing health care issues and crises, such as the recent attempt to reform the national health care system....
by Vince Meconi
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
A Practical Guide to Government Management provides a comprehensive yet one-volume work on high-level government management and can be described as a mangement book, reference book, and textbook all in one. It is geared towards any upper level government manager, public administration student, or...
Looking for Consensus
Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The peak of the crisis might be passing but the crisis for civil society and civic institutions of governance and leadership...
by Michael D. Riley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Here's Good News for Governments: a More Attractive Alternative to Raising Tax Rates!In recent years, headlines have announced new government funding crises almost daily. High levels of public spending and debt have created difficult challenges for lawmakers everywhere.Conventional...
Environmental Noise Pollution
Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health and Policy addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution with a particular focus on the European Union. Environmental noise pollution is an emerging public policy and environmental concern and is considered to be one...
Public Sector Reform in Ireland
Countering Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland. It presents a timely and apposite examination of how a crisis can be used to overcome barriers and...
Public Relations
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Now in its third edition, this core textbook provides students with a highly engaging and accessible introduction to the world of PR, covering diverse topics such as event planning, press releases, crisis management, ethics, managing your own PR agency and how to use social media effectively. The...
Mastering Public Administration
From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In Mastering Public Administration, each chapter spotlights a significant theorist in the field, covering his/her life, research, writings, and impact, introducing the discipline's most important scholarship in both a memorable and approachable manner. The combination of biographical narrative with...
Who Controls Public Lands?
Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different...
by Kristina Dawn
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
Learn Effective Strategies To Improve Your Social Intelligence, Public Speaking, Confidence And Persuasion Skills, Succeed In Business And Personal Life
Before you read any further, answer these simple questions:
Are you successful in business and personal life?
Do you feel confident?
Are you a great...
It's Time for High-Performance Government
Winning Strategies to Engage and Energize the Public Sector Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Leadership teams taking the reins of government in 2017 will have to overcome the demoralizing effects of years of budget deficits, a heavy loss of talent, frequent criticism, and mounting pressure to ‘do more with less,’ all of which have contributed to declining interest in public sector careers...