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Governance and Public Policy in Canada
A View from the Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Governance and Public Policy in Canada lays the foundation for a systematic analysis of policy developments, shaped as they are by multiple players, institutional tensions, and governance legacies. Arguing that provinces are now the most central site of governance and policy innovation, the book assesses...
by Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, François Pétry
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Heated debate surrounds the topic of health care in both the US and in Canada. In each country, these debates are based in some measure on perceptions about health care in their neighboring country. The perceptions held by Canadians about the US health care system, or those held by Americans about...
Public Administration in India
The Higher Civil Service
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
This book is about public administration in India, which is often synonymous with the role and performance of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The author stresses the indispensability of the civil service in a democratic polity like India and the decisive role it plays in assisting with the...
Dealing with Dysfunction
Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? De Jong examines the roots of this dysfunction and presents a novel approach to solving it. Drawing from academic literature on bureaucracy and problem solving in the public sector, and the clinical work...
Beyond Bureaucracy
Towards Sustainable Governance Informatisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
This book examines the role of bureaucracy in modern technologically advanced societies, the traditional models of governance, and the potential of information technology to fundamentally change and improve governance. In the area of public-domain governance, information and communication technologies...
Technology, Culture, and Public Policy
Critical Lessons from Finland
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
In a relatively short time, Finland has transformed a society of approximately 5.3 million people into one of the most educated and technologically sophisticated in the world, while maintaining relative political stability and an enviable quality of life among its people. In all comparative measures...
Participatory Budgeting in Europe
Democracy and public governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Can participatory budgeting help make public services really work for the public? Incorporating a range of experiments in ten different countries, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of participatory budgeting in Europe and the effect it has had on democracy, the modernization of local...
Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World
Global Health Diplomacy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In a new era of global health diplomacy, the most important tool for decision-making is negotiation. Globalization is binding countries, issues and people together as never before. In the domain of public health, traditional international concerns like the spread of infectious diseases have been joined...
Public Human Resource Management
Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Public Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects by Richard C. Kearney and Jerrell D. Coggburn brings together exemplary contributors who provide concise essays on major contemporary public human resources management issues. Organized into four parts – setting, techniques, issues and prospects...
Beyond the Welfare State
Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia?
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Public Relations and Individuality
Fate, Influence and Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Our individuality is partly shaped by encounters with the external world so it is inconceivable that we are unaffected by the planned management of public communications which manages much of our external experience. Exploring one of the most important mediators between organizations and individual...
by Jan Yager
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This practical guide to public speaking covers the style and structure of typical speeches including delivering a keynote, participating in a panel, conducting a workshop, and more. In addition to Yager’s own extensive speaking experiences, the author includes excerpts from interviews or communications...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation and implement structural reforms for reorganizing fiscal...
Improving Access and Quality of Public Services in Latin America
To Govern and To Serve
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability. The innovative, multi-disciplinary studies in this volume discuss the outcomes of decentralization,...