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by John Merriman Gaus
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
“In this classic, Gaus writes perceptively of the ‘ecology’ of public administration and its relationship to the rise of the administrative state. He recounts how crises and changes in people, place, physical technology, social technology, and philosophy in the first half of the 20th century...
The Public Understanding of Political Integrity
The Case for Probity Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused approach to understanding citizen disaffection with politicians. It shows that perceptions of public probity are coherent, substantively meaningful, responsive, and, most importantly, that they do matter.
Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems
The Sub-Saharan African Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare...
Results-Based Public Sector Management
A Rapid Assessment Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This guide highlights the key features for a results-based public sector management system, and is a principle-based approach to identifying capacity development needs. The guide also shows how results-based public sector management assessments can be integrated into the business processes of the Asian Development Bank.
Public Service Ethics
Individual and Institutional Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Ethics—in all its exemplary and exhausting forms—matters. It deals with the most gripping question in public life: “What is the right thing to do?” In Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities, James Bowman and Jonathan West examine individual-centered and organization-focused...
by Peter Ho
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies' 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.
This book collects the four IPS-Nathan Lectures that he delivered between April and May 2017, and gathers highlights of his dialogues with the audience.
Ho...
Nursing with a Message
Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation’s health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This groundbreaking new book reveals the key role that...
The Craft of Governing
The contribution of Patrick Weller to Australian political science
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
'Bargaining and puzzling; power and thought; dealing and agonising; compromise and commitment. These are two sides of political practitioners whether politician, public servant or campaigner. Understand the interplay and we can, just sometimes, make sense of the real world we seek to interpret.'
Patrick...
by David Mutimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs is an acclaimed series offering informed commentary on important national events and considering their significance in local and international contexts. The 2006 installment of the series covers the thirty-ninth general election, in which the...
Public Relations and the Corporate Persona
The Rise of the Affinitive Organization
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
For much of the last century, large, predominantly US corporations used public relations to demonstrate that their missions resonated with dominant societal values. Through the construction and conveyance of the "corporate persona", they aimed to convince citizens that they share common...
Classrooms and Clinics
Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers...
IT in the Public Sphere
Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
To be successful in the 21st century, governments must make use of digital and communication technologies in order to coordinate resources and collaborate with their citizens. IT in the Public Sphere: Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning evaluates current research and best...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The information revolution has increased the pressure on governments to utilize technology to increase efficiency, transparency, and access. Cases on Public Information Management and E-Government Adoption provides real world examples of the successes and pitfalls faced by public sector organizations....
Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships
Strategies for Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The global financial crisis hit the world in a remarkable way in late 2008. Many governments and private sector organizations, who had considered Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to be their future, were forced to rethink their strategy in the wake of the crisis, as a lot of the available private...