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by Richard Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In this important book, Richard Davis looks at the issue of ‘responsibility’ in public services – on both the government’s part and that of the users. While government wrestles with how to cut the cost of services, Davis shows that government can provide responsible, sustainable and effective...
Democratic Accountability and International Human Development
Regimes, institutions and resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Scholars and policymakers have long known that there is a strong link between human development and spending on key areas such as education and health. However, many states still neglect these considerations in favour of competing priorities, such as expanding their armies. This book examines how...
by John W. Swain, Kathleen Dolan Swain
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Intended for both students and practitioners in public administration who want to communicate more effectively with a variety of audiences, this book offers clear, easy-to-understand guidelines on how to write more clearly, concisely, and coherently, as well as correctly. It covers the basics of good...
The Legacy of June Pallot
Public Sector Financial Management Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book brings together a selection of June Pallot's most significant work. Written from a country (New Zealand) that led the world in many aspects of its financial management reforms, this work provides thoughtful comment on matters that remain of crucial importance today, especially the constitutional...
The Political Process of Policymaking
A Pragmatic Approach to Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering this surprising Sisyphean effort as a lack of rationality, the author examines it as a political activity that produces order and stability.
An African Athens
Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
An African Athens offers an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric--the reshaping of a nation into a democracy through rhetorical means. Author Philippe-Joseph Salazar provides a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the apartheid and post-apartheid South African experience, presenting...
Power Public Speaking Harness Your Fear
40 Minutes to Master the Top 15 Confidence Boosting Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Few things are capable of invoking the kind of anxiety and terror as the thought of making a public speech. The fight-or-flight response triggered by the idea is a defense mechanism no longer useful to us in this modern age. In this book, you'll learn easy and powerful techniques to override this...
A Conservative Consensus?
Housing Policy Before 1997 and After
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes...
Flip It On Its Ear
A Radical Approach to Public Speaking
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Flip It on Its Ear and its companion interactive video course are designed to radically alter how we think about ourselves and public speaking. With over thirty years of teaching, writing, and speaking on the topic Onlee brings mastery level understanding to how we learn and use public speaking in...
Cultivating political and public identity
Why plumage matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Public and political life can no longer be seen as simply the pursuit of material gain or even as the struggle for enough food and shelter by which to live. The interests people pursue are shaped by the identities they both inherit and cultivate. In generating identities, everything is important,...
Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue
New Conversations in Public Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and...
The Politics of Common Sense
How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The way that movements communicate with the general public matters for their chances of lasting success. Deva Woodly argues that the potential for movement-led political change is significantly rooted in mainstream democratic discourse and specifically in the political acceptance of new issues by...
A War of Words
The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A rhetorical analysis of Jefferson Davis’s public discourse
Numerous biographies of Jefferson Davis have been penned; however, until now, there had been no substantive analysis of his public discourse as president of the Confederacy. R. Jarrod Atchison’s A War of Words uses concepts from...
Women Veterans
Lifting the Veil of Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Women who fight in wars also have to fight for their right to do so. But what are the obstacles impeding their progress in achieving equal status as both active service members and as veterans? This book, written by a team of female veterans and military scholars, demonstrates the ways in which women...