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by Davidson H. Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Emerging infectious diseases may be defined as diseases being caused by pathogens only recently recognized to exist. This group of diseases is important globally, and the experience of the last 30 years suggests that new emerging diseases are likely to bedevil us. As the global climate changes, so...
Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement
Evaluating PublicPrivate Partnerships and Other Procurement Options
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
There is widespread acceptance of the importance of infrastructure, but less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. While most public infrastructure is still provided in-house or by traditional procurement methods with well-researched strengths and weaknesses the development of service...
The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods
Essays in Memory of Richard C. Cornes
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods. The contributions employ new analytical techniques like the aggregative game approach, and discuss the philosophical underpinnings of the theory. Furthermore, they highlight a range...
Water and Politics
Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Most of the world’s population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Water and Politics shows how politicians benefit politically from manipulating public service provision...
Business Improvement Districts in the United States
Private Government and Public Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This book examines how privatization has transformed cities, particularly through the role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the revitalization of America’s downtown. These public-private partnerships between property owners and municipal government have developed retail strips across...
Multi-Level Governance
The Missing Linkages
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Multi-Level Governance (MLG) is a highly influential, supple and ductile framework for interpreting governance in complex polities. Yet, criticisms have been aimed at its allegedly overly 'descriptive', rather than explanatory, power. This volume argues that progress in both the study and the practice...
Analysis and Public Policy
Successes, Failures and Directions for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
How do we incorporate analytical thinking into public policy decisions? Stuart Shapiro confronts this issue in Analysis and Public Policy by looking at various types of analysis, and discussing how they are used in regulatory policy-making in the US. By looking at the successes and failures of incorporating...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Generally speaking, Web 2.0 technologies support real-time or other innovative, Web-based social interactions, and they are increasingly popular among consumers, the private sector, and more recently, government. Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction through Web 2.0 Technologies defines the...
by Restore Oklahoma Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Complete with supporting links and end notes for our reference material, our research details how the public education system is being used as a vehicle to spread Socialism and Marxism to our youth. Oklahoma is the focus, but rest assured this is happening in every state. We point out the Federally...
Smart Technologies for Smart Governments
Transparency, Efficiency and Organizational Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book examines the introduction of smart technologies into public administrations and the organizational issues caused by these implementations, and the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to rationalize and improve government, transform governance and organizational...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Government must be transparent to the people if it is to serve them well. This book offers a plan to create transparency in all government operations with the use of available technologies. The plan is primarily for Pakistan but any developing country may adopt it with modifications.
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The Western Confluence
A Guide To Governing Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
For 150 years, the American West has been shaped by persistconflicts over natural resources. This has given rise to a succession of strategies for resolving disputes-prior appropriation, scientific management, public participation, citizen ballot initiatives, public interest litigation, devolution,...
The Power of Communication
Managing Information in Public Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Whether it's the Internal Revenue Service or the local police department, every person's life is affected by how public organizations handle information. New technologies are inundating us with data-agencies collect, store, analyze and disseminate information. How organizations manage this information...
by Juliet E. Carlisle, Jessica T. Feezell, Kristy E.H. Michaud
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Energy crises, which amount to painful combinations of energy shortages and soaring prices, have struck the United States several times in recent decades. Each time they have resulted in political and economic shockwaves because, when gasoline becomes more expensive, the American public tends to react...