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The Infrastructure We Ride On
Decision Making in Transportation Investment
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book explores the various economic and institutional factors that explain why huge investments are made in unworthy transportation mega-projects in the US and other countries. It is based on research, the general literature, economic analyses, and results from a specifically collected database...
Research Methods and Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administrators
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Research Methods and Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administrators: A Practical Guide is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, core text that thoroughly prepares readers to apply research methods and data analysis to the professional environments of public and non-profit administration. The authors...
Human Rights in Global Health
Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health. Given the dramatic development of human rights under international law and the parallel proliferation of global institutions for public health, there arises an imperative to understand the implementation of human rights through...
Corporate Reputation and the News Media
Agenda-setting within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This volume examines agenda-setting theory as it applies to the news media’s influence on corporate reputation. It presents interdisciplinary, international, and empirical investigations examining the relationship between corporate reputation and the news media throughout the world. Providing coverage...
by Carmen Corral
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
33 practical tips for public speaking is a guide full of practical solutions for delivering effective presentations with real impact in front of any audience: business meetings, teaching classes, conferences, social events, celebrations...
You will find resources, techniques and tools for connecting...
by David M. Dozier, Larissa A. Grunig, James E. Grunig
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book reports findings of a three-nation study of public relations and communication management sponsored by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Research Foundation. The Excellence Study provides communication managers and public relations practitioners with information...
How Information Matters
Networks and Public Policy Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
How Information Matters examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for successful policy change by public administrators. Hale examines drug courts, programs that typify the highly networked, collaborative environment of public administrators...
Undernutrition and Public Policy in India
Investing in the future
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Despite substantial economic growth, India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in the country, and examines the effectiveness of policies designed...
A History of the German Public Pension System
Continuity amid Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
A History of the German Public Pension System: Continuity amid Change provides the first comprehensive institutional history of the German public pension system from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the major reform period in the early twenty-first century. Relying on a wide range sources,...
Understanding Trust in Government
Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough,...
Distant Publics
Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Urban sprawl is omnipresent in America and has left many citizens questioning their ability to stop it. In Distant Publics, Jenny Rice examines patterns of public discourse that have evolved in response to development in urban and suburban environments. Centering her study on Austin, Texas, Rice finds...
by Babs Hightower
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Getting help to promote your book just got easier. Public Relations for Authors Take Hold of Your Own Promotions will help you locate that special publicist who will help you promote your book the right way. As a Publicity Director for two publishers Babs brings knowledge to the book....
by Paul 't Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A crisis of governance is widespread in western societies. Public administration is caught in a web of personal and organizational inter-dependencies that require continuous awareness and readjustment on the part of its practitioners. Understanding Policy Fiascoes applies policy analysis to come to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The rise of globalized business has created a world village wherein ideas and industry transcend national boundaries. Unfortunately, the resulting increase in travel has accelerated the transmission of diseases, generating a surge in worldwide epidemics and increasing the necessity of innovative strategies...