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Reducing Gun Violence in America
Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year—is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.
The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize...
Nonprofit Organizations
Theory, Management, Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In this new edition of his popular textbook, Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy, Helmut K. Anheier has fully updated, revised and expanded his comprehensive introduction to this field. The text takes on an international and comparative dimensions perspective, detailing the background...
by Fiona Sim, Martin McKee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book discusses the core issues of modern public health, its themes, foundations and evolution and the impact of globalisation.
Rural Populations and Health
Determinants, Disparities, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding rural health and offers a strong theoretical and evidence-based rationale for rectifying rural...
Gun Violence
The Real Costs
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms...
The Handbook of Federal Government Leadership and Administration
Transforming, Performing, and Innovating in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Public management is context dependent, rather than generic. That may sound obvious, but in the late 1920s through the 1930s, a dominant strand of thought considered public administration to be a "single process," wherever practiced. Today by contrast, federal administration is distinguished...
Public Finance
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
This book expands on issues like fiscal sustainability, state enterprises and the variety of subsidies, with a multi-country focus. Drawing examples from numerous countries, it presents issues in contemporary finance and especially fiscal policy that can benefit researchers and civil servants from...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Fiscal risks are abating somewhat but remain elevated. In advanced economies, recent policy moves have broadly stabilized public debt ratios, but medium-term prospects are still uncertain, and debt remains at historic highs. Fiscal vulnerabilities are rising in both emerging market economies and low-income...
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development
Exploring the nexus of private and public interests
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives...
by Douglas Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.
Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal...
Managing Uncertainties in Networks
Public Private Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
As public and private sector organizations work more frequently in partnership, managing uncertainties, problems and controversies becomes increasingly difficult. Despite sophisticated technology and knowledge, the strategic networks and games required to solve uncertainties becomes more complex and...
The Public Administrator's Companion
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Help your students make the leap from theory to practice. This handy guide emphasizes application with straightforward instruction and abundant case material. It provides brief, tested steps for addressing management, resource, and operational needs, encouraging students to develop and hone...
Collaboration in public policy and practice
Perspectives on boundary spanners
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Collaborative working is an established feature of the public, business and third sector environments, but its effectiveness can be hampered by complex structural and personal variants. This original book explores the influence of agency through the role of individual actors in collaborative working...
Mother of Invention
How the Government Created "Free-Market" Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
By relying on private enterprise more than any other developed nation, American health care has all the appearances of the free-market in action. And for more than a hundred years, attempts to reform this system (including President Obama's Affordable Care Act) have been met with opposition from parties...