Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism
Comparative Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
High performance during catastrophic terrorist events require the ability to assess and adapt capacity rapidly, restore or enhance disrupted or inadequate communications, utilize flexible decision making swiftly, and expand coordination and trust between multiple emergency and crisis response agencies....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases have been developed with input from mid-career professionals...
Copyfight
The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Widespread file sharing has led content industries – publishers and distributors of books, music, films, and software – to view their customers as growing threats to their survival. Content providers and their allies, especially the U.S. government, have pushed for stronger global copyright policies...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Foreign policy is a plan of action that a State makes and executes in order to deal with other States and international issues.
Foreign policy is a pattern of behavior that a State adopts while it pursues its interests in international relations.
It is in this lucid manner that this...
No Return
A novel of the Canadian election that vanished in Muskoka's backwoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken’s novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation’s capital shows why.
Unique events in the Dominion’s second election, in 1872, inspired Aiken to write about Muskoka’s returning officer, Richard...
Choosing to Engage
The Scaffle method - Practical steps for purposeful stakeholder engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
The reality of day-to-day engagement practice is at odds with the importance of engagement and the regularity with which it happens. We need to build the capability of anyone planning engagement or consultation, in order to have this important work achieve its potential in influencing policies and...
Changing Climate Politics
U.S. Policies and Civic Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Changing Climate Politics provides a comprehensive account of the current state of government action and political participation in the United States on the issue of climate change. Author Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias evaluates the role of the federal government, the courts, states, and cities in tackling...
Seeing Red
HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service....
Disaster Resiliency
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue...
Governmental Financial Resilience
International Perspectives on How Local Governments Face Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local governments have maintained financial resilience in the face of the significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an international perspective, it provides an enlightening and practical analysis of the different capacities and...
Singapore Perspectives 2017
What If?
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Singapore has experienced remarkable progression in the first 50 years of its independence. This volume comprises chapters written by thought leaders in Singapore where they re-examine Singapore's key governing institutions, systems, principles and values as they consider the country's next 50 years....
The Failure of Governance in Bell, California
Big-Time Corruption in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
“How could this have happened?” The question still lingers among officials and residents of the small southern California town of Bell. Corruption is hardly an isolated challenge to the governance of America’s cities. But following decades of benign obscurity, Bell witnessed the emergence of...
Local knowledge matters
Power, context and policy making in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used...