Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Le fonctionnement réel de l'administration publique au XXIe siècle
Exemples de la Suisse et du Canada
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Quelle est la réalité des administrations publiques aujourd’hui ? Cet ouvrage livre un portrait contrasté des administrations publiques suisses et canadiennes du xxie siècle, qui sont tout de même confrontées à un certain nombre de défis communs malgré les contextes et les cadres institutionnels...
Intercommunalités
Invariance et mutation du modèle communal français
Language: French
Release Date: July 17, 2015
L'Intercommunalité ! Y a-t-il encore quelque chose de neuf à dire d'une "affaire" sur laquelle déjà les discours abondent : ceux de l'Etat, des élus, ceux des entreprises, ceux de l'Université, dans la diversité de ses champs disciplinaires... Le présent ouvrage trouve pourtant la...
L'éthique de la gestion publique
Stratégies nationales et internationales de prévention de la corruption
Language: French
Release Date: August 3, 2016
L’éthique est, indubitablement, la pierre angulaire de l’action publique. Son enracinement dans la conscience et la pratique des agents publics conditionne le respect et la confiance que les citoyens accordent à leur administration. Quels que soient le niveau d’instruction et de développement...
Les défis de la gouvernance multi-niveaux
Exemples du Canada et de la Suisse
Language: French
Release Date: December 13, 2011
La gouvernance à niveaux multiples a fait également l’objet d’un très grand nombre d’études et d’analyses au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années et ce peu importe les disciplines (droit, science politique, sociologie, etc.) À un point où l’on peut se demander parfois si tout n’a...
by Georges Quémar
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Haut fonctionnaire de l'Intérieur, puis du Trésor, détaché à la Mairie de Paris, Georges Quémar, au travers du récit de sa carrière, témoigne d'un quart de siècle de gestion de la capitale. Successivement aux Finances, à la Construction, puis directeur des Affaires scolaires, enfin directeur...
The Strong Man
John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The Strong Man is the first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges.
As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, John Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals...
by Jodi Kantor
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible.
Then they...
Not in Service
The TTC and the Trouble with Toronto Transit
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Something is badly, badly wrong with transportation in Toronto. Just riding public transit provides evidence of that, along with a pain in the neck. Torontonians still love the TTC, but just wish it would shape up, and are painfully aware it hasn't been world-class for at least a generation. The...
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Obama is a tribute to the rise of a man who became the first African-American and 44th President of the United States of America. President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. His story is the American...
How to Run A Government
So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Billions of citizens around the world are frustrated with their governments. Why is this? And what can we do about it? In this groundbreaking book Michael Barber draws on his wealth of international experience advising political leaders, to show how those in power can make good on their promises.
'Refreshingly...
by R. A. W. Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
As citizens, why do we care about the everyday life of ministers and civil servants? We care because the decisions of the great and the good affect all our lives, for good or ill. For all their personal, political, and policy failings and foibles, they make a difference. So, we want to know what ministers...
by W J Foote
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
New Zealand World War II conscientious objectors were treated more harshly by the authorities than those in other countries.Imprisoned for their pacifist beliefs, first in Mt Eden and Wanganui, Chris Palmer and Merv Browne were then moved to military defaulters’ camps in the central North...
by Gus Russo
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1998
Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate. Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that...
by Michael Bakunin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Bakunin's classic and highly influential atheist text setting out the anarchist critique of religion as bound up in legitimising the state.
The keynote of God and the State is Bakunin’s repudiation of authority and coercion in every form. In a withering passage he vents his fury, on “all...