Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
by Michael Oxley
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies. The core focus is on providing students with a substantive and sophisticated understanding of the relation of the state and market and such key current issues as...
How Ottawa Spends, 2013-2014
The Harper Government: Mid-Term Blues and Long-Term Plans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The 2013-14 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics, priorities, and policies with a close lens on Stephen Harper's Conservative party during the middle of their first term as a majority. Contributors from across Canada examine the federal government and its not uncommon mid-term...
by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
In 2004, Paul Martin asked Justice John Gomery to lead a public inquiry into potential misspending in the federal Sponsorship Program, a relatively small investment of taxpayers' money to try to convince Quebeckers of the benefits of Canadian federalism in the aftermath of the 1995 referendum on Quebec...
The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise
Rhetoric, Reality and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable...
by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities....
Deconcentration and Decentralization Reforms in Cambodia
Recommendations for an Institutional Framework
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This study analyzes strategic and programming issues arising from the emerging deconcentration and decentralization reforms in Cambodia and informs the debate on the pace and strategic direction of these reforms. The study looks at the evolving legal and regulatory framework pointing to the gaps and...
by Henry Vira
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Vanuatu Legal Sector Strengthening Program (VLSSP) was launched in 2002 at a time when "the public was calling for a revamp of the whole judiciary." This case study describes how VLSSP, which was funded by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), contributed to Vanuatu's...
by Robert J. Hume
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside agencies...
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis
The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In the Fifth Edition of A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, Eugene Bardach and new co-author Eric Patashnik draw on more than 40 years of experience teaching students to be effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. This bestselling...
Beyond behaviour change
Key issues, interdisciplinary approaches and future directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
‘Behaviour change’ has become a buzz phrase of growing importance to policymakers and researchers. There is an increasing focus on exploring the relationship between social organisation and individual action, and on intervening to influence societal outcomes like population health and climate...
The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing
Understanding the Rise and Significance of a New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years, leading to new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed specifically at enhancing wellbeing. This book provides the first theoretically informed account of the rise and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
It is beyond doubt that the interconnectedness between food, energy, water security and environmental sustainability exists and is getting amplified with increased globalization. It has been recognized that efforts to address only one part of a systemic problem by neglecting other inherently interlinked...
Playing by the Rules
How Our Obsession with Safety Is Putting Us All at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Can a cell phone cause a major explosion at a gas station? What would happen if the 3 oz rule at airports was abolished? And are all the child protection measures really making children safer?
These rules exist in the name of our own protection, but has anyone ever stopped to consider exactly...
The Next Multiannual Financial Framework
From National Interest to Building a Common Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is the budget of the European Union and the most important tool to finance common policy areas, actions and strategies. Upon a proposal from the European Commission, it has to be approved by the majority of the members of the European Parliament, before it...