Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Reforming the Public Sector
How to Achieve Better Transparency, Service, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Many countries are still struggling to adapt to the broad and unexpected effects of modernization initiatives. As changes take shape, governments are challenged to explore new reforms. The public sector is now characterized by profound transformation across the globe, with ramifications that are yet...
Leadership in Public Organizations
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Now in a completely revised and updated Third Edition, Leadership in Public Organizations provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practitionerswho work in public and nonprofit organizations. Offering a comprehensive review of leadership theories in the field, from the...
by Ami J. Abou-bakr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, generated a great deal of discussion in public policy and disaster management circles about the importance of increasing national resilience to rebound from catastrophic events. Since the majority of physical and virtual...
by Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
A complete guide to applied research, featuring original data and detailed case studies
Applied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizations takes an integrative approach to applied research, emphasizing design, data collection, and analysis. Common case studies across chapters illustrate...
Comparative Public Management
Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. Why, for example, is managerial networking important in the United States, moderately effective in the United Kingdom, and of little...
China's Sent-Down Generation
Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
During China’s Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong’s "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be published in either English or Chinese...
Europe Managing the Crisis
The politics of fiscal consolidation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Studies of the recent financial crisis have been largely dominated by economists, but the similarities and differences between European countries' response reflect both economic and political perspectives which have resulted in considerable differences in their decisions.
Drawing on uniquely...
Inception Point
The Use of Learning and Development to Reform the Singapore Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Inception Point: The Use of Learning and Development to Reform the Singapore Public Service fills a gap in current literature on Singapore's modernisation. While the political leadership of the late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his People's Action Party (PAP) government were key to Singapore's...
Networks and National Security
Dynamics, Effectiveness and Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Networks as sets of autonomous organisations working together to achieve individual and shared goals are becoming increasingly important across many areas of public administration. The importance of networks is well known but most analysts would agree that we do not know enough about the dynamics...
Transcending New Public Management
The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Following on from the success of the editors' previous book, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which examined the public reform process up to the end of the last decade, this new volume draws on the previous knowledge both theoretically and empirically. It examines and...
Pursuing Horizontal Management
The Politics of Public Sector Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited...
Creating and Implementing Public Policy
Cross-sectoral debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In order to address major social policy problems, governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Currently, major blockages exist, and stereotypes abound. Academics are seen as out-of-touch and unresponsive,...
Making Governments Accountable
The Role of Public Accounts Committees and National Audit Offices
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in public administration and public sector accounting around the world, with increasing emphasis on good governance and accountability processes for government entities. This is all driven both by economic rationalism, and by changing expectations...
by XiaoHu Wang, Evan M. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts remains one of the most popular introductory books on statistics for public policy and public administration students, using carefully selected examples tailored specifically for them....