Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Culturally Mindful Communication
Essential Skills for Public and Nonprofit Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Intercultural communication is a necessary skill for those who work in the public and nonprofit sectors, and yet there is a dearth of literature available to help public and nonprofit professionals develop an ability to effectively communicate, interact, and lead in a multicultural society. Drawing...
The Next Public Administration
Debates and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component of democratic governance and fostering a state-citizen...
Public Administration & Public Management
The Principal-Agent Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates.
Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer...
by Uma Medury
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This book explores the transformative effect of globalisation on the theory and practice of public administration in the twenty-first century. It outlines on the complex dynamics of worldwide changesthe reformulation of the fundamental premises of the discipline, restructuring actual administrative models...
by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all.
In...
Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Before 1946 the congressional role in public administration had been limited to authorization, funding, and review of federal administrative operations, which had grown rapidly as a result of the New Deal and the Second World War. But in passing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Legislative...
Public Administration
Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Is public administration an art or a science? This question of whether the field is driven by values or facts will never be definitively answered due to a lack of consensus among scholars. The resulting divide has produced many heated debates; however, in this pioneering volume, Norma Riccucci embraces...
The Language of Public Administration
Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an...
The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration
A Conflict in World Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Viewed alternately as an obstacle to justice, an impediment to efficient government, and a tool by which some groups gain benefits and privileges at the expense of others, public administration threatens to become the whipping boy of American government. In this innovative look at the nation's bureaucracy,...
In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
A Value Pluralist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Scholars of public administration have historically too often been disdainful towards politics in the field, viewing political activities and interests as opportunities for corruption, mismanagement, and skewed priorities. Supporters of this anti-political stance have become even more strident in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The original Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication, the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the discipline. The eagerly-awaited new edition of this seminal international handbook continues to provide a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge...
The Evolving Physiology of Government
Canadian Public Administration in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2009
Canadian public administration has provided a rich ground for examining the changing nature of the state. Currents of political change have rippled through the administration of the public sector, often producing significant alterations in our understanding of how best to organize and administer public...
The Future of Public Administration around the World
The Minnowbrook Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of distinguished authors—both seasoned and...
The Administrative State
A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This classic text, originally published in 1948, is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory and the history of ideas. It seeks to review and analyze the theoretical element in administrative writings and to present the development of the public administration...