Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Public Administration's Final Exam
A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance.
Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first “written” in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field’s answers to the...
Public Administration
Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Public Administration: Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods explores how scholars of public administration and institutional politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual particularities of their research problems and considering the use of multiple theories and methods....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The various and different Middle Eastern countries are addressing new key reform and governance reform processes but also administration and policy issues of enduring importance; decentralization and local government, non-profit organizations, political culture, and reform of the policy process. This...
Public Administration in the 21st Century
A Global South Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century.
This book examines the transformations happening in global societies, the economy and in politics, to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic...
by M. K. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Public administration is a feature of all nations, whatever their system of government. Within nations public administration is practiced at the central, intermediate, and local levels. Indeed, the relationships between different levels of government within a single nation constitute a growing problem...
State Management
An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates...
Thinking Government
Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources...
Bureaucracy and Self-Government
Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions...
Public Administration and the State
A Postmodern Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In this critical examination of public administration's pervasive vision of a powerful state, Spicer thoughtfully reconsiders the relationship between activities of governance and concepts of the state.
Woodrow Wilson argued for a state led by a powerful government, guided by science and enlightened...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement,...
Environmental Sustainability and American Public Administration
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators...
by Ivan P. Pavlov
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
At the time of its initial publication, Public Administration helped to define this field of study and practice by introducing two major new emphases: an orientation toward human behavior and human relations in organizations, and an emphasis on the interaction between administration, politics, and...
by Matthew Howard
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
From cyberspace to outer space, public policy shapes our lives, our planet, and our future. The ten essays collected in Laws That Shape Our Lives examine such controversial policy measures as net neutrality, tobacco packaging, water fluoridation, same-sex marriage, and the patenting of biological...
Public Administration Evolving
From Foundations to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Public Administration Evolving: From Foundations to the Future demonstrates how the theory and practice of public administration has evolved since the early decades of the twentieth century. Each chapter approaches the field from a unique perspective and describes the seminal events that have been...