Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
Administrative Law in the Political System
Law, Politics, and Regulatory Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Emphasizing that administrative law must be understood within the context of the political system, this core text combines a descriptive systems approach with a social science focus. Author Kenneth F. Warren explains the role of administrative law in shaping, guiding, and restricting the actions of...
Managing in the Public Sector
A Casebook in Ethics and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Casebooks in public administration have become intensely sophisticated with complex scenarios, richly detailed multi-step simulations, and demanding role playing requirements. While these types of cases and exercises have their place, Managing in the Public Sector is a casebook designed with maximum...
News, Public Affairs, and the Public Sphere in a Digital Nation
Rise of the Audience
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Missing from the ongoing conversation about the titanic forces reshaping national journalism is the meaning of daily professional journalism in communities where the majority of Americans live. Edgar Simpson spent a year intimately engaged with all the news streams available in two Midwest counties—one...
The Transformation of Governance
Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has grown less hierarchical, managers have adopted a wide variety of non-authoritarian strategies. This growing gap between theoretical ideas and actual...
by David Mutimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs is an acclaimed series offering informed commentary on important national events and considering their significance in local and international contexts. The 2006 installment of the series covers the thirty-ninth general election, in which the...
Mastering Public Administration
From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In Mastering Public Administration, each chapter spotlights a significant theorist in the field, covering his/her life, research, writings, and impact, introducing the discipline's most important scholarship in both a memorable and approachable manner. The combination of biographical narrative with...
by Ramesh Kumar Tiwari, Sujata Sing
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Since Independence, organisational and procedural issues have occupied centre stage in the litarature on Public Administration in India. The challenges involved in the reorganisation of the Government of India has at the same time been a major concern of the government. Several Committees/Commissions...
The Public Administration (P. A.) Genome Project
Capturing, Mapping, and Deploying the "Genes" of P. A.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
What is it? The Public Administration Genome Project (PAGP) is a grand attempt to digitally “map” and then usefully employ the full set of topics, variables, and interrelationships that comprise and involve all of the “genes” that make up public administration. It is based on the highly regarded...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This book presents a concise history of the United Nations Programme on Public Administration, Finance and Development since its inception 60 years ago. It is organized in six sections. The first section reviews broadly the global trends in public administration. The second narrates briefly the establishment...
From Government to E-Governance
Public Administration in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of the ICTs so as to manage and steer the multi-sectoral stakeholder relations on a non-hierarchical way. Keeping this simple notion in mind, From Government...
Public Administration Research Methods
Tools for Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
The best decisions made by public managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what’s happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public manager is often, therefore,...
Femocratic Administration
Gender, Governance, and Democracy in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Femocratic Administration examines the gendered nature of public administration through a study of the Ontario Women’s Directorate (OWD) between 1985 and 2000. Analysing the OWD from the perspective of feminist political economy, this book combines a detailed case study with a theoretical framework...
by Richard W. Schwester
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
While there are many ways to collect information, many students have trouble understanding how to employ various research methods effectively. Since everyone learns and processes information differently, instructing students on successfully using these methods continues to be a challenge. Teaching...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book...