Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
by John Merriman Gaus
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
“In this classic, Gaus writes perceptively of the ‘ecology’ of public administration and its relationship to the rise of the administrative state. He recounts how crises and changes in people, place, physical technology, social technology, and philosophy in the first half of the 20th century...
Called to Serve
The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Called to Serve, founding director Charles F. Hermann and writer Sally Dee Wade chronicle the twenty-year history of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, which has rapidly evolved into one of the nation’s major professional graduate schools of public and international affairs.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
As governments worldwide are entering the digital age, there are increasing expectations from citizens and stakeholders for a more responsive, efficient, and open government. Innovations in information technology and web technologies can facilitate these changes. Innovative Perspectives on Public...
Public Policy Praxis
A Case Approach for Understanding Policy and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Public administration and policy analysis education has long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed by, and sometimes defeated by, value conflict. Too often public administration education has failed...
by Göktuğ Morçöl
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have been applied by scholars of public affairs in North...
Comparing Public Bureaucracies
Problems of Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears unfulfilled. What accounts for this decline in intellectual fortunes and change in intellectual...
by Tobin Im
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Public Organizations in Asia introduces students to the fundamental theories of organizations and teaches them how to analyze different types of public organizations in East and Southeast Asia. Moving away from traditional Western theory and examples, this textbook provides numerous case studies...
Building Service-Oriented Government
Lessons, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Providing quality public service is one of the essential functions of a government. In the turbulent time, however, governments worldwide are experiencing a variety of unprecedented challenges to meet citizens' increasing demands and expectations. In China, building a service-oriented government and...
Co-Production and Co-Creation
Engaging Citizens in Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible...
Ethics for Governance
Reinventing Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of India’s public services and bureaucratic systems, and explores why widespread corruption and inefficient delivery have slowed development. It:
discusses the underlying reasons for the prevailing inefficiency in public services;
examines the...
by Danny L. Balfour, Guy B. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The modern age with its emphasis on technical rationality has enabled a new and dangerous form of evil--administrative evil. Unmasking Administrative Evil discusses the overlooked relationship between evil and public affairs, as well as other fields and professions in public life. The authors argue...
by L Shanthakumari Sunder
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Values and Influence of Religion in Public Administration is a study of the influence of religion on the values and ethics of the ‘steel frame of India’—the Indian Civil Service (ICS) and its successor, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Examining pertinent subjects like the historical...
Challenging times, challenging administration
The role of public administration in producing social justice in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Explores the relationship between public administration and social justice in Ireland
The Tools of Government
A Guide to the New Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and...