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Partnership Governance in Public Management
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The ability to create and sustain partnerships is a skill and a strategic capacity that utilizes the strengths and offsets the weaknesses of each actor. Partnerships between the public and private sectors allow each to enjoy the benefits of the other: the public sector benefits from increased entrepreneurship...
Understanding Public Relations
Theory, Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book argues that public relations is not merely an organizational tool, but a powerful influence on social and political life. From carefully considered communication by multinational corporations, to government campaigns that manage public opinion, to the self-promotion of celebrities via social...
Public Participation, Science and Society
Tools for Dynamic and Responsible Governance of Research and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The field of public participation is developing fast, with phenomena such as citizen science and crowdsourcing extending the resource base of research, stimulating innovation and making science more accessible to the general population.
Promoting public participation means giving more weight...
by Robert B. Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
An extensive, in-depth look at public health and preventive medicine topics from experts in the field
This trusted one-stop resource is a completely up-to-date, all-in-one public health and preventive medicine guide. Sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and edited...
Public Policy
Preferences and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Now in a thoroughly revised third edition, Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes is designed to help students enrolled in a public policy course discuss policy issues and understand the ways in which public policy is grounded in normative theory. This approachable book examines the role of political...
Becoming a Public Relations Writer
Strategic Writing for Emerging and Established Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Becoming a Public Relations Writer is a comprehensive guide to the writing process for public relations practice. Using straightforward, no-nonsense language, realistic examples, easy-to-follow steps, and practical exercises, this text introduces the various formats and styles of writing you will...
Public Finance and Public Policy
A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This new edition restructures and updates the political economy view of the responsibilities and limitations of government. Public-choice and behavioural concepts are prominent. Gender issues are included. Technical concepts are explained from first principles. Economic theory is rigorously applied....
Public Policy and Administration
Formulation, Implementation and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Public Policy has emerged as an important discipline in social sciences, since the early 1970s. This discipline deals basically with the analysis of complex societal problems. To this extent Public Policy provides perspective on analysis implementation and evaluation of a problem.This volume is a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Public policy has a dynamic effect on multiple facets of modern society. Methods for managing and engaging the public sphere continue to change conceptually across the globe, impacting the ways that governments and citizens interact both within and across borders. Management and Participation in the...
Public Value
Deepening, Enriching, and Broadening the Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Over the last 10 years, the concept of value has emerged in both business and public life as part of an important process of measuring, benchmarking, and assuring the resources we invest and the outcomes we generate from our activities. In the context of public life, value is an important measure...
Public Health Intelligence
Issues of Measure and Method
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The first textbook on public health intelligence presents in depth the key concepts, methods, and objectives of this increasingly important competency. It systematically reviews types of evidence and data that comprise intelligence, effective techniques for assessment, analysis, and interpretation,...
Conceptualising Public Health
Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
In Germanic and Nordic languages, the term for ‘public health’ literally translates to ‘people’s health’, for example Volksgesundheit in German, folkhälsa in Swedish and kansanterveys in Finnish. Covering a period stretching from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this book...
Rural Health Disparities
Public Health, Policy, and Planning Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This innovative resource offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach for the utilization of planning theory to eliminate health disparities in rural communities. The book provides tools in the public health, policy, and planning disciplines to help resolve significant differences in life expectancy...
Policing and Public Management
Governance, Vices and Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Policing and Public Management takes a new perspective on the challenges and problems facing the governance of police forces across the UK and the developed world. Complementing existing texts in criminology and police studies, Morrell and Bradford draw on ideas from the neighbouring fields of public...