Georgetown University Press: 313 books
Public Values and Public Interest
Counterbalancing Economic Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circles—often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government. Public Values and Public Interest offers a direct...
Ethics
The Fundamental Questions of Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
In the twenty-first century the basic questions of ethics are no longer the abstract terms of ethical theory, but the concrete and burning issues related to the influence of life sciences, the impact of a globalized economy, and the consequences of present decisions for the future of humankind. Ethics:...
The Federal Management Playbook
Leading and Succeeding in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Stories of government management failures often make the headlines, but quietly much gets done as well. What makes the difference? Ira Goldstein offers wisdom about how to lead and succeed in the federal realm, even during periods when the political climate is intensely negative, based on his decades...
by Ami J. Abou-bakr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, generated a great deal of discussion in public policy and disaster management circles about the importance of increasing national resilience to rebound from catastrophic events. Since the majority of physical and virtual...
Principled Spying
The Ethics of Secret Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy. Principled Spying explores how to strike a balance between necessary intelligence activities and protecting...
The New Counterinsurgency Era
Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
Confronting insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has recognized the need to “re-learn” counterinsurgency. But how has the Department of Defense with its mixed efforts responded to this new strategic environment? Has it learned anything from past failures?In The New Counterinsurgency...
Cheap Threats
Why the United States Struggles to Coerce Weak States
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Why do weak states resist threats of force from the United States, especially when history shows that this superpower carries out its ultimatums? Cheap Threats upends conventional notions of power politics and challenges assumptions about the use of compellent military threats in international politics.Drawing...
Intelligence Elsewhere
Spies and Espionage Outside the Anglosphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Spying, the “world’s second oldest profession,” is hardly limited to the traditional great power countries. Intelligence Elsewhere, nevertheless, is the first scholarly volume to deal exclusively with the comparative study of national intelligence outside of the anglosphere and European mainstream....
Managing the Fiscal Metropolis
The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities is an important book. This first comprehensive analysis of the financial condition, management, and policy making of local governments in a metropolitan region offers local governments currently dealing...
Pathways of Power
The Dynamics of National Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
While civics textbooks describe an idealized model of “how a bill becomes law;” journalists often emphasize special interest lobbying and generous campaign contributions to Congress; and other textbooks describe common stages through which all policies progress, these approaches fail to convey—much...
Let Them Go Free
A Guide to Withdrawing Life Support
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Let Them Go Free offers families a way to cope with a problem particular to our time: what to do when medical treatment sustains life but does not cure or resuscitate a critically ill loved one. This straightforward and empathic guide helps such families affirm that their choice to remove life support...
Comparative Public Management
Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. Why, for example, is managerial networking important in the United States, moderately effective in the United Kingdom, and of little...
Work and the Welfare State
Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK,...
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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,...