F - Public Affairs & Administration 1

Originally published in 1961, when many of the existing books on British Government dealt predominantly with its structure and organization. Little light had been shed on the detailed processes of d……続きを見る

Taxing the State: The Politics of Changing Taxes in the American States is a comparative analysis that explores the socioeconomic and political causes and effects of tax policy and budget spending a……続きを見る

This book examines the critical connections between criminal justice and public health perspectives on violence and crime. Violent crime involves not only criminal justice agencies, but social agenc……続きを見る

Decades after pulling up stakes, three sixty-something Canadians living in three different countries are drawn back to the town in which they spent their formative years and built their lifelong fri……続きを見る

This is a book about policy change that focusses on a single case study: the rise and resilience of the Australian policy for Real Estate Carry. The text tracks investments of meaning and identity i……続きを見る

Auf der Basis von authentischem dienstlichem Textmaterial untersucht der Autor, wie in der Bundeswehr kommuniziert wird und ob es eine eigene «militärische» Sprache gibt. Anhand von zentralen militä……続きを見る

Der Autor bewertet die Effektivität des maritimen Handelns der NATO im Hinblick auf dessen strategische Auswirkungen. Dafür greift er auf die Methoden der Strategischen Wissenschaft sowie Ansätze de……続きを見る

Das Gesundheitswesen befindet sich an einem Wendepunkt. Lange Zeit stand die Reparatur von Symptomen im Mittelpunkt medizinischer Bemühungen – doch dieses Modell hat seine Grenzen erreicht. In "Von ……続きを見る

Entfesseln Sie die transformative Kraft der OKRs in Ihrem Sektor! In einer Welt, in der öffentliche und gemeinnützige Organisationen mehr denn je gefordert sind, ihre Effektivität unter Beweis zu st……続きを見る

Back Cover Text for "OKR Revolution in Public and Nonprofit Management: Empowering Organizations to Meet Their Missions" by Theodore F. Singh In a world where public and nonprofit organizations are ……続きを見る

With over 20 million people on its payroll, the government is the largest employer in the country. Managing people who do the nation’s work is of critical importance to politicians, government leade……続きを見る

The trends, data, and battle-tested logic don't lie. A perfect storm of extremist ideologies is on the horizon that threatens to challenge the current state of public safety forcing police chiefs, p……続きを見る

While geography is not the only factor to shape human behavior, its influence on terrorists’ motivations, behaviors, options, and activities is a primary consideration in understanding terrorism. Ta……続きを見る

This book provides key strategic principles and best practices to guide the design and implementation of digital government strategies. It provides a series of recommendations and findings to think ……続きを見る

A growing number of educators are beginning to believe that as we move into a different kind of world with different possibilities, the traditional approach to teaching is no longer the most product……続きを見る

First published in 1997, this volume emerged in the ongoing struggle between those favouring centralized and those favouring decentralized government, and has three goals: 1) To illustrate how theor……続きを見る

Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And ……続きを見る

This innovative text adapts the strategic management process to the police organizational environment, illustrating how to tailor responses to the unique problems and issues that professionals are l……続きを見る

Effective Altruism is a movement and a philosophy that has reinvigorated the debate about the nature of beneficence. At base, it is the consistent application of microeconomic principles to benefice……続きを見る

Originally published in 1975, this book advocates a certain approach to the study of government: the focus should be institutional, the method comparative and the level practical. The book divides i……続きを見る

Originally published in 1964, this book was an important addition to the growing field of comparative government and administration. This book covers the organisation of the French cabinet, the stru……続きを見る

More members of Congress have been investigated and sanctioned for ethical misconduct in the past decade and a half than in the entire previous history of the institution. But individual members are……続きを見る

In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow mark……続きを見る

This book challenges the perceived underlying causes and culprits of the ongoing challenges in Canadian defence procurement, arguing that although headlines often put the blame on the political lead……続きを見る

The authors of this book contend that the civil service system, which was devised to create a uniform process for recruiting high-quality workers to government, is no longer uniform or a system. Nor……続きを見る

The elections of 1994 produced the first Republican-controlled Congress in 40 years. What effect did being the minority party for so long have on the activities of the new House of Representatives' ……続きを見る

Efficient public administration requires a delicate balance between politics, accountability, and performance--bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective but also accountable to elected off……続きを見る

Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distr……続きを見る

In the face of ever more complex societal challenges, this book provides an essential new model for transforming the public sector and getting things done. Pandemics. Climate change. Refugee resettl……続きを見る

Presidential Rhetoric and Indian Policy explores and analyses the dynamics of presidential rhetoric on Native peoples and issues from Nixon to the present. Covering Presidents Washington through Joh……続きを見る