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  • Administrative Reform
    Gerald E. Caiden
    Caiden shows how the study of administrative reform can contribute substantially to the development of administrative theory, and constructs a working definition of the phenomenon of administrative reform, distinguishing it from social change and from administrative change ...
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    240,95 €

  • Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations
    Leisha DeHart-Davis
    The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape and rules that help public organizations function effectively, what the auth...
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    80,85 €

  • Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations
    Leisha DeHart-Davis
    The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape and rules that help public organizations function effectively, what the auth...
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    40,73 €

  • Structured to Fail?
    Christopher Carrigan
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    53,80 €

  • Organizing Leviathan
    Carl Dahlström / Victor Lapuente
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    41,80 €

  • Anticipatory Policymaking
    Rob A. DeLeo
    Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence in which government develops solutions for clearly evident and identifiable problems. While this depiction holds true in many cases, it fails to account for instances in which public policy is enacted in anticipation of a potential future problem. Whereas traditio...
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    82,67 €

  • Introduction to Public Administration
    Goldfrey Edwards
    The book studies, analyses and uphold the pillars of public administration and its utmost significance in modern times. Public administration is an academic field which is concerned with the study of government policies and administrative work and also their implementation and management. This text unfolds the innovative aspects of public administration theory, which will be cr...
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    182,57 €

  • Structured to Fail?
    Christopher Carrigan
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    160,64 €

  • Applied Policy Research
    Allan Porowski / J. Fred Springer / Peter J. Haas
    Beginning with an orientation and overview of policy research, outlining the processes of policy analysis and evaluation from start to finish, Applied Policy Research, 2e then walks students through an examination of case studies to demonstrate how these theories play out in real policy situations. Illustrative figures help students understand the stages of policy research, and...
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    212,77 €

  • Governmental Financial Resilience
    This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local governments have maintained financial resilience in light of the significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an international perspective, it provides a practical analysis of the different capacities and responses that local governments deploy to cope with financial shocks. ...
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    210,51 €

  • Applied Policy Research
    Allan Porowski / J. Fred Springer / Peter J. Haas
    Beginning with an orientation and overview of policy research, outlining the processes of policy analysis and evaluation from start to finish, Applied Policy Research, 2e then walks students through an examination of case studies to demonstrate how these theories play out in real policy situations. Illustrative figures help students understand the stages of policy research, and...
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    109,96 €

  • Democratizing Public Governance in Developing Nations
    This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both the externally prescribed and home-grown governance initiatives geared toward democracy and development, and suggests alternative strategies to improve the processes and institutions...
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    240,76 €

  • Trends in Policing
    Several years ago, the Trends in Policing Series unveiled insiders’ accounts of how police leaders perceive the work they do. These volumes feature interviews with practitioners who present their evaluations of programs and philosophies that worked and those that did not. Volume Three continues in the tradition of providing a revealing depiction of diverse police perspectives a...
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    129,29 €

  • Information Infrastructures within European Health Care
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.The book aims to be a resource for those interested in planning and implementing large-scale information infrastructures for novel electronic services in health care. The focus of this book is on the pivotal role of the installed base (i.e. the already existing elements of an infrastructure) for ensuing infrastructural devel...
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    47,92 €

  • Driving Efficiency in Local Government Using a Collaborative Enterprise Architecture Framework
    Amit Tiwary
    The overall functions of a government impact a wide range of sectors in society. It is imperative for governments to work at full capacity and potential in order to ensure quality progress for its citizens. Driving Efficiency in Local Government Using a Collaborative Enterprise Architecture Framework: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential scholarly publication for...
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    157,32 €

  • Rethinking Public Services
    Rajiv Prabhakar
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    246,18 €

  • Public Value
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    245,34 €

  • Understanding Trust in Government
    Arnold Vedlitz / James W. Stoutenborough / Scott E. Robinson
    Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz argue that individual agencies develop specific reputation...
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    73,50 €

  • Understanding Trust in Government
    Arnold Vedlitz / James W. Stoutenborough / Scott E. Robinson
    Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government.  For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions.  In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz argue that individual agencies develop specific reputati...
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    241,23 €

  • The Field Researcher’s Handbook
    David J. Danelo / David JDanelo / David J. Danelo
    Field research-the collection of information outside a lab or workplace setting—requires skills and knowledge not typically taught in the classroom. Fieldwork demands exploratory inquisitiveness, empathy to encourage interviewees to trust the researcher, and sufficient aptitude to work professionally and return home safely. The Field Researcher’s Handbook provides a practical g...
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    67,12 €

  • Leadership and Change in Public Sector Organizations
    James D. Ward
    This book assesses the current state of the literature on leadership and change in government and public policy, and introduces the reader to innovative new ways to demonstrate leadership in times of change. Contributions from accomplished scholars in the field cover the traditional public administration areas of performance and management, as well as the diversity of issues th...
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    267,69 €

  • Understanding Smart Cities
    Leonidas G. Anthopoulos
    This book investigates the role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and e-government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights their importance to the welfare of society. The book offers specific, measurable, and action-oriented public sector planning and management principles and ideas for smart governance in the era of global urbanizat...
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    47,74 €

  • From Dust and Rabbits
    Len Glare
    From Dust and Rabbits is a particularly apt title as anyone who is familiar with Hopetoun and the Mallee country of western Victoria can attest. Dust storms were frequent and rabbit was a principal item of diet. To get by in the Mallee required strength, determination and a high degree of self-discipline. Life there was a constant battle and Len’s is a classic Australian story ...
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    25,24 €

  • Leadership and Change in Public Sector Organizations
    James D. Ward
    Successful change in the public sector can be supported or hindered by political and administrative leadership, individual and group motivation, and the public’s perception of the effectiveness of public officials and government structures. But do the very characteristics of public sector organizations present obstacles to successful transformative change? This book assesses th...
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    95,90 €

  • The Idea of Good Governance and the Politics of the Global South
    Haroon A. Khan
    One of the major objectives of good governance is human development. Many worry that without good governance, many developing countries may become failed states. Using one of the worst industrial disasters in Bangladesh to date, Haroon A. Khan helps further our understanding of the importance of bureaucratic capacity for achieving good governance and offers a new paradigm for a...
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    73,31 €

  • Making Public Policy Decisions
    To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little account of this, preferring instead to frame the decisions as the outcomes of a rational search for value-maximising alternati...
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    69,38 €

  • The iPINIONS Journal
    Anthony Livingston Hall
    ANTHONY L. HALL takes aim at the global events of 2016 with a unique and refreshing perspective. Here are some topics in this twelfth volume of his writings:Hillary Calling Half of Trump’s Supporters a “Basket of Deplorables”“Hillary was only half right … But the most troubling thing is not how deplorable they are; it’s how willing they are to elect an even more deplorable man ...
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    22,00 €

  • Policy Analysis
    Aidan R. Vining / David L. Weimer
    Often described as a Public Policy ’bible,’ Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its 6th edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for, and the limitations to, public policy. ...
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    190,52 €

  • Eliminating Serious Injury and Death from Road Transport
    Carlyn Muir / Eric William Howard / Ian Ronald Johnston
    The book explodes the myths that currently drive society’s view of traffic safety and limit progress in reducing death and serious injury. It presents current scientific knowledge in a non-technical way and draws parallels with other areas of public safety and public health. It uses examples from the media and from public policy debates to paint a clear picture of a flawed publ...
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    104,72 €

  • National Service and Volunteerism
    Bryer
    National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not ...
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    70,77 €