ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy
About the Book Series
Founded in 1939, the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) is the premier professional organization for public administration, dedicated to advancing its art, science, teaching and practice. The ASPA book series provides expert information on a range of public administration issues, each authored by a leader in the field. Series Editor David Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University, USA.
The Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Moloney, Gloria J. Billingsley, Bok Gyo Jeong, Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Tonya E. Thornton, Eric Zeemering
March 17, 2025
This volume considers how local, national, and global crises with differing durations, sizes, and impacts challenge the public sector to respond. Within the public administration and policy disciplines, there has been limited recognition about the nature of, linkages among, and the response options...
Local Government Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolas A. Valcik, Teodoro J. Benavides
April 11, 2023
In a recent paradigm shift, local governments find themselves shouldering more responsibility for day-to-day governance and crisis management, thanks to regulations and federal spending cuts. While 20 years ago a book on local government administration might have been considered complete with ...
Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement
3rd Edition
By William Sims Curry
December 30, 2022
Through three comprehensive editions, Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement has been lauded for exposing fraud, incompetence, waste, and abuse (FIWA) and analyzing corruption, mismanagement, and ineptitude that defile government contracting. The first two ...
Effective Nonprofit Management: Context, Concepts, and Competencies
2nd Edition
By Shamima Ahmed
November 30, 2021
Underlining the relationship between the public and nonprofit sectors, Effective Nonprofit Management: Context, Concepts, and Competencies, 2nd Edition comprehensively explores of the practical art of forming, managing, and leading nonprofit organizations, contextualizing the changing ...
The Practice of Government Public Relations
2nd Edition
Edited
By Mordecai Lee, Grant Neeley, Kendra Stewart
July 01, 2021
In addition to traditional management tools, government administrators require a fundamental understanding of the tools available to address the ever-changing context of government communications. Examining the ins and outs of the regulations influencing public information, The Practice of ...
Dwight Waldo: Administrative Theorist for our Times
1st Edition
By Richard Stillman
October 27, 2020
From the early postwar period until his death at the turn of the century, Dwight Waldo was one of the most authoritative voices in the field of public administration. Through probing questions, creative ideas, and novel insights, he perhaps contributed more than any other single figure to the ...
Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development
1st Edition
By Roland V. Anglin
September 05, 2019
Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits — you can achieve all these benefits and more with a comprehensive and strategic revitalization plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization ...
Making Collaboratives Work: How Complex Organizational Partnerships Succeed
1st Edition
By Susan Meyers Chandler
November 16, 2018
Most contemporary public managers will work in some type of collaborative or networked arrangement at some time in their professional careers. More and more work in public administration and policy is now being done in collaborative formats, and while there are many studies, articles, and cases ...
Transforming Disaster Response: Federalism and Leadership
1st Edition
By William Lester
July 17, 2018
Much of the published work on disaster response has focused on specific disasters, highlighting what went wrong. Taking a new approach, this book explores ways in which transformational leadership principles may be applied to an organization’s disaster preparation and response, moving the ...
City Planning for the Public Manager
1st Edition
By Nicolas A. Valcik, Todd A. Jordan, Teodoro J. Benavides, Andrea D. Stigdon
September 19, 2017
Why should public administrators care about city planning? Is city planning not a field ruled by architects and public works personnel? Much of city planning in fact requires expertise in areas other than buildings and infrastructure, and with city planning expertise, urban administrators are ...
The Fracking Debate: Intergovernmental Politics of the Oil and Gas Renaissance, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Jonathan M. Fisk
August 15, 2017
The disputes around fracking, and oil and gas policy, follow a long tradition of complicated intergovernmental relationships. Proponents argue that fracking supports new and well-paying jobs, revitalizes state and local economies, and that it can help replace reliance on other fossil fuels. ...
Advances in E-Governance: Theory and Application of Technological Initiatives
1st Edition
By Anthony Trotta
June 30, 2017
E-Governance as a field of study is relatively new when considered within the broader historical context of US democracy. The advent of the modern Internet in the early 1990s yielded new technologies that began to shift citizen expectations of how government can -- and in many cases should -- ...