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.
Environmental Policymaking and Stakeholder Collaboration: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Shannon K. Orr
December 09, 2013
A critical appraisal of why environmental policies fail and succeed, Environmental Policymaking and Stakeholder Collaboration provides policy makers with the keys to navigating complicated environmental issues and stakeholder negotiations. It covers theories in environmental policy making and ...
Organizational Assessment and Improvement in the Public Sector Workbook
1st Edition
By Kathleen M. Immordino
October 14, 2013
Public agencies at the federal, state, and local levels are realizing just how important it is to assess and improve their current performance and to convey information on their achievements and opportunities to staff, leaders, and decision makers as well as externally to constituents. ...
Challenges in City Management: A Case Study Approach
1st Edition
By Becky J. Starnes
May 22, 2013
City management in developing countries is a quickly growing area in current public administration literature. However, little research material can be found regarding the management of cities. Demonstrating the issues in this field, Challenges in City Management: A Case Study Approach brings the ...
Local Economic Development and the Environment: Finding Common Ground
1st Edition
By Susan M. Opp, Jeffery L. Osgood, Jr.
March 22, 2013
A clear and practical examination of complex issues, Local Economic Development and the Environment: Finding Common Ground provides a broad, academic look at the intersection of two important areas for local administrators. In addition to managing development in a strained economic climate, most ...
Debating Public Administration: Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert F. Durant, Jennifer R.S. Durant
October 26, 2012
Dialog between practitioners and academics has increasingly become the exception rather than the rule in contemporary public administration circles. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, Debating Public Administration: Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities tackles some of the ...
Environmental Decision-Making in Context: A Toolbox
1st Edition
By Chad J. McGuire
April 25, 2012
Because of the complexity involved in understanding the environment, the choices made about environmental issues are often incomplete. In a perfect world, those who make environmental decisions would be armed with a foundation about the broad range of issues at stake when making such decisions. ...
Government Performance and Results: An Evaluation of GPRA’s First Decade
1st Edition
By Jerry Ellig, Maurice McTigue, Henry Wray
September 08, 2011
The complexity of governments today makes the accountability desired by citizens difficult to achieve. Written to address performance policies within state and national governments, Government Performance and Results: An Evaluation of GPRA’s First Decade summarizes lessons learned from a 10-year ...
Practical Human Resources for Public Managers: A Case Study Approach
1st Edition
By Nicolas A. Valcik, Teodoro J. Benavides
August 24, 2011
Employers face a myriad of issues when hiring: how to recruit, whom to select, how to interview, Equal Employment Opportunity policies, fair salary offerings, health issues, performance evaluations, behavior/disciplinary actions, turnover, and the list goes on and on. Practical Human Resources ...
Strategic Collaboration in Public and Nonprofit Administration: A Practice-Based Approach to Solving Shared Problems
1st Edition
By Dorothy Norris-Tirrell, Joy A. Clay
April 26, 2010
Market disruptions, climate change, and health pandemics lead the growing list of challenges faced by today’s leaders. These issues, along with countless others that do not make the daily news, require novel thinking and collaborative action to find workable solutions. However, many ...
Organizational Assessment and Improvement in the Public Sector
1st Edition
By Kathleen M. Immordino
October 13, 2009
Calls for performance measures and metrics sound good, but public sector organizations often lack the tools required to assess the organization as a whole and create true change.In order to implement an integrated cycle of assessment, planning, and improvement, government agencies at all levels ...
Ethics Moments in Government: Cases and Controversies
1st Edition
By Donald C. Menzel
September 25, 2009
Ethical concerns are among the most common problems public administrators face, yet the issues are often complex, and the correct choices are not always clear. Living up to the public trust is much more than just an act of compliance. It also involves perceiving, preventing, avoiding, and resolving...
The Formula for Economic Growth on Main Street America
1st Edition
By Gerald L. Gordon
July 29, 2009
The community that establishes and maintains a solid economic framework greatly improves its chances of sustaining itself through fluctuations in the economy. The question is, of course, how can city officials and administrators make this happen? The Formula for Economic Growth on Main Street ...