Public Administration and Public Policy
Performance Measurement in Local Sustainability Policy
1st Edition
By Susan M. Opp, Samantha L. Mosier, Jeffery L. Osgood, Jr.
March 02, 2018
Local officials are responsible for a number of important tasks that have a significant impact on the quality of life of most Americans. Arguably, the policy choices made by local governments in the United States more directly impact individual well-being than do the choices made at any other level...
The Practice of International Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Jerrold Keilson, Michael Gubser
October 02, 2017
Development analysts tend to give short shrift to the seemingly minor bureaucratic hitches faced by practitioners—those who design, manage, implement, and evaluate aid projects. Often critical of foreign aid either for its apparent ineffectiveness at alleviating poverty or its purported neocolonial...
The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook: From Theory to Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica Word, Jessica Sowa
June 16, 2017
As an increasing number of individuals go to work in the nonprofit sector, nonprofit managers need support on how best to build their human resource management capacity. They need to know what systems to examine, what questions to ask, and how to ensure they are managing people in a legal manner ...
The Constitutional School of American Public Administration
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephanie Newbold, David H. Rosenbloom
October 20, 2016
The growing ‘constitutional school’ of public administration has roots in the Federalist Papers, constitutional law, and the writings of several contemporary leaders and contributors in the field. It is comprised of a loose grouping of scholars who subscribe to the proposition that constitutions ...
Democracy and Civil Society in a Global Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott Nicholas Romaniuk, Marguerite Marlin
April 06, 2016
Democracy and Civil Society in a Global Era addresses challenges to the strengthening of active citizenship. In this highly-structured work, the themes presented are linked to fostering a culture of peace and non-violence, the lessening of fear and insecurity in political, economic, social, and ...
Development and the Politics of Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott Nicholas Romaniuk, Marguerite Marlin
December 15, 2015
Despite decades spent confronting human rights violations around the world, particularly in regions of instability, the issue remains one of the most divisive, chaotic, and challenging to address. Development and the Politics of Human Rights takes a much-needed holistic approach. It unpacks the ...
Public Administration and Policy in the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Indianna D. Minto-Coy, Evan M. Berman
June 26, 2015
The Caribbean is at a crucial phase in its development. Global and local pressures have seen the region losing its competitiveness, while it remains at risk of losing out on development gains made in the last few decades. These pressures are demanding improvements in the way government operates, ...
The Economic Survival of America's Isolated Small Towns
1st Edition
By Gerald L. Gordon
June 26, 2015
The economic history of the recent decade has been volatile at best, and devastating at its worst. The effects have tended to be most severe in the small, isolated towns of America. The Economic Survival of America's Isolated Small Towns presents a detailed discussion of the economic challenges ...
Sustainable Development and Human Security in Africa: Governance as the Missing Link
1st Edition
Edited
By Louis A. Picard, Terry F. Buss, Taylor B. Seybolt, Macrina C. Lelei
April 22, 2015
Many new development initiatives have been introduced in Africa over the past few decades. Each of these has been heralded as marking a new era in the continent’s development. However, many of these initiatives have failed to produce sustained results due to numerous challenges, including, most ...
Information and Communication Technologies in Public Administration: Innovations from Developed Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Reddick, Leonidas Anthopoulos
April 08, 2015
An examination of how information technology (IT) can be used in public administration, Information and Communication Technologies in Public Administration: Innovations from Developed Countries examines global perspectives on public administration and IT innovations. This book illustrates the ...
Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World
1st Edition
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By John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Laura Bloomberg
February 13, 2015
Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World brings together a stellar cast of thinkers to explore issues of public and cross-sector decision-making within a framework of democratic civic engagement. It offers an ...
Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of e-Inclusion
1st Edition
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By Kim J. Andreasson
January 14, 2015
The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the ...