Public Administration and Public Policy
Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy
1st Edition
By G.L.A. Harris
October 15, 2014
WINNER OF THE 2017 ASPA SECTION ON PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION AND LABOR RELATIONS OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD! This research and policy book examines the role of women in the military and the overwhelming evidence to date that warranted repealing the combat exclusion policy. It explores the ...
Politics of Preference: India, United States, and South Africa
1st Edition
By Krishna K. Tummala, Ph.D
July 25, 2014
Minorities, based on whatever criteria—linguistic, religious, ethnic, tribal, racial, or otherwise—share a distinctive contextual and social experience. Their representation in public service is important, especially when there have been public policies which have historically discriminated against...
Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Practice, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Ali Farazmand
March 25, 2014
More than 12 years have passed since the publication of the first edition of Crisis and Emergency Management. During that time numerous disasters—from 9/11 to massive earthquakes in Iran and China, to the giant Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Fukushima Tsunami and ensuing nuclear ...
Labor Relations in the Public Sector
5th Edition
By Patrice M. Mareschal, Richard C. Kearney
January 17, 2014
Since publication of the fourth edition of Labor Relations in the Public Sector, public sector unions have encountered strong headwinds in many parts of the U.S. Membership is falling in some jurisdictions, public opinion has shifted against the unions, and political forces are leaning against them...
Democracy and Public Administration in Pakistan
1st Edition
By Amna Imam, Eazaz A. Dar
December 14, 2013
This book explores the role of the grass roots public administrative institution of DC & DM in historical context for Pakistan, and its viability for a meaningful democracy and stability of the country. The authors contend that Pakistan’s democracy to-date lacks firm foundation, as evidenced by...
The Economic Viability of Micropolitan America
1st Edition
By Gerald L. Gordon
December 07, 2013
As the global recession of 2008 and beyond took hold of the American economy, smaller markets were disproportionately affected by job losses as well as the resultant brain drains, tax base reductions, diminished housing values, and diminishment of their overall quality of life. So it is not ...
Public Administration in South Asia: India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan
1st Edition
Edited
By Meghna Sabharwal, Evan M. Berman
May 07, 2013
A state-of-the-art, one-stop resource, Public Administration in South Asia: India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan examines public administration issues and advances in the Indian subcontinent. The book fulfills a critical need. These nations have the largest public administration programs in South Asia, ...
Making Multilevel Public Management Work: Stories of Success and Failure from Europe and North America
1st Edition
Edited
By Denita Cepiku, David K. Jesuit, Ian Roberge
April 23, 2013
Public management increasingly takes place in multilevel settings, since most countries are decentralized to one degree or another and most problems transcend and cut across administrative and geographical borders. A collaboration of scholars in the Transnational Initiative on Governance Research ...
Public Administration in Africa: Performance and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad, Lukamba-Muhiya. Tshombe, Ernest Peprah Ababio
April 02, 2013
With contributions from leading regional scholars, Public Administration in Africa: Performance and Challenges examines the complexities of the art of governance from the unique African perspective. The editors bring together a cohesive study of the major issues and regions by taking an analytic ...
Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries: Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia
1st Edition
Edited
By Saltanat Liebert, Stephen E. Condrey, Dmitry Goncharov
February 26, 2013
Although it has been more than 20 years since Communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, many scholars and politicians still wonder what the lifting of the Iron Curtain has really meant for these former Communist countries. And, because these countries were largely ...
Hazardous Materials Compliance for Public Research Organizations: A Case Study, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Nicolas A. Valcik
February 15, 2013
Completely revised and updated, Hazardous Materials Compliance for Public Research Organizations: A Case Study, Second Edition presents a case study of one university’s policies and practices with regard to the procurement, use, storage and disposal of HAZMAT in the context of a changing internal ...
Logics of Legitimacy: Three Traditions of Public Administration Praxis
1st Edition
By Margaret Stout
July 26, 2012
The discipline of public administration draws predominantly from political and organizational theory, but also from other social and behavioral sciences, philosophy, and even theology. This diversity results in conflicting prescriptions for the "proper" administrative role. So, how are those new to...