Public Administration and Public Policy
The Politics-Administration Dichotomy: Toward a Constitutional Perspective, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Patrick Overeem
April 03, 2012
The politics-administration dichotomy is much mentioned and often criticized in the Public Administration literature. The Politics-Administration Dichotomy: Toward a Constitutional Perspective, Second Edition offers a book-length treatment of this classical notion. While public administration ...
Managing Development in a Globalized World: Concepts, Processes, Institutions
1st Edition
By Habib Zafarullah, Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
March 13, 2012
Traditionally, development has been rooted in ideologies and assumptions prevalent in the developed world and in practices and strategies adopted by leading industrial nations. However, historically, eclectic ideas and approaches often clash with existing long-established notions of progress and ...
Cybersecurity: Public Sector Threats and Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim J. Andreasson
December 20, 2011
The Internet has given rise to new opportunities for the public sector to improve efficiency and better serve constituents in the form of e-government. But with a rapidly growing user base globally and an increasing reliance on the Internet, digital tools are also exposing the public sector to new ...
Government Budgeting and Financial Management in Practice: Logics to Make Sense of Ambiguity
1st Edition
By Gerald J. Miller
September 28, 2011
The right turn in U. S. politics has increased conflict over both ends and means in government budgeting and financial management. Overlapping and competing views of the way the world works drive finance officials’ practice. Taking a new look at public financial management that acknowledges the ...
Reinventing Local and Regional Economies
1st Edition
By Gerald L. Gordon
September 28, 2011
Recent US economic history is rife with examples of cities and regions that have experienced significant decline. Many of those localities began to slide after decades, even generations, of feeling immune to economic disaster. Boeing and Kodak, the steel industry in Pittsburg, and the automotive ...
Globalism and Comparative Public Administration
1st Edition
By Jamil Jreisat
August 29, 2011
Globalization, rapidly evolving communication and information technology, and the spread of democracy across the world are reshaping public organizations and changing governance. Yet, graduate students and public administration academics have limited resources with which to develop a real-world ...
Energy Policy in the U.S.: Politics, Challenges, and Prospects for Change
1st Edition
By Laurance R. Geri, David E. McNabb
June 03, 2011
In an effort to provide greater awareness of the necessary policy decisions facing our elected and appointed officials, Energy Policy in the U.S.: Politics, Challenges, and Prospects for Change presents an overview of important energy policies and the policy process in the United States, including ...
Public Administration in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Macao
1st Edition
Edited
By Evan M. Berman
November 18, 2010
While public administration practice and education in general has become considerably professionalized in the last decade, existing knowledge on public administration in Southeast Asia is fragmented at best, and often devoid of a useful reference. While journal articles and government reports ...
Public Administration and Law
3rd Edition
By David H. Rosenbloom, Rosemary O'Leary, Joshua Chanin
June 23, 2010
Since the first edition of Public Administration and Law was published in 1983, it has retained its unique status of being the only book in the field of public administration that analyzes how constitutional law regulates and informs the way administrators interact with each other and the public. ...
Public Administration in East Asia: Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan
1st Edition
Edited
By Evan M. Berman
May 11, 2010
Written by leading experts, Public Administration in East Asia: Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan examines the inner workings of governments in East Asia, in particular its public administration and related public policy processes. It focuses on the apparatus of government — the agencies, ...
Handbook of Public Information Systems
3rd Edition
Edited
By Christopher M Shea, G. David Garson
March 10, 2010
Delivering IT projects on time and within budget, while maintaining privacy, security, and accountability, remains one of the major public challenges of our time. In the four short years since the publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Public Information Systems, the field of public ...
Bureaucracy and Administration
1st Edition
Edited
By Ali Farazmand
June 23, 2009
Bureaucracy is an age-old form of government that has survived since ancient times; it has provided order and persisted with durability, dependability, and stability. The popularity of the first edition of this book, entitled Handbook of Bureaucracy, is testimony to the endurance of bureaucratic ...