Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Public Affairs & Administration

Now in a thoroughly revised third edition, Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes is designed to help undergraduate students enrolled in a public policy course discuss policy issues and understand the ways in which public policy is grounded in normative theory. This approachable book examines the role of political theory in the governance process and the effect of public opinion on policy priorities and government. It introduces students to the tools of policy analysis and the most up to date policy theories in conceptualizing public policy in several major policy areas. New to...

Now in a thoroughly-revised 7^th edition, Public Personnel Management focuses on the critical issues and common processes in the management of public sector personnel. In keeping with prior editions, the text centers on the core processes within public human resource management: strategic workforce planning, effective recruitment and retention, workforce development, and employee relations. Designed to further address the ways in which expectations for human resource managers have changed and develop in recent years, the 7^th edition includes several new features...

The best decisions made by public managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what's happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public manager is often, therefore, based on the need for rigorous, actionable research. In this textbook, Eller, Gerber, and Robinson show students of Public Administration exactly how to use both qualitative and quantitative research techniques to give them the best chance to make the right decisions.

Uniquely, the...

The best decisions made by public managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what's happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public manager is often, therefore, based on the need for rigorous, actionable research. In this textbook, Eller, Gerber, and Robinson show students of Public Administration exactly how to use both qualitative and quantitative research techniques to give them the best chance to make the right decisions.

Uniquely, the...

Public Administration and Public Affairs demonstrates how to govern efficiently, effectively, and responsibly in an age of political corruption and crises in public finance. Providing a comprehensive, accessible and humorous introduction to the field of Public Administration, this text is designed specifically for those with little to no background in the field. Now in its 13^th edition, this beloved book includes:

• Engaging, timely new sections designed to make students think, such as -Why Are So Many Leaders Losers?- and -Even Terrorists Like...

Public Administration and Public Affairs demonstrates how to govern efficiently, effectively, and responsibly in an age of political corruption and crises in public finance. Providing a comprehensive, accessible and humorous introduction to the field of Public Administration, this text is designed specifically for those with little to no background in the field. Now in its 13^th edition, this beloved book includes:

• Engaging, timely new sections designed to make students think, such as -Why Are So Many Leaders Losers?- and -Even Terrorists Like...

The administrative sciences were strongly dominated by public administration's turn to managerial perspectives in the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries, and "New Public Management" promised to produce efficient, responsible, and client-oriented public services. The reforms carried out in this pursuit were often accompanied by great optimism and rapid, enthusiastic steps toward implementation.　 Even in highly developed industrial countries, however, it was often overlooked that such fundamental reforms must consider not only the political and cultural contexts...

This book sets out a measure of authority for seventy-six international organizations (IOs) from 1950, or the time of their establishment, to 2010 which can allow researchers to test expectations about the character, sources, and consequences of international governance. The international organizations considered are regional (e.g. the EU, Andean Community,...

Why should public administrators care about city planning? Is city planning not a field ruled by architects and public works personnel? In fact, much of city planning requires expertise in areas other than buildings and infrastructure: upper level public administrators and city managers need to understand how to obtain resources for a long-range plan that will allow a city to grow, to thrive, and to exist. With city planning expertise, urban administrators are empowered to make more informed decisions on matters that involve budgeting, economic development, tax revenues, public relations,...

President Carter proclaims U.S. an oligarchy, and Colonel Laurence Wilkerson says it's a perpetual war machine for defense contractors, weapons manufacturers, and power hungry politicians.

In this eye-opening, witty, painfully honest, Socrates-like hard look in the mirror, Darrell Cass reeducates those 99% of Americans and the world that have been bullied, brainwashed, kidnapped, and beaten into delusional submission by master sorcerers. You will laugh, cry, and be ashamed as he illuminates the ingenious ways our self-serving elite have percolated their morals,...