Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Public Affairs & Administration

This book provides a comprehensive overview of India's public services and bureaucratic systems, and explores why widespread corruption and inefficient delivery have slowed development. It:

• discusses the underlying reasons for the prevailing inefficiency in public services;
• examines the complex linkages between ethics-based public service, India's cultural and spiritual heritage, and its current economic development model; and
• outlines ways to create an ethics code and an environment that is conducive to better administration and...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The articles in this book provide insightful answers to these questions. In addition, the contributions in the book identify lines of research that invite further investigation, namely: problems related to the degree of risk transfer; the challenges posed by...

In January 1970 Alice M. Rivlin spoke to an audience at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic was developing a more rational approach to decisionmaking in government. If digital video, YouTube, and TED Talks had been inventions of the 1960s, Rivlin's talk would have been a viral hit. As it was, the resulting book, "Systematic Thinking for Social Action," spent years on the Brookings Press bestseller list. Is is a very personal and conversational volume about the dawn of new ways of thinking about government.

As deputy assistant secretary for program coordination, and later as...

Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of people to be full participants in their communities. This book approaches these challenges by applying a combination of the latest American and European approaches in applying complex systems modeling, crowdsourcing, participatory...

Web 2.0 has become the buzz word for describing social media available on the Internet, such as blogs, photo and file sharing systems and social networking sites. These Web 2.0 applications are rapidly transforming citizen-citizen and citizen-government interactions in a manner not seen before. In recognition of these trends, governments are already taking a very close look at Web 2.0 and online communities in order to leverage them for designing products and services and for providing citizen services. This book brings together international scholars to provide the theoretical and...

Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of people to be full participants in their communities. This book approaches these challenges by applying a combination of the latest American and European approaches in applying complex systems modeling, crowdsourcing, participatory...

Is America a nation under God or a nation getting over God? In the United States, the Christian cause is in full retreat: - Courts enshrine the counterfeit right of same-sex marriage - Prayer, long since made illegal in public school, is increasingly pushed from other public places and occasions - Policies of the social welfare state owe more to the principles of Robin Hood than of Jesus - Crosses, erected in memorials to fallen soldiers, are threatened with demolition - Immigrants are treated as pawns of politicians instead of the "strangers" Jesus spoke of

Everyone worries about being...

Is America a nation under God or a nation getting over God? In the United States, the Christian cause is in full retreat: - Courts enshrine the counterfeit right of same-sex marriage - Prayer, long since made illegal in public school, is increasingly pushed from other public places and occasions - Policies of the social welfare state owe more to the principles of Robin Hood than of Jesus - Crosses, erected in memorials to fallen soldiers, are threatened with demolition - Immigrants are treated as pawns of politicians instead of the "strangers" Jesus spoke of

Everyone worries about being...