McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2012. — 528 p. — 8th ed. — ISBN: 0073511471, 9780073511474 Over the course of two decades, Urban Economics has achieved a worldwide audience, and has been translated into Chinese, Greek, Russia, and Korean. Like the seven previous editions, this edition provides a clear and concise presentation of the economic forces that: (a) cause the development of cities;...
London and New York: Routledge, 2005. - pp 255 Part From public management to governance Understanding public management and governance The changing context of public policy The size and scope of the public sector: an international comparison Public management in flux: trends and differences across OECD countries Part Public management Strategic management in public sector...
AMACOM, 2011. - 240 p. ISBN10: 0814416225 With public scrutiny intensifying every day, optimizing the performance of government employees and departments is more critical than ever before. And just as in the private sector, the key for managers is to understand how different management systems perform individually and interact with one another. This book examines the roles and...
The MIT Press20110262016362296 p.PDF1 MB Lectures on Urban Economics offers a rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics. To make the book accessible to a broad range of readers, the analysis is diagrammatic rather than mathematical. Although nontechnical, the book relies on rigorous economic reasoning. In contrast to the cursory theoretical...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 1222 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN10: 0199579679. — ISBN13: 978-0199579679. The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking. It contains a wide range of essays that define the important questions in the field, evaluate where we are in answering them, and set the direction and terms of discourse for future work. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 324 p. ISBN: 0521879612 With the rise of China in the global economy, it has never been more important for business leaders to understand Chinese leadership philosophies and practices. This is the first book to explain how ancient Chinese thinking and Western ideas have shaped the development of leadership styles in China. Leadership theories...
Oxford University Press, 2010 . - 288 p. ISBN: 0199573549 This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail? Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is meant by 'modernization'...
CRC Press, 2009. — 652 p. — (Public Administration and Public Policy) 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 institutions....
Public Domain,2012. - 309 p. To have a healthy society economics is only one of the things that we need to look into. There are lot of other things that comes into play. A package consisting of economics, organizations, banks, governance, education, ethics and solutions that goes into building a functional society is labeled under the ‘Nonprofit Earth Exchange Based Economy’...
Empirical Research. - the US: Washington, IBRD, World Bank, World Bank Publications, 2007. - 447 p. Corruption. How can policymakers and practitioners better comprehend the many forms and shapes that this social pandemic takes? Corruption shows its many faces. The Many Faces of Corruption attempts to bring greater clarity to the often murky manifestations of this virulent and...
Textbook. - UK: London, the Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. - 304 p. First published in 1984 this book has established itself as the leading text in British public administration. The third edition builds on the previous edition's success to bring the considerable changes and very latest developments in the field. This edition includes: a new chapter on the influence of Europe; a...
6 edition. - Routledge, 2011. - 656 p. ISBN10: 0415881579 ISBN13: 978-0415881579 To gain a fuller understanding of American politics today, students need to learn how it has evolved, from its founding principles to its contemporary practices. Such a perspective is crucial for making sense of the strategic and ideological battles in twenty-first century American politics. Cal...
ASH Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation Harvard University - Brookings Institution Press, 2008. - 245 p. ISBN: 0815713770 9780815713777 The Innovations in American Government Awards Program began in 1985 with a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to conduct a program of awards for innovations in state and local...
A Comparative Study. US: NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. - 192 p. This book offers a general overview of the nature, pattern, and differing perspectives on political and economic corruption. Providing detail and depth, the book examines and compares corruption in four countries: the United States, Israel, Russia, and India. Each country chapter explores how corruption is defined...
Paperback. - USA: Washington; Institute For International Economics, 1998. - 246 p. This volume is based on a conference held by the Institute for International Economics. Kimberly Ann Elliott The Globalization of Corruption Patrick Glynn, Stephen J. Kobrin, and Moises Naim The Sources and Effects of Corruption The Political Economy of Corruption Susan Rose-Ackerman Public...
Paperback. - France: Paris, the OECD Publications, 2005. - 184 p. This report is a review of Ukraine's legal and institutional framework for fighting corruption, in accordance with the framework provided by the Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies, based at the OECD. Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan Country Reviews Assessments and Recommendations Implementation...
Wiley, 2014. — 464 p. — ISBN: 1118218302, 9781118218303, 1118419499, 9781118419496 Proven and emerging strategies for addressing document and records management risk within the framework of information governance principles and best practices Information Governance (IG) is a rapidly emerging "super discipline" and is now being applied to electronic document and records...
Palgrave Studies. - US: NY, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2008. - 348 p. The book provides a multidisciplinary interrogation of the global anti-corruption campaigns of the last ten years, arguing that while some positive change is observable, the period is also replete with perverse consequences and unintended outcomes. Contributors to the volume unravel the normative assumptions,...
Third edition, Routledge, 2008, 355 p. List of briefing boxes Part. Why, how, and problems of comparison Why compare countries? How to compare countries Comparing many countries Comparing few countries Single-country studies as comparison Part. Comparing comparisons Economic development and democracy Violent political dissent and social revolution Non-violent political dissent...
Paperback. - USA: California, SAGE Publications Ltd., 2008. - 231 p. Can decentralization reduce a democratic deficit? Can decentralization make public administration more efficient and act as a safeguard against corruption? What can we learn from India s experience from its extensive decentralization reforms so far? In this book, Sten Widmalm adopts comparative and empirical...
Routledge, 2012. - 243 p. ISBN: 1844076733 9780203133378 9781844076734 This book examines how more inclusive stakeholder involvement has been attempted in the nine cities that took part in the European Union funded Waterfront Communities Project. It focuses on analyzing the experience of creating new public realms through city-building activities. These public realms include...
Monography. - Netherlands: Amsterdam, Ios Pr. Inc., 2003. - 228 p. This work is a study of administrative corruption from an historical perspective. It aims to answer questions such as: Can we find general patterns in the development of corruption? What are the connections between administrative corruption, political corruption and development? What is the historical background...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2012. - 280 p. ISBN: 0199596751 Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of governance-interactive governance. The authors argue that although the...
Research. - the US: Washington, D.C.; the IBRD/The World Bank, 2003. - 237 p. Recent corporate scandals highlight the importance of both public sector initiatives and sound internal company policies in the fight against fraud and corruption. Policymakers, international organizations, and advocacy groups all agree these supply-side anti-corruption efforts are a critical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 331969586X, 13 978-3319695860. This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration interchangeably to argue that the tasks of implementation require the...
New York; Oxford University Press, 2008. — 352 p. The book joins a long-standing debate about what drives the behavior of government employees and others who are engaged in the public's business. For many centuries, public service was considered a noble calling and, more recently, a profession. During the latter part of the 20th century, however, many scholars called into...
Book. - US: Washington, American University, Routledge, 2007. - 144 p. This book, based on extensive original research, surveys the most enduring aspects of organized crime and corruption in Georgia and the most important reforms since the Rose Revolution. Endemic crime and corruption had a devastating effect on government and everyday life in Georgia, spurring widespread...
Book. - UK: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 318 p. This book focuses on European anti-corruption law and the politics of post-communist transformation, analysing the EU policy against corruption and the accession process and providing practical insights and policy recommendations. Corruption: concept, importance and international response The scope of EU legal...
World Scientific Publishing, 2018. — 615 p. — (World Scientific lecture notes in economics ; volume 4). — ISBN: 978-981-3222-18-2. Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and...
Textbook. — London: Routledge, 2003. — 262 p. Designed specifically for students of Irish Politics and Public Administration, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to public policy and administration in Ireland, thereby bridging the gap between general texts on public policy and books on Irish politics. Each chapter examines an alternative approach to policy...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 338 p. ISBN: 0521859913 The performance of governments around the globe is constantly in the spotlight, whether as a celebration or indictment of their activities. Providing evidence on strategies to improve the performance of public agencies is therefore essential to the practice of public management. This important contribution to the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 338 p. — (What everyone needs to know). — ISBN: 0190463988, 9780190463984, 9780190463977, 019046397X. Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What...
Routledge, 2008. — 224 p. The book addresses the essential task of the outsourcing of public services. It examines the context of public services contracting, the core skills involved and offers a critical appreciation of the state of our knowledge about this important field. It will support the work of those public service managers, whether they are based in governmental,...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 256 p. — ISBN 1–4039–0560–6. The book delves into the nature of governance in Asia both at government and corporate level. It reviews the history and suggests potential solutions for years of underperformance due to the corrupt practices that have developed because of a poor understanding of corporate governance. The authors are experts in...
AMACOM, 2007. – 240 p. – ISBN: 0814408877, 9780814408872 Managing government employees presents unique challenges. Government managers may feel that stringent and convoluted regulations mean they "can’t do that." Some others may use that perception as a crutch. But the truth for all of them is, yes, they can "do that" - and they’d better. "That" means managing employees as...
2nd ed. — London: Greenwood Publishing group, 1998. — 520 p. This is a complete and up-to-date revision of the classic text for public administration, implementing the rule of law as a fundamental issue in American democracy in pursuit of the common interest. It presents public administration as a tension between the necessary exercise of power and the search for responsiveness...
USA: Massachusetts; Brookings Institution Press, 2009. — 497 p. Never before have world order and global security been threatened by so many destabilizing factors — from the collapse of macroeconomic stability to nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and tyranny. Corruption, Global Security, and World Order reveals corruption to be at the very center of these threats and proposes...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 282 p. Corruption is a threat to democracy and economic development in many societies. It arises in the ways people pursue, use and exchange wealth and power, and in the strength or weakness of the state, political and social institutions that sustain and restrain those processes. Differences in these factors, Michael Johnston argues, give...
A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report: USA: Chicago; The University of Chicago Press, 2006. — 386 p. Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments...
New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. – 288 p. Despite the increasing globalization of many aspects of social, economic, and political life, the state remains the fundamental element in contemporary governance. This lively and accessible book provides a broad-ranging introduction to the origins, role, and future of the modern state and makes its own distinct contribution to...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 304 p. Corruption has been a feature of public institutions for centuries yet only relatively recently has it been made the subject of sustained scientific analysis. Lambsdorff shows how insights from institutional economics can be used to develop a better understanding of why corruption occurs and the best policies to combat it. He argues...
Research Monograph. — London: The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2006. — 217 p. There is general agreement that the world would be a better place without corruption, but there is less general understanding of precisely what constitutes corruption. In this book, Ian Senior carefully defines corruption and finds that it is all too prevalent, not just in developing countries, but...
Authors not specified. — San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint, 2010. – 392 p. – ISBN13: 978-0470457634. This comprehensive resource explores the overarching question of governance within nonprofit organizations and addresses the roles, structures, and practices of an effective nonprofit. The Handbook covers the topics that are of most importance to those charged with...
Massachusetts, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2008. — 251 p. This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains new statistical...
Washington; the World Bank, 2004. — 272 p. Combating corruption is now high on the policy agenda across Asia. However, many policymakers are handicapped by the lack of useful analytical tools. Existing models have proved inadequate in assessing the relevance and effectiveness of anti-corruption initiatives. Challenging Corruption in Asia provides an analytical framework to...
2nd ed. — Philadelphia; Westview Press, 2011. — 308 p. The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors describe several theories and analytical approaches that contribute to what we know about policy administration and consider which are the most promising,...
International Economic Association Conference — USA: New York; Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 265 p. With the aim of providing a comprehensive analysis of institutions, and of the global economy more generally, this volume explores systems of institutions and the effect of corruption, developments in behavioural economics, the impact of immigration, and the links between...
EFMD European case book. — Chichester; John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2007. — 327 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-51684-3. Strategic planning is supposed to give many opportunities to publicmanagers in designing and promoting change and innovation. Strategy implementation, however, is probably the area scoring the highest degree of failure in public organizations. The book presents 11 different...
California; Stanford University Press, 2000. — 392 p. The most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese Communist Party, Cadres and Corruption reveals the long history of the party’s inability to maintain a corps of committed and disciplined cadres. Contrary to popular understanding of China’s pervasive corruption as an administrative or...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 360 p. Based on cross-national aggregate analyses, the author suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality and low levels of generalized trust; high inequality leads to low trust and high corruption, and then to more inequality-an inequality trap. Corruption: The Basic Story Corruption and the Inequality Trap...
The Tematic Review (Final Report). — Paris: OECD Publishing, 2011. — 522 p. Criminalisation is a key component of all international anti-corruption instruments. For example, the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (Anti-Bribery Convention) and the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) both require States...
New York; Palgrave MacMillan Publisher, 2007. — 256 p. In The New Golden Age, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to economic prosperity — and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made books like The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism international bestsellers, Batra takes on falling minimum wages,...
New York; Routledge, 2002. — 560 p. The book begins by predicting the changes that will affect public services over the next 20 years and ends with a critique of the way in which management values are undermining ethics, efficiency and effectiveness. The last chapter argues that unless there is a more thoughtful approach to management education, additional resources will not...
Routledge, 2018 - 321 p. The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches?from public institutional theory to theories of governance?and consider which are the most promising, influential, and important...
12th Edition. — New York: Routledge, 2016. — 497 p. In Defense of Governing . Big Democracy, Big Bureaucracy. Paradigms of Public Administration. Public and Nonprofit Organizations . The Threads of Organization: Theories. The Fabric of Organizations: Forces. The Fibres of Organizations: People. Public Management: Curbing Corruption, Enhancing Efficiency . Clarifying Complexity:...
Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, 2017. — 268 p. — ISBN: 1137396164. This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance. Far from being merely carried along by global forces, cities have become active players in making and maintaining the networks and connections that give shape to contemporary...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. — 503 p. Marc Holzer and Richard Schwester have written a fresh and highly engaging textbook for the introductory course in Public Administration. Their coverage is both comprehensive and cutting edge, not just including all the basic topics (OT, budgeting, HRM), but also reflecting new realities in public administration: Innovations in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 193 p. — ISBN10: 331969586X, 13 978-3319695860. This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration interchangeably to argue that the tasks of implementation require the...
Routledge, 2016. — 446 p. Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer young leading innovators, and Europe’s new firms do not adequately contribute to industrial growth. This is especially true in the high R&D intensive, high-tech...
New York: CRC Press; Taylor & Francis Group LLC, 2006. — 694 p. — (Public Administration and Public Policy). The book provides a learning resource describing the major issues that are critical to understanding the multiple dimensions of sustainable development. The overall theme of each contributed chapter in this book is the urgent need to promote global sustainability while...
New York; Routledge Masters in Public Management, 2005. — 272 p. This is a book that teachers of public management will find invaluable. Change and innovation have special characteristics in the public sector and this book recognizes that and the constraints and opportunities facing public managers. Written in a clear and accessible way, it is nevertheless comprehensive in its...
Elsevier Ltd., 2006. — 980 p. Many trends and problems generated by fading state boundaries and the rise of non-state entities as global actors have been illuminated in the book. Readers will discover how current developments pose novel and challenging problems for anyone thinking about the key administrative problems of our times. This text is divided into four sections....
5th edition. — John Wiley & Sons, 2014 — 594 p. "This is the definitive place for all serious students of public administration to start. It is the most comprehensive book in the field. It is required reading for MPA students, Ph.D. students, and all scholars in the field." --Kenneth J. Meier, Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University "This is the bible for...
Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-92845-6, 978-3-319-92846-3 This book explains why the role of corruption varies greatly between public services, between people, between national systems of governance, and between measures of corruption. More than 1.8 billion people pay the price of bad government each year, by sending a...
Hong Kong University Press, 2010. — 410 p. — ISBN10: 9622091725. — ISBN13: 978-9622091726 This book describes and analyses the role of the public sector in the often-charged political atmosphere of post-1997 Hong Kong. It discusses critical constitutional, organisational and policy problems and examines their effects on relationships between government and the people. A...
Today, Powerful new technologies can be used to advance sustainable development for all people across the world while including them in the process. In particular, e-government can be an engine of development for the people. In delivering e-government for the people, public services are designed to be responsive, citizen-centric and socially inclusive. Governments also engage...
US: New York; Oxford University Press Inc., 2010. — 624 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-920726-8. Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether direct or indirect - conducted with employees or through their representatives. In its various guises, the topic of employee participation has been a...
USA: N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2003. — 289 p. — ISBN-13 978-1349421954. Political corruption has recently emerged as a key area in the study of advanced industrial nations. Not only has it become more visible than in the past, its sheer scale in some countries has had a significant impact on the functioning of their political institutions. Martin Bull and James Newell have...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9781119135616, 9781119135579, 1119135613, 9781119135623, 1119135621 A comprehensive guide to future-proofing public sector communication and increasing citizen satisfaction How to communicate with the citizens of the future? Why does public sector communication often fail? Public Sector Communication combines practical examples from...
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 264 p. France has been challenged by powerful forces of globalization, Europeanisation, decentralization, administrative reform and changing patterns of state-society relations. This book discusses the key challenges faced by France's governors and identifies a distinctive form of French governance that is mediated by domestic...
London; Frederick Muller Ltd., 1957. — 160 p. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. This work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our...
Melvin & Leigh, Publishers, 2018. — 576 p. — ISBN: 978-0-999235-90-7. Essentials of Public Service is the most accessible, student-friendly introductory Public Administration text on the market. The book prepares students for careers in today's public service, whether in government or nonprofits. Each chapter teaches the public service context, essential public service skills,...
England: Oxford; IOS Press/Lavis Marketing, 2005. — 171 p. - ISBN-10: 1586035487. Research on the relationship between technology dynamics and Public Administration (PA) began some years ago and was inspired by the realization that technological development has produced a far-reaching interaction with PA. It is emphasized how technological development and PA influence each...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 229 p. The New Public Management paradigm seems to have produced a convergence of administrative reform. However, specific implementations of NPM show range of forms and results including performance indicators, personal reforms and evaluations of reforms. This text demonstrates how NPM is crafted differently in various institutional...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. — 451 p. — (Public Administration and Public Policy Series 137). — ISBN 978‑1‑57444‑558‑9. The Handbook of Military Administration is the first work in many years to reveal the implementation and reach of military administration reforms. The book provides a unique comparison of international initiatives to modernize military operations....
Routledge, 2015. — 328 p. — ISBN: 978-1482216592. 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 current state of digital divides,...
Academic Press, 2018. — 238 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-815296-6. This book proposes an interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of urban systems. It portrays agents as rational beings modeled under the framework of random utility behavior and interacting in a complex market of location auctions, location externalities, agglomeration economies, transport accessibility attributes,...
Manchester University Press, 2003. — 188 p. List of tables and boxes page Origins and development of Congress Congressional elections Representatives and Senators The committee system Parties in Congress Floor deliberations and beyond President and Congress Congress, the media and interest groups Assessing the US Congress Select bibliography
Routledge, 2002. — 294 p. This volume analyses the ways in which public services are allocated and delivered. It examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic, as well as the role of markets and quasi-markets, in public service provision. The ‘rules of thumb’, or heuristics, that people use when making resource allocation decisions are explored in great...
CRC Press, 2009. — 270 p. — (ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy). — ISBN: 978‑1‑4200‑9387‑2. This book is dedicated to the thousands of public servants who every day demonstrate by example their dedication to the principles of good public management and commitment to the concept of true public service. Te Author List of Boxes Creating a New Face for...
Rev. ed. — New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2007. — 157 p. This widely acclaimed work provides a lively counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. Now extensively revised, it articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to...
Paris: OECD Publishing, 2017. — 176 p. This report provides an overview of past, recent and current multi-level governance reforms in OECD countries.Multi-level governance reforms often have diverse objectives which may vary over time depending on economic, social and budgetary contexts. The report focuses on the institutional (re-organisation of powers and responsibilities...
Springer, 2017. — 169 p. 9th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 4-7, 2017, Proceedings. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2017, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 2017.The 11 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully...
Routledge; Taylor&Francis, 2002. — 191 p. Was Marxism a variety of German Idealist self-actualization in economic form? A deeply flawed blueprint for social engineering? A catechism for post-colonial insurgencies? the intellectual foundations of modern social democracy? In this wide ranging summation, Sullivan tackles the multi-tentacled reach of Marx's legacy, and explores...
US: Westport; Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2001. — 352 p. — ISBN 1–56720–432–5. Drawing upon experts in Asian economics, public management, law, and the physical and political sciences from leading universities around the world, the editors of this unusual volume examine the critical challenges now facing this important sector of the world: growth, income security, and...
Gabler Verlag, 2018. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-3-658-22687-9, 978-3-658-22686-2. In this book Markus Bodemann bridges the differences between public and private sector in aspects of management, especially risk management. A survey to draw a line between both sectors describes the current status of applied management tools and their effects. To cope with future developments, or at...
NY: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics, 2010. — 208 p. — (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics 28). — ISBN-10 0415563941. As government management in Israel is gradually replaced by private sector management, it is becoming apparent that the collective-oriented mission of government cannot be fulfilled by the private sector or by the non-profit organizations...
Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 153 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-93383-2, 978-3-319-93384-9. How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important. Yet austerity, recent changes to accountability frameworks, and the loss of the Audit Commission have created a huge deficit in our understanding of how well services are delivered....
Beograd: Univerzitet Singidunum, 2009. This research paper presents some priorities of economic diplomacy of the Republic of Serbia in terms of world economic crisis.
In a world characterised by rapid change driven by globalisation, the knowledge-based economy poses some challenges but also opportunities for the private sector and the public sector alike. According to OECD, Knowledge Management (KM) has for some time been at the core of government tasks - inseparable from strategy, planning, consultation and implementation. Nevertheless,...
E-government – once a bold experiment and now an important tool for public sector transformation – has progressed to the point where it is now a force for effective governance and citizen participation, both at national and local levels. This is important. Until governments have the capacity to lead development efforts and deliver services that fully respond to the needs of...
United States of America; United Nations Publication, 2007. — 312 p. Making public administration and governance more responsive to the needs of citizens is one of the most important aims of the United Nations’ “Reinventing Government” programme. This volume brings together concepts and ideas from around the world about the need for and ways of achieving more responsive and...
2nd Ed. - Nelson Education Ltd., Toronto, Canada, 2017. - 365 p. - ISBN-13: 978-0176502393. Public Administration in Canada: Brief Edition is an invaluable reference text for both instructors and students. This text offers the reader an appreciation of the theories of bureaucratic action and then examines the nuts and bolts of public administration - the structures, the...
Berlin. Verlag fon Julius Springer, 1905. Publisher: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012-2014. - 633 p. ISBN: 978-3-642-50402-0. Handbuch der Geseßgebung in Preußen und dem Deutschen Reiche (1905). Vorwort. Gemeinsame Bestimmungen. Landgemeinden und Gutsbezirke. Städte. Kreise. Provinzen.
NY: State University of New York Press, 2010. — 131 p. — ISBN 978-1-4384-3073-7. Thomas Jefferson’s contributions to the development of administrative thought and practice in the United States have largely been overlooked in American history. His career in public service and his ideas concerning government and constitutional tradition have overshadowed his involvement with...
M.E. Sharpe, Inc., New York, 2008. – 536 p. – ISBN-13: 978-0765617262. In the book, the authors, who have a wide range of experience in international affairs, address both the commonalities and diversity of administrative practice around the world, including a succinct but thorough overview of public administration in the United States. It combines solid conceptual foundations...
Springer, 2016. — 196 p. 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2016, Guimarães, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2016, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in September 5-8, 2016. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully...
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