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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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,...
Edited and with an introduction by Charles K. Rowley. — Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005. — 456 p. — (Selected works of Gordon Tullock ; v. 6). Includes two previously published books by the author: The politics of bureaucracy (1965) and Economic hierarchies, organization and the structure of production (1992).
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...