Public Administration, Sixth Edition, A Comparative Perspective.
Public Administration, Sixth Edition, A Comparative Perspective.

Author: Ferrel Heady

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2001-02-13

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9781420029482

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Continuing in the standard of excellence set by previous editions, this sixth edition assesses the bureaucracies and development of governments around the world-providing helpful and revealing analyses of the relationships between bureaucracies and political regimes. With over 1000 literature references, tables, and drawings, the book has been updated to reflect changes in the political systems of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the developing world. The editor clearly articulates recent developments in the shifting global political landscape and discusses how conditions in development administration and comparative public policy affect nation-states.

Handbook of Teaching Public Policy
Handbook of Teaching Public Policy

Author: Emily St.Denny

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-01-18

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 1800378114

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Pragmatic, progressive and global in its approach, this Handbook centres around the key question: How can we teach public policy? Presenting a wide variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, it expertly examines current approaches to teaching public policy and critically reflects on potential future developments in the field.

Politics, Values, And Public Policy
Politics, Values, And Public Policy

Author: Frank Fischer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 100030762X

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Addressed to the growing concerns about norms and values in policy assessment, this study develops a methodology for the political evaluation of public policy. It is designed to move policy evaluation beyond its current emphasis on efficient achievement of goals, focusing instead on the assessment of the acceptability of the goals themselves, emplo

Old Age Pensions and Policy-Making in Canada
Old Age Pensions and Policy-Making in Canada

Author: K. Bryden

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1974-05-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0773560661

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Revised thesis comprising a case study of the old age benefit programme in Canada, to illustrate the political aspects and social policy decision making processes of income redistribution - includes references and statistical tables.

Comparative Public Administration
Comparative Public Administration

Author: Eric E. Otenyo

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2006-07-24

Total Pages: 1017

ISBN-13: 0762313595

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Public administration scholars and practitioners are increasingly concerned with the need to broaden the field's scope beyond particularistic accounts of administration in given countries. This title brings together seminal readings in comparative, development public administration and contemporary public management scholarship.

Developments in Israeli Public Administration
Developments in Israeli Public Administration

Author: Moshe Maor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1135316821

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The "Israeli History, Politics and Society" series comprises multidisciplinary studies that range from elections and the Yom Kippur war to the search for a true Israeli identity and the various initiatives to foment or prevent the peace process. This volume brings together a set of articles that try to estimate the direction of developments in Israeli public administration: whether ministries will remain under the ambit of the Weberian model, follow the New Public Management model, or move towards a mix of the two. Each essay focuses on a specific factor which may inhibit reforms, such as the weakness of mechanisms for policy control, monitoring and evaluation; lack of co-ordination between the different ministries; lack of effective accountability mechanisms; an administrative culture that is characterized by frequent infringements of moral integrity; a high level of politicization; and a Supreme Court which plays a paramount role by routinely intervening in the practices of public administration as well as in the business of other governmental and non-governmental institutions. Each article probes how these distinctive features of Israeli public administration reflect underlying traits of the nation's history, culture and geography, and gauges the extent to which formal structures provide an indication of how policy-making and programme implementation really operate.

Public Policy
Public Policy

Author: Stella Z. Theodoulou

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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This collection of 46 key classic and contemporary readings explores the environment within which public policy is made and the actual policy-making process. KEY TOPICS: This book includes readings that are among the most frequently cited or that highlight the link between theory and practice particularly well. It groups readings into four major sections which parallel both the majority of policy texts and the way many courses are designed: the nature of public policy — including theories and models of public policy making, the making of policy — the sequential stages that policies pass through, the players — both institutional and non-institutional, policy making as a game — the rules, strategies, and culture of the policy game. Each section begins with an overview essay.

Planning Theory for Practitioners
Planning Theory for Practitioners

Author: Michael Brooks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1351178598

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This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. In this new book, the author bridges the gap between theory and practice. The author describes an original approach-Feedback Strategy-that builds on the strengths of previous planning theories with one big difference: it not only acknowledges but welcomes politics-the bogeyman of real-world planning. Don't hold your nose or look the other way, the author advises planners, but use politics to your own advantage. The author admits that most of the time planning theory doesn't have much to do with planning practice. These ideas rooted in the planner's real world are different. This strategy employs everyday poltiical processes to advance planning, trusts planners' personal values and professional ethics, and depends on their ability to help clients articulate a vision. This volume will encourage not only veteran planners searching for a fresh approach, but also students and recent graduates dismayed by the gap between academic theory and actual practice.

Policy Making in Israel
Policy Making in Israel

Author: Ira Sharkansky

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0822974959

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All governments face problems and are judged by their ability to solve them and the policies they develop in doing so. Compared with other Western democracies, Israel has faced a devastating number of problems of unusual severity in a relatively short time: war, terrorism, heavy immigration, unsettled boundaries, economic stresses, internal disputes about ethnicity and religion, and the lingering scars of the Holocaust and other persecutions. Sharkansky's analysis of the Israeli government's routines and methods for coping with such an array of difficulties, from simple to complex to intractable, offers general insights into how governments make policy in a democracy.