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Author: C. Neuhold
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-03-25
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1137316810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comparative study focuses on the changing relations between civil servants and politicians in the European Union in the last two decades. As well as national case studies this book also looks into politico-administrative relations in supranational institutions such as the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Author: Bob Stone
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004-07-26
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780742527652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfessions of a Civil Servant is filled with lessons on leading change in government and the military. Bob Stone based the book on thirty years as a revolutionary in government. It comes at a time when the events of 9-11 are sharpening America's demands for government at all levels that works.
Author: Martin Stanley
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1785900161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough it is seldom recognised as such by the public, the civil service is a profession like any other. The UK civil service employs 400,000 people across the country, with over 20,000 students and graduates applying to enter every year through its fast-stream competition alone. Martin Stanley's seminal How to Be a Civil Servant was the first guidebook to the British civil service ever published. It remains the only comprehensive guide on how civil servants should effectively carry out their duties, hone their communication skills and respond to professional, ethical and technical issues relevant to the job. It addresses such questions as: How do you establish yourself with your minister as a trusted adviser? How should you feed the media so they don’t feed on you? What’s the best way to deal with potential conflicts of interest? This fully updated new edition provides the latest advice, and is a must-read for newly appointed civil servants and for those looking to enter the profession – not to mention students, academics, journalists, politicians and anyone with an interest in the inner workings of the British government.
Author: Ronald N. Johnson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0226401774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe call to "reinvent government"—to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States—resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the authors of this volume explain why, despite attempts at an overhaul, significant change in the bureaucracy remains a formidable challenge.
Author: Anthony King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-09-04
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 1780746180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith unrivalled political savvy and a keen sense of irony, distinguished political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe open our eyes to the worst government horror stories and explain why the British political system is quite so prone to appalling mistakes.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald F. Kettl
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780815707356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors of this book contend that the civil service system, which was devised to create a uniform process for recruiting high-quality workers to government, is no longer uniform or a system. Nor does it help government find and retain the workers it needs to build a government that works. The current civil service system was designed for a government in which federal agencies directly delivered most public services. But over the last generation, privatization and devolution have increased the number and importance of government's partnerships with private companies, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governments. Government workers today spend much of their time managing these partnerships, not delivering services, and this trend will only accelerate in the future. The authors contend that the current system poorly develops government workers who can effectively manage these partnerships, resulting too often in a gap between promise and performance. This short, lively, and bipartisan volume, authored by the nation's leading experts on government management, describes what the government of the future will look like, what it will need to work well, and how in particular the nation can build the next generation of workers required to lead it.
Author: Donald Savoie
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003-12-15
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1442659297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCanada's machinery of government is out of joint. In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged. He argues that the role of bureaucracy within the Canadian political machine has never been properly defined, that the relationship between elected and permanent government officials is increasingly problematic, and that the public service cannot function if it is expected to be both independent of, and subordinate to, elected officials. While the public service attempts to define its own political sphere, the House of Commons is also in flux: the prime minister and his close advisors wield ever more power, and cabinet no longer occupies the policy ground to which it is entitled. Ministers, who have traditionally been able to develop their own roles, have increasingly lost their autonomy. Federal departmental structures are crumbling, giving way to a new model that eschews boundaries in favour of sharing policy and program space with outsiders. The implications of this functional shift are profound, having a deep impact on how public policies are struck, how government operates, and, ultimately, the capacity for accountability.
Author: Michael Keating
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-08-21
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0192558706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of Scottish Politics provides a detailed overview of politics in Scotland, looking at areas such as elections and electoral behaviour, public policy, political parties, and Scotland's relationship with the EU and the wider world. The contributors to this volume are some of the leading experts on politics in Scotland.
Author: Marissa Martino Golden
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000-10-06
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0231106971
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