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Author: John Merriman Gaus
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006-12-10
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0817354182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first to use Edmund Burke's ideas to directly tie politics with administration.
Author: Jay D. White
Publisher: JAI Press Incorporated
Published: 1999-02-18
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781559388887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates the diversity of the field, Research in Public Administration. This volume contains thirteen pieces of research on a variety of topics including public management innovation; organizational learning; revenue forecasting; finance; qualitative research and research methods; intergovernmental relations; citizen participation; and more.
Author: Barry O'Toole
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1135770999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA close examination of the ethics of higher civil servants in Britain and how they have been undermined by recent developments in public administration. Barry O'Toole tackles key questions such as: how should public servants behave? how should they be encouraged to think ethically? how should they be motivated to do so? Focusing on the role of public service, public duty and the public interest in the twenty-first century, O’Toole answers these important questions and looks at the emergence of ‘new public management’, the increasingly important role of 'special advisers' and the decline of the public service ethos under New Labour. The Ideal of Public Service explores some of the key contributions to the development of ideas about public service in the context of British central administration and provides a discussion of recent trends in administrative practice in the UK. Combining political theory and an analysis of the history and development of the civil service, this timely book will be of strong interest to those researching British Politics, Governance and Public Policy.
Author: Jasmine Gideon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-21
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1000297136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services. Taking a cross-sectoral comparative approach, this book investigates how PPPs have played out in practice, and what the implications have been for inequalities. Drawing on a range of empirical case studies in education, healthcare, housing and water, the book picks apart the roles of PPPs as financing mechanisms in several international and national contexts and considers the similarities and differences between sectors. The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant questions about the future of social provision and through its analysis of the emergence and expansion of the role of PPPs, the book also makes a vital contribution to current discussion over this rapidly changing landscape. Overall, this wide-ranging guide to understanding and evaluating the role of PPPs in the Global South will be useful to researchers within development, international relations, economics, and related fields, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in development-related policy.
Author: P. Lægreid
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-10-27
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0230290604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGovernance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity of government organizations, and explain this layering process with multiple theories.
Author: Jurian Edelenbos
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1783479078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn many countries, government and society have undergone a major shift in recent years, now tending toward ‘smaller government’ and ‘bigger society’. This development has lent increased meaning to the notion of interactive governance, a concept that this book takes not as a normative ideal but as an empirical phenomenon that needs constant critical scrutiny, reflection and embedding in modern societies.
Author: Sabine Kuhlmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-01-29
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 3030536971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.
Author: Jacob Torfing
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-04-24
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1788971221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms. From the rise to supremacy of New Public Management to new the growing preference for alternatives, four world-renowned authors launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and co-existing paradigms, explaining the core features of public bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day.
Author: Carl W. Stenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-09
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1351182145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe field of intergovernmental relations has changed substantially over the past five decades. It maintains a critical and evolving role in the US federal system as well as in public policy and administration. Building upon the legacy of Deil S.Wright’s scholarship, this collection of essays by distinguished scholars, emerging thought leaders, and experienced practitioners chronicles and analyzes some of the tensions and pressures that have contributed to the current state of intergovernmental relations and management. Although rarely commanding media attention by name, intergovernmental relations is being elevated in the public discourse through policy issues dominating the headlines. Many of these intergovernmental issues are addressed in this book, including health insurance exchanges under the now-threatened Affordable Care Act, and the roles of the federal, state, and local governments in food safety, energy, and climate change.Contributors interpret and assess the impacts of these and other issues on the future directions of intergovernmental relations and management. This book will serve as an ideal text for courses on intergovernmental relations and federalism, and will be of interest to government practitioners and civic and nonprofit organization leaders involved in public policy and management.
Author: Leon van den Dool
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-09
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 3658100796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates both successes and failures in attempts to get closer to the ideal of good urban governance in cities in North-America, Europe, and Asia. It presents a value menu and deliberately does not come up with “one best way” for improving urban governance. Good urban governance is presented as a balancing act, an interplay between government, business and civil society in which the core values need careful and timely attention. The authors address questions such as “What is deemed “good” in urban governance, and how is it being searched for?”, and “What (re)configurations of interactions between government, private sector and civil society are evolving, and to what results?”.
