In a recent paradigm shift, local governments find themselves shouldering more responsibility for day-to-day governance and crisis management, thanks to regulations and federal spending cuts. While twenty years ago a book on local government adminis...Lasīt vairāk
This volume considers how local, national, and global crises with differing durations, sizes, and impacts challenge the public sector to respond.Within the public administration and policy disciplines, there has been limited recognition abo...Lasīt vairāk
In a recent paradigm shift, local governments find themselves shouldering more responsibility for day-to-day governance and crisis management, thanks to regulations and federal spending cuts. While twenty years ago a book on local government adminis...Lasīt vairāk
Through three comprehensive editions, Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils In Public Procurement has been lauded for exposing fraud, incompetence, waste, and abuse (FIWA) and analyzing corruption, mismanagement, and ineptitude that de...Lasīt vairāk
Underlining the relationship between the public and nonprofit sectors, Effective Nonprofit Management: Context, Concepts, and Competencies, 2nd Edition comprehensively explores of the practical art of forming, managing, and leading nonprofit organiz...Lasīt vairāk
Along with such traditional management tools as budgeting, HR, planning and leadership, The Practice of Government Public Relations, Second Edition demonstrates that the 21st century government administrator needs new tools to address the changing c...Lasīt vairāk
Gone are the days when researchers, policymakers, and practitioners each worked in isolation. In recent years, a few interrelated issues have emphasized the need for greater collaboration among these groups: the increased emphasis on results and a...Lasīt vairāk
From the early postwar period until his death at the turn of the century, Dwight Waldo was one of the most authoritative voices in the field of public administration. Through probing questions, creative ideas, and novel insights, he perhaps contri...Lasīt vairāk
Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits you can achieve all these benefits and more with a comprehensive and strategic revitalization pla...Lasīt vairāk
Most contemporary public managers will work in some type of collaborative or networked arrangement at some time in their professional careers. More and more work in public administration and policy is now being done in collaborative formats, and w...Lasīt vairāk
Much of the published work on disaster response has focused on specific disasters, highlighting what went wrong. Taking a new approach, this book explores ways in which transformational leadership principles may be applied to an organizations dis...Lasīt vairāk
Why should public administrators care about city planning? Is city planning not a field ruled by architects and public works personnel? In fact, much of city planning requires expertise in areas other than buildings and infrastructure: upper level...Lasīt vairāk
Public agencies at the federal, state, and local levels are realizing just how important it is to assess and improve their current performance and to convey information on their achievements and opportunities to staff, leaders, and decision makers as...Lasīt vairāk
This book tells a compelling story about the importance of cities and states in the debate on fracking, when it comes to the interdisciplinary intersections of energy, economics, the environment and equity. Technical, legal, economic, and politica...Lasīt vairāk
Gone are the days when researchers, policymakers, and practitioners each worked in isolation. In recent years, a few interrelated issues have emphasized the need for greater collaboration among these groups: the increased emphasis on results and a...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of e-governance within the U.S. political system. It discusses legislation such as the GPRA Act of 1993 and the E-Government Act of 2002. It also discusses direct benefits to citizens in term...Lasīt vairāk
Designed to enable practitioners and students to evaluate a variety of real-life emergencies from every angle, this new edition of Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management provides clear, thorough, step-by-step description...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides public managers with an integrated conceptual framework for making informed electronic governance decisions. The book focuses on the core issues that public administrators face when using information and communication technologi...Lasīt vairāk
This book looks at various aspects of the current legal, policy and fiscal framework for disaster management and its current effects on local capacity building and recommends systemic reform. The authors argue that resources should be used more ef...Lasīt vairāk
This book brings theory into practice, and bridges the gap between leadership and administration at the Federal level of government. The chapters cover reform initiatives, executive leadership skills, and core management skills such as procurement...Lasīt vairāk
Although citizen engagement is a core public service value, few public administrators receive training on how to share leadership with people outside the government.Participatory Budgeting in the United States serves as a primer for...Lasīt vairāk
