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Local Government Management
Av Nicolas A. Valcik, Teodoro J. Benavides
Inbunden, 2023
1231 kr
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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 20 years ago a book on local government administration might have been considered complete with …
Practice of Government Public Relations
Av Mordecai Lee, Grant Neeley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1114 kr
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In addition to traditional management tools, government administrators require a fundamental understanding of the tools available to address the ever-changing context of government communications. Examining the ins and outs of the regulations influencing public information, The Practice of …
Researcher-Policymaker Partnerships
Strategies for Launching and Sustaining Successful Collaborations
Av Jenni W. Owen, Anita M. Larson
Häftad, 2021
561 kr
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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 accountability (particularly where public funds are …
Effective Nonprofit Management
Context, Concepts, and Competencies
Inbunden, 2021
1231 kr
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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 organizations, contextualizing the changing …
Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration
Av Kim Moloney, Gloria J. Billingsley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
3795 kr
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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 about the nature of, linkages among, and the response options …
Government Contracting
Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement
Inbunden, 2022
969 kr
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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 defile government contracting. The first two …
Practical Human Resources for Public Managers
A Case Study Approach
Av Nicolas A. Valcik, Donna B. Gill
Inbunden, 2026
588 kr
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While books that focus on the theory of managing public sector workers abound, Practical Human Resources for Public Managers, Second Edition, offers case studies drawn from real events, written with multiple possible endings, to foster in‑class discussion and critical thinking. Incorporating the …
Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management
Av Nicolas A. Valcik, Steven Haynes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
998 kr
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Designed to enable practitioners and students to evaluate a variety of real-life emergencies from every angle, this full-featured third edition of Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management provides clear, thorough, step-by-step descriptions of more than 100 major disasters or …
Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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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 plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization …
Dwight Waldo
Administrative Theorist for our Times
Inbunden, 2020
1526 kr
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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 contributed more than any other single figure to the …
Organizational Assessment and Improvement in the Public Sector Workbook
Inbunden, 2017
3074 kr
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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 well as externally to constituents. …
Making Collaboratives Work
How Complex Organizational Partnerships Succeed
Inbunden, 2018
1000 kr
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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 while there are many studies, articles, and cases …
Community Action Leaders
Rooting Out Poverty at the Local Level
Av Beverly Bunch, Dalitso Sulamoyo
Inbunden, 2016
1234 kr
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Nationwide, approximately 1,000 Community Action agencies advocate for the poor and provide diverse but critical services such as (but not limited to) emergency food and shelter, energy bill assistance, weatherization, education, job training, transportation, housing, and health services. In the …
Facilitative Leader in City Hall
Reexamining the Scope and Contributions
Inbunden, 2008
2139 kr
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Two forms of local government are prevalent in American cities. The style of leadership found in mayor-council cities draws attention to the mayor and frequently involves power struggles as mayors attempt to assert control over city councils and city staff. However, the leadership of the mayor in …
Organizational Assessment and Improvement in the Public Sector
Inbunden, 2009
1270 kr
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Calls for performance measures and metrics sound good, but public sector organizations often lack the tools required to assess the organization as a whole and create true change.In order to implement an integrated cycle of assessment, planning, and improvement, government agencies at all levels …
Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development
Inbunden, 2010
1199 kr
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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 plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization …
Strategic Collaboration in Public and Nonprofit Administration
A Practice-Based Approach to Solving Shared Problems
Av Dorothy Norris-Tirrell, Joy A. Clay
Inbunden, 2010
1978 kr
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Market disruptions, climate change, and health pandemics lead the growing list of challenges faced by today’s leaders. These issues, along with countless others that do not make the daily news, require novel thinking and collaborative action to find workable solutions. However, many administrators …
New Face of Government
How Public Managers Are Forging a New Approach to Governance
Inbunden, 2009
1234 kr
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Change is sweeping the globe, and at the government level, operational changes are prompting many public administrators to develop new management styles and ways of delivering services to their citizens. In the process, they are changing the face of government. The New Face of Government: How …
Formula for Economic Growth on Main Street America
Inbunden, 2009
1270 kr
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The community that establishes and maintains a solid economic framework greatly improves its chances of sustaining itself through fluctuations in the economy. The question is, of course, how can city officials and administrators make this happen? The Formula for Economic Growth on Main Street …
Transforming Disaster Response
Federalism and Leadership
Inbunden, 2018
868 kr
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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 organization’s disaster preparation and response, moving the …
Ethics Moments in Government
Cases and Controversies
Inbunden, 2009
1161 kr
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Ethical concerns are among the most common problems public administrators face, yet the issues are often complex, and the correct choices are not always clear. Living up to the public trust is much more than just an act of compliance. It also involves perceiving, preventing, avoiding, and resolving …
Practical Human Resources for Public Managers
A Case Study Approach
Inbunden, 2011
1270 kr
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Employers face a myriad of issues when hiring: how to recruit, whom to select, how to interview, Equal Employment Opportunity policies, fair salary offerings, health issues, performance evaluations, behavior/disciplinary actions, turnover, and the list goes on and on. Practical Human Resources …
Government Performance and Results
An Evaluation of GPRA's First Decade
Av Jerry Ellig, Maurice McTigue m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1270 kr
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The complexity of governments today makes the accountability desired by citizens difficult to achieve. Written to address performance policies within state and national governments, Government Performance and Results: An Evaluation of GPRA’s First Decade summarizes lessons learned from a 10-year …
Local Economic Development and the Environment
Finding Common Ground
Av Susan M. Opp, Jeffery L. Osgood, Jr.
Inbunden, 2013
1234 kr
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A clear and practical examination of complex issues, Local Economic Development and the Environment: Finding Common Ground provides a broad, academic look at the intersection of two important areas for local administrators. In addition to managing development in a strained economic climate, most …
Challenges in City Management
A Case Study Approach
Inbunden, 2013
1161 kr
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City management in developing countries is a quickly growing area in current public administration literature. However, little research material can be found regarding the management of cities. Demonstrating the issues in this field, Challenges in City Management: A Case Study Approach brings the …
Environmental Decision-Making in Context
A Toolbox
Inbunden, 2012
1234 kr
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Because of the complexity involved in understanding the environment, the choices made about environmental issues are often incomplete. In a perfect world, those who make environmental decisions would be armed with a foundation about the broad range of issues at stake when making such decisions. …
Managing Digital Governance
Issues, Challenges, and Solutions
Av Yu-Che Chen
Inbunden, 2017
912 kr
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Managing Digital Governance provides public administrators with a comprehensive, integrated framework and specific techniques for making the most of digital innovation to advance public values. The book focuses on the core issues that public administrators face when using information and …
Debating Public Administration
Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
Av Robert F. Durant, Jennifer R.S. Durant
Inbunden, 2012
1571 kr
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Dialog between practitioners and academics has increasingly become the exception rather than the rule in contemporary public administration circles. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, Debating Public Administration: Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities tackles some of the …
Sustaining the States
The Fiscal Viability of American State Governments
Av Marilyn Marks Rubin, Katherine G. Willoughby
Inbunden, 2014
1234 kr
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State fiscal decisions have a significant impact on the US economy. Taken together, subnational governments employ more than one out of every eight workers and provide the bulk of all basic governmental services consumed by individuals and businesses. Sustaining the States: The Fiscal Viability of …
Using the Narcotrafico Threat to Build Public Administration Capacity between the US and Mexico
Av Donald E. Klingner, Roberto Moreno Espinosa
Inbunden, 2014
1234 kr
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The current drug trafficking crisis between the US and Mexico is a "perfect storm" that has caused deaths, disappearances, and widespread fear of violence and insecurity in the border area between these two countries. Current US drug control policies with Mexico are based on a militarized system of …
