Public Management and Change series – serie
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39 produkter
How Management Matters
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform
Häftad, 2005
358 kr
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Both "bureaucracy" and "bureaucrats" have taken on a pejorative hue over the years, but does the problem lie with those on the "street-level" - those organizations and people the public deals with directly - or is it in how they are managed? Norma Riccucci knows that management matters, and she …
Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State
Constancy and Change in Public Administration
Av David H. Rosenbloom, Howard E. McCurdy
Häftad, 2006
447 kr
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The prevailing notion that the best government is achieved through principles of management and business practices is hardly new - it echoes the early twentieth-century "gospel of efficiency" challenged by Dwight Waldo in 1948 in his path-breaking book, "The Administrative State". Asking, …
Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State
Häftad, 2006
797 kr
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"Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State" is the first in-depth look at the influence of performance measurement on the effectiveness of the federal government. To do this, the authors examine the influence of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (with consideration of the later …
Greening of the U.S. Military
Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change
Häftad, 2007
431 kr
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By the Cold War's end, U.S. military bases harbored nearly 20,000 toxic waste sites. All told, cleaning the approximately 27 million acres is projected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. And yet while progress has been made, efforts to integrate environmental and national security concerns …
Managing within Networks
Adding Value to Public Organizations
Häftad, 2007
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577 kr
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The real work of many governments is done not in stately domed capitols but by a network of federal and state officials working with local governments and nongovernmental organizations to address issues that cross governmental boundaries. "Managing within Networks" analyzes the structure, …
Public Values and Public Interest
Counterbalancing Economic Individualism
Häftad, 2007
496 kr
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Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circles - often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government. "Public Values and Public Interest" offers …
Dynamics of Performance Management
Constructing Information and Reform
Häftad, 2008
496 kr
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Efficiency, Innovation, Results, and Accountability - These, advocates claim, are the fruits of performance management. In recent decades government organizations have eagerly embraced the performance model - but the rush to reform has not delivered as promised. Drawing on research from state and …
Responsible Contract Manager
Protecting the Public Interest in an Outsourced World
Av Steven Cohen
Häftad, 2008
378 kr
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Contract management is a critical skill for all contemporary public managers. As more government duties are contracted out, managers must learn to coordinate and measure the performance of private contractors, and to write contract requirements and elicit bids that obtain important services and …
Collaborative Public Manager
New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century
Av Rosemary O'Leary, Lisa Blomgren Bingham
Häftad, 2009
496 kr
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Today's public managers not only have to function as leaders within their agencies, they must also establish and coordinate multi-organizational networks of other public agencies, private contractors, and the public. This important transformation has been the subject of an explosion of research in …
Organizational Learning at NASA
The Challenger and Columbia Accidents
Häftad, 2009
358 kr
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Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The …
Implementing Innovation
Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governance
Häftad, 2010
358 kr
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Over the past three decades, governments at the local, state, and federal levels have undertaken a wide range of bold innovations, often in partnership with nongovernmental organizations and communities, to try to address their environmental and natural resource management tasks. Many of these …
How Information Matters
Networks and Public Policy Innovation
Häftad, 2011
1000 kr
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"How Information Matters" examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for successful policy change by public administrators. Hale examines drug courts, programs that typify the highly networked, collaborative environment of public …
Public Administration
Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge
Häftad, 2010
447 kr
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Is public administration an art or a science? This question of whether the field is driven by values or facts will never be definitively answered due to a lack of consensus among scholars. The resulting divide has produced many heated debates; however, in this pioneering volume, Norma Riccucci …
Future of Public Administration around the World
The Minnowbrook Perspective
Av Rosemary O'Leary, David M. Van Slyke m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
325 kr
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A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of distinguished authors - both seasoned …
Future of Public Administration around the World
The Minnowbrook Perspective
Av Rosemary O'Leary, David M. Van Slyke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1384 kr
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A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of distinguished authors - both seasoned …
Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement
The Elusive Quest for Efficiency in Government
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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Formal systems of comprehensive planning and performance-based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the failure of program budgeting (PPB) in the 1960s and resurrection of that management technique in a handful of agencies …
Federal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions
Häftad, 2012
1000 kr
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Proposals for reform have dotted the federal management landscape in the United States for more than 50 years. Yet these efforts by public management professionals have frequently failed to produce lasting results. In her new book, "Federal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions", renowned …
Collaborating to Manage
A Primer for the Public Sector
Häftad, 2012
378 kr
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"Collaborating to Manage" captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoff examines current and emergent …
Managing Disasters through Public–Private Partnerships
Häftad, 2013
378 kr
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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, generated a great deal of discussion in public policy and disaster management circles about the importance of increasing national resilience to rebound from catastrophic events. Since the majority of physical and …
China's Sent-Down Generation
Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program
Häftad, 2013
643 kr
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During China's Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong's "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be published in either English or …
Federal Service and the Constitution
The Development of the Public Employment Relationship
Inbunden, 2014
2172 kr
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Conceived during the turbulent period of the late 1960s when 'rights talk' was ubiquitous, Federal Service and the Constitution, a landmark study first published in 1971, strove to understand how the rights of federal civil servants had become so differentiated from those of ordinary citizens. Now …
Collaborative Governance Regimes
Av Kirk Emerson, Tina Nabatchi
Inbunden, 2015
1384 kr
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Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and private sectors. While the academic …
Collaborative Governance Regimes
Av Kirk Emerson, Tina Nabatchi
Häftad, 2015
406 kr
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Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and private sectors. While the academic …
Public Value and Public Administration
Av John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1693 kr
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Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice? This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, …
Public Value and Public Administration
Av John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
464 kr
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Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice? This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, …
Governing under Stress
The Implementation of Obama's Economic Stimulus Program
Av Timothy J. Conlan, Paul L. Posner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1119 kr
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The underappreciated but surprisingly successful implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped rescue the economy during the Great Recession and represented one of the most important achievements of the Obama presidency. It tested all levels of government with urgent …
Governing under Stress
The Implementation of Obama's Economic Stimulus Program
Av Timothy J. Conlan, Paul L. Posner m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
378 kr
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The underappreciated but surprisingly successful implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped rescue the economy during the Great Recession and represented one of the most important achievements of the Obama presidency. It tested all levels of government with urgent …
Federal Management Playbook
Leading and Succeeding in the Public Sector
Häftad, 2016
643 kr
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Stories of government management failures often make the headlines, but quietly much gets done as well. What makes the difference? Ira Goldstein offers wisdom about how to lead and succeed in the federal realm, even during periods when the political climate is intensely negative, based on his …
Crowdsourcing in the Public Sector
Häftad, 2016
235 kr
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Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions over the internet or social media. Crowdsourcing works to generate new ideas or develop innovative solutions to …
Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations
Inbunden, 2017
1066 kr
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The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red …
