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Philosophy and Public Administration
Edoardo Ongaro
This book provides a systematic introduction to the philosophical foundations of the study and the practice of public administration. It reviews all the main philosophical streams, from ancient Greek philosophy to the contemporary strand...eBook:Find out more$35.96
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Handbook of American Public Administration
Edited by Edmund C. Stazyk, H. G. Frederickson
The Handbook of American Public Administration draws on the expertise of established and emerging scholars to provide national and international audiences a comprehensive review of the current state and future direction of theory and pra...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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A Transatlantic History of Public Administration
Fritz Sager, Christian Rosser, Céline Mavrot, Pascal Y. Hurni
Intellectual traditions are commonly regarded as cultural variations, historical legacies, or path dependencies. By analysing road junctions between different traditions of Public Administration this book contests the dominant perspectiv...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Boundary Spanners in Public Management and Governance
Ingmar van Meerkerk, Jurian Edelenbos
Boundary spanning behavior is important for both public, non-profit and private organizations to ‘survive’: to stay relevant in relation to the environment, to innovate, to improve performance and to collaborate in an effective manner, e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Varieties of Capital Cities
David Kaufmann
The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Performance Goals in Public Management and Policy
Chan S. Jung
Chan Su Jung provides a thorough review of goal ambiguity in the public sector, exploring the general assertions, arguments and empirical evidence regarding performance goal ambiguity, particularly highlighting its causes, consequences, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Policy Problems and Policy Design
B. Guy Peters
Public policy can be considered a design science. It involves identifying relevant problems, selecting instruments to address the problem, developing institutions for managing the intervention, and creating means of assessing the design...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects
Lasse Gerrits, Stefan Verweij
Infrastructure projects are notoriously hard to manage so it is important that society learns from the successes and mistakes made over time. However, most evaluation methods run into a conundrum: either they cover a large number of proj...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ministers, Minders and Mandarins
Edited by Richard Shaw, Chris Eichbaum
Ministers, Minders and Mandarins collects the leading academics in the field to rigorously assess the impact and consequences of political advisers in parliamentary democracies. The 10 contemporary and original case studies focus on issu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Utilities, Second Edition
David E. McNabb
A thoroughly updated introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in five sectors of the util...eBook:Find out more$58.36
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Structuring Public–Private Research Partnerships for Success
Gordon Rausser, Holly Amedon, Reid Stevens
As funding for universities and governmental research units has declined, these institutions have turned to the private sector to augment their research and development budgets. This book presents a framework for structuring public-priva...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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How Far to Nudge?
Peter John
This book addresses the wave of innovation and reforms that has been called the nudge or behavioural public policy agenda, which has emerged in many countries since the mid-2000s. Nudge involves developing behavioural insights to solve c...eBook:Find out more$34.36