Category Archives: Public Affairs

State and Local Fiscal Policy: Thinking Outside the Box? (Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-Local Finance)

The last few decades have presented a new set of challenges and opportunities for public finances. Demographic trends have put substantial pressure on non-discretionary public expenditures such as health care, while legal challenges have put pressure on education financing. The … Continue reading

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Public Management Reform and Modernization: Trajectories of Administrative Change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain

`Ongaro has made a major contribution to understanding the political and adminstrative systems of Southern Europe. The work goes beyond that, however, by providing an excellent example of comparative analysis in general. This book should be read by all students … Continue reading

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Understanding and Managing Public Organizations (Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management)

Understanding and Managing Public Organizations provides a comprehensive analysis of research and practice on public organizations and management. In this fourth edition of his award-winning best seller, Hal Rainey reviews topics including organizational goals and performance, decision making and strategy, … Continue reading

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Systems Thinking and E-participation: Ict in the Governance of Society (Advances in Electronic Government Research (Aegr) Book Series)

Systems Thinking and E-Participation: ICT in the Governance of Society provides a systemic-based inquiry platform to explore boundaries, limits, and advantages of information and communication technology use in public decision making processes. This publication examines the impact of governmental technologies … Continue reading

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Disaster Management Handbook (Public Administration and Public Policy)

Record breaking hurricane seasons, tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes, and intentional acts of mass-casualty violence, give lie to the delusion that disasters are the anomaly and not the norm. Disaster management is rooted in the fundamental belief that we can protect ourselves. … Continue reading

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Time, Policy, Management: Governing with the Past

In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of both the practice and study of contemporary public policymaking and management: that … Continue reading

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The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

The United Nations has been called everything from “the best hope of mankind” to “irrelevant” and “obsolete.” With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimäki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding … Continue reading

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Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies (Public Administration and Public Policy)

Can BIDs Provide Urban Areas with Improved Services? Initiated and governed by property or business owners under the authorization of state and local governments, business improvement districts (BIDs) have received a very mixed reception. To some, they are innovative examples … Continue reading

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Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

Paralleling the rapid development of widely distributed information and computing technologies has been an accelerated demand by citizens for electronic access to government services and, conversely, a drive by government administrators to harness the cost, quality, and efficiency benefits that … Continue reading

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Global Universities and Urban Development: Case Studies and Analysis (Cities and Contemporary Society)

The editors of “The University as Urban Developer” (HC 978-0-7656-1541-1; PB 978-0-7656-1641-8) now extend that work’s groundbreaking analysis of the university’s important role in the growth and development of the American city to the global view. Linking the fields of … Continue reading

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