Public Affairs & Administration

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-BD licence. Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care, this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned and transformed through...

This book offers a straight-forward guide to the fundamental work of governing bodies and the people who serve on them. The aim is of the book is to help every member serving on a governing body understand and improve their contribution to the entity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089941Author Clive StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent Books

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Risk and Crisis Management in the Public Sector 3rd edition is a guide for public managers and public management students which combines practical and scholarly knowledge about risk and crisis management together in a single accessible text. In the...

Patrick Moore is Britain's most respected and best-loved astronomer. But under his nom de plume R. T. Fishall, he is also the scourge of bureaucratic incompetence, exposing stupidity wherever he finds it, especially amongst tax inspectors and traffic...

Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka's work at recodingamerica.us. "The book I wish every policymaker would read." -Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to reexamine how our government operates-and sometimes fails to-from President Obama's...

A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. Costs are rising, the gap between the rich and poor...

How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure,...

BILL DE BLASIO SET THE STAGE FOR THE RUIN OF NEW YORK CITY The Last Days of New York tells the story of how a corrupted political system hollowed out New York City, leaving it especially vulnerable, all in the name of equity and "fairness." ...

Featuring interviews with the MPs, journalists and officials close to the centre of Britain's biggest political crisis since the Profumo Affair, this is the story of what really happened during the expenses scandal of 2009. Andrew Walker, the tax expert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692313565Author Rotherham Metropolitan Borough CouncilFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Occupybawlstreet.com PressPublisher Occupybawlstreet.com...

Thirty years ago, a social movement helped bring down one of the most powerful British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century. For the 30th anniversary of the Poll Tax rebellion, Simon Hannah looks back on those tumultuous days of resistance, telling the...

Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of public policy. In keeping with prior editions, author Tom Birkland...

In this century, the world will conduct an extraordinary experiment in government. In 2050, forty percent of the planet's population will live in just four places: India, China, the European Union, and the United States. These are superstates - polities...

The thoroughly revised and updated Handbook on Theories of Governance brings together leading scholars in the field to summarise and assess the diversity of governance theories. The Handbook advances a deeper theoretical understanding of governance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681813813Author Mba Dean WaldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams)...

Addressing the problems of managing health care is one of the most pressing and complex challenges facing western societies. In the UK the public are bombarded with negative press coverage of the National Health Service, which is often portrayed as in...

The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much...

This original analysis of the creation of new state forms critically examines the political forces that enabled `more and better management' to be presented as a solution to the problems of the welfare state in Britain. Examining the micro-politics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860545033Author N J MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 973g

In their crusade to modernise public services, New Labour are giving vast amounts of taxpayers' money to management and IT systems consultants. They are everywhere - the Inland Revenue, MoD, Education Department, NHS and Downing Street. But are these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638772347Author Dennis KucinichFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Finney Avenue BooksPublisher Finney Avenue Books

Anthony Crosland bequeathed a significant intellectual legacy to the Labour Party. In this timely book, Patrick Diamond considers a wide range of Crosland's writings on the economy and politics, relating his ideas on egalitarian social democracy,...

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each policy process theory.In this...

Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does "justice" mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never...

Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thought-provoking meditation on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, from...

Territory is shifting. No longer defined by the dotted line of the border or the national footprint of soil, today’s territories are enacted through data infrastructures. From subsea cables to server halls, these infrastructures underpin new forms of...

The strategies adopted by our governments and public officials can lead to significant change in citizens' lives - smoking bans, carbon markets, even the reunification of a country like Germany. Equally, strategic failure can result in highly visible...

Bob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. While his earlier work critically surveys other state theories, this book focuses on the development of his...

In Anglo-Saxon countries there is a new and distinctive form of state: the busybody state. This state is defined by an attachment to bureaucratic procedures for their own sake: the rule for the sake of a rule; the form for the sake of a form. Its...

A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully applying QCA Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes-instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on...

Illuminating and timely, this book offers an in depth exploration of a 20th century intellectual landmark, Harold Lasswell's proposal for the policy sciences. This proposal, though always controversial, stands out as a unique and comprehensive effort at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817303686Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams) 319g

Since 1959, the National Research Council (NRC), at the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has annually assembled panels of experts to assess the quality and effectiveness of the NIST measurements and standards...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598130218Author Ivan ElandFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Independent InstitutePublisher Independent InstituteWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817358709Author Michael M. HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn Merriman Gaus is considered one of the founding fathers of the discipline of public administration. In addition to serving as president of the American...

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Published in partnership with the NCTJ, Essential Public Affairs for Journalists is the indispensable public affairs guide for journalism students and industry professionals. Knowledge of public affairs matters: this friendly guide is an invaluable...