Books in the Public Administration and Public Policy series

Presents a set of broad-based bibliographic essays on strategic management. This book covers synoptic approaches, complexity theory, organizational capacity, financing strategy, networks, and chaos theory. It also looks at the use of strategic management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Using rich ethnographic data and first-hand experience, Ball presents a detailed account of Australia's attempts to incorporate behavioural insights into its public policy.Ball identifies three competing interpretations of behavioural public policy, and how these interpretations have influenced the use of this approach in practice. The first sees the process as an opportunity to introduce more rigorous evidence. The second interpretation focuses on increasing compliance, cost savings and cutting red tape. The last focuses on the opportunity to better involve citizens in policy design. These interpretations demonstrate different 'solutions' to a series of dilemmas that the Australian Public Service, and others, have confronted in the last 50 years, including growing politicisation, technocracy and a disconnect from the needs of citizens. Ball offers a detailed account of how these priorities have shaped how behavioural insights have been implemented in policy-making, as well as reflecting on the challenges facing policy work more broadly.An essential read for practitioners and scholars of policy-making, especially in Australia.

Linking together the concepts of development and governance in the context of public policy and administration, this work examines a range of issues and problems faced by developing countries in establishing a system of sustainable governance. It is suitable for academics, public officials, policy makers and students of development.

Documents the history of economics and fiscal doctrine, explores the theory of public goods and the structures from which resources are collected and expanded, and analyzes issues of economics. This work focuses on the effects of fiscal policy on savings and investment, consumer behavior, labor supply, wealth, property and trade.

Public pension funds have gained prominence over the years. This book examines public pension funds from both the technical and policy perspectives. It provides a comprehensive discussion of fund management, detailing important technical materials needed to help readers understand the subject.

Governments have used information and communications technologies (ICT) to drastically change how the public sector interacts with citizens and businesses. It can improve government performance in delivering effective or highly sophisticated public services, reengineering or improving internal organization and processes, engaging social participation and dialogue, enabling transparency in procedures and outcomes to the public, and improving public sector¿s efficiency in general. This book illustrates the full theoretical context of current policies, issues, and implementation. It highlights e-government success stories from developed regions such as the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia, then presents future trends and innovation.

Offers an understanding of proliferation risks. This book introduces the factors that fuel weapons development, and defines the term WMD. It explains the characteristics of nuclear weapons, and reviews biological agents, their production and uses as weapons. It characterizes chemical weapons and their use by states and terrorist groups.

Reviews a broad range of topics, including US decision-making foreign policies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, and Haiti, and rebel conflicts and restored relations among Eritrea, the Sudan, and Ethiopia, and Spanish enclaves in Northern Africa. This book also addresses pre- and post-Cold War policies in East Asia.

Using social equity theory and intersectionality but written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates some of the ways in which LGBTQ citizens have been marginalized for their identity, and argues that the field of public administration has a unique responsibility to prioritize social equity.

Examines the innovations, strategies, and issues fueling the civil service reform debate. Offering diverse perspectives from expert contributors, this book looks at accomplished and considered reforms across the US, paying particular attention to questions regarding the operation, fairness and future of merit systems.

Thoroughly revised to incorporate important changes in the public labor relations and unionization landscape, this new edition retains icontains new sections on recent trends and membership figures, new legislation, and new politics as they influence bargaining rights. It highlights the implications of the new collective bargaining environment on financial and human resource management issues and outcomes. It also provides updated information on the future state of unions. It is a useful overview for the professional reader, and classroom-friendly, with discussions of the most recent literature and case studies, plus end-of-chapter assignments and quizzes.

As an increasing number of individuals go to work in the nonprofit sector, nonprofit managers need support on how best to build their human resource management capacity. They need to know what systems to examine, what questions to ask, and how to ensure they are managing people in a legal manner and as effectively as possible given their particular resource constraints. Important questions include: Do we have a clear philosophy, one that aligns with our nonprofit mission and values and allows us to treat our employees as the professionals they are? How do we select, develop, and retain the best people who will produce high value, high performance work, and how do we do so with limited resources? How do we effectively manage our mix of volunteers and paid staff? What do we need to consider to ensure diverse people work together in a harmonious fashion? With all-new chapters written by the top scholars in the field of nonprofit HRM, these are but a few of the many questions that are addressed in this timely volume.　 These scholars delve into their particular areas of expertise, offering a comprehensive look at theories and trends; legal and ethical issues; how to build HRM from recruitment, management, labor relations, to training and appraisal; as well as topics in diversity, technology, and paid versus volunteer workforce management. This essential handbook offers all core topic coverage as well as countless insider insights, additional resource lists, and tool sets for practical application. With chapters grounded in existing research, but also connecting research to practice for those in the field, The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook will be required reading for a generation of scholars, students, and practitioners of nonprofit human resource management.

Public management increasingly takes place in multilevel settings, since most countries are decentralized to one degree or another and most problems transcend and cut across administrative and geographical borders. A collaboration of scholars in the Transnational Initiative on Governance Research and Education (TIGRE Net), Making Multilevel Public Management Work: Stories of Success and Failure from Europe and North America brings together two strands of literature-multilevel governance and public management-and draws conclusions on practices of public management in multilevel governance settings.The book focuses on how to make multilevel public management work. Using an inductive logic, the editors study a particular case or a few selected cases, highlight lessons learned and implications, and identify trends and concerns. The book underscores factors essential to making multilevel public management work, namely coordination and collaboration, and new skills and leadership capacities. It discusses the pitfalls of creating networks instead of managing them and the importance of finding the right leadership skills, institutional design, and network management mechanisms to avoid deadlock and manage conflict effectively.Multilevel public management creates multiple opportunities and their accompanying challenges. By bringing together case studies in Europe and North America, this book identifies conditions for success and those under which such governance arrangements fail. Demonstrating the insights gained by the cross-fertilization of ideas, the book has also been strengthened by the participation of researchers from various disciplines, including public management, political science and international relations, economics, as well as administrative law. The interdisciplinary nature of the scholarship provides a complete and compelling portrait of multilevel public management as practiced and studied on two continents. The book opens the debate on what is needed to make it work

This book reviews the evolution of organization theory literature and explains other theories of organization and the implicit wisdom of the instructor's favorite theory. It helps the reader to understand the relevance of organization theory to the problems of administering public organizations.

Analyzes OB from a business marketing perspective - offering a treatment of central, soon-to-be central, contiguous, and topics of OB to facilitate greater viability and demand of OB practice. This book covers strategic and critical issues of the OB field with descriptive analyses and documentation.

"High praise for the previous editions. . . . . .should be required reading for all Americans as a corrective to the administration's manipulations of perception." ---New Political Science ." . .The serious theoretical intentions of this volume distinguish it from the bulk of the literature on terrorism, much of which is policy-oriented or loosely descriptive." ---The American Political Science Review ." . .Among the works that deserve a permanent place on the bookshelf. . . .sober and non-ideological." ---Violence, Aggression, and Terrorism ." . .surprisingly broad in its coverage." ---Terrorism, Violence, Insurgency Journal ." . .provocative and innovative." ---Library Journal

Assesses the bureaucracies and development of governments around the world - providing helpful and revealing analyses of the relationships between bureaucracies and political regimes. This book reflects changes in the political systems of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the developing world.

A resource for administrators seeking innovative ideas and supporting precedents in formulating policy. It employs case studies in budgeting and financial management to demonstrate strategies in system implementation, policy formulation, government accounting, auditing, and financial reporting.

Personnel Management in Government: Politics and Process, Eight Edition examines the progress and innovations that public personnel professionals are making to address changes in the political, legal and managerial environment of government. It provides students with a comprehensive understanding of human resource management within its historical and political context in the public sector.

The Handbook of Public Administration, Fourth Edition provides a compelling introduction to and depiction of the contemporary realities of public administration, and it will inspire new avenues of inquiry for the next generation of public-administration researchers.

Examining emergency responses to environmental dangers and natural disasters, this book provides coverage of a range of international issues using empirical and quantitative analyses. It discusses various approaches to such topics as resolving political tension, the potential use of biological weapons, and the role of public relations in crisis.

Few subjects are more influenced by philosophy than the form of governance that guides and administers public affairs, yet much of the literature about public administration remains silent about this connection. This book discusses many of the most important philosophies and movements that have influenced contemporary public administration.

Explores how systematic research methods could aid in understanding traditional questions in public administration as well as theoretical and practical questions. This book offers encyclopedic treatment of research designs with case studies; surveys research designs used in public administration and relates these designs to analytical methods.

Examines US forecast practices at the federal, state, and local levels, utilizing case studies of states that include California and Texas. This book highlights such issues as casino tax revenues and welfare caseloads to define budget forecasting, explain its importance, and describe how budget forecasts are prepared.

Presenting vital information for those involved in court administration and those who are considering becoming involved, this title offers fresh ways to approach justifying a court's base budget needs. It presents a fresh perspective on the role of court administrators.

Integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property - focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations.

Examines issues surrounding the regulation and sale of alcohol with unbiased focus. This title looks at the foundation and basis for our regulatory policy and how that foundation has shifted with changes in the law, marketing, consumer influence, and the impact of alcohol on society.

Offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of policy studies - discussing concepts, methods, utilization, formation, and implementation both internationally and across each level of government.