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  • How the Other Half Works

    Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor

    by Roger Waldinger, Michael I. Lichter ...
    How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors that explain the presence of unskilled immigrants in our midst. Focusing on Los Angeles, the capital of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services

    Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance, Revised and Updated

    by Robert C. Dickeson ...
    Prioritizing Academic Programs and ServicesREVISED AND UPDATEDIncreasing economic concerns make the new edition of this best-selling classic an invaluable resource for those who want and need to implement a proven step-by-step approach to reallocating resources in tough times. Thoroughly revised and updated, Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services includes new recommendations from the field, ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Practical Ethics In Public Administration

    by Dean Gueras, Charles Garofalo ...
    Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today!Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or just not lend themselves to easy answers. Practical Ethics in Public ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • E-Government in Canada

    Transformation for the Digital Age

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government's first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing more customer-centric delivery via integration and coordination across departments and agencies. Yet, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Black Hole of Public Administration

    by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all.In The Black Hole of Public Administration, experienced public servant Ruth Hubbard and public administration ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The New Public Service

    Serving, Not Steering

    by Janet V. Denhardt, Robert B. Denhardt ...
    The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. It is organized around a set of seven core principles: (1) serve citizens, not customers; (2) seek the public interest; (3) value citizenship and public service above entrepreneurship; (4) think strategically, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Labor in the Global Digital Economy

    The Cybertariat Comes of Age

    by Ursula Huws ...
    For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect.Ursula ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Local And Community Driven Development: Moving To Scale In Theory And Practice

    by Binswanger-Mkhize Hans P.; de Regt Jacomina P. ...
    This book examines the conceptual foundations of participatory approaches to building local institutions and builds an analytical framework in which civic participation is viewed as a potential solution to specific civil society, market, and government failures. It then uses this framework to review the evidence on the efficacy of participatory pproaches to problems of development nd to identify ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Business and Government in Canada

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Boundaries between business and government are increasingly fluid and often transcended. Yet it remains important to acknowledge and make appropriate use of the fundamental differences between these sectors.Five areas that offer the most critical challenges to business and government in Canada today are corporate governance, lobbying and influence, security and privacy, public-private partnerships ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Community

    A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices

    by Katharine Kelly, Tullio Caputo ...
    Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments, to take such an interest in community, and why this interest now? What has caused the increasing ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Professionalism and Public Service

    Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan

    Edited by David Siegel, Kenneth Rasmussen ...
    Representing the leading scholars in the field, Professionalism and Public Service assesses the state of public administration in Canada while also moving the discipline forward both as a profession and an academic discipline.The contributors to this volume trace the evolution of public administration institutions and explore issues such as the protection and improvement of the public service, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD