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  • The PerformanceStat Potential

    A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

    by Robert D. Behn ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Serving With Pride in the Public Eye

    A Story About Striving for Success in Local Government

    by Randy Diehl ...
    This book is about the difficulty of serving in local government. It’s about finding meaning in public service and developing a deep sense of pride in making a difference to the well being of our communities. I wrote this book to provide hope and guidance to my colleagues in administration and their political partners as they work through difficult times and climb over tremendous obstacles. It is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • E-Government and Websites

    A Public Solutions Handbook

    Edited by Aroon Manoharan ...
    Series series The Public Solutions Handbook Series
    This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance. E-government refers to the practice of online public reporting by government to citizens, and to service delivery via the Internet. E-governance represents the initiatives for citizens to participate and provide their opinion on government websites. This volume in the Public Solutions Handbook ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Local Politics and National Policy

    Multi-level Conflicts in Japan and Beyond

    by Ken Victor Leonard Hijino ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger developments in national politics. The book argues that since the 1990s, changes in the national political arena, fiscal and administrative decentralization, as well as broader ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities

    by Douglas Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota, James A. Hough ...
    Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal and state budgeting, a lack of a theoretical governance framework, an omission of important topics, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance

    Edited by E. Kuhlmann, R. Blank, I. Bourgeault, C. Wendt ...
    Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in the debates over changing healthcare policy. ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • China Experiments

    From Local Innovations to National Reform

    by Ann M. Florini, Hairong Lai, Yeling Tan ...
    All societies face a key question: how to empower governments to perform essential governmental functions while constraining the arbitrary exercise of power. This balance, always in flux, is particularly fluid in today's China. This insightful book examines the changing relationship between that state and its society, as demonstrated by numerous experiments in governance at subnational levels, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Public Service Efficiency

    Reframing the Debate

    by Rhys Andrews, Tom Entwistle ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices – from performance management to public-private partnership – in the belief that these will increase the efficiency of their public ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Social Entrepreneurship

    Theory and Practice

    by Ryszard Praszkier, Andrzej Nowak ...
    Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social change are presented to help demystify the 'magic' of making an immense, yet durable and irreversible, social impact. Utilizing case studies drawn from various fields and all over the world, the authors document how social ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • American Hometown Renewal

    Policy Tools and Techniques for Small Town Officials

    by Gary Mattson ...
    Before the interstates, Main Street America was the small town’s commercial spine and served as the linchpin for community social solidarity. Yet, during the past three decades, a series of economic downturns has left many of the great small cities barely viable. American Hometown Renewal is the first book to combine administrative, budgetary, and economic analysis to examine the economic and ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy

    Institutional Dilemmas in European Cities

    Edited by Nils Hertting, Clarissa Kugelberg ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal with the complexity inherent in many contemporary public problems, such as climate change and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Understanding Korean Public Administration

    Lessons learned from practice

    Edited by Kwang-Kook Park, Wonhee Lee, Seok-Hwan Lee ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most of the literature has been written in Korean. This book aims to provide more accessible knowledge internationally by filling that gap, covering both the history and the current status of the Korean public administration. This book is a collaboration of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD