The field of public policy is so broad, diffuse, and balkanized that imposing order on it from an instructor's perspective-let alone from a student's perspective- can be a difficult and frustrating undertaking.
This book provides a critical exploration and assessment of public sector innovation, challenging conventional assumptions about the ways in which innovation is generated and how it may succeed or fail.
A growing number of educators are beginning to believe that as we move into a different kind of world with different possibilities, the traditional approach to teaching is no longer the most productive.
The field of public policy is so broad, diffuse, and balkanized that imposing order on it from an instructor's perspective-let alone from a student's perspective- can be a difficult and frustrating undertaking.
This book details the most contemporary concerns related to urban development, governance, and planning, as well as the challenges to urban administration.
Low-carbon energy transformations to support carbon-neutral societies is an important and urgent topic and subject to current national priorities and socio-economic planning.
While the job of a clinician in a disaster scenario is to save lives without regard for the cause or rationale for the injury, medical and emergency professionals who understand the diverse aspects of a disaster are better equipped to respond effectively.
High-Activity Nuclear Waste Management Policy: Becoming a Responsible Ancestor describes the technical, social, and political challenges of developing a deep-mined, geologic repository for high-activity nuclear waste.
This book provides a critical exploration and assessment of public sector innovation, challenging conventional assumptions about the ways in which innovation is generated and how it may succeed or fail.
This book assesses landmark empirical studies, state capture concerns, corruption, and fraud in South Africa's public sector and thereby reflect on issues of accountability and ethics as cornerstones of governance.
A major new text on gender and politics by two leading authorities, which introduces the main issues and debates about the politics of gender and its role in both domestic and international politics and feminist approaches to political analysis.
The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them.
The essential new book about Britain s 'frontierlands', the abandoned and neglected places that provide opportunities for business and communities, and how they can help us face the challenges of climate change.
For over a century, American have created laws, processes, objectives, priorities, and rules for federal land management that often conflict, contradict, and undermine each other.
To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R.
Although international cooperation on migration is often promoted, scholars have been unable to arrive at a consensus about the extent of cooperation in the current system.
An examination of how the (hyper)local is the locus of real changeMany of America's downtowns, waterfronts, and innovation districts have experienced significant revitalization and reinvestment in recent years, but concentrated poverty and racial segregation remain persistent across thousands of urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods.
Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local governmentAt a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective indeed more effective and even more responsive to the needs of its citizens.
A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleHow officials reporting to both executive officials and congressional representatives work to keep the government honest, efficient, and effective.
After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice by America and its allies, the Taliban still has not been defeated, and many Afghans believe that a civil war is coming.
In recent years, workers earnings have hardly grown, violence and crime have plagued the inner cities, homelessness and public begging have become commonplace, and family life has greatly deteriorated.
Effective government requires that institutions be strong enough to control the efforts of organized, entrenched special interests in favor of the broader interests shared but poorly articulated by most members of society.
The authors of this book contend that the civil service system, which was devised to create a uniform process for recruiting high-quality workers to government, is no longer uniform or a system.
Topics include:Part One: Voters and ElectionsThe New Two-Party SystemThe Economic Basis of Reagan's AppealIncumbency and Realignment in Congressional ElectionsCampaigning, Governing, and the Contemporary PresidencyThe Republican Advantage in Campaign FinanceThe Rise of National PartiesPart Two: Institutions and PolicyNew Patterns of Decisionmaking in CongressThe Politicized PresidencyFederalism and the Bias for CentralizationControlling EntitlementsSecurity PolicyThe New Politics of Deficits
Mexico ha logrado realizar avances en el sector del agua, incluyendo un sistema legislativo equilibrado, una autoridad nacional del agua y un sistema funcional de derechos de agua, asi como un naciente mercado del recurso.
Este libro no es una recopilacion de temas o una simple explicacion de topicos empresariales, es mas bien la integracion de los principios, reglas y herramientas de la administracion, pero siempre encuadradas dentro de un enfoque y estructura organicos y cientificos, logrando un gran equilibrio entre lo teorico y lo practico.
Como hacen las sociedades latinoamericanas para enfrentar los problemas mas urgentes de nuestro tiempo -migracion, desigualdad, cambio climatico, emergencia en salud- cuando los Estados no logran dar respuestas suficientes?
