Public Administration & Management

Examines various trends in metropolitan governance issues. This book analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It addresses such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special distric..

Examines various trends in metropolitan governance issues. This book analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It addresses such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special distric..

The USA has some 80,000 sub-national governments, ranging from nation-sized states to mosquito-abatement districts. This introduction to state-local relations includes an overview of the structure of state-local arrangements, important policy issues, and the likely future of state-local relations...

This book is designed to help students, researchers, and practitioners understand public corruption and anti-corruption practices from an international perspective. It describes the problems governments face in dealing with public corruption, outlines strategies that have and have not been implement..

Revenue and expenditure forecasting is often overlooked in the budget process. Based on the collaboration of budget scholars and practitioners, this volume examines U.S. forecast practices at the federal, state, and local levels, utilizing case studies of various states, including California and Tex..

In a new look at public financial management that highlights the importance of budgeting, this book covers transaction cost economics as a new dimension of public budgeting and financial management orthodoxy. The author reviews new research on the continuing validity of prevailing theory and the eve..

Government contracting is one of the most important issues facing federal, state, and local governments. As governments contend with lower tax revenues and a growing belief that smaller government is better government, contracting has become a fundamental means of providing goods and services to cit..

Government contracting is one of the most important issues facing federal, state, and local governments. As governments contend with lower tax revenues and a growing belief that smaller government is better government, contracting has become a fundamental means of providing goods and services to cit..

Addressing the theory, practice, and context of government public relations, this book stresses the importance, value, and use of public relations as a tool to advance the goals of government. Each section begins with an introductory overview and ends with a list of discussion questions and addition..

This volume takes a communications-oriented approach to a wide range of topics encompassing organization, management, political theory and practice, business-government relations, innovation processes, and IT. Offering a balanced, international presentation, it contains authoritative contributions f..

Examining various methods of debt management used in the US., Handbook of Debt Management, provides a comprehensive analysis of securities offered for sale by municipalities, states, and the federal government. The book covers laws regarding municipal bonds, the economic choice between debt and taxe..

Featuring over 1900 references, drawings, and tables and drawing on disciplines as diverse as political economics, public management, and urban affairs, this versatile text offers comprehensive information on major policy and managerial issues important to local and national economic development. Pu..