Public Administration & Management

Managing the Next Generation of Public Workers is a fresh and energetic look at the changing climate of diversity in the public and nonprofit workplace.The workforce of the twenty-first century represents unparalleled complexity: Baby Boomers, GenX, GenY, and Millennials. Although that diversity may..

Completely updated with new listings and statistics throughout, this comprehensive resource goes beyond the current literature on local government performance measurement and provides benchmarks on more than 40 key topics against which performance can be assessed in all areas of operation._x000D_ "A..

This book explores the characteristics of the Baltic states as positioned in the northeast corridor in terms of military strife and polity development such as democratization. It then details governments' efforts to abet transparency and trust by way of developing new public and private institutions..

As the growth of the world’s population continues, the urbanization of natural lands is inevitable, but that development needs to be accomplished in harmony with nature. This book analyzes naturbanization as it is occurring in National Parks along the European Union borders that have been opened to ..

Develops and applies a theoretical framework of collaborative decision-making, organizational behavior, and networks to examine collaborative responses to terrorist attacks that have taken place in the last 10 years across different national, legal and cultural contexts...

The term New Public Governance describes increased reliance on network structures of authority to provide public services.  In New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective, the contributors focus on a different set of issues than those commonly found in the current body of scholarship on NPG..

The term New Public Governance describes increased reliance on network structures of authority to provide public services.  In New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective, the contributors focus on a different set of issues than those commonly found in the current body of scholarship on NPG..

New Public Management in Africa provides much-needed theoretical foundations for the NPM discussion, and reflects on the role of implemented reforms in the development of several African states. The book contributes directly to policymaking, sharing findings on the results of reforms to date and adj..

The last three decades in Turkey have seen an extensive shift towards a neoliberal agenda. Turkey has made many attempts at reforming existing governance systems in an effort to be accepted into the European Union, attracting the attention and curiosity of public management scholars worldwide. New P..

With descriptive elegance and humor, this book presents the compelling story of California’s ascendance and decline, the kind of place on which anyone in the business of governance should keep an instructive eye. Using California as a rich historical and contemporary example, the book suggests answe..

Off to the sidelines of the brutal western front of World War I was a nasty little campaign by British and India troops sent to secure Persian oil fields. This book describes how the policies of allied military leaders of the time resulted in pushing the Ottoman government into partnership with Germ..

In order to implement an integrated cycle of assessment, planning, and improvement, government agencies need a framework for organizational assessment that speaks to their unique needs. This book provides those who manage or work in government with an understanding of and a methodology for assessmen..