Public Administration & Management

Government at the federal, state, and local levels is currently moving holistically in a direction where officials are taking on a more direct (regulatory) role in environmental issues. Responding to this trend, this text presents an overview of the environment focused on practical regulation and ma..

This book provides policy makers with the keys to navigating complicated environmental issues and stakeholder negotiations. It covers theories in environmental policy making and stakeholder management, an overview of the concepts of failed versus successful process and policy, and practical guidelin..

Refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical analysis can deal only with the trivial issues in administrative ethics. Topics covered include understanding public corruption, ethics as control, and ethics as administration and policy...

This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories t..

Ethics in Fiscal Administration: An Introduction integrates ethics into the public administration curriculum by weaving ethical dilemmas into the financial management and budgeting process of the public and nonprofit sectors. Inquiry-based discussion prompts challenge students to examine scenarios t..

This book presents cutting-edge commentaries by leading scholars that address issues of public ethics in the current period of broken politics and challenged legitimacy...

Concise and comprehensive, this book takes a public management perspective on constructing ethical organizations. It includes a discussion of the U.S. constitutional and administrative environment in which officials carry out their duties, descriptions and assessments of the tools available to elect..

Ethical, effective, and equitable public services have been shown to inspire public trust, facilitating the collaborative partnership that must exist between public servants and citizens to achieve good governance. This volume examines how to identify, assess, and resolve the ethical issues and dile..

Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management...

Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management...

Financial Management in the Public Sector..

Financial Management in the Public Sector..