This book presents persuasive arguments in support of public service and those who work within it. Clearly, some services should come under government control: public safety, highways, armed and emergency service, water, sewage, parks, schools. Others, however, are operating in answer to problems that society fails to solve. The public sector ......
Kennedy scholars and younger historians go beyond the Camelot and counter-Camelot stereotypes of JFK, drawing on recently declassified documents. They examine key issues of the Kennedy administration, including Vietnam, the Cuban missile crisis, the space race, trade policy, and Kennedy's extramari
D'Agostino (history, San Francisco State U.) argues that the end of communism was never the Soviet leader's goal, but was the unintended result of an intense and many-faceted struggle for power. He presents evidence that the hope for stable, in-system reform ignored the history of succession strugg
This overview and assessment of state-of-the -art strategies for performance and productivity in public a nd non- profit organizations are research-based and draw on real cases. Topics covered include TQM, partnering and strat egic engineering. '
Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in its comparative analysis of the reform experience in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Leading experts identify a number of key factors to systematically ......
The contributors examine the current anti-go vernment climate in the USA and its effect on the working li ves of administrators and their relationships with citizens. They also analyse the implications for public administratio n practice. '
This book presents persuasive arguments in support of public service and those who work within it. Clearly, some services should come under government control: public safety, highways, armed and emergency service, water, sewage, parks, schools. Others, however, are operating in answer to problems that society fails to solve. The public sector ......
This reference covers the range of terms and expressions in use in the US Congress, from Absence of a Quorum to Zone Whip. It contains almost 900 entries along with cross-references to related definitions. Many terms are illustrated with examples to illuminate the historical origins of a word.
The Guide to the Presidency is an extensive study of the most important office of the U.S. political system. Its two volumes describe the history, workings and people involved in this office from Washington to Clinton. The thirty-seven chapters of the Guide , arranged into seven distinct subject areas (ranging from the origins of the office to the ......
