Public management involves leading, coordinating, and stimulating public agencies and programs to deliver excellent performance. This title address topics such as: the nature and impact of public management; reform, reinvention, innovation, and change; and, models and frameworks for understanding and improving public management.
Following a bill from its assigned committee through its debate on the floor of the House of Representatives, this simulation provides a choice of two bills with background material. Information on how committees learn about the legislation, conduct a markup session, and debate a bill are all included.''''The Government in Action simulation series provides first-hand experience in the workings of government. Each classroom-tested simulation begins with an easy-to-understand description of the particular process and the key players, and then explains how the simulation works and how to research the role to be played. Each book includes background information, primary sources and other material that flesh out the situations and examples for the actual simulations. Library patrons will find an accessible overview of government processes in a format that is not currently available.
Proposing a framework for research based on the premise that any particular governance arrangement is embedded in a wider social, fiscal, and political context, this title argues that theory-based empirical research, when well conceived and executed, can be a primary source of fundamental, durable knowledge about governance and policy management.
Applying concepts derived from the study of international and comparative politics, this book offers an analysis of the impact of globalization on United States domestic politics. It is of interest to politicians, policymakers, and students looking for a discussion of globalization that is grounded in political history of the United States.
Suitable for those who consider a career in federal, state, or local government, this book conveys what life is really like in a public service job. It provides advice on the daily challenges that public servants can expect to face: working with politicians, bureaucracy, and the press; dealing with unpleasant and difficult people; and, more.
Assessing Local Performance and Establishing Community Standards
Municipal Benchmarks provides an external context in which to examine local government performance. David Ammons guides municipal executives, department heads, management analysts, mayors and city council members, and citizen groups through the benchmarking tools needed to assess and establish community standards for their operations and delivery ......
Hard Water: Politics And Water Supply in Milwaukee, 1870-1995 by educator and urban studies specialist Kate Foss-Mollan is the documented and historical account of the water supply of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Foss-Mollan blends urban history, technology, biology, research, and political science into a remarkably intriguing and informative saga. From ......
The opening chapter introduces the book's approach as well as the institutional development of the presidency and its organizational structure. Chapters 2 through 6 provide an extended discussion of the institutional presidency, first examining the working relationships of the White House with Congress and with the media, and then looking at policy-making in differing policy areas. In each of these five chapters, Kessel introduces the actors on the White House staff or in cabinet departments or agencies. He then considers their activities, looking at those common throughout the institutional presidency and those specific to the task, such as negotiation in foreign policy, coping with business cycles in economics, and handling projects and patronage in dealing with Congress. In the final two chapters, Kessel asks what presidents have been able to accomplish. In Chapter 7, he evaluates, for each contemporary president, examples of policy success, failure, and mixed results. He broadens the analysis in his concluding chapter to examine larger patterns of presidential accomplishment. His conclusion: all presidents have mixed records, but in the aggregate, presidents succeed more often than they fail by a factor of 3 to 2.
A desk reference providing quick answers to the most frequently asked questions about all aspects of the US government, including elections, Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court. Questions include: what was the Teapot Dome scandal, and what was the largest presidential landslide?
