Public Administration & Management Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. Challenges in City Management

   A Case Study Approach

   By Becky J. Starnes

   Series: ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy

   Incorporating urban management and organizational management theories with actual practice, the author presents a series of case studies based on observations made during her extensive experience. Multiple cases are offered in common contemporary city topics ranging from personnel, policy-making,...

   Published May 21st 2013 by CRC Press
2. Securities Over Personality

   Published May 19th 2013 by Federation Press
3. HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

   Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

   By Johanna Hood

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Public Administration in South Asia

   India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan

   Edited by Meghna Sabharwal, Evan M. Berman

   Series: Public Administration and Public Policy

   A state-of-the-art, one-stop resource, Public Administration in South Asia: India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan examines public administration issues and advances in the Indian subcontinent. The book fulfills a critical need. These nations have the largest public administration programs in South Asia,...

   Published May 6th 2013 by CRC Press
5. Interfaith Advocacy

   The Role of Religious Coalitions in the Political Process

   By Katherine E. Knutson

   Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance

   Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, an interfaith advocacy group that brings together leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions to advocate on...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. New Racial Missions of Policing

   International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics

   Edited by Paul Amar

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices. It pushes analytical and theoretical boundaries by examining...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. Migrant Politics and Mobilisation

   Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

   Edited by Davide Pero, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States. In such debates, migrants are commonly treated as objects of politics and spoken in terms of management, national...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
8. Making Multilevel Public Management Work

   Stories of Success and Failure from Europe and North America

   Edited by Denita Cepiku, David K. Jesuit, Ian Roberge

   Series: Public Administration and Public Policy

   Public management increasingly takes place in multilevel settings, since most countries are decentralized to one degree or another and most problems transcend and cut across administrative and geographical borders. A collaboration of scholars in the Transnational Initiative on Governance Research...

   Published April 22nd 2013 by CRC Press
9. Towards Disaster Risk Reduction

   A Policy-Focused Approach to Natural Hazards and Disasters

   Edited by Jason K. Levy, Chennat Gopalakrishnan

   This book constitutes a landmark attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, a policy-focused approach to the many timely and important issues associated with building a culture of disaster prevention and disaster risk reduction. This book not only provides key insights into the field of...

   Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Beyond Inclusion

    The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education

    Edited by Satish Deshpande, Usha Zacharias

    In India, two critical aspects of public policy — social justice and higher education — have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge India