Public Administration & Management

_x000D_ Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA program.Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal and ..

This is a comprehensive, practice-oriented text for public budgeting courses. It offers a commonsensical view of public budgeting and its importance to public managers, and is designed to show readers how managers relate to budgeting and how their action..

This is a comprehensive, practice-oriented text for public budgeting courses. It offers a commonsensical view of public budgeting and its importance to public managers, and is designed to show readers how managers relate to budgeting and how their action..

Designed to help students and non-profit managers gain a working knowledge of the principles and practices of conducting qualitative case study research in public organizations. It includes examples of case studies in a wide range of topics in public admi..

Designed to help students and non-profit managers gain a working knowledge of the principles and practices of conducting qualitative case study research in public organizations. It includes examples of case studies in a wide range of topics in public admi..

_x005F_x000D_ Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management, 2e provides readers with the most modern and current case studies in disaster response and emergency management and can be used in group project settings, as individual homework assignments in training courses for first respon..

A resource for administrators seeking innovative ideas and supporting precedents in formulating policy, this book also provides a useful textbook for public administration and policy students. It employs a wealth of case studies in budgeting and financial management to demonstrate strategies in syst..

This study puts forward two principles of global governance on climate change. Besides, it proposes a two-step strategy for China to tackle the issue of climate change. This book makes it clear that China should proactively engage in relevant international cooperation, actively participate in intern..

After several decades of reform and opening up, China has come to a critical period of transformation and development. How to deepen political reform for this country has once again attracted the world's attention._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ This book proposes a new democracy model for China's polit..

This text helps students acquire a basic theological literacy in key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and in Christianity's encounter with culture at large. Historically arranged, it also addresses five major themes of systematic theology: revelation, God, creation, Jesus, an..

Based on nearly 100 interviews with public and private managers, Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting raises serious concerns about the state of citizen participation in the context of contracted public services...

For almost a half a century, scholars and practitioners have debated what the connections should be between public administration and the public. Does the public serve principally as citizen-owners, those to whom administrators are responsible? Are members of the public more appropriately viewed as ..