Public Management

A strong reputation is an asset of importance that no agency can afford to neglect, as it gives power and access to critical resources. However, it must be built, maintained, and protected. This volume critically analyzes the significance of reputation and branding-related activities in the public s..

Performance Management in the Public Sector 2nd edition offers an approachable insight into a complex theme for practitioners and students alike. For scholars, the book directs attention to key research issues, most pressingly the use of performance information...

Policing and Public Management takes a new perspective on the challenges and problems facing the governance of police forces across the UK and the developed world...

Policing and Public Management takes a new perspective on the challenges and problems facing the governance of police forces across the UK and the developed world...

This book presents, uniquely, a variety of cases from differing national and international contexts that enable a valuable, comparative analysis of policy transferring and learning that is absent from most books currently available. These cases suggest a number of exciting research directions with i..

This book illustrates the ways in which liberalization has contributed to increasing private and foreign ownership of public services, the decentralization of labor relations has amplified pressure on wages, and decreasing employment numbers and increasing workloads have improved productivity partly..

_x000D_ Public Administration Reform examines several commonly-held assumptions about public administration: the public sector is slow and bureaucratic; government employees are frequently disengaged; and government agencies are sometimes wasteful. This book takes a timely look at the heightened nee..

This is a book about public governance in the Gulf States. It presents research findings from interviews and a comparative analysis of the trends and developments of the six Gulf States. The analysis explores the extent to which the Gulf States are following their own path to modernisation...

This book provides a better specification of the institutional and political requirements for sustaining a robust vision of public innovation, through the key dimensions of collaboration, creative problem-solving, and design, via a collection of empirical studies drawn from Europe, the United States..

The third edition of this major textbook Public Management and Governance examines the factors which make government critically important and the barriers which often stop it being effective. Fully revised and updated this edition includes six new chapters, a wide selection of international case stu..

The third edition of this major textbook Public Management and Governance examines the factors which make government critically important and the barriers which often stop it being effective. Fully revised and updated this edition includes six new chapters, a wide selection of international case stu..

Public Management in Times of Austerity seeks to explore the austerity policies adopted by European governments and their consequences to public management. It asks how governments have implemented new rules leading to more stringency in public budgeting and financial management, and how they have c..