Public Administration & Management

City Planning for the Public Manager is designed to fill a significant gap in the literature and provide students and practitioners with hands-on, practical advice from experts with diverse city administration experience to aid the reader in real-life application and to demonstrate where theory and ..

Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme - that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction among governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity - City Politics remains a classic study of urban politics...

Through an engaging exploration of edited court cases, legislation, and speeches, this text examines the civil rights law and policy pertaining to African Americans, Native Americans, Latino/Latinas, gender, sexual orientation, and disabilities, to learn what civil rights require, but also to come t..

A city may have a sustainability plan and personnel responsible for sustainability; but, in order to understand how cities make progress on their sustainability policy goals, we need a view of the networks working to advance sustainability in the community. Using the city of Baltimore to describe an..

Common Ground, Common Future: Moral Agency in Public Administration, Professions, and Citizenship examines the public and private roles of the citizen as a moral agent. The authors define this agent as a person who recognizes morality as a motive for action, and not only follows moral principles but..

Through original and comprehensive research undertaken by the Center for State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois Springfield and the Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies (IACAA), this book is designed to inform and enhance leadership in Community Action agencies and ot..

This book will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in public administration/management, public administration theory, community development, economic development, urban sociology, urban politics, and urban planning...

This book offers a complete primer for those interested in environmental dilemmas and policies from a global, comparative perspective. The book covers 16 countries and five themes: participation, interest groups, political parties, governmental structures, and the diplomatic agenda. Not only does th..

First published in 1997, this volume emerged in response to the need for material on the research, development, use and application of mass appraisal techniques for ad valorem property tax systems...

This book develops an interdisciplinary approach for answering a classic and essential question in any rule-governed context: What factors influence the decision of an individual or organization to comply (or not) with governing rules?..

This second edition of Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies provides extensive state-of-the-art coverage of best practices in the procurement of services at state and local levels, from initial stages through to completion. Including lively case studies and research based ..

This book demonstrates that with a careful emphasis on cost accounting, operations management, and quality control, all organizations, including government, can increase efficiency, improve performance, and be better prepared to weather hard times. Part I deals with cost basics, with an emphasis on ..