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Examines the ""strategic environment"" in which inspectors general work and interact with a variety of stakeholders, inside and outside the government. This book is based on in-depth case studies, a survey of inspectors general, and a review of public documents related to the work of inspectors general.

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This new introductory text by one of the key individuals working in the area explores the essential themes and issues that are crucial to understanding public administration as a distinct field today.

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This book analyzes political and institutional aspects of e-government development in the Unites States and Kazakhstan, two nations with different governance systems and public administration traditions. It serves as both a policy review and agenda setting research by applying case studies of e-government strategies at the national and local levels.

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This is a hopeful account of the potential for organizational change and improvement within government. Despite the mantra that ""people resist change,"" it is possible to effect meaningful reform in a large bureaucracy.

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The era of strict top-down, stovepiped public management in America is over. The traditional dichotomy between public ownership and privatization is an outdated notion.

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Explores the work of a number of key writers and important books within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. It revisits and re-evaluates some of the landmark books, and assesses the contribution of some of the most influential writers who have played a significant role in the development of these disciplines.

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Since its independence in 1947, India, as a large, diverse, and rapidly changing country, has had to meet federalizing problems of a magnitude unprecedented in history. The result has been a process that combines, modifies, and transforms many established ideas about federalism. Professor Franda deals with the complexities of India's experience by

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The war on terrorism has raised profound questions of domestic governance not primarily about power or policy, but about the capacities of government agencies, their personnel, procedures, work habits and styles, and ability to interface with each other.

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This book is the dramatic story of Jake Braun's role in U.S. efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis as Mexican cartels went through their most radical transformation in fifty years.

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Britain: from railway pioneers to the fiascos of HS2

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Intelligence work is in some ways like a newspaper or newsmagazine, in some like a business, in some like the research activity of a university; very little of it involves cloaks and daggers. All of it is important to national survival, and should be understood by the citizens of a democracy. In this remarkable book, an able scholar, experienced i

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Intelligence work is in some ways like a newspaper or newsmagazine, in some like a business, in some like the research activity of a university; very little of it involves cloaks and daggers. All of it is important to national survival, and should be understood by the citizens of a democracy. In this remarkable book, an able scholar, experienced i

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Looks at the administrative and leadership style of Prime Minister John Howard's second and third governments. This work features key policy issues including education, immigration, GST, and the republican debate.

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A raft of recent political scandals in Australia has generated widespread media and public interest in the role and accountability of ministerial staffers, and their impact on relations between ministers and their public service advisers. Such scandals include the notorious Children overboard affair and the more recent AWB imbroglio.

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Provides a roadmap to help new government leaders at various levels accelerate their transitions by overcoming nine transition challenges, ranging from clarifying expectations to defining goals to building a team to managing personal stress. The authors also offer detailed strategies for avoiding major "transition traps".

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In 2014 when Tim Carmody, a former police officer, was sworn in as Chief Justice of Queensland, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months and had never served on the Supreme Court. It was one of the most controversial judicial appointments in Australias history. The Tim Carmody Affair explores his damaging and divisive tenure and the judicial rebellion that followed.

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An examination of emerging trends in New Zealands governance, this study explores the effect of shared accountability, agency restructuring, environmental policies, and e-government on the growth of the countrys public sector. Using brand-new research, this book contains valuable insights into how New Zealands public sector currently operates and how it might operate in the future.

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Describes the workforce culture of the Internal Revenue Service, recounting how the author joined the IRS as an impressionable job- seeker and witnessed cover-ups, schemes, and widespread paranoia over a twelve-year period.

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Explains that bureaucratic dysfunction reflects a breach of contract between the government - as a provider of services, and also as a catalyst for improved social outcomes - and a public comprised of clients, professionals, managers, and policymakers.

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From the bestselling authors of Cameron's Coup comes a devastating critique of our current government.