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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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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.

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Mobility as politics: the inequality of movement from transport to climate change.

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A former Facebook public policy adviser who went on to assist President Obama in the White House offers practical ideas for using technology to create an open and accessible world that protects all consumers. As a computer scientist turned policymaker, Dipayan Ghosh answers the biggest questions about technology facing the world today.

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A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.

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NEW EDITION FOR THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEVERIDGE REPORT The classic and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover New Labour and Cameron's premiership.

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Despite its current and potential benefits, AI is little understood by the larger public and widely feared. In this compelling and readable book, two experts discuss both the opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence - and how near-term policy decisions could determine whether the technology leads to utopia or dystopia.

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A shocking compendium of what happens when outsourcing goes wrong the horrifying stories, damning statistics and what we do now

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Written by the author who was President Bill Clinton's Press Secretary, this book tells how when Clinton was elected, she was told she would act as his Press Secretary, but only for the transition. But in January of 1993, she did become Press Secretary in spite of the odds.

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Explores the relationship between public administration and social justice in Ireland -- .

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Dale demonstrates how to get ahead in an MP's office.

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