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A fascinating expose explaining why the government we have bears so little relation to the government we want-and why the recent expansion of government programs will only exacerbate the problem.

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Based on first-hand interviews, this title looks at the people under 35 years old who run for office in the US. Connecting academic research with practical politics, it includes a range of stories, from Steven Fulop who left Goldman Sachs following 9/11 to become a Marine to Jane Swift, the first governor to give birth while in office.

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Based on first-hand interviews, this title takes a look at the people under 35 years old who run for office in the US. Connecting academic research with practical politics, it includes a range of stories, from Steven Fulop who left Goldman Sachs following 9/11 to become a Marine to Jane Swift, the first governor to give birth while in office.

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Successful businesses have spent the past two decades retooling and rethinking how to manage their people better. Most big companies that have survived and prospered in the 21st century view employees as a vital strategic asset.

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Addresses the enduring significance of innovation in government as practiced by public servants, analyzed by scholars, discussed by media, documented by awards, and experienced by the public. Probing both the process and the content of innovation in the public sector, Sandford Borins identifies major shifts and important continuities.

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The principle of the separation of powers has been subject to much recent controversy. This book criticizes the various challenges raised by legal, political, public policy, and management theorists. It revisits the classic normative background of the principle and offers a novel justification of it, grounding it in analytical political theory.

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Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester -- .

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This book identifies the criteria for successful constitutions in both theory and practice using the research and methodology of Vincent Ostrom.

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Toward a Theory of Administrative Tethering is the culmination of a seven-year commitment to investigate and explore the nature of collaboration, specifically in child protective services (CPS).

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From her own experience in various agencies and organizations, Dr. Rusaw knows that to inspire change in any organization and particularly in the public sector, change agents must understand that change is primarily collective, nonrational, and nonlinear.

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This book captures the experiences of effective federal environmental executives in order to learn the environmental as well as the management practices upon which actual public service improvement is based. It provides, in their own voices, executives' insights of over two hu...

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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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In this book, Paul Lawrence and Mark Abramson build on their extensive interviews with 42 Obama Administration political executives over the past four years. Political executives from numerous federal agencies were interviewed about the challenge of managing in government and the activities undertaken by their agencies.