This is a commentary on the two new EC Directives on public procurement, which are due to be implemented and in force by January 2006, together with practical guidance upon their application and imple...
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this ed...
The past two decades have been marked by a period of substantial and often fundamental change in public administration. Critically reflecting on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which...
This book will provide a synthesis of state-of-the-art thinking amongst leading international academic experts based in the USA, Canada and the UK on managing change to improve the effectiveness of pu...
Public transport operators are faced with ever-greater pressures. The need to monitor the performance of individual services, as well as the system as a whole, has increased. Operators are constantly ...
To succeed in public relations, professionals need an innate sense of the power, excitement, and value to society's primary institutions of its practice. This book uses a unique approach combined with...
A detailed monograph on one of the most sought-after architects of his generation, which analyses his built and planned public buildings through hundreds of colour illustrations David Adjaye is one ...
Offers the reader a concise and very readable tour through the many facets of PR. It provides a solid overview of the PR industry, suitable not only for students of PR and communication studies, but a...
Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach t...
For your classes in Public Speaking McGraw-Hill introduces the latest in its acclaimed M Series. The M Series started with your students. McGraw-Hill conducted extensive market research with over 4,00...
Social marketing is the application of commercial marketing tools and principles to the design, implementation and evaluation of health and social behavior change programs. It focuses on target groups...
This practical, up-to-date text introduces students to the methodological tools public administrators and policy analysts use to conduct research. This lucid text offers an abundance of examples to il...
Health care is absorbing an increasing share of resources in all countries. It is the task of public policy to ensure that the nation secures good quality attention at an affordable price. This book, ...
This book synthesizes Zoltan Acs’ key contributions to the field of entrepreneurship. This invaluable selection of papers represents three decades of research that has resulted in an integrated and i...
This book is intended as an introduction to theories of public organization for both students of public administration and those outside the field who want to involve themselves in organizations commi...
Corruption always grabs the headlines and the processes of political contention that created the modern state have done much to shape our notions of corruption and good government; yet very old ideas ...
'Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo are leading experts in immigration research. Here they have assembled a set of important studies that show how selective immigration policy affects subsequent out...
This text comes packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor. With this, students can access practice problems for each chapter in...
'Public Expenditure Control in Europe provides a timely and detailed study of audit control of government expenditure in selected EU countries. It combines the factual and descriptive analysis of seni...
A New Approach compares and contrasts the various instruments and approaches used by the World Bank, IMF, European Commission and other development agencies to assess and reform public financial manag...
Intended as an introduction to theories of public organization for both students of public administration and those outside the field who want to involve themselves in organizations committed to publi...
Aimed at the non-specialist reader interested in health and medical issues, this set examines topics such as environmental health, drug abuse, nutrition, demographics and diseases. It includes overvie...
Like the rest of "The Oxford Handbooks" family, this book is an essential pocket reference resource. It is a book of 'first resort' - helping the reader address public health issues more quickly, thor...
This new edition of the respected textbook "Public International Law - An Australian Perspective" has been fully revised and provides an authorative account of the international law from an Australian...
The field of public economics has been changing rapidly in recent years, and the 18 chapters contained in volumes three and four of this handbook, survey many of the new developments. As a field, publ...
The publication of volumes 3 and 4 of the Handbook of Public Economics affords us several opportunities: to address lacunae in the original two volumes of this series, to revisit topics on which there...
This second volume of the Handbook of Public Economics is a continuation of volume one, with chapters surveying the literature on both the tax and expenditure areas of public economics.The material pr...
The 11 papers presented by Chand (senior public sector management specialist, World Bank, New Delhi, India) were originally commissioned for a larger World Bank report on "Reforming Public Services in...
The importance of food for human health has been widely recognized. The safety of foods of animal origin is particularly relevant because the large majority of foodborne diseases come from poultry, eg...
This book explores the role of civil servants and their trade unions in the public management reform process, framing it in its economic, social, cultural and legal contexts. Building on neo-instituti...