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“robert a cropf”

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  • American Public Administration

    Public Service for the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert A. Cropf, John L. Wagner ...
    American Public Administration has been the go-to introductory textbook for Public Administration courses with a focus on civil society for the better part of two decades. Now in an extensively revised and updated third edition, authors Cropf and Wagner weave the most recent and compelling research throughout every chapter to give students a useful, in-depth understanding of the field today. ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Public Administration Casebook

    by Robert A Cropf ...
    This book is designed to serve either as a companion to current introductory public administration textbooks or as a stand-alone casebook. It presents several case studies around several main themes or topics of public administration, including leadership, budgeting, ethics, and decision making. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • E-Government for Public Managers

    Administering the Virtual Public Sphere

    by Robert A. Cropf ...
    This handy guide and supplemental text examines trends in information and communication technology (ICT) that impact the day-to-day operations of federal, state, and local government. It seeks to improve service delivery, human resource administration, political participation, education, and citizen input (e-democracy), while at the same time recognizes that with ICT’s great promise comes great ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Art of Public Strategy

    Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The PerformanceStat Potential

    A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

    by Robert D. Behn ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Comparing Public Policies

    Issues and Choices in Industrialized Countries

    by Jessica R. Adolino, Charles H. Blake ...
    The study of comparative public policy reveals the intensely political nature of policy choices. While policy analysts often look to policy successes and failures outside their borders to draw valuable lessons and insights, cultural, economic, political, and institutional conditions vary from country to country and strongly affect how policy analysis is ultimately used. By combining a conceptual ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • A Quiet Evolution

    The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada

    by Christopher Alcantara, Jen Nelles ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.In A Quiet Evolution, Christopher Alcantara and Jen Nelles look closely at ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Strategic IT Management

    A Toolkit for Enterprise Architecture Management

    by Inge Hanschke ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    For you as an IT manager, changes in business models and fast-paced innovation and product lifecycles pose a big challenge: you are required to anticipate the impact of future changes, and to make rapid decisions backed up by solid facts. To be successful you need an overall perspective of how business and IT interact. What you need is a toolkit, enabling you to manage the enterprise from a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Rapid Mashup Development Tools

    Second International Rapid Mashup Challenge, RMC 2016, Lugano, Switzerland, June 6, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Florian Daniel, Martin Gaedke ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Rapid Mashup Challenge, RMC 2016, held in Lugano, Switzerland in June 2016.The 6 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 8 submissions. They are post-challenge extensions of the selected short participation proposals. The 2016 edition of the Challenge is the second installment of a series ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World

    Edited by N. Marzouki, O. Roy ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and social relations. Through studies of conversions across the region this book examines the challenges that conversions represent for national, legal and policy ways of dealing with religious minorities. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Corruption and Governance in Africa

    Swaziland, Kenya, Nigeria

    by Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume analyzes the corruption phenomenon in Africa and how to combat it from a governance perspective with illustrated case studies from three of the most corrupt of those nations covering, respectively, the Southern Africa region (Swaziland); the Eastern Africa region (Kenya); and the Western Africa region (Nigeria). Drawing on the available data, research literature, and field practice ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Public-Private Partnerships in Health

    Improving Infrastructure and Technology

    Edited by Veronica Vecchi, Mark Hellowell ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector. The PPP model represents the most complex form of contracting transaction yet to have emerged in the health sector, owing to its long-term character, financial complexity, and risk-allocation mechanisms. This book ... Read more

    $49.99 USD