Civil Service & Public Sector

The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century provides a broad, comprehensive overview of the ...

The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century provides a broad, comprehensive overview of the ...

Examines the balance between the market, government and civic sectors and makes comparisons with other postcommunist countries.

Examining public service from the perspective of the worker, this book provides a new framework for understanding the roles and responsibilities of...

Jeff Luke's book is simply outstanding and a must read for those public leaders interested in advancing the common good. ?John Bryson, professor of...

Replete with practical advice for anyone considering a career in federal, state, or local government, "Caught between the Dog and the Fireplug, or ...

In Governance in the Twenty-first Century Canadian and international experts recognize both the difficulty of making predictions and the need to co...

Made to fill the major gap in the literature on public administration applied in development. This title provides a review of the state-of-the-art ...

Peterson’s Master the Public Safety Dispatcher/911 Operator Exam test prep guide provides everything you need to succeed on the exam: Discover ...

A complete guide to applied research, featuring original data and detailed case studies Applied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizat...

What is good government? Why do some governments fail ? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to p...

For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the advanced industrial world. In the last three...

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to pu...

This widely acclaimed work provides a lively counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made show...

In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy has been developing. These approaches, drawing on discursive analysis and particip...

In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy has been developing. These approaches, drawing on discursive analysis and particip...

Throughout the 1980s Mrs Thatcher dominated political life in the UK and Thatcherism became the shorthand for a series of political initiatives all...

For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the advanced industrial world. In the last three...

Why does public management–the art of the state–so often go wrong, producing failure and fiasco instead of public service? What are the different w...

This is a study of papal bureaucracy during the Renaissance, a time when the Pope was among the most powerful of European rulers. The men who ran t...

Bureaucratic Elites in West European States provides valuable information about the structures and composition of the higher civil service and its ...

This volume analyses the way in which the Japanese civil service has contributed to Japan's phenomenally successful economic growth and the lessons...