Public Administration

Succeeding in the art of contemporary policymaking involves designing policies which reflect the deeply interconnected nature of political space. N...

Canadas parliamentary system has been characterized as executive-dominant, with governance focused on the centre, and scholars have paid little att...

Real property disposal is the process by which federal agencies identify and then transfer, donate, or sell real property they no longer need. Disp...

Cost efficiency was the initial goal of privatization--achieved in many cases but not consistently. Public services provided by the private sect...

Planned federal information technology (IT) spending has now risen to at least $81 billion for fiscal year 2012. Although a variety of best practic...

In fiscal year 2012, the federal government obligated $307 billion to acquire services ranging from the management and operation of government faci...

For over three decades, the law has recognised the importance of encouraging Federal employees to come forward with reports of any violation of any...

Dr Henry Littlejohn's Report on the Sanitary Condition of Edinburgh (1865) was a landmark in urban management and public health administration. The...

The civil rights problem of the mid-twentieth century was one of the greatest challenges to the American social fabric since the Civil War. Riots i...

This book, Applied Social Sciences: Administration and Management, is a compelling collection of quantitative and qualitative studies in the fields...

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, ph...

The federal government first supported a program for energy storage and electric power system technology during the 1970s, before the establishment...

Over the last thirty years, several disciplines and sub-disciplines have emerged to deepen our understanding of public policy. However, this litera...

This book summaries the background, methods, and key findings of the final report produced for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and N...

Coupled with increasing concerns about the environment, the magnitude of federal spending on contracts has prompted numerous questions from Members...

On 1 March 2013, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the President ordered an across-the-board cancellation ...

An other transaction (OT) is a special vehicle used by federal agencies for obtaining or advancing research and development (R&D) or prototyp...

The Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain is vulnerable to the risk of counterfeit parts, which have the potential to delay missions and ultimat...

Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government policy. The pursuit of the pu...

Threats to federal information technology (IT) infrastructure and systems continue to grow in number and sophistication. The ability to make federa...

Sequestration is a process of automatic, largely across-the-board spending reductions to meet or enforce certain budget policy goals. In the 1990s,...

Budgeting for the federal government is an enormously complex process. It entails dozens of sub-processes, countless rules and procedures, the effo...