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...