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Public management increasingly takes place in multilevel settings, since most countries are decentralized to one degree or another and most problems transcend and cut across administrative and geographical borders. A collaboration of scholars in the Transnational Initiative on Governance Research and Education (TIGRE Net), Making Multilevel Public Management Work: Stories of Success and Failure from Europe and North America brings together two strands of literature-multilevel governance and public management-and draws conclusions on practices of public management in multilevel governance settings.The book focuses on how to make multilevel public management work. Using an inductive logic, the editors study a particular case or a few selected cases, highlight lessons learned and implications, and identify trends and concerns. The book underscores factors essential to making multilevel public management work, namely coordination and collaboration, and new skills and leadership capacities. It discusses the pitfalls of creating networks instead of managing them and the importance of finding the right leadership skills, institutional design, and network management mechanisms to avoid deadlock and manage conflict effectively.Multilevel public management creates multiple opportunities and their accompanying challenges. By bringing together case studies in Europe and North America, this book identifies conditions for success and those under which such governance arrangements fail. Demonstrating the insights gained by the cross-fertilization of ideas, the book has also been strengthened by the participation of researchers from various disciplines, including public management, political science and international relations, economics, as well as administrative law. The interdisciplinary nature of the scholarship provides a complete and compelling portrait of multilevel public management as practiced and studied on two continents. The book opens the debate on what is needed to make it work

A conflict management reference which covers theoretical perspectives, strategic models, and situational contexts. It sets precedents for furthering academic study and real-world progress in managing diverse instances of conflict. It provides techniques to promote peaceful negotiation, cooperation, and consensus.

Although it has been more than 20 years since Communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, many scholars and politicians still wonder what the lifting of the Iron Curtain has really meant for these former Communist countries. And, because these countries were largely closed off to the world for so long, there has yet to be an all-inclusive study on their administrative systems-until now.In Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries: Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia, expert contributors supply a comprehensive overview and analysis of public administration in their respective post-Communist countries. They illustrate each country''s transformation from an authoritarian system of governance into a modern, market-based, and in some cases, democratic government. The book covers the countries that were officially part of the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan); those that were theoretically independent but were subject to Soviet-dominated Communist rule (Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Poland); as well as a satellite republic that was under significant Soviet influence (Mongolia). Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the specific country, an overview of politics and administration, and discussions on key aspects of public management and administration-including human resource management, public budgeting, financial management, corruption, accountability, political and economic reform, civil society, and prospects for future development in the region. The book concludes by identifying common themes and trends and pinpointing similarities and differences to supply you with a broad comparative perspective.

Examines issues surrounding the regulation and sale of alcohol with unbiased focus. This title looks at the foundation and basis for our regulatory policy and how that foundation has shifted with changes in the law, marketing, consumer influence, and the impact of alcohol on society.

Presenting vital information for those involved in court administration and those who are considering becoming involved, this title offers fresh ways to approach justifying a court's base budget needs. It presents a fresh perspective on the role of court administrators.

Discusses North America's response capability regarding infectious diseases, including those resulting from bioterrorism. This work also presents research that addresses different model interventions, including for SARS, smallpox, and TB. It also covers topics including respiratory protection and ventilation models.

Suitable for researchers, academics, and policymakers both public and private, this book demonstrates in broad terms how globalization presents various threats to national sovereignty, the environment and public health, tends to increase worldwide inequality, and produces global insecurity.

Examines the innovations, strategies, and issues fueling the civil service reform debate. Offering diverse perspectives from expert contributors, this book looks at accomplished and considered reforms across the US, paying particular attention to questions regarding the operation, fairness and future of merit systems.

Takes a communications-oriented approach to a wide range of topics encompassing organization, management, political theory and practice, business-government relations, innovation processes, and IT. This book addresses typically neglected subjects such as communicating through humor, drama, film, poetry, fiction, and other creative forms.

Offers an overview of the principles and applications of government administration and management practices in the local public sector. Written by over 25 academics and professionals, this book covers the effects of environmental conditions on local administrators and management techniques to administration in different types of local government.

Examining various methods of debt management used in the US, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of securities offered for sale by municipalities, states, and the federal government. It covers laws regarding municipal bonds, the economic choice between debt and taxes and the tax-exempt status of municipal bond owners.

Offers an analysis of the basic issues and major aspects of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, public policy, and public administration in historical and contemporary perspectives. This book examines theoretical, philosophical, and empirical interpretations.

Integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property - focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations.

This book reviews the evolution of organization theory literature and explains other theories of organization and the implicit wisdom of the instructor's favorite theory. It helps the reader to understand the relevance of organization theory to the problems of administering public organizations.

Focuses on the state of the EU while also demonstrating how its structure came into being and how it may change in future. This book provides an overview of theory discourses on European integration, followed by an analysis of the development of European organizations. It explains the nature of the EU, highlighting its institutions.

Elucidates a method to identify, manage, and control transformations in the provision of health services during elevated levels of bioterrorist threat. This book outlines procedures for training personnel, maintaining working relationships among various groups, and coping with the threat of bioweaponry.

Offers an understanding of proliferation risks. This book introduces the factors that fuel weapons development, and defines the term WMD. It explains the characteristics of nuclear weapons, and reviews biological agents, their production and uses as weapons. It characterizes chemical weapons and their use by states and terrorist groups.

Offers a study of economic, state, social, and international restructuring. This work considers the impact of globalized knowledge on society and its effects on societal norms, values, and quality of life and contains theories and practices for both scholars and practitioners interested in policy development and implementation.

Examines the public and private roles of the citizen as a moral agent. This work explains that public administration is a moral enterprise that serves the values that society considers significant, and that this moral nature makes public administration a prototype for other professions to emulate, a model of moral governance in American society.

Offers a survey of disaster response behavior and management in the face of natural and man-made catastrophe. This work provides an empirical platform from which to initiate an analysis of disaster management. It demonstrates the divide between individual responses to disaster and the actual functioning of disaster management organizations.

A resource for process improvement and innovation, it includes techniques to identify and improve organizational processes, as well as manage the change that accompanies implementation. It discusses SWOT analysis, TQM, systematic innovation, Six Sigma, quality function deployment, process mapping, gap analysis, and activity based costing.

Examines theories, policies, and sectoral priorities and various social, economic, and administrative factors that impact worldwide modernization and development. This book emphasizes the fact that communities must evaluate continuously and adjust their program activities in order to achieve a genuine mode of development.

Addresses the judicial, correctional, and law enforcement components of the criminal justice system, including history, ethics, intervention, and international consequences. Covering trends in crime, delinquency, policing, and civil disorder, this title examines critical variations in the criminal justice systems of countries worldwide.

Analyzes OB from a business marketing perspective - offering a treatment of central, soon-to-be central, contiguous, and topics of OB to facilitate greater viability and demand of OB practice. This book covers strategic and critical issues of the OB field with descriptive analyses and documentation.

Drawing on disciplines political economics, public management, and urban affairs, this book offers an information on policy and managerial issues important to local and national economic development. It examines the role of government in economic advances and reform. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of economic expansion.

Public administration is considered to be a field of practice. Yet, as an academic discipline it relies on a vast history of literature. Students preparing to embark on their careers must identify theoretical relationships and understand how they link to practice. This book offers a framework to help them decipher key approaches. The framework is presented in 3 main conceptual components with prescriptions for practice: Constitutional (the bureaucrat), Discretionary (the entrepreneur), and Collaborative/Direct Democratic (the steward). The textbook includes a course outline for instructors and corresponding lecture slides on CD, and question and answer sets for students.

Examining emergency responses to environmental dangers and natural disasters, this book provides coverage of a range of international issues using empirical and quantitative analyses. It discusses various approaches to such topics as resolving political tension, the potential use of biological weapons, and the role of public relations in crisis.

The south Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka face enormous challenges and opportunities in terms of population growth, localized poverty and prosperity, citizen access to services, governmental transparency, and national security. The first comprehensive, comparative treatment of public administration issues in the region, this book offers practical and in-depth discussions of new reforms and innovative practices as well as topics relevant to public administration practices¿including performance management, civil service, policy processes, ethics, and e-government.

Emphasizing the challenges created by technological change, the threat of terrorism, and the globalization of the world economy, this handbook explores the continuing development of transportation systems in the US and other nations and discusses how decisions on transportation contribute to a broad range of political, social, and economic goals.