Описание: Dwight D. Eisenhower once quipped, 'You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics'. Military acquisition and procurement - that is, how a nation manages investments, technologies, programs, and support - is critical to wartime success or failure. When unexpected battlefield problems arise, how do the government, the military, and industry work together to ensure effective solutions?During the American counterinsurgent campaign in Iraq, the improvised explosive device emerged as a disruptive and devastating threat. As Humvees, and their occupants, were ripped apart by IEDs, it was clear that new solutions had to be found. These solutions already existed but had not been procured, highlighting the need for more effective marketing to the military by industry. The ultimate successful response - the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP - required years of entrepreneurial marketing by the defense industry.In Securing theMRAP, James Hasik explores how these vehicles, which the American military mostly rejected despite the great need for them, eventually came to be adopted as the Pentagon's top procurement priority. Hasik traces the story of the MRAP from the early 1970s to the future of mine-resistant vehicles on the battlefields of tomorrow.An important contribution to the seemingly disparate fields of marketing and defence policy, Securing the MRAP is an eye-opening revelation to defence industrialists, military officers, and government officials who want to understand how to avoid another IED-Humvee debacle.
Автор: Michiel S. de Vries; Juraj Nemec; David ?pa?ek Название: Performance-Based Budgeting in the Public Sector ISBN: 3030020762 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030020767 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries. Beginning with a review of theoretical research on performance budgeting and financing, the book synthesises the numerous studies on the subject. The book describes the situation in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Netherlands and Italy, as well as in seven developing countries - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia and South Africa, at the national, and at the local level. Each chapter provides historical and descriptive details of successful or failed experiments in performance budgeting and performance financing.
Описание: Based on qualitative and quantitative data from study areas in Mali and Senegal, this book examines the relationship between population dynamics, livelihoods and environment in the Sahel region, focussing specifically on motives for migration.
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The book examines street level democratic processes through the experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in community development, youth work, public service delivery, urban public administration, immigration and multi-cultural social policy. These profiles and case studies show widely shared challenges in global and local urban environments, and new, "bottom-up," democratic and improvisational strategies that community members and public officials alike can use to make more inclusive, democratic cities.
Описание: Providing quality public service is one of the essential functions of a government. In the turbulent time, however, governments worldwide are experiencing a variety of unprecedented challenges to meet citizens' increasing demands and expectations. In China, building a service-oriented government and a harmonious society is central to the 12th Five-Year Plan and challenges the governance philosophies, capacities and competencies of Chinese government at every level. Researchers of Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (NCPA) at Nanyang Technological University systematically examined the concept of service-oriented government in the context of China and developed an assessment scheme to evaluate the performance of building service-oriented government in Chinese cities. Under the auspices of the Lien Foundation in Singapore, based on the assessment scheme, they conducted large-scale telephone surveys of citizens and businesses in 32 major Chinese cities in 2011. This book presents their findings and empirical studies on public service performance, citizen satisfaction, political trust and government transparency based on the data collected from the 2011 Lien project. Moreover, it also includes selected papers presented at the 2012 Lien International Conference on Public Administration in Singapore. Contributed by scholars from Mainland China, the US, Hong Kong and Singapore, these papers discuss various important issues related with building a service-oriented government including public ethical values, the roles of NGO, social accountability, urban integration, performance measurement and emotional labor in public service.
Автор: Bachrach Edgar H., Berg Austin Ray Название: The New Chicago Way: Lessons from Other Big Cities ISBN: 0809337517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780809337514 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Compares the decisions about Chicago`s governance and finances with choices made in fourteen other large US cities. The problems that seem unique to Chicago have been encountered elsewhere, and Chicagoans, the authors posit, can learn from the successful solutions other cities have embraced.
Автор: Mthuli Ncube, Charles Leyeka Lufumpa Название: Infrastructure in Africa: Lessons for future development ISBN: 1447326636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447326632 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 19006.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the state of infrastructure in Africa and provides an integrated analysis of the challenges the sector faces, based on extensive fieldwork across the continent, providing an important resource for researchers, students, policymakers and NGOs.
Автор: B.K. Agarwal Название: Land Registration: Global Practices and Lessons for India ISBN: 9386618869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789386618863 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6098.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Written by a senior Indian Administrative Service officer having extensive first-hand knowledge of land administration, this book fills the existing gap of research in the field of land registration and maintenance of title records in India.
Описание: This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment.
Chapter 1 Covid-19 Pandemic and Sustainability of Punjab Economy.- Chapter 2 Agriculture Sustainability in Punjab: A Way Forward.- Chapter 3 Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Punjab Agriculture.- Chapter 4 Need for Innovations in Crop Residue Management in Punjab: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 5 Farm Gardens: A Promising Approach to Enhance Food Security and Sustainability.- Chapter 6 Reforming Agricultural Markets in Punjab in the Context of Union Farm Acts for the Post-Covid-19 Recovery.- Chapter 7 Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Dairy Industry in Punjab: Major Concerns and Policy Options.- Chapter 8 Making Punjab's Urban Informal Sector More Resilient While Securing Livelihoods during Post-Covid-19 Times.- Chapter 9 Covid-19 and MSMEs in Punjab: Challenges Ahead.- Chapter 10 Implementation of Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) in Punjab: An Assessment of Performance of Scheduled Commercial Banks.- Chapter 11 Employment Participation of Rural Women in Punjab: A Need for Policy Retrospect.- Chapter 12 Covid-19 Pandemic and the Scheduled Caste Workers in Rural Punjab: A Need for Structural Transformation.- Chapter 13 Livelihood of Agricultural Labourers in Punjab: Emerging Policy Issues.- Chapter 14 Covid-19 and Health Care Services in Punjab: Consequences and Challenges.- Chapter 15 Making Quality Education Accessible to All: Policy Perspective on School Education in Punjab.- Chapter 16 Covid-19 Pandemic and the Service Sector of Punjab: An Assessment of Impact and Policies for Revival.- Chapter 17 Basic Human Needs and Non-State Actors in Punjab: Understanding the Lives of Poor Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 18 Punjab's Migration Crisis under Lockdown and Beyond: Some Suggestions for Public Policy.- Chapter 19 Diaspora Well-Being and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Some Reflections on Public Discourses on Impacts in the USA and UK.- Chapter 20 Governance Structure and Punjab Economy Under and Post-Covid-19 Lockdown.- Chapter 21 Punjab's Post-Covid-19 Economic Policy under Indian Federalism.- Chapter 22 Implications of Covid-19 on the Revenue of Punjab under GST Regime.- Chapter 23 Public Policy and Governance Reforms for Post-Covid-19 Recovery and Sustainable Growth and Development in Punjab.- Index.
Автор: Bowman, James S. (florida State University, Tallahassee, Usa) West, Jonathan P. (university Of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, Usa) Название: Public service ethics ISBN: 1138578193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138578197 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8879.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ethics—in all its exemplary and exhausting forms—matters. It deals with the most gripping question in public life: "What is the right thing to do?" Now in a thoroughly revised second edition, Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities introduces readers to this personally relevant and professionally challenging field of study. No matter the topic—the necessity of ethics, intriguing human behavior experiments, the role of ethics codes, whistleblowing incidents, corruption exposes, and the grandeur and decay of morality—there is no shortage of controversy. The book enables readers to: appreciate why ethics is essential to leadership; understand and apply moral development theory at the individual and organizational levels of analysis; differentiate between ethical problems and ethical dilemmas, and design creative ways to deal with them; develop abilities to use moral imagination and ethical reasoning—to appraise, argue, and defend an ethical position, and cultivate individual and institutional initiatives to improve ethical climate and infrastructure. Authors James Bowman and Jonathan West capture reader interest by featuring learning objectives, skill-building material, discussion questions, and exercises in each chapter.? The authors’ narrative is user-friendly and accessible, highlighting dilemmas and challenging readers to "own" the book by annotating the pages with one’s own ideas and insights, then interacting with others in a live or virtual classroom to stretch one’s thinking about the management of ethics and ethics of management. The ultimate goal is to bolster students’ confidence and prepare them for the ethical problems they will face in the future, equipping them with the conceptual frameworks and context to approach thorny questions and behave ethically.
Описание: Effective and impartial public administration is the foundation of state legitimacy. This was understood 4,500 years ago when Urukagina, the ruler of a small country in Mesopotamia, proclaimed the first known reform of public service. The quality of public administration will be even more important in the 21st century. Successful states will be those that recognise public service as a key determinant of national competitive advantage. That realisation will generate a radical change in the image of the civil servant -- from dull, uninspired public official to passionate advocate of the common good.This transformation will be the product of the complex challenges arising from the interweaving of globalisation with the '4th Industrial Revolution.' These and related developments are forcing governments around the world to search for public service that can respond to the unprecedented range of opportunities and threats emerging from a rapidly evolving international context. In an increasingly frenetic world ruled by 'Wicked Ostriches' and 'Black Elephants', governments require a civil service capable of achieving five outcomes: i) unlocking the creativity and collaborative spirit needed to solve complex problems; ii) overcoming the fallacy that the private sector is inherently more innovative and efficient than the public service; iii) developing societies that are perceived by their citizens as fair; iv) fostering the trust of citizens in their governments; and v) bolstering the legitimacy of the state.The author, who is Director of the United Nations Development Programme's Global Centre for Public Service Excellence in Singapore, suggests that these interconnected aims will result in a new phenomenon: the public recognition by political leaders and citizens that future prosperity, political stability, environmental sustainability and social cohesion are dependent on committed and creative civil servants passionate about promoting the long-term national interest.'I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.'Mahatma Gandhi
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