What, fundamentally, is public management? This question is rarely answered clearly and confidently, whether by students of public management or academics in the field. This book answers this questio
"Barzelay provides a convincing and coherent interdisciplinary framework for public sector management policy, which helps bridge the practitioner-academic divide. Public officials involved in reform p
While the Clinton Administration and federal agencies were busy making government cost less and work better in the near-term, the U.S. Air Force was regularly visualizing the competencies needed to a
This book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to
I started writing "A Book of Verse" in 1976......5 years after we tragically lost my three year old daughter, my five month old son and my 21 year old sister in law. We almost lost our 2 year old son
UNIX expert Randal K. Michael guides you through every detail of writing shell scripts to automate specific tasks. Each chapter begins with a typical, everyday UNIX challenge, then shows you how to ta
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