Pathways to Positive Public Administration : : An International Perspective.
"In an era of low trust in government and a pervasive negativity bias, this volume goes against the grain. It examines the foundations, practices and tools of a distinctly positive strand of public administration (PPA). This book asserts that there is a perennial need for social, evidence-based...
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| Superior document: | Successful Public Governance Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Successful Public Governance Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (490 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledegements
- 1. An optimistic state? Pathways to positive public administration
- PART I Foundations
- 2. Positive public administration's long history
- 3. Beyond the binary: understanding success and failure
- 4. A configurational approach to positivity: analyzing pathways to success and achievement in public administration
- Insight 1 Positivity in public administration: what's love got to do with it?
- PART II Practices
- Insight 2. Reducing administrative burdens: the case of the US student loan forgiveness website
- 5. Burkina Faso's surprisingly successful effort to abandon female genital mutilation and cutting
- 6. Making Indigenous self-government happen in Canada
- 7. Puerto Rico's independent community aqueducts: service delivery in a complex setting
- 8. Positive public administration for sustainable development: the crucial role of municipalities in driving success
- 9. What explains the performance of participatory governance?
- 10. Improving the public purse: the Kenya Revenue Authority as an example of positive public administration in Africa
- 11. Delivering immigration services: a case of positive public administration in Kenya
- 12. Understanding and learning from positive policy interventions in the context of Latin American public administration
- 13. Pandemic partnerships: politicians, public servants, and the people of Aotearoa New Zealand
- 14. Positive public administration in developing countries during crises: the case of Covid-19 in Pakistan
- 15. Bhutan's pandemic response and vaccination campaign: lessons on positive public administration
- Insight 3. Disruption, iteration, and policy success: lessons from six US cases
- PART III Tools.
- 16. Transnational approaches to improving public services: the case of the open government partnership
- 17. The Aarhus Model: countering the global wicked problem of radicalization with local pragmatist collaborations
- Insight 4. Leveraging public-private partnerships for positive public administration in South Africa
- 18. Power to the stakeholders: how co-production turned around a green energy blunder in Ontario, Canada
- 19. Sensegiving in multicultural contexts: the role of cultural chameleonizing in the implementation of Mauritius's light rail transit system
- 20. The role of cultural competency in crafting and delivering public services
- 21. The party politics of policy endurance: parliamentary settlements in Norway, 1980-2021
- 22. From brown to green: repurposing public procurement
- 23. All together now: sustainable solid waste management through interlocal collaboration in Mexico
- Index.