Download or read book Measuring Quality in Planning written by Matthew Carmona and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with one of the current major debates in planning: how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the planning process. It deals with issues of defining quality, public sector management, the use of indicators and the planning process. Although case study material is drawn from UK practice this topic is universal and the authors include discussions of international practice and experience.
Download or read book Follow the Money written by Duncan Campbell-Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on politics and government take a view from the top down. They focus on the individuals and institutions that set policies in place and make the laws. But how are these policies and laws translated into action on the ground, where their success or failure helps determine the day to day running of schools and hospitals, police forces and councils? This is the much less familiar territory explored by Follow The Money. It tells the story of the men and women responsible for keeping track of the money spent locally on public services since the early 1980s. What emerges is a rare behind-the-scenes account of the political world in which central government edicts come up against the reality of how things are made to happen at the grass roots. Follow The Money shows how the Commission has helped over 25 years to transform the management of public services, including the NHS, while mediating in an often tense relationship between central and local government from the Thatcher era to the years of New Labour. The result, encompassing a string of scandals and battles between town hall and Whitehall, is a compelling narrative for which an accounting qualification is most certainly not required.
Download or read book Beyond the Citizen s Charter written by Ian Bynoe and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Museum Provision and Professionalism written by Gaynor Kavanagh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything that the political climate and the imagination allows them to be. No two museums are the same. The papers which make up this volume give ample evidence of the variety of views that exist about museums. They also demonstrate that museums and museum professionals are moving forward with energy and conviction. This volume will be invaluable to students and museum professionals and will provoke them to consider museum provision and professionalism in all their forms.
Download or read book Current Good Practices and New Developments in Public Sector Service Management written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an update to the 1996 portfolio and continues to provide a framework for building and sustaining effective public service organisations, based on current good practice and the wide experience of senior public sector managers throughout the Commonwealth. The second edition contains much of the original material, now up-dated together with several new sections. The Portfolio update is designed to be used as a companion resource to the Public Service Country Profiles which, together, can be used as a basis for benchmarking to compare activities and best practices across different national settings.
Download or read book Guidelines for Evaluation of Environmental Health Services written by Christina H. Drew and published by WHO Regional Office Europe. This book was released on 2000 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to concepts, methods, and instruments for conducting an evaluation of environmental health services. Noting that managers frequently overlook the importance of evaluation, the book also performs a persuasive function, serving to illustrate the advantages of evaluation for purposes ranging from the justification of continuing expenditure to assurance that public health is being adequately protected from hazards in food, air or water. Throughout the book, examples of evaluations conducted in European countries are used to show how different approaches work to resolve specific practical problems. The book has six chapters. The first provides a general introduction to the purpose, principles and components of evaluation, as well as procedures that are frequently used. Chapter two applies these general principles to the specific setting of environmental health services, where process, impact, relevance, and adequacy of services may need to be assessed. Factors that make such services difficult to evaluate through traditional mechanisms are also briefly discussed. Against this background, a chapter on data and indicators provides detailed advice on the choice of indicators, concentrating on the use of process, environmental health, and urban indicators. Chapter four, on instruments for evaluation, outlines the strengths and weaknesses of several methods of data collection, giving particular attention to tools for economic analysis and qualitative evaluation. The remaining chapters cover the use of results in management decisions and set out five case studies of evaluations recently conducted in Europe.
Download or read book The Citizen s Charter written by J. A. Chandler and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work aims to offer more concrete information about John Major's initiative on the Citizen's Charter. It emerges from a conference - The Waves of Change: Public Management in the 1990s, organised in 1993 by the Sheffield Business School. Some of the papers have been much revised.
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Download or read book Public Management Policy making ethics and accountability in public management written by Stephen P. Osborne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, the public sector has been undergoing major changes throughout the Western industrialized world, the transitional economies of central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and South East Asia. The main thrust of these changes has been to bring public sector management practices closer to those of the private sector. This raises the question of how far public and private sector management are comparable. This set examines the relationships between public sector and private sector management in terms of both classical management theory and the new public management that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. While the collection concentrates on articles from the last 20 years, some historical pieces are also included. The four volumes are arranged along the following lines: volume 1 - for and against the public sector; volume 2 - managing the plural state; volume 3 - broadening the public management perspective; and volume 4 - from policy to practice in public services.
Download or read book The Citizen s Charter written by Great Britain. Prime Minister and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "White Paper". - On cover & title page: Citizen's charter: improving service
Download or read book Towards Improving Governance written by S. K. Agarwal and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled to identify both sound and unproductive practices while suggesting advancements for India's governance, this volume seeks to analyze India's efforts made towards progress and to eradicate corruption. Containing previous exemplary initiatives and information about public-domain tools, this resource deals with the perception of governance in India and its status in the monopolistic services including the four major ones--the police, judiciary, income tax, and property registration. This account also discusses citizens' charters, the right to information, e-governance, social audits, report cards, and the integrity pact as means for positive development.
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Download or read book The Participation of Citizens in Local Public Life written by Council of Europe. Committee of Ministers and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Challenging Corporate Rule written by Robert W. Benson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete text of the historic complaint by a coalition of some 25 local, state and national women's environmental and other civil society organizations to the California Attorney General to revoke the corporate charter of Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL). The foreword by Ronnie Dugger, Chair of the Alliance for Democracy, and introduction by author Robert W. Benson, Professor of Law at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, seek to place charter revocation in the broader context of the struggle for democratic control of giant corporations. The introduction also provides concrete suggestions on challenging corporate rule in other states. A practical guide to citizen action against corporations, and must reading for all who cherish the democratic ideals on which this country was founded and who are prepared to join the struggle for their realization.
Download or read book Guide to Participatory Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Serbia and Montenegro written by Patrick Greer and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most worrying phenomena of the current European scene is the growing disenchantment of many ordinary citizens with politics. Political problems are increasingly complex and technical in nature, and the democratic process is perceived as making little difference to their solution. The mass media contribute to this development by superficial reporting which encourages the public to regard politics as a kind of "spectator sport". The most effective remedy must be to involve citizens themselves in policy development and decision making on issues which they understand. Such issues are easiest to identify at local level and involvement can most readily be organised within the local community. This guide was designed as an awareness-raising and training tool for local politicians and staff, NGO activists and ordinary citizens, national associations of local authorities and training providers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia-Montenegro.
