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This volume analyzes the key issues that must be addressed by college and university administrators in order to meet the rising costs of higher education, shrinking enrollments, more diverse student populations, and the trend toward evaluation and assessment of programmes and students.

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

"In Building the Virtual State, Jane Fountain explains how government must evolve to become part of the Internet revolution. Fountain calls on government agencies to abandon outmoded bureaucratic tendencies in favor of a less centralized approach to providing services. This requires a change not only in the way government executives think, but also in the way they view their relationships with citizens. They must answer questions regarding costs and...

This dictionary provides brief definitions of terms used in international public-management and governance parlance. The definitions were chosen to reflect terms one is most likely to come across in the international literature and are give primarily from the organizational and public-policy perspectives. Bhatta (a senior governance specialist at the Asian Development Bank) has sacrificed depth in explanation for breadth in coverage. Annotation :2006...

Weaves together the teachings on nature and the sacred among indigenous and immigrant culture groups in the United States, the relevant constitutional history of religion and government action, and analyzes the relevant constitutional history of religion and government action as well as contemporary conflicts over culture, religion, and public lands management. [back cover].

"The federal government is finding it increasingly difficult to faithfully execute the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called "the true test" of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes, and proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of the federal government. Employing Hamilton's seven measures of an energetic federal service, Paul Light shows how the government is wanting in each measure."--BOOK JACKET....