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1. Paying Our High Public Officials

   Evaluating the Political Justifications of Top Wages in the Public Sector

   By Teun J. Dekker

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

   In almost every liberal democratic society, an issue that is a topic of constant and passionate public discussion is how much that country’s ministers, legislators, senior civil servants, and senior judges should be paid. Nor is this surprising; the issue has considerable voyeuristic appeal,...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
2. Disaster Resiliency

   Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, Fernando I. Rivera

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

   Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Leadership and Policy Innovation – From Clinton to Bush

   Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

   By Joseph R. Cerami

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

   Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and international community have accelerated. Given the attention...

   Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism

   Comparative Analyses

   By Naim Kapucu

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

   High performance during catastrophic terrorist events require the ability to assess and adapt capacity rapidly, restore or enhance disrupted or inadequate communications, utilize flexible decision making swiftly, and expand coordination and trust between multiple emergency and crisis response...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. A Complexity Theory for Public Policy

   By Göktuğ Morçöl

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

   Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have been applied by scholars of public affairs in...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge