Civil Service & Public Sector Books

New and Published Books

1. Privatization of Public Services

   Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe

   Edited by Christoph Hermann, Jörg Flecker

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

   Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend....

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Professional Development of Teacher Educators

   Edited by Tony Bates, Anja Swennen, Ken Jones

   This book makes a significant contribution to a hitherto much neglected area. The book brings together a wide range of papers on a scale rarely seen with a geographic spread that enhances our understanding of the complex journey undertaken by those who aspire to become teachers of teachers. The...

   Published October 24th 2010 by Routledge
4. Fundraising Management

   Analysis, Planning and Practice

   By Adrian Sargeant, Elaine Jay

   This comprehensive introduction to fundraising management provides a thorough grounding in the principles underpinning professional practice. Much more than a ‘how-to’ guide, the book critically examines the key issues in fundraising policy, planning and implementation, and introduces the most...

   Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
5. Co-production

   The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

   Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen

   Public management research has in recent years paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. Evidence of this is the rising number of publications on the topic, as well as a growing number of sessions and papers on the topic in academic...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
6. Human Resource Management in the Public Sector

   Edited by Rona S Beattie, Stephen Osborne

   HRM is a core element public service organizations, whose employees are often their most valuable resource. This outstanding book tackles the subject head on, bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of respected international authors....

   Published March 27th 2008 by Routledge
7. The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations

   By David Lewis

   The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field of NGO management. It sets out the field for researchers with a new and original conceptual framework, contains a comprehensive review of existing literature from a...

   Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge
8. Making Policy Happen

   Edited by Leslie Budd, Julie Charlesworth, Rob Paton

   ‘Policy work’ is increasingly conducted by public managers at different levels of seniority, and in a variety of settings. This significant collection of readings focuses on the discussion of how policy work happens, whether that involves bringing a policy-making process to fruition or the...

   Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge
9. Evidence-Based Medicine

   In its Place

   Edited by Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, Gavin Mooney

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This superb collection takes a critical view of this concept and examines the economic implications of its imposition....

   Published May 17th 2006 by Routledge
10. Lessons in Leadership

    Meeting the Challenges of Public Service Management

    By Eileen Milner, Paul Joyce

    Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector. The book covers: the tensions that can arise between administrative/bureaucratic traditions and the leadership styles required...

    Published March 2nd 2005 by Routledge