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Pathways to positive public administration : an international perspective / edited by Patrick Lucas, Tina Nabatchi, Janine O'Flynn and Paul 't Hart.

"Situated in an era of low trust in government and a pervasive negativity bias that has shaped the field, this insightful volume examines the foundations, practices and tools of a distinctly positive strand of public administration (PPA). It advocates for a more optimistic approach to the study...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Lucas, Patrick (Editor), Nabatchi, Tina (Editor), O'Flynn, Janine (Editor), Hart, Paul 't (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2024.
Series:Successful public governance.
Subjects:
Public administration.
Political planning.
Table of Contents:
  • An optimistic state? : Pathways to positive public administration / Patrick Lucas, Tina Nabatchi, Janine O'Flynn and Paul 't Hart
  • Part I: Foundations
  • Positive public administration's long history / Grant Duncan
  • Beyond the binary : understanding success and failure / Matthew Flinders
  • A configurational approach to positivity : analyzing pathways to success and achievement in public administration / Fernando Nieto-Morales and Liesbet Heyse
  • Insight : Positivity in public administration what's love got to do with it? / Susan Keim
  • Part II: Practices
  • Insight 2: Reducing administrative burdens : the case of the US student loan forgiveness website / Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan
  • Burkina Faso's surprisingly successful effort to abandon female genital mutilation and cutting / Susan L. Ostermann and Josephine Wouango
  • Making Indigenous self-government happen in Canada / Mason Ducharme, Susanne Thiessen, and Evert Lindquist
  • Puerto Rico's independent community aqueducts : service delivery in a complex setting / Omar Pérez Figueroa and Nicola Ulibarri
  • Positive public administration for sustainable development : the crucial role of municipalities in driving success / Jonas J. Schoenefeld, Friederike Edel, Iris Behr, Birte Frommer, Michèle Bernhard, and Britta Stein
  • What explains the performance of participatory governance? / Nicolas W. Jager and Jens Newig
  • Improving the public purse : the Kenya Revenue Authority as an example of positive public administration in Africa / Gedion Onyango
  • Delivering immigration services : a case of positive public administration in Kenya / Eric E. Otenyo
  • Understanding and learning from positive policy interventions in the context of Latin American public administration / Pablo Sanabria-Pulido and Cristian Pliscoff
  • Pandemic partnerships : politicians, public servants, and the people of Aotearoa New Zealand / Verna Smith, Lesley Middleton, Jocelyn Cranefield, and Lina Guo
  • Positive public administration in developing countries during crises : the case of Covid-19 in Pakistan / Usman W. Chohan
  • Bhutan's pandemic response and vaccination campaign : lessons on positive public administration / Sigay Dem
  • Insight 3: Disruption, iteration, and policy success : lessons from six US cases / Richard F. Callahan and John Kirlin
  • Part III: Tools
  • Transnational approaches to improving public services : the case of the open government partnership / Alex Ingrams, Suzanne J. Piotrowski, and Daniel Berliner
  • The Aarhus Model : countering the global wicked problem of radicalization with local pragmatist collaborations / Scott Douglas
  • Insight 4: Leveraging public-private partnerships for positive public administration in South Africa / Ndangwa Noyoo and Minenhle Matela
  • Power to the stakeholders : how co-production turned around a green energy blunder in Ontario, Canada / Matt Wilder
  • Sensegiving in multicultural contexts : the role of cultural chameleonizing in the implementation of Mauritius's light rail transit system / Emamdeen Fohim, Adeelah Kodabux, and Amar Kumar Seeam
  • The role of cultural competency in crafting and delivering public services / Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes and Thai V. Le
  • The party politics of policy endurance : parliamentary settlements in Norway, 1980-2021 / Jostein Askim, Bjørn Mo Forum, and Bent Sofus Tranøy
  • From brown to green : repurposing public procurement / Ana-Maria Dimand and Milena I. Neshkova
  • All together now : sustainable solid waste management through interlocal collaboration in Mexico / Alejandra Medina and José Sánchez.

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