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This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the above fields and their numerous subfields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields and subfields, the entries make use of various theoretical, empirical, analytical, practical, and methodological bases of knowledge.

Expanded and updated, the second edition includes over a thousand of new entries representing the most current research in public administration, public policy, governance, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and management covering such important sub-areas as: 1. organization theory, behavior, change and development; 2. administrative theory and practice; 3. Bureaucracy; 4. public budgeting and financial management; 5. public economy and public management 6. public personnel administration and labor-management relations; 7. crisis and emergency management; 8. institutional theory and public administration; 9. law and regulations; 10. ethics and accountability; 11. public governance and private governance; 12. Nonprofit management and nongovernmental organizations; 13. Social, health, and environmental policy areas; 14. pandemic and crisis management; 15. administrative and governance reforms; 16. comparative public administration and governance; 17. globalization and international issues; 18. performance management; 19. geographical areas of the world with country-focused entries like Japan, China, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe, North America; and 20. a lot more.

Relevant to professionals, experts, scholars, general readers, researchers, policy makers and manger, and students worldwide, this work will serve as the most viable global reference source for those looking for an introduction and advance knowledge to the field.

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Table of Contents:

Accounting for Public Debt and Deficit.- Alternative Marketing Strategies in Nonprofit Organizations.- Budget Approval and the Legislative Process.- Bureaucratic Structure.- Community Resilience and Crisis Management.- Consular Emergency Management.- Dictatorships and Nonprofit Organizations .- Donor Withdrawal and the Implications for Public Governance in Latin America.- Economic Liberalization and Governance.- Governing and Managing International and Global Organizations.- Government Structure in Russia.- Integrated Reporting.- Lean in the Public Sector .- Modernizing Procurement.- OSHA as a Social Policy.- Population Policy, China.- Security and Public Policy in Turkey.- Stakeholders Perspective in Nonprofit Organizations.- Tourism Policy.- Volunteers in Public Service.- Youth Unemployment in Egypt.

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