Best public affairs & administration books according to redditors
We found 25 Reddit comments discussing the best public affairs & administration books. We ranked the 10 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Others have responded about the policies you're speaking on themselves, but I just wanted to point out something most people overlook. It doesn't matter if they're a Republican or Democrat, Presidents once elected largely follow through on their campaign promises. Older literature include Fishel's book Presidents and Promises and Krukone's Promises and Performances which detail a lot of the period up to the 1980's. Newer studies, that have been neatly summarized in this 538 article, show that this is consistent with more recent Presidents as well. Trump following through on (in my opinion bad policy but obviously we might disagree) promises isn't an aberration, it's pretty standard practice.
May I recommend this book. We used it in one of my MPA courses and I found it very interesting and easy to read.
The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerilla Government, 2nd Edition (Public Affairs and Policy Administration Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452226318/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_YrUQDbR0JK5MX
Samantha Power's book "A Problem From Hell" is an excellent book on American non-intervention in genocides, beginning from the Armenian Genocide.
>Most of the literature suggests that presidents make at least a “good faith” effort to keep an average of about two-thirds of their campaign promises; the exact numbers differ from study to study, depending on how the authors define what counts as a campaign promise and what it means to keep it.
If you did research and the experiment failed that would count as a good faith attempt.
I expect that means the only lies you tell at work are social lies to coworkers.
Lying would be either you didn't bother to do the experiment or you did and lied about the results.
We have had substantial problems in Canada and Ontario with politicians actually lying about campaign promises.
Not as bad as trump but still unacceptable.
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Well there are books written about it. The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy
And here is a good one. Parkinson’s sufferer arrested in Leatherhead for ‘not smiling’
It is free for those of you who have a kindle!
There's a book about the Nixon-Hughes scandal. I've never read it but I see it in my local bookstore every time I go in (and am always amused by its tagline and cover). But I just assumed that it — like every other Nixon scandal — was ultimately overshadowed by Watergate and largely forgotten by history.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Nixon-Hughes-Loan-One-Repaid/dp/B000IDHFRK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413234587&sr=8-1&keywords=nixon+hughes+loan
Hey! I'm studying program development for my masters in macro social work right now and recommend the book Trying Hard Is Not Good Enough. https://www.amazon.com/Trying-Hard-Good-Enough-Anniversary/dp/1516971620
Of course you should take the results based approach with a grain of salt - not everything is about results. But it's a helpful way of thinking for grants and forming your model.
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PUBLIC POLICY | Edition: 6TH 18; Author: KRAFT; ISBN: 9781506358154
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For anyone interested this is a pretty decent introduction to some anecdotal examples of unintended consequences in socio-economic situations. - https://www.amazon.com/Unintended-Consequences-Improve-Government-Businesses/dp/0615593577