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The persistence of innovation in government
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ISBN: 9780815725602 0815725604 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Brookings institution press


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Governing fables : learning from public sector narratives
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ISBN: 1617354929 1617354902 9781617354922 9781617354908 9781617354915 1617354910 Year: 2011 Publisher: Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub.,

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Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills politicians and public servants need in their careers. Governing Fables turns to narratology, the inter-disciplinary study of narrative, for a conceptual framework that is applied to a set of narratives engaging life within public organizations, focusing on works produced during the last twenty-five years in the US and UK. The genres discussed include British government narratives inspired by and reacting to Yes Minister, British appeasement narratives, American political narratives, the Cuban Missile Crisis narrative, jury decision-making narratives, and heroic teacher narratives. In each genre lessons are presented regarding both effective management and essential narrative skills.

Innovating with integrity : how local heroes are transforming American government
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ISBN: 0878406883 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): Georgetown university press

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Innovations in government : research, recognition, and replication
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ISBN: 0815710305 Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press,

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"Answers questions on the future of government innovation and its effect on citizens and democratic governance by presenting a comprehensive approach to advancing the practice and study of innovation in government. Discusses new research on innovation, explores the impact of programs that recognize innovation, and considers challenges to replicating innovations"--Provided by publisher.


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Political management in Canada
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ISBN: 9786612028359 1442678607 1282028359 9781442678606 0802042902 0802081231 9780802042903 9780802081230 Year: 1998 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press

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Allan Blakeney has been identified with Saskatchewan politics and government for forty years as a public servant, cabinet minister, premier, and leader of the opposition. A Rhodes scholar with an intellectual's perspective on governing, Blakeney brings a unique and valuable perspective to this study of political management.Presented in the form of a dialogue between the authors, the book provides a thorough examination of the roles of politicians and public servants and techniques of management in Westminster systems. What emerges is a sophisticated philosophy of statecraft that recognizes both politics and management, and underlines the importance of balancing the two.First published in 1992, Political Management in Canada is now available in a revised and updated edition. A new appendix shows how the book can complement the major political science and public administration texts currently in use in Canada.

The new public organization
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ISBN: 0920715958 Year: 2000 Publisher: Toronto Institute of public administration of Canada

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The language of the skies : the bilingual air traffic control conflict in Canada
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ISBN: 9780773560864 0773560866 0773504028 9780773504028 0773504036 9780773504035 1282850628 9786612850622 Year: 1983 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Institute of Public Administration of Canada

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Through extensive interviews with the key participants, Professor Borins reveals the interplay of organizational ideologies and interests and leaders' personalities that characterized the conflict. He traces its evolution from the early formation of a francophone pressure group, through the airline pilots' strike in June 1976 in support of the controllers, to the agreement between the pilots' and controllers' unions and the Minister of Transport which the French Canadians saw as a humiliating defeat, and to the eventual acknowledgement by the Clark government in August 1979 that bilingual air traffic control was safe. Borins discusses the implications of these events for public policy and French-English relations and concludes that the federal government's ability in this case to meet francophone demands quite rapidly is cause for optimism about the ability of the federal state to accommodate francophone aspirations.

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