Public Budgeting

Fourth Edition

Patrick Fisher, Michael A. Taylor, & David C. Nice

• ISBN: 978-1-942456-23-0
• 2026
• Print: $74.00 (FREE shipping)
• Ebook: $56.00

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• Public budgeting is central to the operation of government and subject to multiple influences and non-discretionary programs. There exists a huge disparity between what citizens want government to provide and what they are willing to pay for in taxes, hence our growing national debt. This book is an attempt to explain the budgeting process and the many conflicting expectations and priorities the public has about the collection and spending of their taxes.

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Public Procurement

A Guide to the Body of Knowledge through Exercises and Case Studies

Third Edition

Alexandru V. Roman & Darin L. Matthews

• ISBN: 978-1-942456-22-3
• 2025
• $82.00 (FREE shipping)
• Ebook: $62.00

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• Aligned with the UPPCC Body of Knowledge
• Designed for both Students and Practitioners
• New Exercises on Mission and Vision, Cybersecurity, and Geopolitics

New for Instructors

• Instructor's Guide with suggested answers and interpretations to the exercises

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Lessons in Social Equity

A Case Study Book

Edited by Richard Greggory Johnson III & Seth J. Meyer

• ISBN: 978-1-942456-24-7
• 2022
• Print: $53.00 (FREE shipping)
• Ebook: $40.00

Ebook Functionality and Terms of Purchase

• In the twenty-first century, the most pressing, wicked problems all involve issues of social equity. To better train MPA and PhD students in how to foster social equity, they must be exposed to the complex dynamics involved in diagnosing, understanding, and resolving inequities, and reading and debating case studies is often the best way to facilitate classroom education on social equity. Still, to date, no such accessible compilation exists. This edited volume was created to address this need.

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Governmental Budgeting Workbook

Fourth Edition

David L. Baker, Marc K. Fudge & Alexandru V. Roman

• ISBN: 978-1-942456-13-1
• 2021
• Print: $33.00 (FREE shipping)
• Ebook: $25.00

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• Ideally suited for online courses
• Incorporates contemporary issues of diversity, social equity, environmental justice, climate change, police funding, and deployment of new technology
• Practical knowledge is reinforced through experiential based analysis of budgeting, case study evaluation, and role-play simulation
• Instructor's Guide available

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Avoiding Disappointment

Leadership Driven Factors that Produce Useful Strategic Plans

Second Edition

Thomas McWeeney

• ISBN: 97801-942456-12-4
• 2021
• $66.00 (FREE shipping)
• Ebook: $50.00

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• Avoiding Disappointment presents a unique approach to public sector strategic planning that conveys the author's personal experiences with government leaders who sought to transform the government agencies that they were entrusted to lead. This approach has been used by dozens of government agencies whose experiences are chronicled throughout the book. Part 1 focuses on the CSF approach and its implementation. Part 2 includes a brief case study of six very successful leaders of high-level government agencies, the issues they faced, and how the process set forth in the book provided the means to overcome them.


• A must reading for leaders of public agencies who are seeking to begin a new strategic planning initiative or revise an existing one for their organization.

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Introduction

Public Affairs Practicum

Derek R. Slagle & Adam M. Williams

• ISBN: 978-1-942456-11-7
• 2020
• $32.00 (FREE shipping)

• Public Affairs Practicum addresses emergent issues in the field that should be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders from students and scholars to practitioners. First and foremost, the primary goal of this book is to explore ways to bridge the gap between theory and practice by examining issues that are viewed as relevant within the academy and by practitioners in public administration and policy.

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Chapter 1 available as a free PDF download here. Chapters 2 through 12 are available for individual purchase as a password protected PDF for $5.00 per chapter.

Select Chapter: Chapter 2 Higher Education Policy Environment & Accountability Chapter 3 Development-Centered Public Affairs Education Chapter 4 Connecting Community and Economic Development Chapter 5 Public-Private Partnerships Chapter 6 Nonprofit Governance on the Rise Chapter 7 A Practitioner-Instructor Partnership Model Chapter 8 Social Equity in Public Administration Chapter 9 Public Administration and Social Justice Chapter 10 From False Empathy to Honest Engagement Chapter 11 Organized Efforts to Promote Gender Equality Chapter 12 Characterization of Women and Leadership Buy Ebook Chapter

Social Equity in a Time of Change

A Critical 21st Century Social Movement

Edited by Richard Greggory Johnson III

• ISBN: 978-1-942456-05-6
• 2017
• $20.00 (FREE shipping)

• The chapters in this edited volume were written by academics and practitioners who gave presentations at the Social Equity Leadership Conference held at the University of San Francisco in 2016.

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The Politics of Intergovernmental Relations

Third Edition

Elizabeth D. Fredericksen, Stephanie L. Witt, & David C. Nice

• ISBN: 978-1-942456-04-9
• 2016
• $66.00 (FREE shipping)
• Ebook: $50.00

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• Thoroughly revised with up-to-date coverage of the evolving political demands being placed on all levels of government in the United States
• Features a new chapter on Native American Tribes and their complex relations with the federal, states’ and local governments
• New chapter on the development of networks of public, business and nonprofit organizations that work together to implement public policy

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Public Administration

Social Change and Adaptive Management

Fourth Edition

N. Joseph Cayer, David L. Baker & Louis F. Weschler

• ISBN: 978-1-942456-01-8
• 2016
• $53.00 (FREE shipping)

• A concise, well-balanced overview of the field of public administration
• A thematic approach using the swamp as a metaphor to analyze the difficult and ever changing environment in which today’s public administrators must operate

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Physical Anthropology Lab Manual

Second Edition

Janice Austin

• ISBN: 9780972441995
• 2015
• $27.00 (FREE shipping)

• Labs can be taught in any order to accomodate different teaching styles
• Takes a hands-on approach with exercises where students work directly on specimens rather than with photographs of specimens
• Extensive coverage of comparative primate anatomy and locomotor patterns, human osteology, and forensic skeletal analysis
• Thorough and up-to-date labs on primate and particularly hominin fossils
• An abundance of line drawings which clearly point out the morphological features under discussion
• Instructor's Guide available: provides step by step help on setting up labs and answer sheets for all assignments

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Pleistocene Hominin Evolution Lab (sample)