Overview of public administration and policy
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Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy from Informaworld
Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy from Informaworld
This work full-text reference articles in HTML on processes, methods, and influential ideas; policy decisions and histories in fields such as privatization, biomedical ethics, education, diversity, and judicial ethics; watershed decisions and policies; current administrative practices and models. [your library's links] connects to Get VText.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on a broad spectrum of the social sciences, including the arts, economics, psychology, psychiatry, and religion.
CQ Press Political Reference Suite
CQ Press Political Reference Suite
CQ Press Political Reference Suite allows searching or browsing many reference works from CQ Press on many aspects of the US government: branches of government, public policy, politics, elections, international relations, and American history. Most content is presented as HTML web pages, though tables and PDFs of some documents are also included. 1700s-present.
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