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.

• Updated coverage of budget defecits
• Updated coverage of grants-in-aid programs
• More in-depth analysis of government revenue
• Revised coverage of capital budgeting

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

• Enhanced coverage on cyber security
• New discussions on the impact of social media on personnel management
• Updated research on sexual orientation, diversity, generational differences, and inclusion
• New section on employee engagement

With a minimum bookstore order of 15 copies, you can order a custom edition of the workbook containing only the exercises you want at a low.
Now with writeable PDFs and word doc files of all the assignment sheets, the Governmental Budgeting Workbook is ideally suited for online courses. Two new case studies added:

• Budgetary Ethics
• Budgetary Obligations

• 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 provides step by step help on setting up labs and answer sheets for all assignments
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This edited volume consists of 25 chapters by women of color from diverse backgrounds. Some of the chapters are theoretical, others are intensely personal. All of the chapters touch upon issues of race, discrimination and the continuing struggle for social justice.

Each of the fourteen chapters in this collection tells a different story of the queer community’s ongoing struggle for social justice. This book is ideally suited for courses that deal with sexual orientation, empowerment, and discrimination.