Handbook of Globalization Governance and Public Administration or Brief Therapy and Managed Care

Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration

Author: Ali Farazmand

Mapping the multi-dimensional relationships between the people, local and national governments, international organizations, global corporations, natural resources, and the world market, this encyclopedic volume is both a primer and a guide for researchers, academics, and policy-makers both public and private. Using country-specific cases, the essays examine globalization as a threat to national sovereignty, the environment, and public health, and as a contributor to increasing worldwide inequality and global insecurity. The authors explore ethics and the need for future global consciousness, and call for sustainable development to be grounded in community-based institutions while governments seek growth through market expansion worldwide.

Table of Contents:

1	Globalization : a theoretical analysis with implications for governance and public administration	3
2	Cultural globalization	27
3	Planning for change : globalization and American public administration	39
4	The challenge of globalization to public administration identity	51
5	Globalization and its impact on strategic security	69
6	Nation-building : an appraisal	83
7	Globalization and the regulation of professions	93
8	Globalization and media coverage of public administration	153
9	The etiology of transnational health security in the age of globalization	165
10	Globalization and public administration education : a process of mutual transformation in the former Soviet Union and central and eastern Europe	175
11	Globalization and information and communications technology influences on democratic governance	189
12	Regional integration, regionalism and public administration : bridging the global-national divide in decision making and policy implementation	207
13	Globalization and governance : explaining success and failure	227
14	Global governance, the UN Secretariat, and international public administration	273
15	Global governance and national governance : how mutually exclusive?	297
16	Good governance : its theory and practice in India	313
17	Globalization and governance in the former East Germany : the European union factor	325
18	Global administrative reforms and transformation of governance and public administration	351
19	Globalization of administrative reforms : the dilemmas of combining political control and increased institutional autonomy	375
20	Globalization, regulatory regimes, and administrative modernization in developing nations : toward a theoretical framework	407
21	Promising the future or just empty promises? : the paradoxes and perils of human resource management reform in a global context	439
22	Deconstructing the nation-state bureaucracies : supranationalization and regionalization as polarizing forces in the New Europe	463
23	Adapting Asia and the Asia-Pacific public administration to a globalizing world : some lessons from experience	491
24	Recent major administrative reforms : Japan's response to global and domestic challenges	519
25	Administrative reforms in China : globalization or localization?	553
26	Globalization, bureaucracy, and administrative reform in Hong Kong	585
27	Chinese administrative reform : a genie in a bottle	601
28	Privatization in Africa : the case of Botswana	623
29	Globalization and administrative reforms : a case study of a globalizing city (Gurgaon) in India	639
30	The effect of the African growth and opportunity act on the textile and apparel industry in South Africa	665
31	Nature of decentralized governance in Africa : obstacles and measures for strengthening decentralization for good governance	685
32	Good governance : a model for India	701
33	Transnational corporations, development, and underdevelopment	745
34	New views on north-south relations of imperialism	759
35	Assessing sustainable development administration : a framework and implications for organizational structure	799
36	International development management : definitions, debates, and dilemmas	821
37	The World Bank and postconflict reconstruction	841
38	The effects of governance on competitiveness in India, China, and Mexico	847
39	The globalization of public administration : rhetoric, reality, and reason in Ghana	861
40	New public management : theory, ideology, and practice	889
41	Global ethics in the 21st century : an alternative approach	903
42	Subnational governments and globalization : the changing face of federalism	921
43	Globalization and energy	943
44	Globalization within countries in conflict : the energy company case	961
45	Competitive advantage and market organizations in the 21st century : market driving or market driven	981
46	Revenues and expenditures in Russian oblasts : the changing role of financing state and local public services	1003
47	The earth charter : toward a new global environmental ethic	1019
48	Globalization : the changing nature of education and training for administration of government	1035
49	Global health and human rights : challenges for public health administrators in an era of interdependence and mobility	1045
50	The globalization of public budgeting in the United States	1075
51	Global climatic stabilization : challenges for public administration in China and the United States	1089
52	World crisis in public service and administration	1137

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Brief Therapy and Managed Care: Readings for Contemporary Practice

Author: Michael F Hoyt

A Blueprint for Focused, Time-Sensitive Treatment

Michael F. Hoyt shares his lifetime of experience as expert clinician, researcher, and supervisor in one of the nation's largest HMOs to offer a wealth of illustrative case examples and practical information on how to provide more focused, time-sensitive treatment. In this timely resource book, comprising original chapters and carefully selected reprints, Hoyt presents guidelines on how to offer psychotherapy that is both conscientiously managed, appropriate, and sensitive to a client's needs.