A highly practical book for courses on human service/social work administration which takes students through the nuts and bolts of managing a human service agency.

Help your students develop their leadership and management skills. The new edition of this established core text covers important topics such as stress, decision-making, motivation, leadership, teams, communication, and change. Cases, self-assessment exercises, and numerous examples provide students with the opportunity to apply concepts and theories discussed in the chapter.

Tackling the disparity between the ideal and the practical, this text addresses the challenges of the American election system

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Through a series of case studies, the authors employ both neopluralist and exchange perspectives to explore the lobbying activity that occurs in the later stages of the policymaking process which are typically less partisan, involve little conflict, and receive scant public attention.

This fully revised 2024 tenth edition of the leading textbook on the European Parliament systematically and clearly covers every aspect of how the Parliament is elected, its internal structures and procedures, its powers and how it relates to the other EU institutions. It is an essential guide for all those working in or with the Parliament, those hoping to work at the Parliament, students of the EU institutions, and political practitioners.

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