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• Financial Strategy for Public Managers (online edition, last updated 2020), by Sharon Kioko and Justin Marlowe (multiple formats with commentary at rebus.community)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Management in the Public Service: The Quest for Effective Performance (New York et al.L McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954), by John D. Millett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standards and Techniques of Public Administration, With Special Reference to Technical Assistance for Under-Developed Countries (1951), by United Nations Technical Assistance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impact of War on Federal Personnel Administration, 1939-1945 (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1951), by Gladys M. Kammerer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Policy and Administration (University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1949), by Paul H. Appleby (page images at HathiTrust)

• Implications of Electronic Mail and Message Systems for the U.S. Postal Service (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Development Administration: An Annotated Bibliography (Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1963), by Allan A. Spitz and Edward W. Weidner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), by Richard W. Waterman, Amelia A. Rouse, and Robert Wright, contrib. by Kenneth J. Meier (page images at Pitt)

• Deliberation, Representation, Equity: Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Love Ekenberg, Karin Hansson, Mats Danielson, and Göran Cars (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Beatrice S. Bartlett (multiple formats at Google)

• Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Beatrice S. Bartlett (multiple formats at Google)

• Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism in Xinjiang: Truth and Facts (published in English by the UN OHCHR, redacted, as an appendix to its Assessment of the Human Rights Situtation; 2022), by Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Information Technology Research, Innovation, and E-Government (2002), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services (OTA-TCT-578; Washington: GPO, 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at Princeton
• Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Electronic Record Systems and Individual Privacy (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services (OTA-TCT-578; Washington: GPO, 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at Princeton

• Framing the Global Economic Downturn: Crisis Rhetoric and the Politics of Recessions (2009), ed. by Paul 't Hart and Karen Tindall (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Judgment Misguided: Intuition and Error in Public Decision Making, by Jonathan Baron (HTML here at Penn)
• Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by Vicki J. Rast (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Executive Discretion and Judicial Control: An Aspect of the French Conseil d'Etat (Hamlyn Lectures, #6; London: Stevens and Sons, 1954), by C. J. Hamson (PDF in the UK)

• Executive Discretion and Judicial Control: An Aspect of the French Conseil d'Etat (Hamlyn Lectures, #6; London: Stevens and Sons, 1954), by C. J. Hamson (PDF in the UK)

• Protection of the Public: A New Challenge (Hamlyn Lectures, #41; London: Stevens and Sons, 1990), by Harry Woolf (PDF in the UK)

• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1975), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)
• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20; London: Stevens and Sons, 1968), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)

• Efficiency and Empire (London: Methuen and Co., 1901), by Arnold White (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The "Pope" of Holland House (based on the 1906 T. F. Unwin edition, with annotated names; 2011), by J. Whishaw, ed. by Elizabeth Mary Romilly Seymour and David Hill Radcliffe, contrib. by William Prideaux Courtney (HTML at vt.edu)

• National Intelligence Machinery (second edition, 2001), by Great Britain Joint Intelligence Committee (PDF in the UK)

• No Entry (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1958), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Runagates Club (1928), by John Buchan
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Not for Export (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1954), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Knife for the Juggler (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1953), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Alias Uncle Hugo (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1952), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fifth Man (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1946), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Green Hazard (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1945), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Without Lawful Authority (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1943), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Drink to Yesterday (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1940), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Pray Silence (authors behind pseudonym died in 1959 and 1965; c1940), by Manning Coles (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Three Hostages (1924), by John Buchan
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly (2006), by Guyana Parliament (PDF in Guyana)

• Administration (partial serial archives)
• Ciencias Administrativas (in Spanish) (partial serial archives)
• Administration and Management Review (issues online 2007-2012) (partial serial archives)

• Governance Through Social Learning (c1999), by Gilles Paquet (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• System der Subjektiven Öffentlichen Rechte (in German; Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)

• Controlling Bureaucracies: Dilemmas in Democratic Governance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Judith E. Gruber (frame-dependent HTML at UC Press)
• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1991), ed. by André Blais and Stéphane Dion (page images at Pitt)
• Class, Crisis, and the State (1978), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)

• Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), ed. by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo De Greiff (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

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