The Future of Public Trust – Public Affairs in a Time of Crisis
Order this book from Amazon Lobbying is central to democracy; an interest group system is – alongside parties, elections, parliaments, executives and bureaucracies – core to the workings of a free political system. But with this comes a professional responsibility to ensure appropriate standards of conduct and to be seen to be acting ethically. There is also an opportunity here for leadership and renewal on the part of those bodies which represent public affairs practitioners, ECPA included. We have a role to play in bringing together professionals; helping to train,...
Read MoreChallenge and Response – Essays on Public Affairs and Transparency
Order this book from Amazon We hope that this volume will contribute to the quality of public debate during the consideration of the Green Paper on the European Transparency Initiative. Whatever the outcome of this Initiative, the issue of Transparency will be with us as a recurring challenge. The essays in this collection bring together a number of respected professionals, observers and academics who offer a range of perspectives on the way forward.Not all of the book makes for happy reading for a function under pressure. But as Arnold Toynbee points out such pressures can...
Read MoreEverything Flows – Essays on Public Affairs and Change
Order this book from Amazon Leaders… need to pick their way through a minefield of competing realities and belief systems that echo each other. Belief is to the twenty-first century what ideology was to the twentieth… public affairs practioners need to be sensitive to the dilemmas of political power as they manoeuvre their own organisations through rough waters. Public affairs in this century is not so much about ‘stepping into the same water twice’, it is about staying convincingly afloat in a torrent of...
Read MorePublic Affairs and Power – Essays in a Time of Fear
Order this book from Amazon On leaving the European Parliament in 1999, former MEP and founder of the European Centre for Public Affairs, Tom Spencer, determined that he should take the opportunity to write. The 15 essays contained in this book are part of the result. They have been written on the boundaries between academic consideration and practitioner reality, and between public affairs and politics. If journalism is “the first draft of history”, these essays live on the time boundary between journalism and research; identifying trends, challenges and questions facing...
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