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Author Wedel, Janine R., 1957-
Title Shadow elite : how the world's new power brokers
undermine democracy, government, and the free market /
Janine R. Wedel.
Publisher New York : Basic Books, c2009.
Description xv, 283 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
207-267) and index.
Summary An award-winning public policy expert and
author of Collision and Collusion explains how an elite
group of power-wielding agenda promoters are erasing the
boundaries between government, private and non-profit
organizations for their own benefit and have been
behind headline-making scandals.
Contents Confidence men and their flex lives --
When privatization meets truthiness
-- Flex power in the wild East -- U.S.
government, Inc. -- The
privatizers -- The commandeers --
Accountability in the age of flex
nets.
Subjects Corruption.
Political corruption
Power (Social sciences)
Elite (Social sciences)
Privatization
Government accountability.
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Author Donahue, John D.
Title The warping of government work / John D.
Donahue.
Publisher Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
Press, 2008.
Description x, 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
181-210) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Two worlds of work --
Relic of the middle-class economy -- Safe harbor --
Backwater -- A twisted transformation --
Finding the future -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
Subjects Civil service -- United States
Public administration -- United States
Available in Donahue, John D. Warping of government
work.
Donahue, John D. Warping of government
work.
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Author Goodsell, Charles T.
Title Mission mystique : belief systems in public
agencies / Charles T. Goodsell.
Publisher Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2011.
Description xiii, 309 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Public affairs and policy administration
series Public affairs and policy administration series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Contents Mission mystique and a belief system
template -- U.S. National Park Service
: caretaker of America's best idea --
U.S. National Weather Service :
daily companion and watchful guardian -
- U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention : stewards of
the public health -- Department
of Social Services, Mecklenburg County,
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N.C. : the delicate business of
welfare -- Virginia State Police : the
Commonwealth's finest -- U.S.
Peace Corps : an ethical enterprise --
The significance of mission
mystique.
Subjects Organizational effectiveness -- United
States -- Psychological aspects.
Mission statements -- United States.
Administrative agencies -- United States -
- Management.
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Author Manna, Paul.
Title Collision course : federal education policy
meets state and local realities / Paul Manna.
Publisher Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2011.
Description xvii, 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Public affairs and policy administration
seriesPublic affairs and policy administration series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Contents Contexts -- Logic and levers of NCLB --
System leaders implement the law -
- Schools and districts under the
microscope -- Teachers and their
tasks -- Subgroup accountability and
student achievement -- Federal
leadership and the future of
educational accountability.
Subjects United States. No Child Left Behind Act of
2001.
Education and state -- United States
Educational accountability -- Government
policy -- United States.
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Title A new labor movement for the new century / edited
by Gregory Mantsios ; afterword by John J. Sweeney.
Publisher New York : Monthly Review Press, c1998.
Description xix, 353 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes Also published by: New York : Garland
Pub., c1998.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Contents Creating democratic communities in the
workplace / Elaine Bernard --
Whose democracy? organized labor and
member control / Bill Fletcher,
Jr. -- "New labor movement" in the
shell of the old? / Jeremy Brecher
and Tim Costello -- What does labor
stand for? / Gregory Mantsios --
Taking the offensive, turning the tide
/ Stephen Lerner -- Membership-
based organizing / Steve Early --
Successful organizing at the local
level : the experience of AFSCME
district council 1707 / Joshephine
LeBeau and Kevin Lynch -- Moving
innovation from the margins to the
center / Janice Fine -- Women workers :
strategies for inclusion and
rebuilding unionism / Ruth Needleman --
Getting serious about
inclusion : a comprehensive approach /
José La Luz and Paula Finn --
Challenge of diversity and inclusion in
the AFL-CIO / May Chen and
Kent Wong -- Transforming unions and
building a movement / Larry
Adams -- Blocking bridges : class-based
politics and the labor
movement / Patricia Lippold and Bob
Kirkman -- Labor's role in the
political arena / Dennis Rivera --
Building a party of our own / Tony
Mazzocchi -- Politics of leadership :
the role of unions in developing
policy initiatives / Arthur Cheliotes -
- Developing and enforcing
international labor standards / Barbara
Shailor and George Kourpias -
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- New voice, new internationalism /
Andy Banks -- International labor
solidarity in an era of global
competition / Héctor J. Figueroa --
Building a member-based international
program / Ron Blackwell.
Subjects Labor movement -- United States.
Labor policy -- United States.
Labor unions -- United States
Labor unions -- Political activity --
United States.
Labor movement -- Political activity --
United States.
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Author Abel, Charles F.
Title Justice and public administration / Charles F.
Abel and Arthur J. Sementelli.
Publisher Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,
c2007.
Description 127 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
[113]-124) and index.
Contents Précis -- Epistemology -- The meaning of
justice within America's broad
social context -- Justice and
organizations -- The postmodern
condition and semiotic justice --
Critiquing and contextualizing justice
-- Semiotic justice and public
administration.
Subjects Justice
Public administration
Add Author Sementelli, Arthur Jay, 1970-
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Title Local budgeting / edited by Anwar Shah.
Publisher Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2007.
Description xxii, 381 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Public sector governance and
accountability series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Subjects Local budgets
Local finance
Add Author Shah, Anwar.
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Author Olshfski, Dorothy F.
Title Agendas and decisions : how state government
executives and middle managers make and administer
policy / Dorothy F. Olshfski and Robert B. Cunningham.
Publisher Albany : State University of New York
Press, c2008.
Description ix, 157 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
143-150) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The decision process
model, the cultural environment, and
density -- Problem identification --
Considering alternatives and
making the decision -- Implementation -
- Evaluation -- Conclusion.
Subjects State governments -- United States --
States -- Management.
Administrative agencies -- United States -
- States -- Management.
Executive departments -- United States --
States -- Management.
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352.4 L785
Title Lives in the balance : improving accountability
for public spending in developing countries / Charles C.
Griffin ... [et al.].
Publisher Washington, DC : Results for Development
Institute : Brookings Institution
Press, c2010.
Description xxi, 174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
(p.147-156) and index.
Contents The process of government accountability :
an anecdote and an agenda --
Major issues and tools in public
expenditure management -- The
political dimension of public
accountability -- Transparency and
accountability in budgets and
expenditure management -- Independent
monitoring organizations at work --
Strengthening independent
monitoring organizations -- Conclusion
: bringing everyone to the
same page.
Subjects Government spending policy -- Developing
countries.
Government accountability -- Developing
countries.
Developing countries -- Appropriations and
expenditures -- Evaluation.
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Author Agranoff, Robert.
Title Managing within networks : adding value to
public organizations / Robert Agranoff.
Publisher Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University
Press, c2007.
Description xv ,274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Public management and change series
Public management and change.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (
p.253-262) and index.
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Contents Public networks -- Networks in public
management -- Toward a network
typology : study methodology --
Informational and developmental
networks -- Outreach and action
networks -- Collaborarchy : a
different kind of management? --
Networks as knowledge managers --
Network performance : about adding
value and accounting costs --
How networks work at the boundaries of
the state -- Managing in
public networks.
Subjects Public administration -- United States
Interorganizational relations -- United
States.
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Title How to improve governance : a new framework for
analysis and action / David de Ferranti ... [et al.].
Publisher Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution
Press, c2009.
Description vii, 189 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Summary "Emphasizes the need for a comprehensive
analytical framework that considers transparency,
accountability, governance, and corruption throughout
the calculus. Discusses how it can be applied to
different countries to help analyze the current
situation and identify potential areas for improvement,
assessing their relative feasibility and the steps
needed to promote them"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Part I: The challenge -- Introduction --
Do transparency, accountability, governance, and
corruption matter? -- Part II: The response --
Overview -- Principals and agents -- Interest group
dynamics --Signals and actions -- Political systems --
Interventions -- Part III: Operationalizing the
framework -- Application at country level --
Appendixes: Country case studies –
A. Transparency and accountability in Ghana's budget
process / Vitus Azeem -- B.Transparency and
accountability in Kenya's budget process / Gilbert
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Khadiagala -- C. Transparency and accountability in
Peru's budget process / Cecilia Zavallos -- D.
Transparency and accountability in Mexico's budget
process / Juan Pardinas -- E. Transparency and
accountability in Thailand's budget process / Bjoern
Dressel -- F. Four composite country cases of attempted
governance reform.
Subjects Government accountability.
Transparency in government.
Political corruption -- Prevention
Government accountability. – Case studies.
Transparency in government.– Case studies.
Political corruption -- Prevention -- Case
studies.
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Title The Oxford handbook of American bureaucracy /
edited by Robert F.Durant.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description xix, 864 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series The Oxford handbooks of American politics
Oxford handbooks of American politics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and
indexes.
Contents Introduction. A heritage made our own /
Robert F. Durant --
Reconceptualizing the history of
American bureaucracy?. Historical
institutionalism, political
development, and the study of American
bureaucracy / David Brian Robertson ;
The "first new federalism" and
the development of the administrative
state, 1883-1929 / Kimberley
Johnson ; A gendered legacy : the
progressive reform era revisited /
Hindy Lauer Schachter ; Reevaluating
executive-centered public
administrative theory / David H.
Rosenbloom ; Metaphors and the
development of American bureaucracy /
Jonathan G.S. Koppell ; Herbert
Hoover's revenge : politics, policy,
and administrative reform
movements / Robert F. Durant --
Rethinking rationality in American
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bureaucracy?. Agency theory and the
bureaucracy / B. Dan Wood ;
Agency design and evolution / Amy B.
Zegart ; Goal ambiguity and the
study of American bureaucracy / Hal G.
Rainey ; Street-level
bureaucracy theory / Steven Maynard-
Moody and Shannon Portillo ;
The promises and paradoxes of
performance-based bureaucracy /
Donald P. Moynihan ; Leading through
cultural change / Anne M.
Khademian ; Postmodernism, bureaucracy,
and democracy / Ralph P.
Hummel and Camilla Stivers -- Redrawing
the boundaries of American
bureaucracy?. Myths, markets, and the
"visible hand" of American
Bureaucracy / H. George Frederickson
and Edmund C. Stazyk ;
Networking in the shadow of bureaucracy
/ Michael McGuire and
Robert Agranoff ; The promises,
performance, and pitfalls of
government contracting / Jocelyn M.
Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek ;
Reluctant partners : nonprofit
collaboration, social entrepreneurship,
and leveraged volunteerism / Wolfgang
Bielefeld, James L. Perry, and
Ann Marie Thomson ; Policy tools,
mandates, and intergovernmental
relations / Beryl A. Radin and Paul
Posner ; Promises, perils, and
performance of netcentric bureaucracy /
Sharon L. Caudle ; Multilevel
methods in the study of bureaucracy /
Carolyn J. Heinrich and Carolyn
J. Hill -- Recalibrating politics,
responsiveness, and accountability in
American bureaucracy?. Legislative
delegation of authority to
bureaucratic agencies / George A.
Krause ; "Presidentializing" the
bureaucracy / Robert F. Durant and
William G. Resh ; Bureaucracy,
democracy, and judicial review / Jerry
L. Mashaw ; Interest groups,
rulemaking, and American bureaucracy /
Cornelius Kerwin, Scott
Furlong, and William West ;
Policymaking, bureaucratic discretion, and
overhead democracy / Samuel Workman,
Bryan D. Jones, and Ashley E.
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Jochim ; Choice-theoretic approaches to
bureaucratic structure /
Jonathan Bendor and Thomas H. Hammond -
- Revitalizing the
constitutional, resource capacity, and
ethical foundations of American
bureaucracy?. Has governance eclipsed
government? / Laurence E.
Lynn, Jr ; Revitalizing human resources
management / Norma M.
Riccucci ; Representative bureaucracy /
Lael R. Keiser ; Innovations in
budgeting and financial management /
Daniel R. Mullins and John L.
Mikesell ; The prospects for
revitalizing ethics in a new governance era
/ Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour ;
Experimental methods, agency
incentives, and the study of
bureaucratic behavior / Gary J. Miller and
Andrew B. Whitford.
Subjects Bureaucracy -- United States.
Bureaucracy -- United States -- History.
Civil service -- United States
Civil service -- United States -- History.
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Author Benítez Nazario, Jorge
Title Reflexiones en torno a la cultura política de
los puertorriqueños : entre consideraciones teóricas y
la evidencia empírica / Jorge Benítez Nazario.
Edition 1. ed.
Publisher San Juan, P.R. : Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriqueña, 2001.
Description xvi, 202 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
Series Ciencias humanas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects Democracy -- Puerto Rico.
Political culture -- Puerto Rico.
Communication in politics -- Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico -- Politics and government --
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