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320.9 W389s

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.


352.6 D674w

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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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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352.3 G655m

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.


379.73 M282c

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


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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331.880973 N532

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.


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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351.01 A139j

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.


[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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352.48214 L811

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


index.

Subjects Local budgets

Local finance

Add Author Shah, Anwar.


352.3 O52a

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.


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.


351.73 A277m

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.


352.88 H847

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.


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.


352.630973 O98

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.


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 --

1952

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