Administration category: 6852 books
Managing America's Small Communities
People, Politics, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Managing America's Small Communities charts several key aspects of the largely unexamined world of small city management. This book describes the democraphic trends, structural features, executive behavior and service quality among small communities. Are small cities growing, declining or have they...
Multi-Level Governance
The Missing Linkages
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Multi-Level Governance (MLG) is a highly influential, supple and ductile framework for interpreting governance in complex polities. Yet, criticisms have been aimed at its allegedly overly 'descriptive', rather than explanatory, power. This volume argues that progress in both the study and the practice...
by Matthew Howard
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
From cyberspace to outer space, public policy shapes our lives, our planet, and our future. The ten essays collected in Laws That Shape Our Lives examine such controversial policy measures as net neutrality, tobacco packaging, water fluoridation, same-sex marriage, and the patenting of biological...
Intergovernmental Relations in the American Administrative State
The Johnson Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
During the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson and his administration substantially altered the structure of the American administrative state. Creating intergovernmental programs to forward the goal of the Great Society, they changed the contours of national-state-local relationships, and these changes...
by Mark L. Goldstein, Stephen J. Morewitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
There has been a significant increase in the prevalence of certain chronic disorders among children and adolescents. For example, health experts warn of an epidemic of diabetes mellitus due to an increase in the sedentary life style and poor nutrition of children. There are many questions still to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
South Korea is renowned as one of the success stories of fast economic development. The Korean developmental state was a highly efficient, meritocratic, and fully monopolized coercive force. These resources were skilfully leveraged to shape the direction of private sector actors towards strategic...
by Thomas C. Hunt, Ellis A. Joseph, Ronald J. Nuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
This comprehensive compendium of research focuses on key aspects of Catholic education in the United States. The volume includes reviews of research on topics ranging from church documents, spirituality, and the philosophy of Catholic education to parents, students, teachers, administration and governance,...
Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement
The Elusive Quest for Efficiency in Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Formal systems of comprehensive planning and performance-based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the failure of program budgeting (PPB) in the 1960s and resurrection of that management technique in a handful of agencies over...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The work will explore issues related to educational leadership in various settings in the 21st century. It will argue that the context for leadership within many nation states and international scenarios involves interaction between multiple and diverse social cultures. A further proposition is that...
Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions
Channeling and Containing Administrative Discretion
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
As first responders to public problems, administrators must survey situations, identify solutions, and occasionally make executive decisions that are binding upon the government as a whole. The ability for administrators to assert claims that orient the government in a particular direction is not...
The Last Refuge
Patriotism, Politics, and the Environmin an Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 "a tightly reasoned, excellently written book that should be lethally effective in helping readers who aren't experts understand the contours of the crisis." -TOLEDO BLADE Updated and revised following the 2004 elections, The Last...
The Organization of Higher Education
Managing Colleges for a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Colleges and universities are best understood as networks of departments working together to fulfill a mission of education, innovation, and community partnership. To better understand how these large and complex institutions function, scholars can apply organizational and strategic planning concepts...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Study abroad programs have proven beneficial for both the international student as well as the domestic community and school population interacting with the student. In an effort to promote cultural awareness, intercultural communications as well as opportunities for future study abroad program success,...
The Allure of Order
High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush agreed on little, but united behind the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Passed in late 2001, it was hailed as a dramatic new departure in school reform. It would make the states set high standards, measure student progress, and hold failing schools accountable. A decade...