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Reinventing American Health Care
How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The definitive story of American health care today-its causes, consequences, and confusions
In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was...
Deconcentration and Decentralization Reforms in Cambodia
Recommendations for an Institutional Framework
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This study analyzes strategic and programming issues arising from the emerging deconcentration and decentralization reforms in Cambodia and informs the debate on the pace and strategic direction of these reforms. The study looks at the evolving legal and regulatory framework pointing to the gaps and...
Citizens' Wealth
Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andrés Velasco invested budget surpluses from the nation’s historic copper boom in two Sovereign Wealth Funds. A year later, when prices plummeted and unemployment soared, Chile’s government was able to stimulate recovery by drawing on the funds.
by Martha Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Compelled to resign to quiet an election year uproar over the management of a training conference in Las Vegas, Martha Johnson, former Administrator of GSA, reveals the larger story of innovation she championed in the agency. Her provocative and highly effective strategies for challenging bureaucratic...
by A. I. Abana
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
In a world forged by the shards of history, it is not to be expected that countries court the very things that have proven to be the grey cardinals fostering the underdevelopment, backwardness, and failures that mark them and others. Time and again these things perpetrate the carnage, tumult, and...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
Field Manual (FM) 3-22 Army Support to Security Cooperation with change 1 provides doctrine for Army support to Department of Defense security cooperation. It explains how Army forces conduct security cooperation, from theater army through brigade level, including support from Headquarters, Department...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
This publication, Army Regulation AR 700-127 Logistics Integrated Product Support October 2018, prescribes the Department of the Army (DA) policy for implementing performance-based life cycle product support, including performance-based logistics, through the Army’s Integrated Product Support (IPS)...
The Chinese Banking Industry
Lessons from History for Today's Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2007
This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949.
Banking reform is a key area of China’s economic transformation, and...
by Harold L. Wilensky
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
This prize-winning, foundational book — now in its new ebook edition featuring a 2015 Foreword by Neil Smelser — focuses on the structural and ideological roots of intelligence failures (both informational and analytical) found in government, industry, and other institutions. It provides groundbreaking...
The New Power of American Women
The Essential Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
After 20 years of dedicated research and hundreds of personal interviews concerning the increasing, global power of women, this timely work is finally available. If you've read "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg or "The End of Men - The Rise of Women" by Hanna Rosin, The "New Power...
Innovation in City Governments
Structures, Networks, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more with less, and expanding community expectations. Some are now calling this ‘social innovation’ – innovation that is related to creating new services...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano in his book “Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However...
by Ian Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
This book examines the legacy of economic and political aims and objectives formulated by the British government during, and immediately after the second world war. It examines contemporary patterns of regulation by the state, and reform in the industrial relations system as factors of these historically...
Integrating the Third Tier in the Indian Federal System
Two Decades of Rural Local Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book discusses the evolution of the third tier of the Indian federal system, with a focus on rural local governance (commonly known as Panchayati Raj) against the backdrop of important theoretical and empirical literature on the relevance and effectiveness of service delivery in the decentralized...