The Future of Governing: Four Emerging ModelsUniversity Press of Kansas, 1996 - 179 pages "A very important book that should be read by everyone trying to make sense of the reform problem". -- Patricia W. Ingraham, coauthor of New Paradigms for Government. |
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... capacity to do good for citizens , individually and collectively , through effective public action . It is now fashionable to malign government and the people working in it and to point out gleefully all their failures . Such skepti ...
... capacity to do good for citizens , individually and collectively , through effective public action . It is now fashionable to malign government and the people working in it and to point out gleefully all their failures . Such skepti ...
Page 99
... capacities of government ( Aberbach and Rockman 1989 ) . For example , the Government Performance and Results Act in ... capacity to some extent will also apply in central agencies , such as the General Accounting Office or the National ...
... capacities of government ( Aberbach and Rockman 1989 ) . For example , the Government Performance and Results Act in ... capacity to some extent will also apply in central agencies , such as the General Accounting Office or the National ...
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... capacity of governments to coordinate effectively . In an increasingly complex and interde- pendent world , government appears to be squandering its capacity to present an integrated and coherent set of policies at the time that capacity ...
... capacity of governments to coordinate effectively . In an increasingly complex and interde- pendent world , government appears to be squandering its capacity to present an integrated and coherent set of policies at the time that capacity ...
Contents
Market Models for Reforming Government | 21 |
The Participatory State | 47 |
Flexible Government | 72 |
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