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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Page 7
... discussed this model for a number of years , but government organizations are now being placed under increasing real pressure to accommodate the interests of lower - level employees , as well as those of their clients , into their ...
... discussed this model for a number of years , but government organizations are now being placed under increasing real pressure to accommodate the interests of lower - level employees , as well as those of their clients , into their ...
Page 122
... discussed less frequently , is the detection of outstanding performance . Most administrative effort is directed to- ward correcting the negative anomalies of government , and most analytic time is spent on identifying irregularities ...
... discussed less frequently , is the detection of outstanding performance . Most administrative effort is directed to- ward correcting the negative anomalies of government , and most analytic time is spent on identifying irregularities ...
Page 140
... discussed policymaking as “ fuzzy gambling , ” derived from the ideas of fuzzy sets in mathematics . In this view , decisionmakers do not know the parameters of the risks that they are assuming . Given the lack of knowledge about ...
... discussed policymaking as “ fuzzy gambling , ” derived from the ideas of fuzzy sets in mathematics . In this view , decisionmakers do not know the parameters of the risks that they are assuming . Given the lack of knowledge about ...
Contents
Market Models for Reforming Government | 21 |
The Participatory State | 47 |
Flexible Government | 72 |
Copyright | |
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