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 45
... positive change it offers must be asked . Doubts about the market are not simply a knee - jerk reaction against change in government but represent an attempt to understand better just what possibilities exist for improving the ...
... positive change it offers must be asked . Doubts about the market are not simply a knee - jerk reaction against change in government but represent an attempt to understand better just what possibilities exist for improving the ...
Page 50
... positive conception of both government and bureaucracy commonly held in much of continental Europe . Although many of the ideas about job expansion and organizational partici- pation are old , they have been rediscovered and dressed up ...
... positive conception of both government and bureaucracy commonly held in much of continental Europe . Although many of the ideas about job expansion and organizational partici- pation are old , they have been rediscovered and dressed up ...
Page 53
... positive one - on av- erage as good as with private - sector employees . Now for the bad news . The posi- tive encounters with public employees do not appear to add up to a positive impression of government in general . Paradoxically ...
... positive one - on av- erage as good as with private - sector employees . Now for the bad news . The posi- tive encounters with public employees do not appear to add up to a positive impression of government in general . Paradoxically ...
Contents
Market Models for Reforming Government | 21 |
The Participatory State | 47 |
Flexible Government | 72 |
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