wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Voices for Children: Rhetoric and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780815724025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare. Why has public policy neglected the development phase of young Americans' lives not only in substantive dollars spent, but also in program design and implementation? Noted child care and education policy expert William Gormley highlights the portrayal of children's issues in both the mass media and in public policymaking to explain why children have gotten short shrift. A key explanation is the limited mass media coverage of strong arguments in... The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare. Why ha... |
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138,08 zł |
Everybody's Children: Child Care as a Public Problem
ISBN: 9780815732235 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force. It should be no surprise that child care is one of the most serious and widespread concerns of parents today. They worry constantly, wondering if they can afford a particular arrangement, dreading that their favorite provider will quit, and, mostly, questioning whether or not they're doing the best they can for their children. Although these concerns are usually considered a private headache, William Gormley argues that child care is a social problem of critical importance, aggravated by weak institutional...
Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force. It should be no surprise that child care is one of the most se...
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104,88 zł |
Privatization and Its Alternatives
ISBN: 9780299117047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Privatization the transfer of responsibility for public services from the public to the private sector currently evokes intense interest from policy makers. To its advocates, privatization conjures up visions of a lean, streamlined public sector reliant upon the private marketplace for the delivery of public services. To opponents, it conjures up visions of a beleaguered government bureaucracy ceding vital public services to unreliable entrepreneurs. At best, privatization can reduce the costs of government and introduce new possibilities for the better delivery of services. At worst, it may...
Privatization the transfer of responsibility for public services from the public to the private sector currently evokes intense interest from policy m...
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91,51 zł |
Taming the Bureaucracy: Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies
ISBN: 9780691635231 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through interest representation, due process, management, policy analysis, federalism, and oversight. The United States has, in fact, undergone an institutional realignment and has emerged with a weaker, less autonomous bureaucracy. In a book that will interest not only public administration specialists but students of American government generally, William Gormley examines the consequences of the reform efforts of the 1970s and 1980s and seeks to... Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through in... |
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726,18 zł |
Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance
ISBN: 9781506348889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives-bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory-to help students develop an analytic framework for evaluating bureaucratic accountability. The new Fourth Edition of Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance provides a thorough review of bureaucracy during the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as new attention to state and local level examples and the role...
Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using ...
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425,00 zł |
Organizational Report Cards
ISBN: 9780674643505 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In recent years, consumers, professional organizations, government officials, and third-party payers have become increasingly concerned about how to assess the quality of the services provided by organizations in both the private and the public sectors. One new approach is the organizational report card, which compares the performance of organizations such as public schools, colleges, hospitals, and HMOs. This book offers the first comprehensive study of such instruments. It discusses the circumstances under which they are desirable alternatives to other policy instruments, such as... In recent years, consumers, professional organizations, government officials, and third-party payers have become increasingly concerned about how t... |
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391,86 zł |