Municipal Reform a Scientific Question
Author | : Franklin Ford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Franklin Ford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bas Denters |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1783478241 |
How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector reformers alike fro
Author | : António Tavares |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031547365 |
Author | : Frank Mann Stewart |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520347919 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
Author | : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1988-01-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309581907 |
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Author | : Douglas Cantor |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2024-06-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1040034012 |
Term limits enjoy broad popularity among Americans, yet scholarly literature has omitted two important questions from the study of municipal reform: Why are term limits so popular, and what are the causes of movements for term limits? In this book, Douglas Cantor exposes the causes of term limits at the local level of government to shed light on how and why the movement to adopt term limits came to exist. Cantor begins his analysis by providing a history of term limits, beginning with classical debates in Greek philosophy. He describes the benefits of studying the causes of term limits and how term limits are a direct manifestation of older values rooted in the American traditions of municipal reform. Part II examines 20 different municipalities across the continental United States that experienced a movement to implement term limits through a political campaign, voter initiative, or council-led charter amendment. Written to a common template and examining each case through the lens of the reform impulse, Cantor argues that the institutional lineage of the Progressives, namely council-manager governments, at-large elections, and nonpartisanship, is largely responsible for movements to implement term limits somewhere in the United States in almost every election. Terms Limits and the Modern Era of Municipal Reform brings a new dimension to the Progressive era, championing the study of local politics and its importance to understanding American politics.
Author | : John Louis Recchiuti |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812239577 |
"John Louis Recchiuti recounts the history of a vibrant network of young American scholars and social activists who helped transform a city and a nation. In this study, Recchiuti focuses on more than a score of Progressive reformers, including Florence Kelley, W. E. B. Du Bois, E. R. A. Seligman, Charles Beard, Franz Boaz, Frances Perkins, Samuel Lindsay, Edward Devine, Mary Simkhovitch, and George Edmund Haynes. He reminds us how people from markedly diverse backgrounds forged a movement to change a city, and beyond it, a nation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Per Wisselgren |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2016-02-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317015584 |
The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as social beings. The Social Scientific Gaze examines the discursive formation of academic social science in the historical context of the 'social question', that is, the protracted and wide-ranging discussions on the social problems of modernity that were being debated with increased intensity during the nineteenth century. Empirically, the study focuses on the Lorén Foundation, a combined private funding agency and early research institute, which was set up in 1885 to promote the rise of Swedish social science and to investigate the social question. Comprising an heuristic case, the close analysis of the Foundation makes it possible not only to reconstruct its basic ideas and practices, but also to situate its activities in broader historical and sociological context. The Social Scientific Gaze argues that the rise of Swedish social science may be seen not only as an 'answer' to the social 'question', but also as one attempt alongside others - including contemporary social literature, the philantropic reform movement, and the introduction of modern social policy - to conceptualize, mobilize and regulate the social sphere. In this process it is furthermore shown how an ambigious yet distinct 'social scientific gaze' was discursively articulated.
Author | : Ivan Koprić |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017-10-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319610910 |
This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level. Positioned at the interface of local services and evaluation research, it will enable the utilization of evaluation-generated knowledge in evidence-based policy making by focusing on the lessons learned from evaluation of local service delivery. It encompasses local public and social services (including waste, water, public transport, healthcare, education and eldercare) and examines the hypothesis that there is a North-West–South-East divide in Europe in terms of the evaluation of local service reforms. Particular attention is devoted to the explanatory function of evaluation. Providing fresh insight into the functioning of local government machinery in contemporary Europe, this book will appeal in particular to practitioners and students of local government, public economy, public administration and policy.
Author | : American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |