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By Saba Siddiki, Salvador Espinosa, Tanya Heikkila
July 10, 2018
Studying compliance to uncover whether compliance is occurring, and what motivates it, is central to the broader study of governance. Contextualizing Compliance in the Public Sector: Individual Motivations, Social Processes and Institutional Design develops an interdisciplinary approach for ...
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By Ashley E. Nickels, Jason D. Rivera
April 18, 2018
The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines. Moreover, the concept of community development has been historically abstracted, not only in the way the concept has been conceptualized in academic studies, but also by ...
By Anna A. Amirkhanyan, Kristina T. Lambright
December 05, 2017
Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is based on a simple premise: in democracies, power originates with citizens. While citizen participation in government remains a central tenet of democracy, public service delivery structures are considerably more complex today than they were fifty ...
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By John C. Morris, Katrina Miller-Stevens
October 23, 2017
The term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental ...
By Chad B. Newswander
October 02, 2017
As first responders to public problems, administrators must survey situations, identify solutions, and occasionally make executive decisions that are binding upon the government as a whole. The ability for administrators to assert claims that orient the government in a particular direction is not ...
By Rob A. DeLeo
June 16, 2017
Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence in which government develops solutions for clearly evident and identifiable problems. While this depiction holds true in many cases, it fails to account for instances in which public ...
By Rebecca H. Padot
November 16, 2016
Government-by-proxy and intergovernmental relations profoundly affect the public administration of foster care. Using examples from foster care systems in the states of Delaware, Michigan, New York, and Rhode Island, Rebecca Padot eloquently combines a rigorous methodology and theory work to expose...
By William M. Bowen
July 21, 2016
This book discusses whether and to what extent there are widespread injustices and inequities caused by the distribution of environmental hazards in America today....
By Michael T. Peddle
April 27, 2016
This book is an investigation of some of the policy issues related to the government's role in the reform of primary and secondary education in the United States....
By Edward Alan Miller
December 01, 2015
Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States. Reform in this area, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to study the intersection between federal and state policy making in an area recently characterized by substantial uncertainty deriving from the lingering effects of the ...
By Ashley D. Ross
December 01, 2015
Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states – Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida – have experienced a series of hurricanes, multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill. These disasters have not only been numerous but also devastating. Response to and recovery from these ...
By Christopher L. Atkinson
December 01, 2015
In June 2011, the city of Minot, North Dakota sustained the greatest flood in its history. Rather than buckling under the immense weight of the flood on a personal and community level, government, civic groups, and citizens began to immediately assess and address the event’s impacts. Why did the ...