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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jorrit de jong”
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  • Dealing with Dysfunction

    Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector

    by Jorrit de Jong ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? De Jong examines the roots of this dysfunction and presents a novel approach to solving it. Drawing from academic literature on bureaucracy and problem solving in the public sector, and the clinical work of the Kafka Brigade-a social enterprise based in the Netherlands dedicated to diagnosing and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Agents of Change

    Strategy and Tactics for Social Innovation

    by Sanderijn Cels, Jorrit de Jong, Frans Nauta ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationWhile governments around the world struggle to maintain service levels amid fiscal crises, social innovators are improving social outcomes for citizens by changing the system from within. In Agents of Change, three cutting-edge thinkers and entrepreneurs present case studies of social innovation that ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Jobs for the Boys

    Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective

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    Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. In Jobs for the Boys, Merilee Grindle considers why patronage has been so ubiquitous in history and explores the political processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service ... Read more

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  • Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again

    by Elaine C. Kamarck ...
    At the beginning of the century, the majority of Americans were satisfied with the way things were going in the United States. And then a slow decline began, seemingly uninterrupted by changes in party or achievements by the White House. As the campaigning for the next president begins, the question we ask ourselves now is who will be the most competent leader? In Why Presidents Fail and How They ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Active Liberty

    Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls “active liberty”: citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means ... Read more

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  • U.S. Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

    by Franco Scardino ...
    Series series Idiot's Guides
    Do you really know how the U.S. government operates? Most Americans have simply forgotten what they learned in their high school government class. Providing an updated history and comprehensive overview, Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government & Politics, Second Edition, is written to help readers gain an understanding about the origins of the U.S government, in addition to its complex political system ... Read more

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    Edited by Jacques Bourgault, Christopher Dunn ...
    Collectively, provincial deputy ministers command the largest assembly of government budgets, employees, and influence in Canada, but despite their importance, they have not been the subject of systematic study until now. This unique volume, which deals with a uniquely significant topic, reviews the role of deputy ministers within government, providing a major new understanding of their ... Read more

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  • The Price of Loyalty

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  • The Ontario Municipal Board

    From Impact to Subsistence 1971-2016

    by Peter H. Howden ...
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  • The Center

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