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  • The Intersector

    How the Public, Nonprofit, and Private Sectors Can Address America's Challenges

    Edición de Neil Britto, Daniel P. Gitterman ...
    Exploring how cross-sector collaboration can solve seemingly intractable societal problemsMany people tend to think of the public, non-profit and private sectors as being distinctive components of the economy and broader society-each with its own missions and problems to address. This book describes how the three sectors can work together toward common purposes, accomplishing much more than if ... Leer más

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  • Calling the Shots

    The President, Executive Orders, and Public Policy

    Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government.The United States Constitution lays out three hypothetically equal branches of government-the executive, the legislative, and the judicial-but over the years, the president, as head of the executive branch, has emerged as the usually dominant political and administrative force at the federal level. In fact, Daniel Gitterman ... Leer más

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  • A Way Forward

    Building a Globally Competitive South

    In the last half century, North Carolina and the South have experienced rapid economic growth. Much of the best analysis of this progress came from two North Carolina-based research organizations: the Southern Growth Policies Board and MDC (originally a project of the North Carolina Fund). Their 1986 reports are two of the best assessments of the achievements and limitations of the so-called ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Leer más

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  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Leer más

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  • Reproducing Racism

    How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

    Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantageThis book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress ... Leer más

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  • The Transformation of Governance

    Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century

    Series series Interpreting American Politics
    An updated edition of the classic text on public administration presents practical steps for managing government effectively in an age of hyperpartisanship.Co-winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public AdministrationThe traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has ... Leer más

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  • The Death of "Why?"

    The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy

    A look at how Americans are losing their sense of curiosity and skepticism, and how some are working to change that.The spirit of inquiry is the engine of democracy. The democratic process is nothing less than citizens regularly asking what kind of society they want to live in and whom they want to lead them. But more and more people are avoiding the whole messy business of questioning. Americans ... Leer más

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  • Inventing Equal Opportunity

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    Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ... Leer más

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  • Organizing America

    Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

    American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational ... Leer más

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  • Smart Communities

    How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future

    Series series Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management
    The new edition of the acclaimed guide to strategic decision-making in community planning, development, and collaborationBased on the results of more than a decade of research by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Smart Communities provides directions for strategic decision-making and outlines the key strategies used by thousands of leaders who have worked to create successful communities. ... Leer más

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  • Public Education Under Siege

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    Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources available to children in different municipalities still vary enormously, and despite landmark cases of the ... Leer más

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