Once hailed as a revolutionary change in US federal aid policy that would return power to state and local governments, General Revenue Sharing was politically dead a decade later. This title offers the history of the General Revenue Sharing program - why it passed, why state and local governments used it the way they did, and why it died.
Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, this title investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. It examines the effect of institutional structure on the public delivery of these goods.
Discretion and Legitimacy in Front-Line Public Service
Examining public service from the perspective of the worker, this book provides a framework for understanding the roles and responsibilities of front-line public servants and assessing the appropriateness of their actions.
Includes subjects such as the nature and tasks of religious ethics, comparative ethics involving a variety of Western and Eastern traditions, religious social ethics and social theory, and problems in professional and applied ethics.
Shattering the myths about what's wrong with managed health care, this title explains its origins and identifies its real achievements and shortcomings. It argues that many criticisms of managed care tend to idealize the costly and fragmented insurance system it supplanted, without pinpointing the true inadequacies of today's managed care.
How Local Heroes Are Transforming American Government
Presents a comprehensive portrait of the local heroes - front-line public servants and middle managers - who are reinventing state and local government. Based on a study of more than 200 successful government innovations, this book offers a large-scale, systematic analysis of innovation in American government.
Offers a biblically-based concept of Christian justice that can be applied to moral questions in everyday life. The author examines four forms of Christian moral discourse - narrative, prophetic, ethical, and policy - and shows how each contributes to a fuller understanding of Christian morality.
Features prominent thinkers who demonstrate how natural law can be used to resolve a wide range of complex social, political, and constitutional issues by addressing controversial subjects that include the family, taxation, war, racial discrimination, medical technology, and sexuality.
Plunging into the verbal quagmire of official language used by bureaucrats in both government and business, the author develops new techniques based on linguistic principles to improve their communication with the public. He presents nine case studies that reveal representative problems with bureaucratic language.
