Public Management: Book Overviews
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This 32 page paper summarizes a total of 14 chapters in two books about public administration: The Enduring Challenges in Public Management and New Paradigms for Government. Topics include but are not limited to: the perception of incompetence; The Role of information Systems in Supporting TQM; Benefits and Costs of Conventional Management Practices; Improving Performance Measurement; Strategies for Public Sector Modernization; The Public Productivity Challenge; Implications of Contracting Out; Revitalizing Employee Ties with Public Organizations; plus more. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Public Participation in Urban Planning
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A 13 page paper discussing the benefits, problems and responsibility for including the public in urban planning. The paper uses the decline and decay of Detroit and the development of urban sprawl in neighboring areas as an example of an area in which residents have tried to have input but were thwarted for several years as the sprawl problem worsened. Examples from cities such as Seattle and Portland illustrate that planning absolutely can be sustainable over time. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: KSpubPlanUrb.rtf

Public Participation in Urban Planning
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A 15 page expansion of a paper by the same name, which discusses the benefits, problems and responsibility for including the public in urban planning. The paper uses the decline and decay of Detroit and the development of urban sprawl in neighboring areas as an example of an area in which residents have tried to have input but were thwarted for several years as the sprawl problem worsened. Examples from cities such as Seattle and Portland illustrate that planning absolutely can be sustainable over time. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
Filename: KSpubPlanUrb2.rtf

Public Policy -- Its Nature, Impact, and Analysis
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This 9 page report discusses the structure and impact of public policy, what it means, and its impact. Social and economic policy have always occupied prominent positions in the decision-making of every government. Policy-making is directly related to those who are best able to present the most convincing argument in their behalf. This may be coalitions of citizens, special interest groups, or even the various agencies that were also established in the framework of social policy-making. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Public Policy Analysis
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A 5 page paper discussing a rational approach to public policy analysis that involves more than merely looking at the most obvious of alternatives. Fisher's framework is used instead, giving policy makers a view of likely outcome from several different perspectives. Among those perspectives are realistic, societal and practical issues. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Public Policy and the Elderly
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This 6 page paper is broken down into three sections which each address a topic on public policy and the elderly. Medicare is discussed in depth. Specific criterion is used to evaluate the current system and recommendations are made. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA347Med.rtf

Public Policy in Education
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This 5 page paper takes a look at public policy in education. The subject is explored historically from the 1850s to the present. Several subjects are broached including voucher programs, Bush's recent proposals, religion, and segregation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS: A SUCCESS?
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This 3-page paper attempts to determine whether administrative doctrine paves the way toward successful public entities. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Qualitative Inquiry
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This 3 page paper describes an article about the restoration of services after September 11—what type of article it is, what it explores, what qualitative method it uses, and so on. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: HVQualIn.rtf

Realigning Aid to Ethiopia
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A 4 page paper providing recommendation to the British government regarding additional financial aid to Ethiopia. The recommendation for the British government and for the governments of other Western "rich" countries giving aid to Ethiopia is to maintain historic levels of financial assistance, followed with increased financial assistance entrusted to NGOs to administer and use for the good of the Ethiopian people. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSethioAid.rtf

Refocusing Housing Public Policy: An Environmental Impact Study
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A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low income housing development on Chicago's South side that was built in the 1940s on top of an industrial waste dump. The greatest portion of the paper is a case study of the development of Altgeld Gardens as an island in an area boasting the highest density in landfills in the country. Of 53 dumps within 4 miles, 46 have been investigated and considered for designation as Superfund sites. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: KSpubPlAltgeld.rtf

Rehabilitation is Superior to Incarceration
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This 3 page paper argues that rehabilitation is superior to incarceration in the United States. The prison system is explored. Both points of view are noted but only rehabilitation is supported with factual data and opinions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA345inc.rtf

Representation in Florida's District 113
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This 3 page paper investigates who represents this district in the House and the Senate. The viewpoints of the politicians are noted as it respects welfare, the elderly and children and family issues. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA406Fla.rtf

Research and Interviewing
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A 5 page paper which addresses the concepts of research and interviewing as a means of researching. The paper utilizes "Participatory Action Research" by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart as presented in the text "Strategies of Inquiry," "Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector: The Horns of a Dilemma" by Felice D. Perlmutter and Ram A. Cnaan as presented in the January/February 1995 edition of Public Administration Review, the text "Taking language Seriously" by Jay D. White as it illustrates, in chapter 6, "The Action Movement in Administrative Research: Examples of Interpretative and Critical Research," and "The Interview" by Andrea Fontana and James H. Frey as presented in the text "Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials. No additional sources cited.
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