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  • A New City O/S

    The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance

    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local governmentAt a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective-indeed more effective and even more responsive to the needs of its citizens. Based on decades of direct ... Leer más

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  • Web site, email and computers for Local Governments

    Government offices take a long time in adopting new technologies. Many offices had not yet started using even typewriters when personal computers became available. The development of Urdu software took still more time. In recent years, more and more Local Governments are using Internet and email service, while some districts have set up their web sites. The trend will continue as awareness of the ... Leer más

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  • Reclaiming Gotham

    Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End Americas Tale of Two Cities

    How Bill de Blasio’s mayoral victory triggered a seismic shift in the nation’s urban political landscape—and what it portends for our cities in the futureIn November 2013, a little-known progressive stunned the elite of New York City by capturing the mayoralty by a landslide. Bill de Blasio's promise to end the "Tale of Two Cities" had struck a chord among ordinary residents still struggling to ... Leer más

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  • Mayor 1%

    Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99%

    How did a city long dominated by a notorious Democratic Machine become a national battleground in the right-wing war against the public sector? In Mayor 1%, veteran journalist Kari Lydersen takes a close look at Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and his true agenda.With deep Wall Street ties from his investment banking years and a combative political style honed in Congress and the Clinton and Obama ... Leer más

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  • Trading Democracy for Justice

    Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

    de Traci Burch ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. What’s more, they tend to come from just a few of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the country. While the political costs of this phenomenon ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The PerformanceStat Potential

    A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power ... Leer más

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  • The creation of City Districts under Local Governments in Pakistan

    Series series Local Government
    This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore were studied. (Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, was not covered in the study because it was ... Leer más

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  • Local Government in Connecticut

    Series series The Driftless Connecticut Series
    Originally published in 1992 and revised in 2001, Frank B. Connolly's Local Government in Connecticut is one of the most useful and well-established resources on the state's local government. Written expressly for public officials and students, the book explains Connecticut's basic forms of local government and its many variants, as well as examining their inner workings, including governance, ... Leer más

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  • E-Government and Websites

    A Public Solutions Handbook

    Edición de Aroon Manoharan ...
    Series series The Public Solutions Handbook Series
    This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance. E-government refers to the practice of online public reporting by government to citizens, and to service delivery via the Internet. E-governance represents the initiatives for citizens to participate and provide their opinion on government websites. This volume in the Public Solutions Handbook ... Leer más

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  • Citizens’ Hall

    Making Local Democracy Work

    de Andre Carrel ...
    Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy–for turning what are now “colonies” of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic entities. For Carrel, the citizen is the sole legitimate source of political power, and the best tool for citizen empowerment is the controversial tool of the referendum.This ... Leer más

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  • Rogues and Redeemers

    When Politics Was King in Irish Boston

    From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston.Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life pols who became national figures: Honey Fitz, the crafty stage Irishman and grandfather to a president; the ... Leer más

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  • City Power

    Urban Governance in a Global Age

    Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Richard C. Schragger challenges the existing assumptions, arguing that cities can govern, but only if we let them. In the past decade, city leaders across the country have raised the minimum wage, expanded social services, and ... Leer más

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