Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Municipal AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boroughs
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Comparison of Borough and Township Government
Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Municipal AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boroughs
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Comparison of Pennsylvania Borough and Township Government
Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Local Government ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boroughs
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Comparison of Pennsylvania Borough and Township Government
Author: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Municipal AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Planning, Current Literature
Author: Housing and Planning References
Author: Citizen's Guide to Pennsylvania Local Government
Author: Pennsylvania. Municipal Information CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Good Enough for Government Work
Author: Amy E. LermanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022663034X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens—Republicans and Democrats alike—hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job managing public programs and providing public services. When social problems arise, Americans are therefore skeptical that the government has the ability to respond effectively. It’s a serious problem, argues Amy E. Lerman, and it will not be a simple one to fix. With Good Enough for Government Work, Lerman uses surveys, experiments, and public opinion data to argue persuasively that the reputation of government is itself an impediment to government’s ability to achieve the common good. In addition to improving its efficiency and effectiveness, government therefore has an equally critical task: countering the belief that the public sector is mired in incompetence. Lerman takes readers through the main challenges. Negative perceptions are highly resistant to change, she shows, because we tend to perceive the world in a way that confirms our negative stereotypes of government—even in the face of new information. Those who hold particularly negative perceptions also begin to “opt out” in favor of private alternatives, such as sending their children to private schools, living in gated communities, and refusing to participate in public health insurance programs. When sufficient numbers of people opt out of public services, the result can be a decline in the objective quality of public provision. In this way, citizens’ beliefs about government can quickly become a self-fulfilling prophecy, with consequences for all. Lerman concludes with practical solutions for how the government might improve its reputation and roll back current efforts to eliminate or privatize even some of the most critical public services.
Directory of State Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Comparing Devolved Governance
Author: D. BirrellPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230389791
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government.
List of State Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description