Author: Massachusetts. Special Commission Concerning State and County BuildingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Final Report to the General Court of the Special Commission Concerning State and County Buildings
Author: Massachusetts. Special Commission Concerning State and County BuildingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Final Report to the General Court of the Special Commission Concerning State and County Buildings
Author: Massachusetts. Special Commission Concerning State and County BuildingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Power of Accountability
Author: Robin J. KempfPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700628975
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Migrant children separated from their parents. A scheme to defraud Cook County using property tax breaks. An undisclosed thirty-year business relationship between city officials in Baltimore. These are the sorts of headlines regularly generated by offices of inspector general (OIGs)—bureaucratic units dedicated to government accountability that are commonly independent of the agencies they are charged with overseeing. In 1976, OIGs were virtually unheard of and were largely at the federal level, but today there are more than 170 OIGs overseeing state and local government entities. Why have OIGs been so widely adopted, and what do they do? How do they contribute to accountability, and what are their limitations? In The Power of Accountability Robin J. Kempf sets out to address these questions with empirical data and to examine the conflicts that have led to variations in the design and implementation of OIGs. In doing so she explores the power of the concept of the inspector general: an institutional model for keeping subnational government units accountable to the public. As more and more government entities have created offices of inspector general, practitioners in this developing field have recommended an archetypal structure for these agencies that assures their authority and independence. Why then, The Power of Accountability asks, have so many states and localities incorporated significant deviations from this recommended model in their design? Through an extensive review of government websites, laws, and ordinances; original surveys of the identified OIGs; legislative histories; and interviews with thirty-eight OIG staff in eight states, Kempf analyzes why OIGs have proliferated, why and how they work differently in various jurisdictions, and what effect these variations in design have on the effectiveness of OIGs as a mechanism of accountability. The ever-expanding call for accountability in government drives the increasing demand for offices of inspector general, which necessarily entails intense political maneuvering. The Power of Accountability is a uniquely useful resource for judging whether, under what circumstances, and how well OIGs fulfill their intended purpose and serve the public interest.
Final Report to the General Court of the Special Commission Concerning State and County Buildings
Author: Massachusetts. Special Commission Concerning State and County BuildingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry
Author: New York State Organized Crime Task ForcePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814730345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book, Corruption and Racketeering In The New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Task Force, lays out in close and compelling detail the intricate patterns of currupt activities and relationships that for the better part of a century have characterized business as usual in the construction industry in America's largest metropolis. The book is the end product of more than five years' worth of investigation, prosecutions, and research by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, a unique agency that has set a national example for marrying law enforcement initiatives with comprehensive and exhausting analysis of the causes and dynamics of industrial racketeering. This is a sobering analysis of the construction industry , one of New York City's largest industries, and in effect, one of the city's most significant economic sectors. In any given year during the 1980s, billions of dollars of construction were being carried out at any one time. The industry regularly employs more than 100,000 people in the city, involving some one hundred union locals and many hundreds of general and specialty contractors as well as a large number of architects, engineers, and materials suppliers. The book shows—in great and provocative detail—how organized extortion, bribery illegal cartels, and bid rigging characterize construction in the city. The basis for much of this crim is labor racketeering, controlled or orchestrated by organized crime. It reveals how this world of corruption affects not only the private sector but the city's vast public works program, and it spells out the ways in which both organized crime and official corruption each sustain the dynamics of ongoing criminality. Wrong-doing on a massive scale is documented at length. But this book is more than a recitation of extensive and systematic criminality. The book recommends a number of plausible options for genuine reform. Necessarily these are profound and radical solutions, but everyone who reads this book will conclude that only profound and radical solutions could hope to solve such an entrenched and intractable crime problem.
John William Ward
Author: Kim TownsendPublisher: Amherst College
ISBN: 0943184185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This first-ever biography of John William Ward, the fourteenth president of Amherst College, explores the roots of his idealism and covers his presidency, his later success in Massachusetts politics, and the events leading up to his eventual suicide. President from 1971 to 1979, Ward served during a tumultuous period in the history of the elite liberal arts college, and in the history of the nation. He presided over the once all-male college's transition to coeducation, worked to support African-American students in their fight for equality and justice, and was arrested for civil disobedience in protest against the Vietnam War. Ward was emblematic of his time. Idealist that he was, he tried to make Amherst College a model of a democratic society. Defeated in ugly battles with the faculty, Ward resigned as president but went on to great success in the rougher world of Massachusetts politics. He made headlines for his leadership of a state commission that spent more than two years investigating corruption in the awarding of building contracts, resulting in the passage of laws that guaranteed reforms. This long-overdue volume is the first complete study of Ward--a self-made man, proof that the American Dream could come true, but who ultimately saw his personal and professional life collapse. It sheds light on Amherst College, on higher education more broadly, on suicide, and on the United States in the 1960s and '70s.
The Massachusetts register
Author: Reports of Proceedings ...
Author: Report of the Attorney General for the Year Ending ...
Author: Massachusetts. Attorney General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Reports of Proceedings ...
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description