Author: Clyde Frank Snider
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Local Government in Rural America
Author: Clyde Frank Snider
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Government in Rural America
Author: Lane W. Lancaster
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
For-Profit Democracy
Author: Loka Ashwood
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300235143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for†‘profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of fieldwork, this eye†‘opening assessment by sociologist Loka Ashwood plays out in a mixed†‘race Georgia community that hosted the first nuclear power reactors sanctioned by the government in three decades. This work serves as an explanatory mirror of prominent trends in current American politics. Churches become havens for redemption, poaching a means of retribution, guns a tool of self†‘defense, and nuclear power a faltering solution to global warming as governance strays from democratic principles. In the absence of hope or trust in rulers, rural racial tensions fester and divide. The book tells of the rebellion that unfolds as the rights of corporations supersede the rights of humans.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300235143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for†‘profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of fieldwork, this eye†‘opening assessment by sociologist Loka Ashwood plays out in a mixed†‘race Georgia community that hosted the first nuclear power reactors sanctioned by the government in three decades. This work serves as an explanatory mirror of prominent trends in current American politics. Churches become havens for redemption, poaching a means of retribution, guns a tool of self†‘defense, and nuclear power a faltering solution to global warming as governance strays from democratic principles. In the absence of hope or trust in rulers, rural racial tensions fester and divide. The book tells of the rebellion that unfolds as the rights of corporations supersede the rights of humans.
New Governance for Rural America
Author: Beryl A. Radin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"An excellent addition to our understanding of rural development and intergovernmental management. Its solid scholarship, enlightened conceptual framework, and clear writing style make it a welcome addition to the field of public policy and administration". -- B. J. Reed, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"An excellent addition to our understanding of rural development and intergovernmental management. Its solid scholarship, enlightened conceptual framework, and clear writing style make it a welcome addition to the field of public policy and administration". -- B. J. Reed, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Local Governments and Rural Development
Author: Krister Andersson
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816527014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades. Experts blame excessively centralized public administrations for the lackluster performance of public policy initiatives. In response, decentralization reformshave become a common government strategy for improving public sector performance in rural areas. The effect of these reforms is a topic of considerable debate among government officials, policy scholars, and citizensÕ groups. This book offers a systematic analysis of how local governments and farmer groups in Latin America are actually faring today. Based on interviews with more than 1,200 mayors, local officials, and farmers in 390 municipal territories in four Latin American nations, the authors analyze the ways in which different forms of decentralization affect the governance arrangements for rural development Òon the ground.Ó Their comparative analysis suggests that rural development outcomes are systemically linked to locally negotiated institutional arrangementsÑformal and informalÑbetween government officials, NGOs, and farmer groups that operate in the local sphere. They find that local-government actors contribute to public services that better assist the rural poor when local actors cooperate to develop their own institutional arrangements for participatory planning, horizontal learning, and the joint production of services. This study brings substantive data and empirical analysis to a discussion that has, until now, more often depended on qualitative research in isolated cases. With more than 60 percent of Latin AmericaÕs rural population living in poverty, the results are both timely and crucial.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816527014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades. Experts blame excessively centralized public administrations for the lackluster performance of public policy initiatives. In response, decentralization reformshave become a common government strategy for improving public sector performance in rural areas. The effect of these reforms is a topic of considerable debate among government officials, policy scholars, and citizensÕ groups. This book offers a systematic analysis of how local governments and farmer groups in Latin America are actually faring today. Based on interviews with more than 1,200 mayors, local officials, and farmers in 390 municipal territories in four Latin American nations, the authors analyze the ways in which different forms of decentralization affect the governance arrangements for rural development Òon the ground.Ó Their comparative analysis suggests that rural development outcomes are systemically linked to locally negotiated institutional arrangementsÑformal and informalÑbetween government officials, NGOs, and farmer groups that operate in the local sphere. They find that local-government actors contribute to public services that better assist the rural poor when local actors cooperate to develop their own institutional arrangements for participatory planning, horizontal learning, and the joint production of services. This study brings substantive data and empirical analysis to a discussion that has, until now, more often depended on qualitative research in isolated cases. With more than 60 percent of Latin AmericaÕs rural population living in poverty, the results are both timely and crucial.
Effect of Federal Programs on Rural America
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Rural Development
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Rural Development
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Bringing the Information Age to Rural America
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Critical Issues in the Delivery of Local Government Services in Rural America
Author: Gerald A. Doeksen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community education
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community education
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Development of Rural America
Author: George Loris Brinkman
Publisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description