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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kenneth j meier”
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  • The Politics of Sin

    Drugs, Alcohol and Public Policy

    by Kenneth J. Meier ...
    This work demonstrates the value of a multi-method approach to public policy analysis, arguing that descriptive historical studies, quantitative historical studies and cross-sectional quantitative studies are essentially compatible. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Bureaucracy in a Democratic State

    A Governance Perspective

    by Kenneth J. Meier, Laurence J. O’Toole Jr. ...
    Here, Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. present a timely analysis of working democracy, arguing that bureaucracy—often considered antithetical to fundamental democratic principles—can actually promote democracy.Drawing from both the empirical work of political scientists and the qualitative work of public administration scholars, the authors employ a "governance approach" that considers ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Changing Politics of Gun Control

    by John M. Bruce, Graham Barron, Elizabeth Adell Cook, Keith R. Eakins, Ted G. Jelen, James G. Gimpel, Marcia L. Godwin, David R. Harding Jr., Lael R. Keiser, Diana Lambert0, Wendy L. Martinek1, Samuel C. Patterson2, Kenneth J. Meier3, Karen O'Connor4, Mark J. Rozell5, Ronald G. Shaiko6, Jean Reith Schroedel7, William Swinford8, Marc A. Wallace9, Harry L. Wilson0, Robin M. Wolpert1 ...
    In recent years, political discourse about gun control and the Second Amendment has become increasingly volatile and this collection of original essays by top scholars illuminates the various reasons why. Gun lobbies such as the National Rifle Association are more organized and aggressive and their issue agenda has evolved as new and more powerful weapons and militia appear. On the other side of ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Politics of African-American Education

    Representation, Partisanship, and Educational Equity

    by Kenneth J. Meier, Amanda Rutherford ...
    Based on the 1,800 largest school districts in the United States over a decade, The Politics of African-American Education documents the status of African-American education and the major role that partisanship plays. The book brings together the most comprehensive database on minority education to date that centers around three arguments. First, partisanship permeates African-American education; ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Comparative Public Management

    Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters

    by Kenneth J. Meier, Amanda Rutherford, Claudia N. Avellaneda, Laurence J. O'Toole Jr., Cameron Wimpy, Marlette Jackson, Rhys Andrews, Claire Stieg0, René Torenvlied1, Agnes Akkerman2, Mads Leth Jakobsen3, Anne Mette Kjeldsen4, Thomas Pallesen5, Ricardo Gomes6 ...
    While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. Why, for example, is managerial networking important in the United States, moderately effective in the United Kingdom, and of little consequence in the Netherlands? Comparative Public Management argues that scholars must find a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and Men of the States

    Public Administrators and the State Level

    by Mary E. Guy, Kenneth J Meier ...
    This text discusses and compares men's and women's career patterns in state government. It is based upon newly conducted original research surveys in six states. From this research, generalisations are made concerning commonalities and differences between men's and women's experiences in public adminstration at the state level. This is a new area of research: while much has been done at the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Public Management

    Organizations, Governance, and Performance

    by Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr, Kenneth J. Meier ...
    How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be estimated? The fate of public policies in today's world lies in the hands of public organizations, which in ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • The Case Against School Choice

    Politics, Markets and Fools

    by Kevin B. Smith, Kenneth J. Meier ...
    "Compelling arguments, supported by both anecdotal and empirical evidence to convince readers that school choice does nothing to improve the quality of education. ... Solidly researched and written, Smith's and Meier's effort should sway those still undecided on the issue". -- Publishers Weekly ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Footnotes

    Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page

    by Elena Alexander, Jill Johnston, Douglas Dunn, Marjorie Gamso, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Kenneth King, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Skaggs ...
    Series series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
    The writings of six choreographers are assembled in this book and the leap they have taken to go from the medium of choreography into written text constitutes a form of translation. Some of the texts investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, others use it as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects. All yield insight into the process of coaxing ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • What Works

    A New Approach To Program And Policy Analysis

    by Kenneth Meier ...
    What Works is a concise methods text that represents a new approach for policy program analysis. The authors, Meier and Gill, combine statistics with normative concerns. They consider how things might be, and they focus on subsets of cases that differ from the norm. Their approach uses regression and methods in a qualitative, yet rigorous manner.In What Works, the authors address questions such as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Race and Public Administration

    Edited by Amanda Rutherford, Kenneth Meier ...
    Issues of race permeate virtually every corner of policy creation and implementation in the United States, yet theoretically driven research on interactions of policy, race, and ethnicity rarely offers practical tools that can be readily applied by current and future civil servants, private contractors, or nonprofit boards. Arguing that scholarship can and should inform practice to address issues ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
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