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1	Modernizing Democracy: Innovations in Citizen Participation more books like this by Terry F Buss (Editor), F Stevens Redburn (Editor), Kristina Guo (Editor) add to wishlist How do you put the "public" in public management? How can the traditional ethos of professionalism and technical expertise be reconciled with norms of representation and citizen participation at a time when technology is transforming communication between citizens and government - in some ways enhancing the exchange and in other ways complicating ... see all copies from $18.47! new only from $39.87! \| SVS
2	Communicating Social Science Research to Policy Makers more books like this by Roger J Vaughan, Terry F Buss add to wishlist This practical guide for doing policy analysis is written for academics who want to get their research to the attention of decision-makers in the public sector, or who want to train their students in the skills necessary to undertake policy-relevant research. Readers will learn: how to prepare an unbiased description of a problem to be studied; ... see all copies from $40.49! new only from $40.49! \| SVS
3	Transforming Public Leadership for the 21st Century more books like this by Ricardo S Morse (Editor), Terry F Buss (Editor), C Morgan Kinghorn (Editor) add to wishlist The forces of globalization are shifting our world, including the public sector, away from hierarchy and command and control toward one of collaboration and networks. The way public leadership is thought about and practiced must be, and is being, transformed. This volume in the "Transformational Trends in Governance & Democracy" series explores ... see all copies from $25.77! new only from $39.88! \| SVS
4	Capital, Emerging High-Growth Firms and Public Policy: The Case Against Federal Intervention more books like this by Terry F Buss add to wishlist Argues that emerging high-growth firms, like those in high technology, do not face widespread capital shortages, and that calls for federal intervention are unjustified. Policy makers--Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative--call for federal intervention to fund emerging high-growth industries, believing they are starved for capital. ... see all copies from $12.39! new only from $118.27! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do about It more books like this by Terry F Buss, Adam Gardner add to wishlist Even after years of receiving considerable foreign aid, Haiti remains an impoverished, tremendously fragile state. Over a span of ten years, the United States spent over $4 billion in aid to Haiti, yet the average Haitian still has to survive on one dollar a day. Why has assistance been so ineffectual, and what can we learn from Haiti's plight ... see all copies from $21.05! new only from $21.05!
6	Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Lessons for the Next Half-Century more books like this by Louis A Picard (Editor), Robert Groelsema (Editor), Terry F Buss (Editor) add to wishlist This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future. The book focuses primarily on U.S. foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization. The expert ... see all copies from $44.58! new only from $44.58! \| SVS
7	Shutdown at Youngstown: Public Policy for Mass Unemployment more books like this by Terry F Buss add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
8	Revitalizing the U.S. Economy more books like this by Terry F Buss (Editor), Dr. Larry C Ledebur (Editor), F Stevens Redburn add to wishlist This collection of essays explores the fundamental sources of U.S. economic performance, and the public policies that sustain or weaken that performance. Revitalizing the U.S. Economy explores such issues as stimulating and channelling private investment, modifying rules of competition, and reconceptualizing the economy and economic policy. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $115.66!
9	Performance Management and Budgeting: How Governments Can Learn from Experience more books like this by F Stevens Redburn (Editor), Robert J Shea (Editor), Terry F Buss (Editor) add to wishlist This book provides a fresh look at the process by which governments hold themselves accountable to their citizens for performance. Unlike the plethora of other books in the field, it examines all aspects of the Performance Management and Budgeting issue, not only from the federal, state, and local perspectives, but also internationally in both ... see all copies from $80.66! new only from $94.95! \| SVS
10	Innovations in Human Resource Management: Getting the Public's Work Done in the 21st Century more books like this by Terry F Buss (Editor), Hannah S Sistare (Editor), Myra Howze Shiplett (Editor) add to wishlist Human resource management is experiencing profound change, new challenges, exciting accomplishments, and much uncertainty. The public service has moved away from the old days of 'personnel management' concerned mostly with processing 'personal action' paperwork, to a system where public employees are managed as human capital to get the work of the ... see all copies from $89.95! new only from $89.95! \| SVS
11	Innovations in Human Resource Management: Getting the Public's Work Done in the the 21st Century more books like this by Hannah Sistare (Editor), Terry F Buss (Editor), Myra Howze Shiplett (Editor) add to wishlist Human resource management is experiencing profound change, new challenges, exciting accomplishments, and much uncertainity. The public service has moved away from the old days of "personnel management" concerned mostly with processing "personal action" paperwork, to a system where public employees are managed as human capital to get the work of ... see all copies from $39.95! new only from $39.95! \| SVS
12	Shutdown at Youngstown more books like this by Terry F Buss add to wishlist see all copies from $81.21! new only from $87.09!
13 view cover	Responding to America's Homeless: Public Policy Alternatives more books like this by F Stevens Redburn, Terry F Buss add to wishlist "This useful and clearly written book provides a discussionof the major issues involved in dealing with the homeless, summarizes information available from a number of studies, and draws conclusions about current public policy and future policy alternatives. . . . An important addition to any library dealing with contemporary social concerns." ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $103.99!
14 view cover	Public Policies for Distressed Communities Revisited more books like this by F Stevens Redburn (Editor), Terry F Buss (Editor) add to wishlist This volume of analytical essays addresses the topic of national policy towards economically distressed areas and charts the evolution and redefinition of the problems affecting distressed communities. They look at the new roles currently played by federal and state governments, and the innovative approaches being developed to tackle the ... see all copies from $39.00! new only from $107.33!
15 view cover	Expanding Access to Health Care: A Management Approach more books like this by Terry F Buss (Editor), Paul N Van De Water (Editor) add to wishlist The U.S. health care system faces well-known problems: 47 million people without health insurance, rapidly rising costs that consume 16 percent of the country's economic output, and widely uneven quality of care. Even many people with coverage are experiencing serious problems paying for the rapidly rising costs of health care and insurance. This ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $39.95! \| SVS
16 view cover	A Fragile Balance: Re-Examining the History of Foreign Aid, Security and Diplomacy more books like this by Louis A Picard, Terry F Buss add to wishlist This book offers a broad historical narrative of foreign aid, international security and diplomacy. It emphasizes human development rather than economic development. The failures of foreign aid have drawn many assumptions into stark focus: the assumption that aid is reaching the bottom end of the socio-economic ladder, that those most capable of ... see all copies from $27.50! new only from $27.50! \| SVS
17	Mass Unemployment: Plant Closings and Community Mental Health more books like this by Terry F Buss add to wishlist What is the impact on the mental health of a community when an important local industry closes down? How do human service and mental health agencies in the area cope? The authors conducted a series of interviews with roughly one thousand people in an Ohio town after the closure of several steel mills. They analyze the psychological impact of ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18 view cover	Hidden Unemployment: Discouraged Workers and Public Policy more books like this by Terry F Buss, F Stevens Redburn add to wishlist This timely and important work addresses the controversy surrounding discouragement among the unemployed. Using an unprecedented set of national and local studies, and drawing on disparate research in nearly every social science discipline, the authors produce an original, highly detailed portrait of discouraged workers. From their analysis they ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $109.82!
19	Computers in criminal justice : an introduction to small computers. by Joseph A. Waldron, Carol S. Sutton, Terry F. Buss add to wishlist see all copies from $7.99! new only from $7.99!

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