Product Description: The stakes have seldom been higher for public service. Security concerns are surging to the foreground. New or neglected economic and social problems demand fresh thinking and deft action. Technology-driven improvements in the business sector raise citizens' expectations for performance...read more

Product Description: The latest in a series exploring twenty-first-century governance, this new volume examines the use of market means to pursue public goals. ¡°Market-based governance¡± includes both the delegation of traditionally governmental functions to private players, and the importation into government of market-style management approaches and mechanisms of accountability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Changing markets are challenging governance. The growing scale, reach, complexity, and popular legitimacy of market institutions and market players are re-opening old questions about the role of the public sector and redefining what it means to govern well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Far from being another short-lived buzzword, "globalization" refers to real changes. These changes have profound impacts on culture, economics, security, the environment —and hence on the fundamental challenges of governance. This book asks three fundamental questions: How are patterns of globalization currently evolving? How do these patterns affect governance? And how might globalism itself be governed? The first section maps the trajectory of globalization in several dimensions —economic, cultural, environmental, and political...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Everybody knows federal agencies are brain-dead leviathans. Everybody knows that the watchword of federal management is "that's the way we've always done it." Everybody knows that any creativity within American government shows up only in the cities and states...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The widening of the gap between the rich and the poor since the early 1970s has been well documented. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to whether the devolution of governmental responsibilities from the federal to state level will simplify or complicate efforts to alleviate inequality...read more

The author of New Deals analyzes the potential impact of the current movement to shift power away from the federal government and to the separate states, as he argues that this trend will undercut national interests. (view table of contents)

Examines the privatization debate, assesses the role of government in American society, and compares and evaluates the performance of both private contractors and government employees

Chronicles the Chrysler loan-guarantee negotiations in an examination of the problems of bankruptcy and reorganization