Product Description: Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents a lively retrospective account of a career as an inner and outer in American government and academe by a social scientist who has spent many years conducting evaluation studies of what works - and what doesn't work - in domestic public affairs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focusing on what happens to national policies after they are made, the authors discover that there are surprises in the implementation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility Act and its connections to other social agencies and programs...read more

Product Description: How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states? Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program. Drawing on the insights of leading scholars and top state health care officials, this volume analyzes the policy and management implications of various options for Medicaid devolution...read more

Product Description: Using five American states as case studies, this volume examines the roles of job training, job placement, education and child care services as a route to transforming welfare payment programmes into systems that stress jobs and services for welfare families.

Product Description: Using five American states as case studies, this volume examines the roles of job training, job placement, education and child care services as a route to transforming welfare payment programmes into systems that stress jobs and services for welfare families.

Product Description: A New Agenda for Cities [Mar 01, 1992] Nathan, Richard P.

Discusses the usefulness of social science in government, looks at specific research projects, and argues that policy research should be connected to political goals and deadlines

Product Description: Book by Schill, Michael H., Nathan, Richard P. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Nathan, Richard P.