"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Street level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode', Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, March 29-July 29, 2007"--T.p. verso.
This expanded edition of Street-Level Bureaucracy underscores that, despite its challenging nature, street-level work can be made to conform to higher expectations of public service.
Examining public service from the perspective of the worker, this book provides a new framework for understanding the roles and responsibilities of front-line public servants and assessing the appropriateness of their actions.
Street-Level Governing is the first book to investigate how muhtars carry out their role--not only what they are supposed to do, but how they actually operate--to provide an ethnographic study of the state as viewed from its margins.
Evaluating reforms of local public and social services in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Kuhlmann, S. (2010). Performance measurement in European local governments. A comparative analysis of reform experiences in Great Britain ...
"More of a narcotics patrol bible, this book provides insight and know how only a very experienced dope cop could illustrate. Daren Ellison gives real world examples and situations that can help any patrolman.
Frontline staff in regulation need to have a range of high-level skills. This books offers a coherent framework of practice, theory, ethics and competency drawing on academic and professional sources.
Through the legal crafting of power, Street-Level Sovereignty illuminates a jurisprudence of visual representation, image, and cultural meaning that develops everyday aspects of how law works with regard to place and representation.
In Policing China, Suzanne E. Scoggins delves into the paradox of China's self-projection of a strong security state while having a weak police bureaucracy.
This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Focusing on Massachusetts' innovative special education reform law, Chapter 766, "Reforming Special Education" traces the complex processes through which an ostensibly universalistic and equitable policy can produce a biased distribution...