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Intelligence work is in some ways like a newspaper or newsmagazine, in some like a business, in some like the research activity of a university; very little of it involves cloaks and daggers. All of it is important to national survival, and should be understood by the citizens of a democracy. In this remarkable book, an able scholar, experienced i

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This book outlines a new approach to the analysis of decision making based on "cognitive maps." A cognitive map is a graphic representation intended to capture the structure of a decision maker's stated beliefs about a particular problem. Following introductory chapters that develop the theory and techniques of cognitive mapping, a set of five empi

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Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with...

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Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with...

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Offers important insights for anyone interested in working to find the smartest ways to allocate scarce funds to promote the maximum well-being of all citizens.

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How can government leaders build, sustain, and leverage the cross-organizational collaborative networks needed to tackle the complex interagency and intergovernmental challenges they face This book explores how enterprise leaders use networks of trusted, collaborative relationships to respond and lead solutions to problems that span agencies.

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Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through interest representation, due process, management, policy analysis, federalism, and oversight. The United States has, in fact, undergone an institutional realignment and has emerged with a weaker, less auto

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Examines New Zealand's deceptively simple but effective program to improve public services. THe book explores how and why the New Zealand government made progress and how its program was able to create and sustain the commitment of public servants and unleash the creativity of public entrepreneurs.

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The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a d

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Examines documents from the Central Intelligence Agency's own files revealing the tension between secrecy and transparency. This book guides readers through the CIA's shrouded history and allows them to sift the evidence for themselves. It also contains narrative chapters, introducing the successive periods of CIA history.

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This book details the unintended financial and performance consequences of governance fragmentation resulting from Milwaukees private school voucher policy. It examines this policy through the lens of public administration, presenting a framework on how to reassert democratic accountability in complex public-private governance networks.

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Although there have been other studies of elite administrators in France, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia, John Armstrong has made the first systematic comparison of their roles, especially their inclination to participate in economic development. Drawing on role theory and theories of socialization and recruitment, he analyzes the influences th

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This volume gives students, professors, and the general public a single, comprehensive source on the key themes in the historical development of the presidency from America's founding era through the presidency of George W. Bush.

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The year 2020 brought the importance of legislator use of communication technologies, including social media, into American national consciousness. This book examines how communication technologies influence policymakers from quantitative and qualitative perspectives, predicts legislator behaviors, and provides advice for stabilizing America.

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In the late 2000s, the small southern California town of Bell erupted in a scandal that revealed a truly astonishing level of municipal corruptionone prosecutor called it corruption on steroids. This book details why Bell was vulnerable to such massive malfeasance and what steps could be taken to reduce the chances of it happening again.

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In the late 2000s, the small southern California town of Bell erupted in a scandal that revealed a truly astonishing level of municipal corruptionone prosecutor called it corruption on steroids. This book details why Bell was vulnerable to such massive malfeasance and what steps could be taken to reduce the chances of it happening again.

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The federal budget impacts American policies both at home and abroad, and recent concern over the exploding budgetary deficit has experts calling our nation's policies ""unsustainable"" and ""system-dooming.

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Many people tend to think of the public, private, and non-profit sectors as being distinctive components of the economy and broader society - each with its own missions and problems to address. This book describes how the three sectors can work together toward common purposes, accomplishing much more than if they work alone.

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One increasingly popular device for achieving a balance between authority and accountability in government is the institution of the ombudsman. The first non-Scandinavian ombudsman appeared in New Zealand in 1962, and since then the office has spread to many countries and been adopted at different levels of government. This book--the first intensiv