Research Catalog

Title

Innovation in American government : challenges, opportunities, and dilemmas / Alan A. Altshuler, Robert D. Behn, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1997.

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Additional Authors

• Altshuler, Alan A., 1936-
• Behn, Robert D.
• Altshuler, Alan A.

Description

xii, 394 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• USA Government
• USA > Regierung
• Political planning > United States
• Administrative agencies > United States > Management
• Organizational change > United States

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• bibliographie.
• bibliografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Dilemmas of Innovation in American Government / Alan A. Altshuler and Robert D. Behn -- 2. Bureaucratic Innovation, Democratic Accountability, and Political Incentives / Alan A. Altshuler -- 3. Innovation and Public Management: Notes from the State House and City Hall / Alan A. Altshuler and Marc D. Zegans -- 4. Innovation and the Public Interest: Insights from the Private Sector / Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. -- 5. The Dilemma of the Modern Public Manager: Satisfying the Virtues of Scientific and Innovative Management / Marc D. Zegans -- 6. Innovation in the Concept of Government Operations: A New Paradigm for Staff Agencies / Michael Barzelay and Babak J. Armajani -- 7. Innovation in Public Sector Human Services Programs: The Implications of Innovation by 'Groping Along' / Olivia Golden -- 8. Why Government Innovation Is Not News: The View from the Newsroom / W. Lance Bennett -- 9. Mass Media and Policy Innovation: Opportunities and Constraints for Public Management / Robert M. Entman -- 10. State Innovation in Health Policy / Deborah A. Stone -- 11. The Paradox of Innovation in Education: Cycles of Reform and the Resilience of Teaching / Richard F. Elmore -- 12. Innovation in Policing: From Production Lines to Jobs Shops / Mark H. Moore, Malcolm Sparrow and William Spelman -- 13. Resolving the Dilemmas of Ad Hoc Processes: Parallel Processes as Scaffolding / Thomas N. Gilmore and James Krantz -- 14. Replication: Adapt or Fail / Paul Berman and Beryl Nelson -- 15. Public Sector Innovations and Their Diffusion: Economic Tools and Managerial Tasks / Lee S. Friedman -- 16. Notes from a Reflective Practitioner of Innovation / Ellen Schall.

ISBN

• 0815703589 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0815703570 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97021096^

OCLC

• 37043886
• SCSB-9930430

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library