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Making a difference progressive values in public administration / by Box, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The case for progressive values -- Making a difference -- Regressive and progressive values -- A conceptual framework -- Human behavior -- Immanent critique in the American context -- Describing the value pairs -- Aggressiveness/cooperation -- Belief/knowledge -- Economics as end/economics as means -- Great inequality/limited inequality -- Earth as resource/earth as home -- Practice and change -- The public professional as agent of change -- Creating change in policy and practice -- Gather information and present it to others -- Change how policy is implemented -- Advocate for programs and policies -- Normative teaching and scholarship -- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration -- Against the grain: teaching progressive values -- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions -- Contingent theory -- Analytic approach -- Use of knowledge -- Agency and action -- Toward a progressive public administration -- "Small junctures of theory and practice" -- References -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Making a difference progressive values in public administration / by Box, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The case for progressive values -- Making a difference -- Regressive and progressive values -- A conceptual framework -- Human behavior -- Immanent critique in the American context -- Describing the value pairs -- Aggressiveness/cooperation -- Belief/knowledge -- Economics as end/economics as means -- Great inequality/limited inequality -- Earth as resource/earth as home -- Practice and change -- The public professional as agent of change -- Creating change in policy and practice -- Gather information and present it to others -- Change how policy is implemented -- Advocate for programs and policies -- Normative teaching and scholarship -- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration -- Against the grain: teaching progressive values -- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions -- Contingent theory -- Analytic approach -- Use of knowledge -- Agency and action -- Toward a progressive public administration -- "Small junctures of theory and practice" -- References -- Index -- About the author.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Street Politics in the Age of Austerity : From the Indignados to Occupy /

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables and IllustrationsCharts; Chart 2.1 -- Euro Area (18) GDP Growth Rate; Chart 2.2 -- Euro Area (18) Unemployment Rate; Chart 2.3 -- Euro Area (18) Youth Unemployment Rate (under 25); Chart 2.4 -- Euro Area (18) Long-term Unemployment Rate (12 months and more); Figures; Figure 4.1 -- Proportion of strong supporters relative to the mean, according to left-right position; Figure 4.2 -- Two types of engagement in protest, by left-right ideology; Figure 4.3 -- Two types of engagement in protest, by attitude towards redistribution; Figure 4.4 -- Correlates of the left-right cleavage in Spain.…”
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Street Politics in the Age of Austerity : From the Indignados to Occupy /

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables and IllustrationsCharts; Chart 2.1 -- Euro Area (18) GDP Growth Rate; Chart 2.2 -- Euro Area (18) Unemployment Rate; Chart 2.3 -- Euro Area (18) Youth Unemployment Rate (under 25); Chart 2.4 -- Euro Area (18) Long-term Unemployment Rate (12 months and more); Figures; Figure 4.1 -- Proportion of strong supporters relative to the mean, according to left-right position; Figure 4.2 -- Two types of engagement in protest, by left-right ideology; Figure 4.3 -- Two types of engagement in protest, by attitude towards redistribution; Figure 4.4 -- Correlates of the left-right cleavage in Spain.…”
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