Innovating With Integrity: How Local Heroes Are Transforming American Government - Hardcover

Borins, Sandford F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878406875 ISBN 13: 9780878406876

Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Tests quantitatively some hypotheses about innovation in local US government. Analyzes data collected in 1993-94 from responses to a complex, open-ended questionnaire sent to semifinalists for an innovation award to profile the types of innovations, the characteristics of those who initiate them, characteristics of the innovation process, financial resources, organizational structure, and the evaluation of the outcomes. Paper edition (unseen), $23.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Sandford Borins is a professor of public management and chair of the division of management at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He is a former visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the author of several books, including Political Management in Canada (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992). His research focuses on international comparisons of public management reform initiatives. He has extensive experience designing training programs and consulting on public management for the Canadian government.

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"Chock full of insights and observations that should be of interest to anyone who cares about how to make American government more adaptive and effective. And it is packed as well with compelling portrayals of real-life public officials facing extraordinary challenges." -- -- from the foreword by Alan D. Altshuler, Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Harvard University

About this edition

• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0878406875
• ISBN 13: 9780878406876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 346