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Price: $85.00
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Sale: $71.23
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Pierre F. Landry
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.80951
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Publication Date: 2008-08-04
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: China, like many authoritarian regimes, struggles with the tension between the need to foster economic development by empowering local officials and the regime's imperative to control them politically. Landry explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manages local officials in order to meet these goals and perpetuate an unusually decentralized authoritarian regime. Using unique data collected at the municipal, county, and village level, Landry examines in detail how the promotion mechanisms for local cadres have allowed the CCP to reward officials for the development of their localities without weakening political control. His research shows that the CCP's personnel management system is a key factor in explaining China's enduring authoritarianism and proves convincingly that decentralization and authoritarianism can work hand in hand.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $23.25
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Manufacturer: NYU Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bruce Benson
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Publisher: NYU Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.973
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Publication Date: 1998-08-01
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Reading Level: 372
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Description: In contrast to government's predominant role in criminal justice today, for many centuries crime control was almost entirely private and community-based. Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all recent historical developments–results of a political and bureaucratic social experiment which, Bruce Benson argues, neither protects the innocent nor dispenses justice. In this comprehensive and timely book, Benson analyzes the accelerating trend toward privatization in the criminal justice system. In so doing, To Serve and Protect challenges and transcends both liberal and conservative policies that have supported government's pervasive role. With lucidity and rigor, he examines the gamut of private-sector input to criminal justice–from private-sector outsourcing of prisons and corrections, security, arbitration to full "private justice" such as business and community-imposed sanctions and citizen crime prevention. Searching for the most cost-effective methods of reducing crime and protecting civil liberties, Benson weighs the benefits and liabilities of various levels of privatization, offering correctives for the current gridlock that will make criminal justice truly accountable to the citizenry and will simultaneously result in reductions in the unchecked power of government.
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Price: $115.00
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Sale: $59.97
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.94705
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Publication Date: 2003-11-22
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: This book brings together specialists from different areas (governance, regulation, macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics, enterprise culture, foreign direct investment, technology transfer) to focus on the many different aspects of the privatization process in transition economies. The book does not dwell on the administrative or procedural aspects of privatization. Instead it attempts to understand the bigger picture in terms of underlying policy environment and supporting legal and economic measures which helped to a large extent to determine the eventual success or failure of privatization programs.
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Price: $28.00
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Sale: $27.89
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Manufacturer: Krieger Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ann Durkin Keating
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Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
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Edition: Original
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.0973
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Publication Date: 1994-10
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Reading Level: 180
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Description: Human beings have for millennia developed public works to allow themselves to congregate. This book provides a roadmap for local historians who are interested in exploring public works as a part of their community's history. It begins by examining structures within specific communities, to introduce the kinds of facilities that are identifiable as public works. Then the basic tools available for exploring their history are identified. Other sections of the book focus on the networks that tie homes to communities, as well as those that tie individual communities to regions.
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Elliott D. Sclar
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.97305
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Publication Date: 2000-04-19
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Reading Level: 184
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Description: Today, nearly all public services--from schools and hospitals to prisons, fire departments, and sanitation--are considered fair game for privatization. Proponents argue that private firms responding to competitive market pressures will provide better service at lower cost. While this assertion has caused much controversy, the debate has consisted mainly of impassioned defenses of entrenched positions on all sides. You Don't Always Get What You Pay For changes the contours of this debate. Elliott D. Sclar offers a balanced look at the pitfalls and promises of public sector privatization in the United States. Describing the underlying economic dynamics of how public agencies and private organizations actually work together, he provides a rigorous analysis of the assumptions behind the case for privatization. The competitive-market model may seem appealing, but Sclar warns that it does not address the complex reality of contracting for government services. Using specific examples such as mail service and urban transportation, he shows that, in an ironic twist, privatization does not shrink government--the broader goal of many of its own champions. He also demonstrates that there is more to consider in providing these services than trying to achieve efficiency; there are issues such as equity and access that cannot be ignored. Sclar believes that public officials and voters will soon realize the limitations of "contracting out" just as private corporations have come to understand the drawbacks of outsourcing. After examining the effectiveness of alternatives to privatization, he offers suggestions for improving public sector performance--advice he hopes will be heeded before it is too late. A Century Foundation Book
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Price: $125.00
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Sale: $125.00
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Manufacturer: Quorum Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Quorum Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 352.5382140973
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Publication Date: 2000-09-30
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Nationally recognized scholars and practitioners examine opportunities in which services traditionally provided by local governments are offered by the private sector though a contract or are transferred to a private business completely. Many large U.S. cities have contracted services for many years. With the movement to rightsize governments in recent years there has been renewed interest by local governments in similar ventures. Privatization, in its many forms, is now seen as a viable alternative to traditional ways of providing public services and can bring substantial benefits to residents. With greater accountability being demanded and pressures on local officials to hold the line on or reduce taxes, efforts to find innovative service delivery methods will probably increase. Cities, such as Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Charlotte, are examples showing that contracts with private businesses can work to benefit all parties. Local officials must move ahead cautiously, and not all attempts at privatization or contracting have succeeded. Some cities, after an evaluation, have decided to provide services with municipal employees. The main issues underlying privatization decisions will be addressed conceptually so that practitioners and academics benefit from a review of the current thinking on the issues. At the same time, exemplary practices and case studies are included so that readers can understand how privatization and managed competition have been implemented in local governments. Special attention is paid to administrative questions that may arise during the implementation process. For example, ways in which cities have worked with employees who fear displacement because of the privatization process are described. The book breaks new ground by including references to recent innovations in public-private partnerships and describing how privatization may evolve in the future.
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Price: $30.90
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Sale: $22.49
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Manufacturer: Zed Books Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Andrew Coyle::Allison Campbell::Rodney Neufeld
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Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364
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Publication Date: 2003-04-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Prison privatization is rapidly spreading in many Western countries as governments seek to manage burgeoning prison populations within the constraints of a neo-liberal political agenda. But how is public well-being served when prisons are run for pofit? This volume discusses privatization in its historical and ideological context, and in relation to United nations standards and rules. It examines the adverse effects of private prisons on physical and sexual abuse, health care, education, training and rehabilitation, as corporations seek to maximize profits and describes the impact of cost-cutting on prison staff, paying special attention to the effect on women, children and minorities. It also offers a glimpse into the transnational spread of privatized incarceration, as developing nations, bound by IMF restrictions, are forced into the hands of transnational corporations to the detriment of local alternatives.
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Price: $27.00
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Sale: $24.20
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Manufacturer: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tiffany Soule Anderson::Lauren Demille::Emily Duwel::Mary Mahon::Alex Marshall::Leili Towfigh::Chicken & Egg Public Projects (Firm)
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Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 624.0973
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Publication Date: 2002-03-01
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Reading Level: 167
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Description: The companion guide to the ASCE 150th Anniversary museum exhibit, this book is an engaging look at the relationship of the public to the civil engineering networks that define modern life. Each chapter of this highly illustrated book explores a fundamental question behind infrastructure and the role it plays in individual lives. Who's responsible? How safe is it? Why so big? It it available? How much does it cost? How long will it last? The answers to these questions define our lives, and this exhibition and book examines the indivisible links between our private lives and public works. It show the exciting engagement between civil engineering and the public!
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Price: $220.00
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Sale: $42.01
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7932
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Publication Date: 2001-03-15
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Reading Level: 498
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Description: The restructuring and deregulation of the power utility industry is resulting in significant competitive, technological and regulatory changes. Independent power producers, power marketers and brokers have added a new and significant dimension to the task of maintaining a reliable electric system. Power System Restructuring and Deregulation provides comprehensive coverage of the technological advances, which have helped redesign the ways in which utility companies manage their business.
With the aid of practical case studies, an international panel of contributors address the most up to date problems and their solutions in a cohesive manner, making this book indispensable to graduates and engineers in the power industry field.
? Presents state of the art techniques in power industry restructuring
? Includes applications of new technology in power industry deregulation
? Includes practical examples of changes in load forecasting techniques and methods
? International contributors offer a global perspective detailing power utility restructuring and deregulation from various countries
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $32.00
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Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James F. Pastor
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Publisher: McFarland & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.2890973
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Publication Date: 2003-11
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Reading Level: 204
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Description: Today the private security industry employs approximately 1.5 million people and spends over $52 billion annually. In contrast, public police forces employ approximately 600,000 people and spend $30 billion annually. Private policing promises to be a big part of the response to today’s increased security concerns, as citizens realize that security is much more than the presence of guards and the perception of safety. This book addresses the impact and implications of private policing on public streets, and begins with a look at private policing from conceptual, historical, economic, legal and functional perspectives. These approaches provide the background for the text, which focuses on a private policing patrol program in a community on the south side of Chicago. The text also demonstrates a number of substantive legal and public policy issues which directly or indirectly relate to the provision of security services; some people see the need for a "dual system" of policing—one for the wealthy and one for the poor—and others see the provision of private security as the primary protective resource in contemporary America. The author also examines how private policing is different from and similar to public policing.
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