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Public Policy Faculty Book Fair
Joel Aberbach
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Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch
Oxford University Press, 2005. (Edited with Mark A. Peterson)
The presidency and the agencies of the executive branch are deeply interwoven with other core institutions of American government and politics. While the framers of the Constitution granted power to the president, they likewise imbued the legislative and judicial branches of government with the powers necessary to hold the executive in check. The Executive Branch, edited byJoel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson, examines the delicate and shifting balance among the three branches of government, which is constantly renegotiated as political leaders contend with the public's paradoxical sentiments-yearning for strong executive leadership yet fearing too much executive power, and welcoming the benefits of public programs yet uneasy about, and indeed often distrusting, big government.
The Executive Branch, a collection of essays by some of the nation's leading political scientists and public policy scholars, examines the historical emergence and contemporary performance of the presidency and bureaucracy, as well as their respective relationships with the Congress, the courts, political parties, and American federalism. Presidential elections are defining moments for the nation's democracy-by linking citizens directly to their government, elections serve as a mechanism for exercising collective public choice. After the election, however, the work of government begins and involves elected and appointed political leaders at all levels of government, career civil servants, government contractors, interest organizations, the media, and engaged citizens. The essays in this volume delve deeply into the organizations and politics that make the executive branch such a complex and fascinating part of American government.
The volume provides an assessment from the past to the present of the role and development of the presidency and executive branch agencies, including analysis of the favorable and problematic strategies, and personal attributes, that presidents have brought to the challenge of leadership. It examines the presidency and the executive agencies both separately and together as they influence-or are influenced by-other major institutions of American government and politics, with close attention to how they relate to civic participation and democracy
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In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive
Brookings Institution, 2000. (Co-Authored with Bert A. Rockman)
"The all-star scholarly teach of Aberbach and Rockman has again produced a high-quality analysis of our top-level public executives. Their insightful analysis reassures us about the quality and responsiveness of federal career executives, while at the same time explaining that public dissatisfaction with government stems from the political judgements rather than managerial problems in government and politics."
James P. Pfiffner, Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University
"The product of meticulous scholarship, In the Web of Politics is the most important book on the federal executive branch to appear in decades. It is essential reading not only for those who seek to understand American government, but for those who try to understand the changing relationship between bureaucrats and politicians worldwide."
Graham K. Wilson, Professor of Political Science and Associate Director, La Follette Institute for Public Policy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight
Brookings Institution, 1990.
"Aberbach (political science, UCLA) looks at the conditions that give rise to congressional oversight and details how Congress secures information about federal departments, agencies, and commissions, and the programs and policies they administer. He considers congressional oversight--how much is done and what gets on the oversight agendas--within the context of a dynamic political environment."
Book News
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Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies
Harvard University Press, 1981.(Co-Authored with Robert Putnam, Bert Rockman)
In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings.
One of the authors' most significant findings is that the worlds of these two elites overlap much more in the United States than in Europe. But throughout the West bureaucrats and politicians each wear special blinders and each have special virtues. In a well-ordered polity, the authors conclude, politicians articulate society's dreams and bureaucrats bring them gingerly to earth.
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Helmut
Anheier
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Creative
Philanthropy
Routledge, 2006. (Edited with Diana Leat)
Philanthropy and endowed foundation are good and vitally
important institutions of modern society. They fit in well with the way
advanced market economies are developing, in particular with the nexus between
private and public benefit in an era of "small" government and
greater social diversity. As institutions, however, they are facing new
threats: declining resources relative to needs, and questions about their
accountability and performance. In recent years individual philanthropists
and foundation leaders have looked to strategic philanthropy as a way of
becoming more effective and efficient. Strategic philanthropy can help foundations
to think about structures and processes, but it does not provide any answer
to the more fundamental questions about foundations' distinctive roles in
contributing to public good. This important new book provides an overview
of creative philanthropy along with an analysis of the theory and practice
of philanthropy. The authors spell out the implications of their study for
management and policy and provide readers with the tools and techniques
of creative philanthropy. Essential reading for all those who study or work
infFoundations, philanthropy and nonprofit organizations this important
new book explicates this complicated but vital subject area.
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Nonprofit
Organizations; Theory, Management, Policy
Routledge, 2005.
This book presents a picture of a broad overview
of a wide range of topics - all germane to the subject. The author is
very qualified, and this book fills a substantial void for a broad overview
of the field. |o Don Lacy, The Ohio State University
For students navigating the largely uncharted
territory of nonprofit theory, Anheier's comprehensive book will be a
welcome resource. And for nonprofit leaders who want to understand their
sector better, it presents a big-picture view of nonprofit theory, policy
and management. Both will benefit from this important and impressive work.
|o William P. Ryan, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard
University
This textbook on nonprofit organizations, voluntary and community associations,
and the third sector answers the increasing need for a high quality, accessible
textbook for the increasing number of courses available on these subjects.
Each chapter deals with theory and practice and includes a high level
of features to aid reader accessibility, there will be study aids, a glossary,
strong pedagogical elements such as boxes and case studies. Systematic
in its treatment of theories, management approaches and policy analysis
of the nonprofit field it methodically introduces central terms such as
philanthropy, charity, community and the public good.
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Global Civil Society 2005/6
SAGE, 2005. (Edited with Mary H Kaldor and Marlies Glasius)
'This fifth Global Civil Society Yearbook continues the
intellectual shaping of an emerging global civil society. As the Global
Call for Action on Poverty, G-Cap, makes its voice heard under the whiteband
symbol, this analysis of current issues of migration, climate change and
UN reform, with a focus on gender and social movements, provides a timely
intellectual resource to strengthen shared commitments'
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Joel Handler
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Hard Labor: Women and Work in the Post-Welfare Era
M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
"The volume's strength is in its discussion of the many difficult issues that must be addressed in moving mothers from welfare to work."
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Cornell University
"This collection of essays ranges widely but is tightly controlled and argued. The authors offer a critique of the assumptions of welfare to work policies, the damage caused to poor families by reducing state support, and the limited evidence about the 'success' of welfare to work policies measured in falling welfare rolls. But they also share a determination to find new solutions. This is an innovative book about innovative projects."
Cambridge University Press- Work, Employment & Society
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Down From Bureaucracy: The Ambiguity of Empowerment and Privatization
Princeton University Press, 1996.
"The scope of the book is impressive. It encompasses all levels of government and a wide range of policy examples drawn from education, health care, occupational safety, housing, land use, and other areas . . . Handler's emphasis on empowerment is refreshing."
American Political Science Review
"A broad-based, scholarly warning to watch the details of decentralization very carefully because it is a complex phenomenon that can either fulfill or badly disappoint expectations for empowerment and efficiency. The great strength of the book is probing analysis and painstaking documentation of the recurring or structural problems of decentralization across a range of public policy areas."
William H. Clune, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
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The Poverty of Welfare Reform
Yale University Press, 1995.
"An important book that will help shape the national discussion of poverty and welfare reform during the next years."
Gary D. Sandefur, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"A substantial contribution to an important debate. By drawing both on the historical roots of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and on the underlying reasons for the pervasive belief that mothers receiving AFDC are different than the majority of the population, Joel Handler meticulously and persuasively points out the fallacies in the current rationale behind the current welfare reform proposals."
Lucy A. Williams, Northeastern University
"The tragedy of welfare reform, even dating back to the 19th Century, is that we always seem to end up with the opposite of the result promised. Politicians unfortunately believe their own myths and anecdotes, and the myths keep getting bigger. Joel Handler has clearly portrayed not only the deceptive politics behind our continued failure to help poor families achieve independence, but the real problems with welfare that urgently need repair."
Bill Bradley, United States Senator
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Sanford Jacoby
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The Embedded Corporation : Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
Princeton University Press, 2004.
In a world of glib oversimplifications and theoretical models that claim to explain everything, The Embedded Corporation reminds us of the importance of national culture and history and of the diversity that exists in how companies are managed and governed even within a single country. Rich in historical perspective, institutional detail, and both survey and field data, Jacoby's book updates us on the evolution of human resource management and business strategy in Japanese and United States corporations.
The rich historical and contemporary data contained in The Embedded Corporation will disappoint those who want to believe that the American styles of capitalism and human resource management are destined to take over the world. Instead, thanks to Sanford Jacoby we now have the nuanced understanding of how Japanese and American firms differ in these two important areas, and yet how global pressures are moving them in some similar directions. Anyone who seeks to change corporate practices in Japan or the U.S., or who writes about these issues, should stop doing so until they read and absorb the lessons of this masterpiece in comparative research.
Sanford Jacoby has provided us with a persuasive and informed perspective on a truly important issue: the reform of corporate governance and employment practices. In addition to his historical analysis, he offers a remarkable comparison of the United States and Japan based on the human resource function in large firms. In recent years, both Japan and the United States have become oriented toward the market and shareholders, yet the gap between them has widened. In an impressive way, this conclusion underscores the existence of 'the embedded corporation' and the varieties of capitalism.
This very clearly written book represents the first serious attempt to chart what has been happening to the way in which Japanese and American companies have reorganized internally over the last decade of so-called 'globalization.' Moreover, it is by someone widely regarded as one of the leading experts on the subject. Marvelously interesting to read, it will illumine an important and murky debate.
A splendid book, lucid, cogent, and written in a style that is a pleasure to read. The Embedded Corporation is a major contribution to several academic fields, from management studies to industrial sociology to political economy. It will also appeal to human resources people concerned for the future of their profession, those curious about where the Japanese economy is headed, and people generally interested in the distribution of power and income in American society.
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Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
Princeton University Press, 1997.
"Sanford Jacoby analyzes welfare capitalism in magisterial fashion in his book Modern Manors. . . . Jacoby concludes his book by suggesting that the success of firms like Microsoft and Wal-Mart give lie to the argument that paternalistic companies were effectively destroyed by the labor-friendly reforms of the New Deal. . . . Jacoby's analysis underscores the efforts . . . to bring work back into the perspective of social science and social criticism."
Alan Wolfe, The American Prospect
"A powerful and authoritative work that explores the hidden history of some of America's most celebrated companies. . . . [An] impressive book."
Nelson Lichtenstein, New York Times Book Review
"Jacoby's book is beautifully written, lovingly crafted, and thoroughly researched. It is exquisitely sensitive to the multiplicity of elements that play out in the relations between workers and their employers over time.... For its combination of novel arguments, nuanced insights, rigorous evidence, and a deep appreciation of the phenomenon being studied, this book should set the standard in our field."
Daphne Gottlieb Taras, Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations
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The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy
Oxford University Press, 1995.
"Jacoby provides a comprehensive introduction to his collection and develops a useful conceptual framework within which many of the contributed chapters are located."
Work and Occupations
"What the global economy has in store for workers is among the most important questions facing society. The material in this volume offers the best guide to understanding how the movement of capital and the transfer of practices across countries will affect employment and workers."
Peter Cappelli, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
"Issues of labor and work loom large both in politics and economics given the increasingly interconnected world economy. This collection of research studies addresses fundamental issues of labor relations, mobility, compensation structure, union density, and the effects on economic development and competitiveness. It does so with clear exposition and interesting data, which makes it an important addition to the literature on work and workers."
Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Competitive Advantage Through People
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Thomas Kane
Mark A.R. Kleiman
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Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results
ISBN: 0465011039, Basic Books, 1992.
Received the Aaron Wildavsky Book Award, Policy Studies Organization, 1993
"Whether you're on the right or the left-or just one more confused dog in the middle of the road-this book is guaranteed to improve your thinking about U.S. Drug Policy. "
Roger Conner-American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities
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Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control
Greenwood Publishing, 1989.
"A timely, tightly reasoned, thought-provoking examination of ways to select policies for the enforcement of federal marijuana drug laws."
Choice
"Mark Kleiman has written a thorough . . . analysis of federal law enforcement policy options regarding marijuana. The genesis of this work began when he worked as a policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Justice. . . . Kleiman presents a number of major arguments against increased federal enforcement of laws prohibiting marijuana, including that it would: (1) increase the use of other drugs such as PCP and alcohol, (2) increase drug dealing and theft among adolescent users, and (3) increase the involvement of organized crime in the illicit distribution and sale of marijuana due to the attraction of greater profits. Regarding this last item, he argues that as enforcement efforts increase it gives people with a propensity for using violence and corruption a competitive advantage in the marijuana trade. Because Kleiman argues for a severe curtailment of federal law enforcement efforts against marijuana, it will stimulate the debate about the role of federal law with regard to marijuana."
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
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Archie Kleingartner
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Comparing Cultural Policy: A Study of Japan and the United States
AltaMira Press, 1999.(Co-Authored by By Joyce Zemans, Margaret J. Wyszomirski, and Michihiro Watanabe)
"For researches and people interested in the arts and the economics of funding, this book provides an interesting comparison of how government and the private sector support cultural activities in Japan and the United States. Comparing Cultural Policy is quite detailed and covers an immense area including history, government policy, economics and art...I would recommend this book as one of value to anyone studying cultural management."
Anthony C. Torbert, Kobe Gakuin University, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Daniel J. B. Mitchell
Barbara J. Nelson
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Women and Politics Worldwide (Co-Authored with Najma Chowdhury)
Yale University Press, 1994
"Women's studies scholars as well as lay readers interested in women's studies materials will find this well-considered and highly readable book enlightening. To prepare this work, the first of its kind, the editors selected 43 countries representative of various political systems all over the world and asked locally based scholars to describe the political status of women there. While the editors conclude that women have no "political status, access, or influence equal to men" in any of the countries examined, they can still exert some political influence through other channels. There is a brief analysis of the ways women participate in political systems, an explanation of the study's methodology, and a look at the difficulties involved in a study of this scope. Following are "country chapters" in which, after a one-page summary of a country's political and demographic traits, scholars describe the history of women's movements in their country and the behind-the-scenes political maneuvering that women's organizations have used to obtain legislation on issues of concern to them. Strongly recommended for academic and larger public library collections."
Jill Ortner, School of Information & Library Studies, SUNY at Buffalo
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Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform (co-authored with Sara M. Evans)
University of Chicago Press, 1989
This pathbreaking study sets forth the history of attempts to implement pay equity and evaluates the hidden costs of achieving equity. With candor and intelligence, the authors clearly detail the political, organizational, and personal consequences of comparable worth reform strategies. Using extensive data from Minnesota, where pay equity has proceeded further than in any other state in the nation, as well as comparative information from other states and localities, the authors expose the crucial initial steps which define public policy.
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Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems
University of Chicago Press, 1984
In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.
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Mark A. Peterson
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Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch
Oxford University Press, 2005.(Edited with Joel D. Aberbach)
The presidency and the agencies of the executive branch are deeply interwoven with other core institutions of American government and politics. While the framers of the Constitution granted power to the president, they likewise imbued the legislative and judicial branches of government with the powers necessary to hold the executive in check. The Executive Branch, edited byJoel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson, examines the delicate and shifting balance among the three branches of government, which is constantly renegotiated as political leaders contend with the public's paradoxical sentiments-yearning for strong executive leadership yet fearing too much executive power, and welcoming the benefits of public programs yet uneasy about, and indeed often distrusting, big government.
The Executive Branch, a collection of essays by some of the nation's leading political scientists and public policy scholars, examines the historical emergence and contemporary performance of the presidency and bureaucracy, as well as their respective relationships with the Congress, the courts, political parties, and American federalism. Presidential elections are defining moments for the nation's democracy-by linking citizens directly to their government, elections serve as a mechanism for exercising collective public choice. After the election, however, the work of government begins and involves elected and appointed political leaders at all levels of government, career civil servants, government contractors, interest organizations, the media, and engaged citizens. The essays in this volume delve deeply into the organizations and politics that make the executive branch such a complex and fascinating part of American government.
The volume provides an assessment from the past to the present of the role and development of the presidency and executive branch agencies, including analysis of the favorable and problematic strategies, and personal attributes, that presidents have brought to the challenge of leadership. It examines the presidency and the executive agencies both separately and together as they influence-or are influenced by-other major institutions of American government and politics, with close attention to how they relate to civic participation and democracy
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Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and The Changing Economics of Health Care
Duke University Press, 2003.(Edited with Peter J. Hanmer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, and William M. Sage).
This volume revisits the Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow's classic 1963 essay "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care" in light of the many changes in American health care since its publication. Arrow's groundbreaking piece, reprinted in full here, argued that while medicine was subject to the same models of competition and profit maximization as other industries, concepts of trust and morals also played key roles in understanding medicine as an economic institution and in balancing the asymmetrical relationship between medical providers and their patients. His conclusions about the medical profession's failures to "insure against uncertainties" helped initiate the reevaluation of insurance as a public and private good
The Executive Branch, a collection of essays by some of the nation's leading political scientists and public policy scholars, examines the historical emergence and contemporary performance of the presidency and bureaucracy, as well as their respective relationships with the Congress, the courts, political parties, and American federalism. Presidential elections are defining moments for the nation's democracy-by linking citizens directly to their government, elections serve as a mechanism for exercising collective public choice. After the election, however, the work of government begins and involves elected and appointed political leaders at all levels of government, career civil servants, government contractors, interest organizations, the media, and engaged citizens. The essays in this volume delve deeply into the organizations and politics that make the executive branch such a complex and fascinating part of American government.
Coming from diverse backgrounds-economics, law, political science, and the health care industry itself-the contributors use Arrow's article to address a range of present-day health-policy questions. They examine everything from health insurance and technological innovation to the roles of charity, nonprofit institutions, and self-regulation in addressing medical needs. The collection concludes with a new essay by Arrow, in which he reflects on the health care markets of the new millennium. At a time when medical costs continue to rise, the ranks of the uninsured grow, and uncertainty reigns even among those with health insurance, this volume looks back at a seminal work of scholarship to provide critical guidance for the years ahead.
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Healthy Markets? The New Competition in Medical Care
Duke University Press, 1998
"Healthy Markets? does what we always want and rarely get in an edited volume: combine the different perspectives of many fine scholars into a whole that is greater than the parts. The essays are sometimes contentious, often brillian, and always illuminating. They add up to a rich assessment both of health policy in the mid-1990s and of the forces that will determine what happens next."
Joseph White, Case Western Reserve University
"This timely and insightful volume presents an invaluable road map to understanding the turbulent American health care market at the turn of the twenty-first century. It draws together leading academic observers of the health care arena to address both intellectual disputes and practical experience in a matchless set of contributions."
Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, University of Toronto
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Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill from Eisenhower to Reagan
Harvard University Press, 1990
"This may well be the best analysis extant of congressional-executive relationships in regard to legislation."
Aaron Wildavsky, University of California, Berkeley
"Mark Peterson has undertaken a project that is rare in the field of presidential-congressional relations….The projects comprehensiveness sets Peterson's work apart…Peterson has provided an extremely valuable study, for both the insights he has generated and the role model he has created for others who study presidential-congressional relations."
Cary R. Covington, University of Iowa
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Meredith Phillips
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The Black-White Test Score Gap (Edited by Christopher Jencks)
Brookings Institution, 1998
"...the bulk of the material in this book leaves the reader with the sense that the causes are deep and difficult to overcome."
The New York Times Book Review, Alan Wolfe
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Andrew Sabl
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Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics
Princeton University Press, 2002.
"This book is an extraordinary achievement. It is brilliantly conceived and executed, closely argued and erudite, sensitive to textual and political nuance and lucid even at its most inventive and sophisticated. . . .Particular discussions of thinkers, actors and issues are as original as the architecture of the work as a whole. Thus one learns something significant not only about Rousseau, Tocqueville, Madison, Frances Williard, Martin Luther King, Saul Alinsky, and Everett Dirksen, but about larger issues such as what Sabl calls democratic constancy, philosophy and politics, theory and institutions. Many of the book's formulations are memorable, almost all are provocative in ways that stimulate reflection. There is much to argue with in this book, but every argument is one worth having."
Peter Euben, author of Corrupting Youth and The Tragedy of Political Theory
"This is a significant, highly original, and interesting contribution to our understanding of political ethics. The author displays a mastery of a large theoretical literature, which he brings to bear in a restrained way to shed light on the ethical obligations of politicians."
Joseph Bessette, Claremont-McKenna College
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Allen J. Scott
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On Hollywood: The Place, The Industry
Princeton University Press, 2004.
Why is the U.S. motion picture industry concentrated in Hollywood and why does it remain there in the age of globalization? Allen Scott uses the tools of economic geography to explore these questions and to provide a number of highly original answers. The conceptual roots of his analysis go back to Alfred Marshall's theory of industrial districts and pick up on modern ideas about business clusters as sites of efficient and innovative production.
On Hollywood builds on this work by adding major new empirical elements. By examining the history of motion-picture production from the early twentieth century to the present through this analytic lens, Scott is able to show why the industry (which was initially focused on New York) had shifted the majority of its production to Southern California by 1919. He also addresses in detail the bases of Hollywood's long-standing creative energies and competitive advantages. At the same time, the book explores the steady globalization of Hollywood's market reach as well as the cultural and political dilemmas posed by this phenomenon.
On Hollywood will appeal not only to general readers with an interest in the motion-picture industry, but also to economic geographers, business professionals, regional development practitioners, and cultural theorists as well.
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Global City-Regions : Trends, Theory, Policy
Oxford University Press, 2002.
There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations of more than one million. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. This book presents a highly original and multifaceted review of these issues by some of the leading researchers in the field. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world.
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Regions and the World Economy
The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order
Oxford University Press, 2000.
The steady globalization of economic activity over the last few decades has intensified the assertion of the region as a critical locus of economic order and as a potent foundation of competitive advantage. This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the economic logic and political meaning of such developments. It presents the economic geography of the modern world as an emerging global mosaic of regional systems of production and exchange
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Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California
University of California Press, 1993.
"By far the most sophisticated treatment of industrial structure and spatial organization in the Southern California manufacturing system. The analysis powerfully combines cogent historical narratives, revealing statistical profiles, and incisive empirical and theoretical discussion. . . . Long overdue given the region's obvious importance to the American and world economies."
Richard Gordon, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form
University of California Press, 1988.
"Scott has something different to say (a new and innovative perspective on the modern city. . . . This is a fine book, and . . . a major contribution to our understanding of the modern metropolis."
Gordon L. Clark, Carnegie Mellon University
"A spirited attempt to refocus the dynamics of change within the modern metropolis around production space. . . . The book extends work initiated in the earlier volume The Urban Land Nexus and the State (1980) and, in keeping with all of Scott's work, it is a pleasure to read."
Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Journal of Regional Science
"Metropolis is a stylish, convincingly-argued, and compelling book. Scott has an important story to tell, one that draws the reader along and makes him/her want to know what comes next. As with other theoretical visions, Scott's persuasiveness stems from a powerful theme, (re)production. . . . A major contribution to the literature."
T. Barnes, Environment and Planning
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Michael A. Stoll
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Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America
Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. (edited volume with David Weiman and Shawn Bushway)
With the introduction of more aggressive policing, prosecution, and sentencing since the late 1970s, the number of Americans in prison has increased dramatically. While many have credited these "get tough" policies with lowering violent crime rates, we are only just beginning to understand the broader costs of mass incarceration. In Barriers to Reentry? experts on labor markets and the criminal justice system investigate how imprisonment affects ex-offenders' employment prospects, and how the challenge of finding work after prison affects the likelihood that they will break the law again and return to prison.
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African Americans and the Color Line
Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau, 2004.
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Employers and Welfare Recipients: The Effects of Welfare Reform in the Workplace (with Harry J. Holzer)
Public Policy Institute of California, 2001.
Although employment rates among welfare recipients have risen substantially since the early 1990s, many questions about welfare-to-work efforts remain. What are the employment prospects of the least skilled and least experienced welfare recipients? What are the chief obstacles to hiring them? How well do they perform? Are their wages and benefits sufficient to achieve financial independence over time? This report draws on employer survey data from four cities (including Los Angeles) to answer these and other questions. In addition to analyzing the survey responses, the authors compare the success these cities have had in moving welfare recipients into the workforce. They also explore the policy implications of their findings.
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Race, Space and Youth Labor Markets
Garland Publishing, 1999.
Examines whether distance from jobs or racial discrimination in youth markets explains a greater part of minority youth's employment problems, focusing on the Washington, DC suburban area. Reviews major works related to the author's spatial mismatch hypothesis, and tests this hypothesis by comparing the employment outcomes of young males living in central cities and suburbs using dynamic measures of unemployment. Analyzes the impact of the movement of jobs from central cities to suburbs on young males's employment outcomes, and uses the case of black suburbanization in the Washington, DC area to explore the relative importance of race and space in lower employment.
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Fernando Torres-Gil
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The New Aging: Politics and Change in America
Auburn House, 1992.
A well-written, thoughtful, and up-to-date book that puts the policies of aging in the US in historical perspective. Torres-Gil (UCLA) divides development of attitudes and policies for the aged into three groups. First is Young Aging (pre-1930), when elders were revered, respected, and cared for by families and church. Second is Modern Aging (1930-1990), when society regarded the old as poor, frail, and ill, and passed social legislation such as the Old Age and Survivors Insurance, and Medicare. The third period is the New Aging (1990 and forward), in which society faces the challenge of coping with intergenerational interests; with racial and ethnic diversity within aging populations; and with large numbers of elders because of increasing life span, as well as demographic cohort effects (e.g. baby boomers reaching retirement age). Chapters address the historical development of social policies, politics, economics, and speculation on aging in the 21st century. Torres-Gil suggests practical policies for the future, relating them to changing household structure, residential patterns, income distribution, labor force needs, and international migration patterns. Recommended for public, community college, undergraduate, and university libraries.
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Wellford W. Wilms
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Restoring Prosperity
Times Books-Random House, 1996.
"Calling themselves industrial anthropologists, UCLA professor Wilms and a team of graduate students embarked six years ago upon a unique study of the changing relationship between management and labor. The study, which involved working as factory hands, focused on four then-floundering companies: Douglas Aircraft, Hewlett-Packard's Santa Clara division and two joint ventures, General Motors with Toyota and U.S. Steel with the Korean steelmaker POSCO. The researchers found the companies transforming themselves in an era of downsizing, robotization and globalization. Managers were listening to ideas from labor; unions were less confrontational. In the case of the two joint ventures, people were overcoming barriers of language and culture. Budgets, employee rosters and inventories were all leaner, as speed and productivity increased. But none of the above was seen as lessening the national trauma of losing millions of factory jobs. Education (after fundamental school reform), says Wilms, now holds the key to restoring prosperity. But will it replace all those jobs? Wilms offers no easy answers."
Publishers Weekly
"About every 12 months, after most American corporate annual reports have been issued, much fuss is raised by the media about CEO compensation. What the furor reveals is not only the financial gap between top executives and frontline employees but also the social and psychological work-related disparities. The erosion of trust, loyalty, and commitment, in sum, is the root of America's business problems today. UCLA professor Wilms, in a groundbreaking study conducted over six years, documents the rise and fall and rise again of divisions of Hewlett Packard, McDonnell Douglas, U.S. Steel, and GM/Toyota. Three of the four engaged in acrimonious labor-management relations for several years; one company had simply lost sight of customer needs. All four struggled to regain business primacy and discovered that such touchy-feely goals as establishing a climate of security and fairness helped launch and continue positive, sometimes dramatic change. These four case histories reveal real people making real progress in the world of work."
Barbara Jacobs, Booklist
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Amy Zegart
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Flawed By Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS and NSC
Stanford University Press, 2000
"Based on voluminous historical materials, this book is a must-read for all serious students of the American foreign policy process."
General Brent Scowcroft, Former National Security Advisor
"Zegart's incisive and revealing new book . . . convincingly argues that U.S. interests have been compromised .by the institutional design of national security agencies."
Washington Monthly
"Fifty years afer the creation of the national securty decision making mechanisms, Zegart's anaysis is both historically timely and intellectually insightful. Her assessments should be seriously considered in any systematic efforts to update and reform the existing arrangements."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic & International Studies
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