Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government.
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a "perfect storm" of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attackpolitics, and miserable failures to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government; I: The Challenge; 1 The Challenge of Resurrecting the Public Trust; 2 Serving the Public to Restore the Public Trust; II: Promoting Transparency; 3 Promoting Transparency in Local Governments; 4 Bringing Transparency to Public Budgeting; 5 Using the Internet to Create Transparency for State Budgets; 6 Transparency in the Contracting Process; 7 Higher Education as Transparency Challenged; 8 Transparency and Cleaning Up Local Governments; 9 Measuring Government Performance and Officials' Qualifications
- 10 A "Bottom-Up" Approach to State Transparency11 Issues in Transparency and Restoring the Public Trust; III: Performance Measures and Reform; 12 Measuring Government Performance to Promote Transparency; 13 Transparency and Measuring What Governments Do; 14 Targeted Transparency; 15 Transparency in the Broader Context of Governance and Civic Engagement; IV: Transforming General Governance; 16 Making a Difference in People's Lives to Regain the Public Trust; 17 The Need to Establish the Purpose of Government; 18 Civic Engagement and Transparency for Regaining the Public Trust; Index