Author: Akhil GuptaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351102
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.
Author: Jack L. ChalkerRed Tape
Author: Herbert KaufmanPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815726619
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Death, taxes, and red tape. The inevitable trio no one can escape. That wry sense of reality colors Herbert Kaufman's classic study of red tape, the bureaucratic phenomenon that all of us have encountered in some form—from the confounding tax form filled out annually to the maddeningly time-consuming wait at the driver's license bureau. The complaints about red tape, Kaufman concedes, are legion. It's messy, it takes too long, it lacks local knowledge, it is out of date, it makes insane demands, it increases costs, it slows progress. It is, in short, a burden and many times there is no measurable positive outcome. Kaufman takes us on an unblinking tour of the dismal landscape of red tape. But he also shows us another side of red tape, one we often forget. Red tape is how government protects us from tainted food, shoddy products, and unfair labor practices. It guarantees a social safety net for the elderly, the disabled, children, veterans, and victims of natural disasters. One person's red tape is another person's protection. This reissue is a Brookings Classic, a series of republished books for readers to revisit or discover, notable works by the Brookings Institution Press.
Wait No More
Author: Benjamin RosethPublisher: Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN: 159782335X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book is about the smallest unit of public policy: the government transaction. Government transactionsrequesting a birth certificate, registering a property, or opening a business, for exampleare the way that citizens and companies connect with the government. Efficient transactions enhance the business climate, citizen perception of government, and access to crucial public programs and services. In Latin America and the Caribbean, however, government transactions are often headaches. Public institutions rarely coordinate with each other, still rely on paper, and are more concerned about fulfilling bureaucratic requirements than meeting citizens needs. Wait No More empirically confirms a reality known anecdotally but previously unquantified and offers a path to escape the bureaucratic maze.
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge, and More Flubs from the Nation's Press
Author: Gloria CooperPublisher: TarcherPerigee
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Featuring selections from The Lower case, the best-read page of the Columbia Journalism Review, Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge gives the Fourth Estate the once-over and comes up with non-stop fun.
Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research
Author: Barry BozemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317460707
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This work includes a brief history of skyscrapers as well as chapters on elevators and communications, facades and facing, mechanical and electrical systems, forces of nature, and much more.
Red Tape and White Knuckles
Author: Lois PrycePublisher:
ISBN: 9781937747138
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
To most thirty-something women, walking across the street to get a skinny latte and the latest copy of heat in excruciating high heels is an all-terrain task in itself. But Lois Pryce isn't just any woman - nine to five and post-work white wine spritzers have never been her thing. Unafraid of a challenge - having already ridden her motorbike from Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America - she decided she could never be one to settle for a last minute package holiday in Viva Espana. So, she began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of.
Author: William H. ArmstrongRules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research
Author: Barry BozemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317460693
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This work includes a brief history of skyscrapers as well as chapters on elevators and communications, facades and facing, mechanical and electrical systems, forces of nature, and much more.
Homelessness and Housing Advocacy
Author: Curtis SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000563057
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the conflictual conditions posed by the policies and institutions that govern the housing process. Combining in-depth interviews, extensive fieldwork, and the author’s own professional experience, this book considers the perspective of social service providers who work with people experiencing homelessness and chronicles the steps they take to navigate the housing process. With assertive methods of worker-client advocacy at the center of its focus, this book beckons attention to the many variables that affect professional attempts to house homeless populations. It conveys the challenges that social service providers encounter while fitting their clients into the criteria for housing eligibility, the opposition they receive, and the innovative approaches they ultimately take to optimize housing placements for their clients who are, or were formerly, experiencing homelessness. Weaving as it does between issues of poverty, social inequality, and social policy, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy will appeal to courses in social work, sociology, and public policy and fill a void for early-career professionals in housing and community services.
