Books written by Patricia W. Ingraham

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  The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy

  The book concludes with an examination of the need for reform, the challenges that have shaped that need, and the lessons from the past that should guide the reforms of the future.

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  Civil Service Reform: Building a Government that Works

  Building a Government that Works Donald F. Kettl, Patricia W. Ingraham, Ronald P. Sanders, Constance Horner ... John D. Zeglis Ezra K. Zilkha Honorary Trustees Vincent M. Barnett Jr. Rex J. Bates Barton M. Biggs Louis W. Cabot Frank T.

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  Government Performance: Why Management Matters

  Based on five years of extensive research by the Government Performance Project, this volume offers a comprehensive analysis of how government managers and elected officials use management and management systems to improve performance.

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  Comparative Administration Change: Lessons Learned

  The bases for this reform were taken to a great extent from Osborne and Gaebler's 1992 book, Reinventing Government, which established goals such as “steering” rather than “rowing,” empowering rather than serving, ...

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  In Pursuit of Performance: Management Systems in State and Local Government

  4. In 1998 states were evaluated on six criteria. Criteria 1 and 6 were later combined and are now captured in criteria 5. 5. ... Leon C. Megginson,Personnel Management: A Human Resources Approach (Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1985).

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  Legislating Bureaucratic Change: Civil Service Reform Act of 1978

  In a larger sense, by focusing on civil service reform as public policy, the book also provides valuable insights into the ability of American policy institutions to address critical public problems.

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  The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy

  The first systematic examination of the federal civil service in nearly forty years, The Foundation of Merit analyzes the historical development of the civil service in the context of the...

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  In Pursuit of Performance: Management Systems in State and Local Government

  Examining government performance at the federal, state, and local levels, the authors present analyses of public management systems in all fifty states, the thirty-five largest cities, forty large counties, and a number of federal agencies.

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  In Pursuit of Performance: Management Systems in State and Local Government

  In Pursuit of Performance is an invaluable tool for government leaders and the scholars who study them.

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  The Art of Governance: Analyzing Management and Administration

  This volume takes that relational concept into new realms of conceptualization and application as it links alternative institutional and administrative structures to program performance in different policy areas and levels of government.

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  Leadership Trapeze: Strategies for Leadership in Term-Based Organizations (6 X 9")

  The calls for "reinventing government" are ringing loud and clear, and the attention given to this movement has generated a number of ideas that suggest new paradigms for reforming government....

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  The Promise and Paradox of Civil Service Reform

  ... promises — more harm than good. Those in the civil service who believed that the 1978 legislative trade-offs were warranted by the promised ... contradiction to the new freedoms and responsibility of the CSRA. After reviewing these three ...