Hearing on Proposals to Provide Federal Funding for Early Childhood Home Visitation Programs

Hearing on Proposals to Provide Federal Funding for Early Childhood Home Visitation Programs

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-12-31

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781983453083

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Hearing on proposals to provide federal funding for early childhood home visitation programs : hearing before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, June 9, 2009.


Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

Author: William T Gormley

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1608717178

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Given the influence and impact of public bureaucracies in policy implementation, and the accountability they owe to the American public, their performance must be assessed in a systematic manner. With this new edition, the authors revisit their four key perspective: bounded rationality; principal-agent theory; interest group mobilization; and network theory to help students develop an analytic framework for comprehensively evaluating bureaucratic performance.


Bureaucracy and Democracy

Bureaucracy and Democracy

Author: Steven J. Balla

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2017-07-26

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1506348904

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Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory—to help students develop an analytic framework for evaluating bureaucratic accountability. The new Fourth Edition of Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance provides a thorough review of bureaucracy during the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as new attention to state and local level examples and the role of bureaucratic values. ? New to this Edition: Interviews with two new cabinet secretaries—Christine Todd Whitman and Tom Ridge—with insightful quotes from them throughout the book. Added material on the battle over regulations, a battle that will loom large during the Trump administration, including midnight regulations and the Congressional Review Act. New examples demonstrate the activity and influence of constituencies of different kinds including the placing of women and minorities on US currency, a vignette that features the musical Hamilton, and the political protests surrounding the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. A new discussion of the privatization of roads, the pros and cons.


Show Me the Evidence

Show Me the Evidence

Author: Ron Haskins

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0815725701

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The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and enacted several initiatives to fund social programs based on rigorous evidence of success. Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis tell the story of six—spanning preschool and K-12 education, teen pregnancy, employment and training, health, and community-based programs. Readers will appreciate the fast-moving descriptions of the politics and policy debates that shaped these federal programs and the analysis of whether they will truly reshape federal social policy and greatly improve its impacts on the nation's social problems. Based on interviews with 134 individuals (including advocates, officials at the Office of Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council, Congressional staff, and officials in the federal agencies administering the initiatives) as well as Congressional and administration documents and news accounts, the authors examine each of the six initiatives in separate chapters. The story of each initiative includes a review of the social problem the initiative addresses; the genesis and enactment of the legislation that authorized the initiative; and the development of the procedures used by the administration to set the evidence standard and evaluation requirements—including the requirements for grant applications and awarding of grants.


Congressional Record

Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 1252

ISBN-13:

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)