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Speech of Hon. George W. Woodward, delivered at the great union meeting in Independence square, Philadelphia, December 13th, 1860
Title
Speech of Hon. George W. Woodward, delivered at the great union meeting in Independence square, Philadelphia, December 13th, 1860.
Creator
Woodward, George W. (George Washington) 1809-1875, Biddle, Charles J. (Charles John) 1819-1873
Abstract/Description
Speech of Honorable George W. Woodward. Democratic Party (Pa.) State Convention (1863 : Harrisburg, Pa.) Democratic platform, adopted by the state convention at Harrisburg 1863. Notes: Cover title. Introduction signed: Charles J. Biddle, Chairman. "Resolutions of the Democratic State Convention": pages [13]-16. Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb21f26
Subject Headings
Campaign literature -- 1863 -- Democratic -- Pennsylvania, Campaign literature -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century, Slavery -- United States, Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
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E-book
Analysis of government strategies to achieve industrial competitiveness: A comparative case study of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China
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Analysis of government strategies to achieve industrial competitiveness: A comparative case study of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China.
Creator
Chang, Yanru, Florida Atlantic University, Washington, Charles W.
Abstract/Description
The desire to understand the reasons behind high economic growth and increased manufacturing exports in East Asian countries has generated considerable debate and study of the strategies employed by East Asian governments. This study explores a general claim that there exists an Asian Model, typified by the Japanese government's strategy since the end of WWII to 1980, which has been followed by other East Asian governments to achieve remarkable economic performance. The Asian Model is...
Show moreThe desire to understand the reasons behind high economic growth and increased manufacturing exports in East Asian countries has generated considerable debate and study of the strategies employed by East Asian governments. This study explores a general claim that there exists an Asian Model, typified by the Japanese government's strategy since the end of WWII to 1980, which has been followed by other East Asian governments to achieve remarkable economic performance. The Asian Model is characterized by strategies to promote high savings, high investment, education, industrial targeting, exports, and protection of home markets and industries. This dissertation compares and contrasts government strategies adopted by Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China. The Wheel-Spokes Model, developed by the author, is used as an analytical framework to conduct the comparative case study. It comprises six dimensions: industrial structure, investment, human resources, technology, market, and timing. This study reveals that there are similarities but significant differences in strategies adopted by these four governments to pursue national industrial competitiveness. The study also finds that there is no single Asian Model followed by the case-study governments. Each government's strategies were unique to select industries and support a certain industry structure, open or close markets to foreign capital, target the level of technology, prepare human resources, set up market protection, and choose strategic timing to build its industrial competitiveness. These differences reflect public policy preferences by the case governments, and they lead to a different industrial strength and level of competitiveness for each case country. The study recognizes the need for balance and consistency among the six major strategy areas represented by each dimension of the Wheel-Spokes Model in government strategy making. It makes recommendations for public policy initiatives and highlights the value of comparative studies in public policy and administration.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11940
Subject Headings
Competition--Government policy--Econometric models, Industrial policy--Econometric models, Competition--Government policy--Japan, Competition--Government policy--Korea (South), Competition--Government policy--Taiwan, Competition--Government policy--China
Format
Document (PDF)
Examining performance variables of non-governmental organizations
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Examining performance variables of non-governmental organizations.
Creator
Espirito Santo, Sofia do, Florida Atlantic University, Washington, Charles W.
Abstract/Description
Over the past twenty years, there has been a significant increase of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) participating in development activities. However, there does not exist in the literature clear and agreed upon measures of performance of successful or high performing NGOs. This dissertation examines three organizational factors affecting NGO performance: characteristics, strategies, and functions. It employs a Delphi Method and a mail survey of 399 U.S.-based NGOs registered with the...
Show moreOver the past twenty years, there has been a significant increase of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) participating in development activities. However, there does not exist in the literature clear and agreed upon measures of performance of successful or high performing NGOs. This dissertation examines three organizational factors affecting NGO performance: characteristics, strategies, and functions. It employs a Delphi Method and a mail survey of 399 U.S.-based NGOs registered with the United States Agency for International Development as of October 1, 1996. Organizational variables, such as decision-making, organizational structure, span of control and hierarchy, communications, types of interactions, program areas, intervening strategies, and diversified funding are identified and rated as highly relevant to NGO performance by the executive officials of the responding NGOs. The study finds that: (1) specific variables related to the organizational characteristics of NGOs were perceived as more important to high performance than the variables related to the strategies and functions of NGOs; (2) responding NGO executives show a positive orientation (perhaps bias) towards both self-assessment of the level of performance of their NGOs and assessment of the importance of organizational variables identified by the Delphi group and the literature; (3) most executives considered their organizations as high performers, but the relationship between positive self-assessment of performance by NGO executives and the variables that define characteristics, strategies, and functions was found not to be statistically significant; (4) there is not a typical organizational pattern by which NGOs can be described because of their diverse and collaborative operational arrangements. This study provides to the field of public administration, organizational studies, public policy, and development administration a better understanding of organizational variables considered important to NGOs' performance from the viewpoint of NGO executives. It employs a methodology not typically associated with public administration research, and its findings take us one step further in the direction of explaining key organizational factors influencing high performance of NGOs and the variables that define these factors.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11957
Subject Headings
Non-governmental organizations, Nonprofit organizations, Political development
Format
Document (PDF)
Representative bureaucracy: Active representation in a juvenile justice context
Title
Representative bureaucracy: Active representation in a juvenile justice context.
Creator
Day, Susan Elaine, Florida Atlantic University, Washington, Charles W.
Abstract/Description
Representative bureaucracy is one way to reconcile the need for administrative efficiency with the normative requirements of democracy. In theory, a representative bureaucracy is an organizational structure that permits decision-makers to act more quickly and more flexibly than an elected body. A representative bureaucracy is comprised of an employee composition that is more representation of the general public, at least in demographic terms, than legislative bodies. This research tests a...
Show moreRepresentative bureaucracy is one way to reconcile the need for administrative efficiency with the normative requirements of democracy. In theory, a representative bureaucracy is an organizational structure that permits decision-makers to act more quickly and more flexibly than an elected body. A representative bureaucracy is comprised of an employee composition that is more representation of the general public, at least in demographic terms, than legislative bodies. This research tests a number of hypotheses concerning the impact of individual attributes of delinquency case managers and of the organizational context in which they work on their intake recommendations to the office of the state attorney.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12455
Subject Headings
Representative government and representation--United States, Bureaucracy, Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States, Minorities--Employment--United States, Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
Format
Document (PDF)
assessment of the organizational effectiveness of faith-based and secular community development corporations in the provision of economic development and other services
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An assessment of the organizational effectiveness of faith-based and secular community development corporations in the provision of economic development and other services.
Creator
Yacinthe, Natacha Jasmine, Florida Atlantic University, Washington, Charles W.
Abstract/Description
This dissertation develops an approach and a model for assessing the effectiveness of faith-based and secular community development corporations (CDCs) in the provision of economic development and other services. This dissertation contends that faith-based and secular CDCs are essentially comparable entities whose characteristics and functions are virtually indistinguishable, thus to speak of organizational effectiveness of CDCs is sufficient to encompass both faith-based and secular CDCs....
Show moreThis dissertation develops an approach and a model for assessing the effectiveness of faith-based and secular community development corporations (CDCs) in the provision of economic development and other services. This dissertation contends that faith-based and secular CDCs are essentially comparable entities whose characteristics and functions are virtually indistinguishable, thus to speak of organizational effectiveness of CDCs is sufficient to encompass both faith-based and secular CDCs. The study uses an empirical approach, directed by the literature, to discover the characteristics and functions of faith-based and secular CDCs, the extent to which they are involved in economic development activities, and to determine the key factors that are presumed to contribute to their effectiveness. A regression model is developed employing variables and data resulting from a survey of CDCs in the South Florida area to predict and explain the variance in the subjective rating of the perception of organizational effectiveness by executive directors and managers of CDCs in the study population. The study tests a number of hypotheses that are designed to explain the influence of certain variables on organizational effectiveness and discovers a number of factors that are statistically significant in influencing perceived effectiveness. It proposes future areas of research that build upon the current research and may lead to even better understanding of the factors influencing organizational effectiveness of CDCs.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12106
Subject Headings
Human Services--Contracting Out--United States, Church Charities--Government Policy--United States, Federal Aid to Human Services--United States, Church and State--United States, Community Development--United States, Economic Development Projects--United States
Format
Document (PDF)
investigation of the availability, distribution, and usability of the comprehensive annual financial reports of United States cities
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An investigation of the availability, distribution, and usability of the comprehensive annual financial reports of United States cities.
Creator
Hall, Douglas Roger, Jr., Florida Atlantic University, Washington, Charles W.
Abstract/Description
Accountability is the cornerstone of democracy. Fiscal accountability is particularly important to an electorate. The system of fiscal accountability developed by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is too complex and technical for the public, being beyond all but specially trained accountants and finance professionals. This dissertation investigates how the audited annual financial reports of U.S. cities are distributed and understood. The problem of governmental accounting...
Show moreAccountability is the cornerstone of democracy. Fiscal accountability is particularly important to an electorate. The system of fiscal accountability developed by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is too complex and technical for the public, being beyond all but specially trained accountants and finance professionals. This dissertation investigates how the audited annual financial reports of U.S. cities are distributed and understood. The problem of governmental accounting complexity is treated as one of systemic nature due to the needs of a broad range of users and the wide range of uses for information contained in the audited annual financial reports. The study population is over 500 U.S. cities. The study methodology has three parts: a descriptive analysis of sample documents; a survey of finance directors requesting information about distribution of the reports, their perceptions on usability of the audited annual financial reports, and their opinions about the evolution of governmental accounting theory and practice. The third part of the study identified a cluster group sample of the general public who volunteered to complete a written survey and participate in a practical usability test with actual comprehensive annual financial report documents. The study concluded that there has been little or no marketing of the audited annual financial reports, actual distribution is exceedingly sparse, and that the general public has limited knowledge of the existence or availability of the document or the ability to make use of the comprehensive annual financial reports in their present form. Recommendations are made to release the audited annual reports in less time, free of charge, with wide distribution. The CAFR model needs to be simplified, organized better, and common language used. GASB, the Government Finance Officers Association, public administrators, and government finance professionals must accept the need to educate the public. Public administrators need to assert themselves when governmental accounting and financial reporting changes are contemplated.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11969
Subject Headings
Financial Accounting Foundation --Governmental Accounting Standards Board, Municipal finance--United States--Accounting, Local finance--Accounting--Standards--United States, Cities and towns--United States
Format
Document (PDF)
function of leadership styles and personality types among city managers: An analysis of "fit" and tenure
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The function of leadership styles and personality types among city managers: An analysis of "fit" and tenure.
Creator
Hanbury, George Lafayette, II, Florida Atlantic University, Washington, Charles W.
Abstract/Description
This dissertation investigated the problem of short-term tenure of city managers as an indicator of the appropriate "fit" between the personality types and leadership styles of city managers and the city councils they serve. Moving from theory to practice in public administration, this research presents findings, not offered to date, based on a rigorous, nation-wide study of city managers. The study focuses on years of service - tenure of city managers as a function of the city managers'...
Show moreThis dissertation investigated the problem of short-term tenure of city managers as an indicator of the appropriate "fit" between the personality types and leadership styles of city managers and the city councils they serve. Moving from theory to practice in public administration, this research presents findings, not offered to date, based on a rigorous, nation-wide study of city managers. The study focuses on years of service - tenure of city managers as a function of the city managers' personality types, leadership styles, and perceptions of support from their city councils. Results of the study were generated through an analysis of data collected in a national survey of city managers, endorsed by the Executive Director of the International City/County Management Association (ICA), using three self-administered instruments: a general demographic city manager questionnaire, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(RTM)-Form G (MBTI(RTM) Form G), and the Leader Behavior Analysis II(RTM)-Self (LBAII(RTM)-Self). A theoretical model, "Fit," was created and tested, and the variable relations were found to be statistically significant. The findings revealed that "Fit," measured as years of service - tenure, is a function of the manager's leadership effectiveness and personality compatibility with the orientation and expectations of the city council as indicated by the annual performance evaluation. The findings were tested through predicted values and were confirmed through three case studies of city managers, with long tenure, and their city councils in small, medium, and large cities. Independent variables found to significantly affect, positively or adversely, the dependent variable, years of service - tenure, were: leadership effectiveness scores; personality type dimensions, Introverted (I) and Perceiving (P); and city council perceptions measured by city-council-conducted performance evaluations of the city manager. Other statistically significant independent variables include: experience of the city manager; total number of cities the city manager has served; the manager's age and race; and demographic information of the city in which the city manager serves, such as median household income, cities with a predominant white population, and the percentage of population not born in the United States of America. The "Fit" Model provides a meaningful tool for present and future city managers to become conscious of their respective personality type and dominant leadership style in relationship to the culturally heterogeneous cities they lead and manage. Armed with such awareness, city managers can be empowered with the knowledge of whether they are "appropriately fitted" with the city councils and the citizens they serve.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11620
Subject Headings
City managers--Psychological aspects, Leadership
Format
Document (PDF)
From policy to practice to management: A restorative justice framework
Title
From policy to practice to management: A restorative justice framework.
Creator
O'Brien, Sandra Pavelka, Florida Atlantic University, Bazemore, Gordon, Washington, Charles W.
Abstract/Description
Two distinct models have guided the juvenile justice system during the past century---individual treatment/rehabilitation and retributive justice. While its historical orientation has been individual treatment, in recent years it has become predominately punitive (Bazemore and Day, 1998; Bazemore, 1993). The organizational mission and goals of the juvenile justice system have become internally inconsistent as it tries to satisfy competing goals, such as punishment, treatment, and protection...
Show moreTwo distinct models have guided the juvenile justice system during the past century---individual treatment/rehabilitation and retributive justice. While its historical orientation has been individual treatment, in recent years it has become predominately punitive (Bazemore and Day, 1998; Bazemore, 1993). The organizational mission and goals of the juvenile justice system have become internally inconsistent as it tries to satisfy competing goals, such as punishment, treatment, and protection of public safety. Currently, justice professionals have sought to clarify the aims of juvenile justice management and policy. Several possibilities exist for the future of the juvenile justice system. One proposal for the future of the juvenile justice system is to abolish the juvenile court by combining it with the adult court to create one criminal court (Feld, 1993; 1999). Another proposal is to reaffirm the individualized treatment/rehabilitation model. Finally, restorative justice holds promise as a transformative, guiding philosophy for the future of the juvenile justice system, a departure from the traditional thinking about the role of juvenile justice in society (Bazemore, 1993; Bazemore, 1999; Daly and Immarigeon, 1998; Hahn, 1998). Justice professionals are considering a new approach to the justice system, a reorientation of how to think about crime and justice (Zehr, 1997). Restorative justice provides an alternative "lens" for viewing and developing new responses to juvenile crime. This alternative perspective may potentially have a profoundly, positive effect on the justice system by incorporating community participation, victim involvement and restoration (Dunlap, 1998; Zehr, 1990; Zehr, 1997). This study includes the results of a national telephone survey of key juvenile justice professionals who have been identified by key informants in each state as possessing knowledge and experience related to the status of restorative justice in the fifty states. A significant number of states and local juvenile justice systems are setting policy for the development and implementation of innovative programs and practices based on restorative justice principles. Case-study analyses of two states were also included. The case-study states are Minnesota, a government initiated, community-driven model, and Pennsylvania, a government-driven model. Each state has successfully developed and implemented a restorative justice approach using its respective model.
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Date Issued
2000
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12646
Subject Headings
Restorative justice, Juvenile justice, Administration of
Format
Document (PDF)