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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Endorsements Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Purpose and Overview -- Part I: The Community Engaged University -- 2 Public Value and the University -- 3 Social Impact and the University -- 4 Politics of University Social Impact in Democracies -- Part II: Case Studies in Community Engaged Teaching and Learning -- 5 Introduction to Cases -- 6 Students as Professional Citizens -- 7 Deliberative Public Problem Solving -- 8 Conversing with Strangers about Institutional Racism -- 9 Discovering Solutions to Maximize COVID-19 Vaccine Participation through Public Conversation -- 10 Building New Dialogues about Critical Race Theory in Divided Communities -- 11 Coproducing Community Conversations on Divisive Issues -- 12 Synthesis of Findings across Cases -- Part III: Case Studies on Professional Development for Democratic Renewal in Divided Communities -- 13 Strengthening Democracy in Cities and Counties: An Introduction -- 14 Combating Disinformation in Local Governments -- 15 Preparing Relationally Intelligent Local Government Managers -- Part IV: Reflections for the Future -- 16 Future of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning: Public Value, Social Impact, and Politics -- 17 Strategies for the Community-Engaged University -- Appendix 1: Syllabus for Public Service Leadership -- Appendix 2: Final Issue Maps (Public Service Leadership) -- Appendix 3: Syllabus for Deliberative Public Problem Solving -- Appendix 4: Deliberative Public Problem Solving: Sample Issue Map -- Appendix 5: Syllabus for MPA Capstone (Fall 2020) -- Appendix 6: Syllabus for MPA Capstone (Spring 2021) -- Appendix 7: Syllabus for MPA Capstone (Fall 2021) -- Appendix 8: Syllabus for MPA Capstone (Fall 2022) -- Index.

"Developing countries worldwide have been embarking on 'smart cities' programmes using new technology solutions to improve public services. Faced with severe problems of the digital divide, poverty, unemployment, inequality, and financial and social exclusion, these cities have to negotiate hard in order to reach their goals. This book examines urban governance, digital divide, poverty, unemployment, financial and social exclusion and presents a theoretical perspective on inclusive cities, urbanization, migration, slums and affordable housing. The book aims at formulating and implementing an agenda for inclusive, equitable, and sustainable urban development in tune with the UN-SDGs, the New Urban Agenda of Habitat III, and India's new national urban missions. It probes into the scope of adopting inclusionary urban planning, zoning, and housing, financing inclusive city development and poverty alleviation through municipal finance reforms using findings and lessons from detailed field studies of Indian cities. It also suggests an Agenda for Slum-free and Poverty-free cities in an attempt to make these cities more people-focused, humane and inclusionary. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political science, policy studies, public administration, urban studies, urban planning and management, urban sociology and geography, besides being of interest to policy researchers, community workers, grass roots researchers, policy makers, and sociologists"--

Abstract This article presents findings from a qualitative study (via in-depth interviews with 121 local political leaders from 65 local authorities in the UK) that aims to understand how ethical leadership practices can restore public trust in political leaders. The study finds that being a moral person, an ethical political leader sets good examples of behaviour, sets the tone at the top and challenges those who do not behave ethically, as well as encourages, supports and rewards those who perform and conduct themselves well. As a result, the level of public trust in political leaders is likely to increase gradually.

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities. Critical legal and socio-legal scholarship tends to assume that registration is a textually mediated act of statecraft which governs through the technology of writing. Taking a different approach, this book develops movement as socio-legal method to illustrate the legal, social, and bureaucratic layers of movement which unfold in everyday engagements with the law. The book presents empirical and theoretical analysis of historical, contemporary, and future-oriented places of registration: a community hub, a city of pilgrimage, and the General Register Office. Drawing from diverse perspectives across anthropology, geography, sociology, architecture, and mobility studies, the book argues for an understanding of registration as evolving, socially constructed, and shaped by spatial imaginaries which are materialised in its architecture. This mobile understanding of registration expands conceptual discussions of legal materiality whilst opening up possibilities for legal identities unconstrained by the assumed desirability of stability or endurance. This interdisciplinary book will appeal primarily to a sociolegal, critical legal, and legal geography readership; but it will also be of interest to those in other disciplines concerned with materiality, movement, and statecraft.

Open government data (OGD) has developed rapidly in recent years due to various benefits that can be derived through transparency and public access. However, researchers emphasize a lack of use instead of lack of disclosure as a key problem in OGD's present development. Previous studies have approached this issue either from the supply-side, focusing on data quantity and quality, or from the demand-side, focusing on factors that affect users' acceptance of OGD, but seldom consider both sides at the same time. This unique study compares the supply and demand sides of OGD and explores possible directions for the future development of OGD portals based on the discovered mismatches between the two. The authors improve OGD utilization by balancing the supply-side and demand-side according to citizens' demands through OGD portals. Based on the concept of an OGD ecosystem, four connected studies are explored. The first study built an evaluation framework for understanding the development of the OGD supply-side. The second study focuses on a survey conducted to analyze the awareness and utilization of OGD portals by citizens, who are the primary users and major beneficiaries of OGD on the demand-side. A third study compares the supply and demand sides based on Diffusion of Innovation theory. A final study tests the proposed usability criteria for building an OGD portal by carrying out a between-subjects experiment including a virtual agent. Each case study examines a unique aspect of OGD in China, and also offers reflections on future directions for developing OGD. Providing a unique and enhanced theoretical and practical understanding of OGD and its usage, as well as proposing directions for OGD portals' future development in order to encourage citizens' OGD utilization, this is a must-read for researchers and policymakers examining the impact and possibilities of OGD.

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model. To reveal how the Canadian immigration model has shaped the reform process in Scandinavia, Trygve Ugland critically examines public documents, including government proposals, documents from parliamentary debates, and reports by ad-hoc expert commissions, as well as letters from consulted agencies. Ugland's intensive studies on Canada's immigration and integration policies depict Canada not only as a model and inspiration to Scandinavian policy makers, but, in particular, as an intellectual stimulus for the rediscovery of labour immigration in Scandinavia during the 2000s. The study demonstrates that the Canadian model, often perceived as a product of unique circumstances, can be relevant in other countries.

Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; The EPA: Murky Waters; The VA: Anything But Care; Presidio Trust: Where San Francisco Began and Bonuses Continue; National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities: Art for Whose Sake?; Facets of the Swamp; Operation Drain the Swamp; 1. Open the Books; 2. Downsize Rich Benefits Packages; 3. Cut Frivolous Positions; The Time Is Now; Acknowledgements; Copyright

"In 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), section 818, outlined new requirements for industry to serve as the lead in averting counterfeits in the defense supply chain. Subsequently, the House Armed Services Committee, in its report on the Fiscal Year 2016 NDAA, noted that the pending sale of IBM's microprocessor fabrication facilities to Global Foundries created uncertainty about future access of the United States to trusted state-of-the-art microelectronic components and directed the Comptroller General to assess the Department of Defense's (DoD's) actions and measures to address this threat. In this context, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to facilitate an open dialogue with leading industry, academic, and government experts to (1) define the current technological and policy challenges with maintaining a reliable and secure source of microelectronic components; (2) review the current state of acquisition processes within the Air Force for acquiring reliable and secure microelectronic components; and (3) explore options for possible business models within the national security complex that would be relevant for the Air Force acquisition community. This publication summarizes the results of the workshop"--Publisher's description.

Increasingly governments around the world are experimenting with initiatives in transparency or 'open government'. These involve a variety of measures including the announcement of more user-friendly government websites, greater access to government data, the extension of freedom of information legislation and broader attempts to involve the public in government decision making. However, the role of the media in these initiatives has not hitherto been examined. This volume analyses the challenges and opportunities presented to journalists as they attempt to hold governments accountable in an

"The performance of public services is now more closely scrutinised than ever before. Every teacher, doctor, social worker or probation officer knows that behind them stands a restless army of overseers, equipped with a panoply of league tables, star ratings, user opinion surveys, performance indicators and the like with which to judge them. This increased scrutiny and performance measurement has undoubtedly produced improved public services. Yet we still have a limited understanding about how this information can be best used to bring about improvements in performance. What goes on inside the 'black box' of public organisations to move from information to action, or from 'knowing' to 'doing'? This book tackles this important question by reviewing a wide range of performance mechanisms. It explores how information about performance can be translated into improvements in services and, conversely, why this does not always happen in practice"--

Front Matter --Inhalt --Vorwort --Einleitung --I. Machtergreifung und -sicherung --1. Eine Revolution auf leisen Sohlen: Augsburg wird nationalsozialistisch --2. Konsolidierung unter den Vorzeichen des Terrors: Die Stadtverwaltung bis zum Amtsantritt Mayrs als Oberbürgermeister --3. Geordnete Verhältnisse: Die Einführung der Deutschen Gemeindeordnung --II. Profil einer nationalsozialistischen Behörde --1. Form und Stil: Organisation und Arbeitsweise der Stadtverwaltung --2. Braune Amtsschimmel? Die kommunale Elite der Stadtverwaltung --3. Dem Oberbürgermeister entgegenarbeiten --4. Polykratie vor Ort: Die Stadtverwaltung im Geflecht nationalsozialistischer Herrschaftsinstanzen --III. Kommunales Handeln im polykratischen Führerstaat --1. Die Verwaltung des "Volkskörpers". Fürsorge- und Gesundheitsorganisation im Fahrwasser nationalsozialistischer Sozialplanung --2. Zwischen Wohnungselend und Prachtstraße: das kommunale Bauwesen --3. Für Führer, Volk und Vaterstadt? Nationalsozialistische Strukturpolitik --IV. Die Stadtverwaltung im Krieg --1. Gestaltwandel: Form und Funktion der Stadtverwaltung im Krieg --2. Im Zentrum der "Heimatfront": Die Tätigkeit der städtischen Kriegsämter --3. In Erwartung der Katastrophe: Augsburg als Kriegsschauplatz --V. Von alten Kämpfern zu alten Kameraden? Die Augsburger Funktionseliten nach 1945 --1. Entnazifizierung --2. Pensionsansprüche und Dienstverträge: Die Auseinandersetzungen der nationalsozialistischen Funktionseliten mit der Stadtverwaltung nach der Entnazifizierung --Ergebnisse --Verzeichnisse --Abkürzungen --Abbildungen --Bildnachweis --Tabellen --Quellen und Literatur --Personen