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Purpose and overview -- Public value and the university -- Social impact and the university -- Politics of university social impact in democracies -- Students as professional citizens -- Deliberative public problem solving -- Conversing with strangers about institutional racism -- Discovering solutions to maximize COVID-19 vaccine participation through public conversation -- Building new dialogues about critical race theory in divided communities -- Coproducing community conversations on divisive issues -- Synthesis of findings across cases -- Strengthening democracy in cities and counties : an introduction -- Combating disinformation in local governments -- Preparing relationally intelligent local government managers -- Future of community-engaged teaching and learning : public value, social impact and politics -- Strategies for the community-engaged scholar.

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction-- M.T.Witt & A.P.Kakabadse State Crimes Against Democracy: A Clarification of Connotations-- J.Dixon, S.Spehr & J.Burke Normalizing the SCAD Heuristic-- C.Hinson From a Fabric of Suspicion: The U.S. Constitution and Other Founding Dilemmas-- L.deHaven-Smith Auditing Moral Hazards for the Post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) Leadership-- A.Kakabadse, A.Kouzmin, N.K.Kakabadse & N.Mouraviev Ideal Typing (in)visible Power in the Context of Oligarchic Isomorphisms-- A.Kouzmin The Social Construction of Race, Inequality and the Invisible Role of the State-- C.Jensen Unlimited & Unchecked Power: The Use of Secret Evidence Law-- M.G.Alkadry American Military-Education Convergence: Designing the Failure of Public Education-- R.Simnjanovski Privatising Vulnerability: The Downside to Shareholder-Value Maximization-- N.K.Kakabadse & A.Kakabadse The Determination of Behavioural Patterns in Tourism Destinations through Terrorism: Lessons from Crete, Greece-- N.V.Pappas Cultural Narratives, Early Occupy Movement, and the TEA Party: Are revolts against E-SCAD and SCAD-- D.S Kuku-Siemons, J.Johannesson & H.Siemons SCAD Alert: Occupy Wall Street is to Capitalism what Labor Unions were to Communism - a Systemic Contradiction that can be neither Swallowed nor Spit Out-- M.Witt Index

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Introduction: Workforce Diversity and the Twenty-First Century -- Law and Public Policy: EEO, Affirmative Action and Diversity Management -- The Significance of Diversity and Social Equity -- Race and Diversity Management -- Managing Diversity around Ethnicity -- Diversity Management and Women in Public Sector Workforces -- Diversity and LGBTQIA -- Disability and Diversity in the Workplace -- Diversity, Diversity Management and Intersectionality -- Public Sector Organizations Positioning for the Future.

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