Innovating With Integrity - How Local Heroes Are Transforming American Government

Presents a comprehensive portrait of the local heroes - front-line public servants and middle managers - who are reinventing state and local government. Based on a study of more than 200 successful government innovations, this book offers a large-scale, systematic analysis of innovation in American government.

About the author

Sandford Borins is a professor of public management and chair of the division of management at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He is a former visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the author of several books, including Political Management in Canada (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992). His research focuses on international comparisons of public management reform initiatives. He has extensive experience designing training programs and consulting on public management for the Canadian government.

Summary

Presents a comprehensive portrait of the local heroes - front-line public servants and middle managers - who are reinventing state and local government. Based on a study of more than 200 successful government innovations, this book offers a large-scale, systematic analysis of innovation in American government.

Product details

• Authors: Sandford Borins, Sandford (University of Toronto at Scarborough) Borins, Sandford F. Borins, Sandford F. (University of Toronto at Scarborough) Borins, Borins Sandford F.
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1998
• EAN: 9780878406883
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-688-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Innovating with Integrity; Innovating with Integrity
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, United States of America, USA, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government