...Goodsell, C. T. (2004). The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic. Fourth Edition. CQ Press, Washington DC. Ackoff, R. L. and Rovin, S. (2005). Beating the System, Using creativity to outsmart bureaucracies. Berret- Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, USA. Introduction Bureaucracy is a stigma in our society today. Once championed as the model of efficient and stable government decades ago, we now curse it and openly express disdain. We explore two opposing views herein that present myriad insights about the role of bureaucracies in our modern society. Ackoff and Rovin (2005) present an anecdotal analysis of challenges faced in dealing with bureaucracies. Goodsell (2004) presents a hardcore defense of bureaucracy in an attempt...
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...Case For Bureaucracy A Public Administration Polemic. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2004 September 2008 Curriculum Vitae (summary)/ Authors Facebook The Case for Bureaucracy A Public Administration Polemic Charles Goodwin most recently has served as a professor at Center of Public Administration Policy, College of Architecture and has also served as a professor and director at other institutions. He was born in July, 1932 at Kalamazoo, Michigan and is happily married with two grown daughters and currently resides in Virginia. Under his belt he has many publications and has published several books that link to public administration and civic engagement. Some of those books published include the one noted above and The American Statehouse, Public Administration Illuminated and Inspired by the Arts, The Social Meaning of Civic Space, Planning a council Chamber, The Public and Encounter, and others. The most successful publication has been The Case for Bureaucracy as he makes his case that American Bureaucracy is in fact effective and good. He challenges the perception that public administration is not effective and is just wasteful and out of touch and makes a validated defense against those that think the contrary. His work has inspired hope as this piece is different from the norm. It is a great inspiring book that gives a fresh face to public administration and its servants and provides...
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... In The Spitting Image Jerry Lembcke shows how this image is a myth that serves the interests of the powerful who led the U.S. to war. Lembcke is a sociologist at Holy Cross College, a Vietnam veteran who was an active member of Vietnam Veterans against the War. His book demolishes the myth that the antiwar movement was anti-soldier and that vets were spat upon.In this book, he argues that the common claim of American soldiers were insulted and spat upon when they returned home from the Vietnam War is a myth and nothing more. It was intended to discredit the anti-war movement and the protesters that were behind it. Lembcke stated that the Nixon administration was behind the propaganda and was using it to discredit the anti-war movement protesters. He theorizes that the reported "spitting on soldiers" scenario was a mythical projection by those who felt "spat upon" and was meant to discredit future anti-war activism. He suggests that the images of pro-war antipathy against anti-war protesters helped contribute to the myth. Lembcke argues that memories of being verbally and physically assaulted by anti-war protesters were largely conjured, arguing that not even one case could be documented. However, some news accounts that mention spitting do exist, although there has been no evidence to support those accounts.( Discover The Networks) It is hard to disprove a myth and hard to prove that something never happened. Lembcke acknowledges...
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...negative of poverty in the United States. Media portrayals also disproportionately represent the American poor as being almost entirely composed of people of color, especially African Americans and Latinos. The legacy of the representation of public housing and the American poor has thus resulted in a hegemonic image of the poor, in which they are dehumanized and blamed for their own socioeconomic status and living conditions. In “This is Home”, a spoken word piece performed by Deandre Evans, Will Hartfield, and Donte Clark, three poets from Richmond, CA, who worked in conjunction with reporter Amy Julia Harris, illuminates the various realities faced by residents of the city’s Hacienda housing projects, whom have had to endure horrible living conditions, resulting...
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...Exchanges With Industry Before Receipt of Proposals (4-4) Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) “prescribes [the] policies and procedures governing competitive and noncompetitive negotiated acquisitions.” One component of negotiated acquisitions that occurs early in the acquisition process is the solicitation of proposals. FAR 15.201, titled, “Exchanges with Industry before Receipt of Proposals,” regulates the type and manner of communications, also sometimes referred to as exchanges, which can – and cannot – take place between the Government and potential suppliers prior to the receipt of a potential supplier’s proposal and the subsequent award of a contract. This paper will address a few of the various types and formats of exchanges that might occur between the Government and potential suppliers prior to the Government’s receipt of proposals, and the manner in which some of these exchanges are to occur; some of the legal, regulatory, and logistical considerations that a Program Manager, Contracting Officer, or other Government participant in the acquisition process might need to be mindful of when conducting discussions; and the diligence and care that must be utilized by the Government team members when conducting exchanges with potential suppliers before the receipt of proposals in order to avoid issues that may arise later in the procurement process. Exchanges of information can take place either before, after, or both before and after the official...
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...illegal, marijuana is not the drug people think it is. A. What is marijuana and how do people use it? 1. Marijuana is a drug that’s active ingredient is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and is cut and dried from the plant known as cannabis. 2. The most common way to use marijuana is to smoke it by rolling it into a cigarette paper (a joint) or the outside of a cigar (a blunt). B. Marijuana has been illegal for decades now, but why is it illegal? 1. A big part of why marijuana is illegal is because it is considered an addicting drug and when the law was passed most people didn’t have the right information about this drug. 2. Marijuana was made federally illegal in the United States in 1937 by the Marihuana Tax Act. II. There are a lot of myths about using marijuana that are not true. A. Parents tell their kids that marijuana kills brain cells. 1. No medical test that has been used to show brain damage in people has found that marijuana kills brain cells. 2. Supporting example 2 in a complete sentence. B. Using marijuana while pregnant can cause developmental problems and birth defects. 1. Test were ran on newborns to older kids, no results came back that there was any developmental problems. 2. Older kids of prenatal users and nonusers were tested and only small differences were found with some results better than others. III. Marijuana can help with some medical problems. A. Smoking marijuana helps chemo patients to keep their weight at a healthy level. 1. Smoking marijuana...
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...[pic] Fred W. Riggs: Contributions to the Study of Comparative Public Administration Howard E. McCurdy, American University [pic] In 1962, the Ford Foundation presented the Comparative administration Group (CAG), a special division of the American Society for public Administration, with one-half million dollars to study methods for improving public administration in developing countries. Public administration had passed recently through a period of widespread optimism about the power of administrative reform. Many practitioner-scholars believed that administration could be improved through the implementation of correct principles. Scarcely 25 years earlier Luther Gulick had suggested that experts were on the verge of discovering principles of administration as immutable as the laws of physics and chemistry. Scholars had rediscovered Woodrow Wilson's dictum that good administrative practices did not depend upon the type of regimen which they were practiced. The United States had achieved great success in reconstructing the economies of Europe and Asia through instruments such as the Marshall Plan. President John F. Kennedy had established the Peace Corps as a means of bringing "trained manpower" to less developed lands. With these trends to inspire them, scholars both prominent and apprentice traveled to foreign countries to share their knowledge about public administration. Many arrived in countries newly emerging from the grip of colonialism and struggling to establish...
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...Christina Paskow Brook S. Edwards Writing II 10 November 2014 Leadership in Society Steven Johnson’s “The Myth of the Ant Queen” is broken down into 3 categories: the city of Manchester, emergence of the complexity theory, and as the title states, the myth of the ant queen. It opens with Deborah Gordon showing the author, Steven Johnson, the ant colonies and how they develop. Gordon’s work, “Focuses on the connections between the micro behavior of individual ants and the overall behavior of the colonies themselves, and part of that research involves tracking the life cycles of the individual colonies, following them year after year as they scour the desert floor for food, competing with other colonies for territory, and once a year they mate with them” (Johnson 193). She is a student, in other words of a particular kind of emergent, self-organizing system The queen of the ants is not as the name suggests, the queen of an ant colony has no political or authoritative significance in the colony. The queen of the ant colony lays eggs and is cared for by other ants, not the dictator of what the other ants do. What Gordon’s work suggests and then supports is that ants do not have a set authoritative figure, they are a self-organizing society. The ants have three main parts to their way of living: the midden which is the town dump, the cemetery, and the main colony. “Look at what actually happened here: they’ve built the cemetery at exactly the point that’s furthest away from...
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...ecological factors to help her succeed in developing policy to combat AIDS. The Analysis As director of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Dr. Helene Gayle succeeded in the development of public policy to combat AIDS. Dr. Gayle employed John Gaus’ concept of administrative ecology by using several ecological factors, such as people, place, and personality, to create an environment receptive to her cause. This analysis defines John Gaus’ administrative ecology and uses Dr. Gayle’s success as an example of how the ecological factors affecting a policy can and should be used to further its development. Administrative Ecology: John Gaus defines ecology as that which, “ deals with all the interrelationships of living organisms and their environment” Based on his definition of ecology, Gaus posits that, “An ecological approach to public administration builds, then, quite literally from the ground up”, and is made up of the elements of a place, its people, and the relationships that exist between them. To Gaus, understanding a society’s ecology provides public administrators with the tools to, “better understand what they are doing and how they are doing it”. Gaus’ concept of administrative ecology describes how “public administration, its development, and its activities were influenced by its setting, or its ecology.” Ecological Factors: Within the concept of administrative ecology, Gaus identifies several ecological factors that help explain...
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...the age of 21 and older to purchase and possess marijuana under one ounce and consume it in a private location. It is also legal for Colorado residents to grow marijuana in their private home for personal use of up to six plants with the restriction that only three out of six plants may flower simultaneously (Patterson, 2013). * This legality poses an ethical concern to public health due to the health and safety aspects of marijuana usage. Desai and Patel (2013) stated that there have been testimonies from patients claiming that marijuana relieves pain, nausea, tremors, epilepsy, and cancer but none of the research results can prove its benefits are greater than its risk (p.136). Desai and Patel (2013) further stated that Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) properly categorized Marijuana under scheduled I of the Controlled Substance Act, meaning drugs under this list have currently no proven acceptable medical use and are high for potential abuse (p. 136). Marijuana also does not meet Food Drug administration (FDA) standards and therefore cannot be prescribed or sold in United States. According to the Myth of Medical Marijuana (2012), federal law remains to view marijuana as a potent drug similar to cocaine and heroin; anyone caught possessing, cultivating, or distributing marijuana...
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...government using the de facto theory to allow segregation to occur. For example, in Louisville, KY, the state arrested a white family for selling a home to a black family in a predominantly white neighborhood. The state acted unconstitutionally in using police protection to prosecute the white family, all in attempts to keep the neighborhood predominantly white. Another example he provided during his lecture, was of President Roosevelt’s New Deal. More often than not, majority of people consider the New Deal as being the string of federal programs, which were geared towards assisting everyone after the Great Depression. Yet, Rothstein showed how the New Deal was also actually a tool used to further segregation. The New Deal brought with it the Public Housing...
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...| | |Substance Abuse | |Final Research Paper Substance abuse is characterized as a social problem in numerous parts of America. Substance abuse is defined as a pattern of harmful use of substances for mood-altering purposes (“Drug Abuse”). Drug abuse is the use of illicit drugs or abuse of prescription or over the counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in qualities other than directed (“Drug Abuse”). Many people believe that substance abusers, drugs abusers, and addicts should be able to stop taking these substances and drugs if they are willing to change their behavior. What many people do not understand is that substance and drug abuse is a problem that needs to be addressed. It is not as easy as some people think to stop using these substances and drugs. There are several causes for substance abuse. Substance abuse ranges in many different ages from teenagers to elderly. This social problem can affect families and many different...
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...regulation, scope and myths” wrote by Xiaoyan Chen and Peng Hwa Ang, the authors focused on the analysis of the Chinese Internet censorship and the role of the internet police in China. With the emergence and the development of the Internet, the number of Internet users grew rapidly in China and reached 384 million in 2009, which is larger than the US Internet users. In order to keep the Internet community in order, the Chinese government has put a lot of effort to regulate and control the online space. The Internet police was one of the efforts that the Chinese government has been made to regulate and manage the Internet (Chen& Ang, 2011). The public Information and Internet Security Supervision Bureau (PIISS) was set up in 1998, which intended as an online police unit to manage cyber space. This bureau was established at provincial, prefecture and county levels, which contains around 20000 Internet police everywhere in Mainland China (Chen& Ang, 2011). “Internet police work can be understood as supervision of the safety of the computer network and Internet systems, administrative regulation on Internet activities and detection of computer and Internet crimes” (Chen& Ang, 2011, P. 42). For example, to detect and prevent the transmission of the computer viruses, and to protect the security of the important computer information systems are within the scope of the supervision of the Internet police. Meanwhile, the Internet police has empowered after the public security administration...
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...COMPANY REPORT SOMMERVILLE & ASSOCIATES, P.C A common myth about nonprofit industry is that nonprofit is similar to “charitable.” This summer, I am interning with an accounting firm focused on the nonprofit industry so I had an opportunity to break the myth about the industry and see a new career direction. The company I am interning with this summer is Sommerville & Associates, P.C in Arlington, Texas. The company assists individuals and nonprofits with their tax and compliance relative needs. I. Company background: Sommervile & Associates, P.C was incorporated in 2002 under the name Ratliff & Sommerville, P.C. The firms split in 2009 into Sommerville & Associates, P.C doing tax practice and Ratliff & Associates, P.C doing financial statement practice. The firm’s operating philosophy is that highly trained professionals work directly with clients to bring immediate impact to the issues. The firm endeavors specifically to train staff to be knowledgeable in areas of our practice involving our nonprofit clientele. It is with intentional thought and intent that the firm has specifically chosen to focus our practice in this particular area in order to provide the highest level of service to the clients. The tax team prepares Forms 990 which is one of an organization’s most powerful public relations tools. Therefore, it must be prepared in a manner that has a positive impact on all other readers and users of the Form 990. Additionally, the Form 990...
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...The Health Care Manager Volume 27, Number 2, pp. 147–158 Copyright # 2008 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Five Myths of the Chinese Health Care System D. Rob Haley, PhD; Mei Zhao, PhD; JoAnn M. Nolin, JD; Kerry Dunning, MHA; Sun Qiang, PhD As China continues its moves from a socialist ideology to a market economy, the impact of its presence is being felt globally. This is especially true with China’s health care system and the challenges that it is experiencing with its 1.3 billion population. The erosion of China’s socialist ideology was accompanied by an erosion of the government’s subsidy of health services, placing the major responsibilities of providing health care services on regional governments. Unfortunately, the impact of these policies on China’s health care system is not commonly understood, resulting in confusion and propagation of myths. For example, many believe that the Chinese government provides free health care for all citizens, and the population has not accepted Western medicine and relies primarily on traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, it is believed that there is no shortage of nurses, as the majority of care is provided at home. Finally, it is commonly believed that China’s health care issues are different from those of the United States. Exploration of these myths provides us with a better understanding and an improved ability to engage with this emerging economic global leader. Key words: China, Complimentary...
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