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Performance Measurement And Performance Budgeting In The United States In The 1950s And 1960s, Dan Williams
Performance Measurement And Performance Budgeting In The United States In The 1950s And 1960s, Dan Williams
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The period of the 1950s and 1960s reflects the rise of performance budgeting. It also reflects the rise of the post-war generation of academic social scientists, which is roughly the second generation of statistical social scientists within the United States. This is the period of expanding program evaluation and the rise of policy analysis. While policy analysis is fairly distinct, program evaluation is largely the same thing as performance measurement, but as practiced by social scientists with a different skill set than public administrators. This paper examines the continued evolution of performance measurement practices and other closely related practices including …
Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Kyrgyzstan, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Kyrgyzstan, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the book Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan.
Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Poland, 2nd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Poland, 2nd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the book Historical dictionary of Poland, 2nd ed.
Taman Shamanism (Borneo), Jay H. Bernstein
Taman Shamanism (Borneo), Jay H. Bernstein
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Reconfiguring Childhood Boys And Girls Growing Up Global, Cindi Katz
Reconfiguring Childhood Boys And Girls Growing Up Global, Cindi Katz
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Children are a spur, a commitment, a way of imaging the future—but all too often these sorts of phrases just rattle around a vacuum, their utterance the beginning and end of the commitment. We emphasize “the best interests of the child,”but this gloss provides a moral imperative to all manner of uncompleted projects and unfulfilled policies. Likewise, the use of children’s images or presence in public forums of all types gives a patina of honorableness to practices and plans that never actually make good on the promissory note of childhood. The 1992 Rio Earth Summit is a notable example. Such …