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Dr. Lawrence "Chris" Reardon, Jennifer Lee Apr 2011

Dr. Lawrence "Chris" Reardon, Jennifer Lee

Inquiry Journal 2011

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Reaching Disagreement, David R. Hiley Jan 2011

Reaching Disagreement, David R. Hiley

The University Dialogue

No abstract provided.


Moving Into Citizenship: Teaching Toward Common Ground, Bruce L. Mallory Jan 2011

Moving Into Citizenship: Teaching Toward Common Ground, Bruce L. Mallory

The University Dialogue

No abstract provided.


Public Accountability: Performance Measurement, The Extended State, And The Search For Trust, Melvin J. Dubnick, H. George Frederickson Jan 2011

Public Accountability: Performance Measurement, The Extended State, And The Search For Trust, Melvin J. Dubnick, H. George Frederickson

Political Science

In an Academy partnership with the Kettering Foundation, National Academy of Pubic Administration Fellows Melvin J. Dubnick and H. George Frederickson have completed a study of accountability. The study, Public Accountability: Performance Measurement, The Extended State, and the Search for Trust, is a treatment of the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary applications of accountability to public affairs. The working title of the study was Public Accountability: From Ambulance Chasing to Accident Prevention, but that title was thought to lack the dignity such an important subject deserves. Dubnick and Frederickson challenge the often assumed relationship between performance measurement and accountability. They …


Socialist! Hatemonger! Can Democratic Problem-Solving Survive In An Age Of Polarization And Hyperbole? , Benjamin Cole Jan 2011

Socialist! Hatemonger! Can Democratic Problem-Solving Survive In An Age Of Polarization And Hyperbole? , Benjamin Cole

The University Dialogue

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Pledge Your Body For Your Bread: Welfare, Drug Testing, And The Inferior Fourth Amendment, Jordan C. Budd Jan 2011

Pledge Your Body For Your Bread: Welfare, Drug Testing, And The Inferior Fourth Amendment, Jordan C. Budd

Law Faculty Scholarship

Proposals to subject welfare recipients to periodic drug testing have emerged over the last three years as a significant legislative trend across the United States. Since 2007, over half of the states have considered bills requiring aid recipients to submit to invasive extraction procedures as an ongoing condition of public assistance. The vast majority of the legislation imposes testing without regard to suspected drug use, reflecting the implicit assumption that the poor are inherently predisposed to culpable conduct and thus may be subject to class-based intrusions that would be inarguably impermissible if inflicted on the less destitute. These proposals are …