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Any realistic attempt at reforming the U.S. health care system must tackle a strong cultural aversion to centralized administration and high public-sector costs, an entrenched private health insurance industry, and an established tradition of employer-based health insurance. The authors analyze the advantages and disadvantages of differen [...]

The United States has a long record of ambivalence toward recent immigrants. Nowhere is this love-hate relationship more evident than in the public school systems of high-immigration states like California, where pro- and anti-immigration advocates have waged a long-running battle over “bilingual” education versus “English immersion” pro [...]

Each tool the public sector uses to carry out its objectives has its own characteristics and consequences for program operations. Many problems attributed to poor management are really a consequence of the tool used. This book is must reading for those who seek to understand how public programs should be designed.

Each tool the public sector uses to carry out its objectives has its own characteristics and consequences for program operations. Many problems attributed to poor management are really a consequence of the tool used. This book is must reading for those who seek to understand how public programs should be designed.

Recent elections have brought into power new groups that have redrawn ethnic and class lines and employed different strategies to adjust political machines to the new realities. This book considers the business of governing under the conflicting pressures of community organizations, the press, the business community, and higher levels of [...]