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Paul Light and Paul Volcker Explore Federal Government "Breakdowns"Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service Paul Light of NYU Wagner released on December 11 an issue paper he wrote on the “cascade” of Federal government breakdowns and what can be done about it. He appeared with former Federal Reserve Board Chairman …
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The Spiral of Nonprofit ExcellenceThis article is adapted from a new book by Paul Light entitled Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It, published in 2004 by the Brookings Institution Press. Imagine a nonprofit's life as a journey …
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The Tides of Reform Revisited: Making Government Word, 1945-2002The past six decades have witnessed acceleration in both the number and variety of major administrative reform statutes enacted by Congress. This increase can be explained partly by the increased involvement of Congress, a parallel decrease in activity …
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The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work, 1945-1994The past six decades have witnessed acceleration in both the number and variety of major administrative reform statutes enacted by Congress. This increase can be explained partly by the increased involvement of Congress, a parallel decrease in activity …
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Farmer's Willingness to Pay for Ground Water ProtectionThe effectiveness of current groundwater protection policies depends largely on farmers' voluntary compliance with leaching reduction measures, an important component of which is their willingness to adopt costlier production practices in order to prevent …
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School Efficiency and Student Sub-groups: Is a Good School Good for Everyone?State and federal accountability reforms are putting considerable pressure on schools to increase the achievement of historically low-performing groups of students and to close test score gaps. In this article, we exploit the differences among the large …
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The Rules of the Intergovernmental Game in East Asia: Comparing Decentralization Frameworks and ProcessesAlthough political forces have largely driven decentralization in East Asia and most countries face similar reform challenges, their decentralization experiences are far from uniform. Countries have adopted different intergovernmental structures, …
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So Many Children Left Behind: Segregation and the Impact of Subgroup Reporting in <em>No Child Left Behind</em> on the Racial Test Score GapAlthough the No Child Left Behind Act was intended to help "all students meet high academic standards," it is focused on subgroups of low-achieving students. The authors analyze the possible impact of the legislation's requirement for performance …
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How Telecommunications is Shaping Urban SpacesAll too often, telecommunications systems are treated as an alternative to transportation systems, as a substitute for the physical movement of people and services. The growing use of telecommunications systems is doing far more than influence where …
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Diagnostic Tools to Estimate Consequences of Terrorism Attacks Against Critical InfrastructureDiagnosing historical incidents of terrorism events within a risk management framework is an important tool for understanding the likelihood and form of future terrorist attacks and their consequences, particularly for critical infrastructure. Critical …
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Social Networks and Homelessness Among Women Heads of HouseholdTo examine possible bidirectional relationships between homelessness and deficient social networks, we compared the networks of 251 mothers before, and approximately 5 years after, their families entered shelters with networks of 291 consistently housed …
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Performance Evaluation, Public Management Improvement and Democractic Accountability: Some Lessons from Latin AmericaThe results-oriented management reforms fostered by the New Public Management movement are often argued to emphasize the search for efficiency, quality and other typical market values at the expense of democratic accountability. On the other hand, …
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"Portfolios of the Poor," co-authored by Prof. Jonathan Morduch, Helped Inspire a New App to Address Income Volatility: NY Times Magazine“Want A Steady Income? There’s an App for That,” a piece published Sunday, May 3, in The New York Times Magazine , focuses on a Silicon Valley app-in-development partly inspired by Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day , the …
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Campaign to End Forced Disappearances in SyriaFreedom Forward is an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC that seeks to end US alliances with dictatorships and other non- democratic governments around the world and to organize solidarity activists to challenge the practices of repressive …
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Analysis of Financial Vehicles for Sustainable infrastructureBloomberg Associates is a philanthropic international consulting firm aimed at helping city governments improve quality of life for their citizens. The Bloomberg Associates Sustainability Practice (BASP) works with client cities to find ways to finance …
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Strategies for Increasing Alumni EngagementHOSA-Future Health Professionals (HOSA) is an international organization that supports students pursuing careers in healthcare through leadership training and competitive events. Despite having served over two million members, HOSA lacks a robust alumni …
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Developmental Evaluation Guide for the ECEI Pilot ProgramDay One is the only organization in New York that works with young adults to end dating abuse and domestic violence through community education, supportive services, legal advocacy, and leadership development. Day One is currently piloting its Early …
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Establishing Standard Operating Procedures for Jewish Campus HousingChabad on Campus International (COCI) is the parent organization overseeing 256 independent houses that are a “home away from home” for Jews on university campuses. The houses have a lot of autonomy, which has resulted in a lack of operational …
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City and State Names a Pair of NYU Wagner Community Members to 2024 Transportation Power 100 City and State released The 2024 Transportation Power 100 , acknowledging the leaders in the field of transportation across the metropolitan area and the entire state of New York. This year’s list included a pair of honorees from the NYU Wagner …
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ESTABLISHING THE VIRTUAL URGENT CARE TELE-PREP PROGRAMNYU Virtual Urgent Care is a 24/7 video chat service that allows patients to connect with a NYU Langone Health care provider from the privacy of their home. NYU Langone Health tasked a team with spearheading the launch of a Virtual Urgent Care program for …
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ANALYZING AND MITIGATING TELEHEALTH DISPARITIES AND BARRIERSThe Department of Medicine is the largest academic department in the Mount Sinai Health System, a large New York City-based hospital network. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the Department of Medicine logged over 4,000 telehealth …
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ADDRESSING HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR WOMEN IN PUNJAB, INDIAIn Punjab, current employment rates for women are historically low, hovering at around 14 percent, while overall rates for men are approximately 55 percent. Factors that contribute to this employment gap include restrictive cultural norms, limited and …
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Don WaisanenDon Waisanen is an Adjunct Professor of Public Service of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is also a Professor in the Baruch College, CUNY Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, where he received the Presidential …
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Reimagining Cultural Competence: Bringing Buried Dynamics Into the LightMany organizations attempt to increase cultural competence as one way to foster organizational change to enhance equity and inclusion. But the literature on cultural competence is largely silent on the role of emotion, despite the strong feelings that …