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Teen Pregnancy and Urban Youth: Competing Truths, Complacency, and Perceptions of the ProblemPurpose: To compare and contrast perceptions of community leaders, adults, and youth about the extent of the teen pregnancy problem in five American cities: Baltimore, Detroit, Oakland, Philadelphia, and Richmond. Conclusions: Although few leaders see …
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Integrating a Comparison Group Design into a Theory of Change Evaluation: The Case of the Urban Health InitiativeThis paper describes how we strengthened the theory of change approach to evaluating a complex social initiative by integrating it with a quasi-experimental, comparison group design. We also demonstrate the plausibility of selecting a credible comparison …
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Low Response Rate Schools in Surveys of Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviors: Possible Biases, Possible SolutionObjectives. This investigation examined the effectiveness of intensive efforts to include frequently absent students in order to reduce bias in classroom-based studies. Methods. Grade 10 students in 13 New York City high schools (n = 2049) completed self …
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Working Together: Meeting the Challenges of Workforce DiversityThis collection of original manuscripts-representing a cross-section of the timeliest scholarship in public personnel administration-explores the theme of "problems and prospects" in public personnel administration. The contributions are organized into …
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First Person Practice: Using Action Science/Action Inquiry to Improve Ourselves, Our Interactions, and Our ResearchFoldy, E.G., Rudolph, J.R. & Taylor, S.S. …
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Negotiating Accountability: Managerial Lessons from Identity-Based Nonprofit OrganizationsThis article explores the emerging conceptualization of accountability in nonprofit organizations. This definition broadens traditional concerns with finances, internal controls, and regulatory compliance. The authors explore how the top-level managers of …
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Does Government Funding Alter Nonprofit Governance? Evidence from New York City ContractorsThis paper explores the relationship between nonprofit board governance practices and government contracting. Monitoring by a board is one way a governmental agency can help to insure quality performance by its contractors. Agencies could thus use both …
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Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland SecurityGovernment's Greatest Achievement's: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security was designed to understand what the federal government has most actively endeavored to do since World War II, identify the top achievements among its goals, and use its agenda …
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Understanding Cooperative Behavior in Labor Management Cooperation: A Theoy-Building ExerciseThis article proposes a theory of how mandated institutional cooperation transforms into individual cooperative behavior. Using qualitative strategies, we draw insights about cooperation in three public-sector efforts of labor-management cooperation …
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La Reforma del Estado y los Cambios en las Relaciones Intergubernamentales de Final de SigloLa profundización de la democracia está directamente relacionada con las capacidades de los gobiernos, de todos los niveles, para dar respuestas a las necesidades y requerimientos de sus ciudadanos. La asignación de responsabilidad a los poderes públicos …
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La Evaluación de los Resultados de la Gestión Pública: Una Herramienta Técnica y PolíticaOspina, S. & Cunill, N. …
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El Sistema Nacional de Evaluación de Resultados de la Gestión Pública (Sinergia) de ColombiaOspina, S. & Ochoa, D. …
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Una Agenda de Investigación Sobre la Evaluación de los Resultados de la Gestion PúblicaOspina, S. & Cunill, N. …
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Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It"The nonprofit sector survives because it has a self-exploiting work force: wind it up and it will do more with less until it just runs out. But at some point, the spring must break." America’s nonprofit organizations face a difficult present and an …
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Telecommuting and the Demand for Urban Living: A Preliminary Look at White-Collar WorkersWith recent advances in communications technology, telecommuting appears to be an increasingly viable option for many workers. For urban researchers, the key question is whether this growing ability to telecommute is altering residential location …
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Teaching Evidence-Based Healthcare Management: Context and Overview of the Special IssueKovner, A.R. …
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LSE Cities Urban Age Conference ReportCities are critical sites for enquiry and action in relation to health and well-being. With up to 70 per cent of the world’s population estimated to be living in urban areas by 2050 1 , global health will be determined increasingly in cities. As Africa …
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La réforme de la santé aux États-Unis: quels enseignements pour l’assurance maladie française? (French) …
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State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods 2011The Furman Center is pleased to present the 2011 edition of the State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods. In this annual report, the Furman Center compiles statistics on housing, demographics and quality of life in the City, its five boroughs …
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Group Cohesion without Group Mobilization: The Case of Lesbians, Gays, and BisexualsGroup identities that are chosen, rather than inherited, are often associated with cohesive political attitudes and behaviours. Conventional wisdom holds that this distinctiveness is generated by mobilization through processes such as intra-group contact …
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Turning Personal Experience into Political Attitudes: The Effect of Local Weather on Americans' Perceptions about Global WarmingEgan, Patrick J. and Megan Mullin. …