Jeffrey A. Raffel – författare

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Goodbye, Sampson, Inc.? portrays the critical link between economic development policies and local neighborhoods. In this instance, the proposed development would help revitalize the city's central business district but would also affect adjacent residential neighborhoods, with their aging housing stock and diverse racial and socioeconomic makeup. This e-book also highlights the classic problems of social and land use planning.

Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Recruitment, Promotion, and Affirmative Action describes one local government's attempt to improve its policies and procedures governing promotion in its police and fire departments. This e-book also highlights the role played by the forces of affirmative action.

Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Goodbye, Sampson, Inc. portrays the critical link between economic development policies and local neighborhoods. In this instance, the proposed development would help revitalize the city's central business district but would also affect adjacent residential neighborhoods, with their aging housing stock and diverse racial and socioeconomic makeup. This e-book also highlights the classic problems of social and land use planning.

A truly international examination of public sector leadership, this book explores the ways leaders of developed nations are addressing current challenges. The overriding question explored by the authors is how public leadership across the globe addresses new challenges (such as security, financial, demographic), new expectations of leaders, and what public sector leadership means in the new era. The book allows the reader to view a large number of situations across the globe to better understand the relation between context and leadership. It integrates the two fields of leadership and public administration, providing a wide-ranging and complementary empirical context to the topic. Transcending state-centered perspectives, the authors include new developments in governance and public-private sector collaboration while retaining a focus on the public values involved. The chapters address public sector leadership issues in a wide array of nations, integrating international perspectives with a globally diverse authorship. Several chapters address issues of collaboration across sectors, changing roles in the New Public Management paradigm, and corresponding new visions of leadership. Several of the chapters are explicitly comparative, including a study of mental health leadership training topics in eight nations, central banking in Europe, and efficiency studies in Britain, Denmark, and Norway. The chapters can be used as thought-provoking case studies as part of a supplemental text, and are accompanied by substantial bibliographies. Scholars, students, and practitioners in leadership, public policy and administration, and organization studies will find this volume a useful reference.

A truly international examination of public sector leadership, this book explores the ways leaders of developed nations are addressing current challenges. The overriding question explored by the authors is how public leadership across the globe addresses new challenges (such as security, financial, demographic), new expectations of leaders, and what public sector leadership means in the new era. The book allows the reader to view a large number of situations across the globe to better understand the relation between context and leadership. It integrates the two fields of leadership and public administration, providing a wide-ranging and complementary empirical context to the topic.

Transcending state-centered perspectives, the authors include new developments in governance and public-private sector collaboration while retaining a focus on the public values involved. The chapters address public sector leadership issues in a wide array of nations, integrating international perspectives with a globally diverse authorship. Several chapters address issues of collaboration across sectors, changing roles in the New Public Management paradigm, and corresponding new visions of leadership. Several of the chapters are explicitly comparative, including a study of mental health leadership training topics in eight nations, central banking in Europe, and efficiency studies in Britain, Denmark, and Norway. The chapters can be used as thought-provoking case studies as part of a supplemental text, and are accompanied by substantial bibliographies.

Scholars, students, and practitioners in leadership, public policy and administration, and organization studies will find this volume a useful reference.

Shows that cities can be revitalized by attracting and retaining the middle class through schools and housing programs.Selling Cities takes the optimistic position that cities can be revitalized by attracting and retaining the middle class. The authors, experienced policymakers as well as academics, review previous work on city revitalization; report original research on homebuyers in the Cincinnati and Wilmington, Delaware metropolitan areas; and present case studies of middle-income schooling and housing policies in these and other metropolitan areas around the U.S. and Canada.Selling Cities spans several disciplines—economics, sociology, demography, law, and planning—and is one of the first books to examine both housing and schooling programs. It includes numerous recommendations for city revitalization; an analysis of middle-income housing programs such as tax abatements and below-market-rate mortgages; analyses of metropolitan school desegregation in the Wilmington area and magnet schools in Cincinnati; and proposals of policies to enhance cities' attraction and retention of the middle class.