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Who pays for politics? A profile of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission and its proposal for full public financing of local election campaigns
The new dynamics of bureaucratic autonomy: Courts, litigation, and agencies in the modern American state
Space tourism: Commercializing the final frontier
A comprehensive study of the Chinese government's natural disaster communication framework based on the natural disaster management and communication system's response to two natural disasters
The new age of advocacy: Generating millennial engagement and activism for the fight against lung cancer in the social media era
What makes hazard mitigation happen? The story of Oakland after the 1991 wildfire
When collaboration is required by public funding agencies: Formation and performance of nonprofit social service networks
Policy termination: A conceptual framework and application to the local public hospital context
Community foundations and new governance networks: Three studies exploring the role of regionally-networked philanthropic organizations in local problem-solving
Water-resources development in a decentralizing Indonesia: A challenge for policy design
Gang injunctions and community participation
Social capital and community philanthropy: The impact of social trust and social networks on individual charitable behavior and community foundation development
Negotiating bureaucratic responsiveness in collaboration with citizens: Findings from action research in Los Angeles
State restructuring and pathways to local democracy: Idea and politics of decentralization in Japan and Korea
The impact of public expenditures on health care on total health expenditures: An exploratory analysis of selected OECD countries
Regulatory burden: A systems analysis of weapons acquisition in the U.S. Department of Defense
The elephant and the mouse that roared: The prospects of international policy and local authority in the case of the Convention on International Species (CITES)
Institutional contestation, network legitimacy and organizational heterogeneity: Interactions between government and environmental nonprofits in South Korea
Expanding health insurance to increase utilization: Does distance still matter?
Environmental ABC's---Acting on behalf of children: Rethinking representation, risk, and responsibility in U.S. environmental policy implementation
Assessing the implementation of the reclaim cap-and-trade market for pollution: Measurement issues in counterfactuals, goal attainment, and command-and-control alternatives
Processes, effects, and the implementation of market-based environmental policy: Southern California's experiences with emissions trading
A learning model of policy implementation: Implementing technology in response to policy requirements
Transformation of governmental organizations: The case of the California Integrated Waste Management Board
Collaborating to provide microfinance to caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopia
New Public Management in Chile (1990--2008): Exploring its impact on public employees
Using decision and risk analysis to assist in policy making about terrorism
Nonprofit organizations and the environmental policy outcomes: A systematic inquiry into the role of different types of nonprofits to influence the processes and outcomes of environmental policy
Organizational structuring for homeland security: A U.S. state-by-state comparative analysis
Bottle to bottle: A guide for achieving closed loop recycling for California's PET beverage containers
The political economy of Brazilian trade policy: Domestic determinants, world and regional strategies
Shortcomings of institutional reform in public sector governance: The case of Kyrgyzstan
The twilight of the local redevelopment era: The past, present, and future of urban revitalization and urban economic development in Nevada and California
Spaces of market-culturalism: The case of Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Legislative term limits in California and the faces of change
Community, empowerment, and the city: Sources of capacity in local government
Information sharing, deliberation, and collective decision-making: A computational model of collaborative governance
Alternative ways, locations, and partners to meet the recreational needs of underserved communities: The case of Florence-Firestone
Private partnership for public benefit
Governing regional collaboratives: Institutional design, management and leadership
Governance and urban design: Omaha By Design
Key individuals of community collective action and their network roles: The case of Neighborhood Council in the City of Los Angeles
Connecting neighborhood councils and city agencies---Evaluation of the Learning and Design Forums and role of the university as a mediating institution
Values-based discipline: The key to organizational transformation within law enforcement agencies
Quango reforms and challenges in South Korea: Social relations, informal networks, and hidden actions