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LEGISLATIVE RESPONSE TO THE “BUREAUCRACY PROBLEM”: STATE AND LOCAL PATTERNS
- Nolan J. Argyle
- Political Science
- 12 November 2008
“… out where the services of the government are delivered, the performance of the bureaucracy constitutes the biggest crisis facing the country today.”
Appointing the Best and the Brightest: Observations From the Riverworld Committee
- Nolan J. Argyle
- Sociology
- 11 April 2017
This essay uses the fictitious setting of the Riverworld to bring together some of the great-and not-so-great--minds that have contributed to our development over the past two thousand years. It… Expand
Fuzzy Lines: Using the Best-Selling Novel to Illustrate the Blurring Boundaries of “Public”
- Nolan J. Argyle, Gerald Merwin
- Sociology
- 11 April 2017
Privatization, contracting out, and a host of other current trends blur the line between public and private—they create what at best is a fuzzy line. This study examines yet one additional area where… Expand
Science Fiction and Administrative Truths: The Short Story and Novella as Administrative Cases
- Nolan J. Argyle, L. Allen
- Sociology
- 11 April 2017
Pre-service and in-service MPA students share a common desire for hands-on, real world instruction related to their professional career goals, leading to a pedagogic discounting of fiction as an… Expand