Elements of Effective Governance: Measurement, Accountability and Participation

For both students of government and citizen activists, Callahan (public administration, Rutgers U.-Newark) and six colleagues from New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New York explain the basic themes, concepts, and competencies of measuring the performance of governments and holding them to account for that performance, and of citizen participation in governance. They include case studies from the region. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)