Savas E. S. (Hrsg.): Managing Welfare Reform in New York City

Name: Savas E. S. (Hrsg.): Managing Welfare Reform in New York City
Brand: Rowman & Littlefield
SKU: 978-0-7425-4927-2
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Welfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and surprising because of the city's history of liberal social programs and its huge, entrenched welfare system. The city reduced the number of people on welfare dramatically from 1,120,000 to 460,000. How did it achieve such success in this unlikely setting? It changed the organizational culture, insisted on 'work first, ' adopted information technology, protected against fraud, and contracted for job placement

ISBN: 978-0-7425-4927-2

GTIN: 9780742549272

Über den Autor Savas E. S. (Hrsg.)

E. S. Savas is professor of public affairs at Baruch College, CUNY. He is the (co)author/(co)editor of more than a dozen books, including: Privatization in New York: If You Can Do It Here, You Can Do It Anywhere; The New Public Management: Lessons from Innovating Governors and Mayors; and Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships. He has contributed to dozens of books and written dozens of scholarly articles. Professor Savas has been named one of the "Great Contributors to Public Administration" by Public Administration in the New Century and Grover Starling's classic, Managing the Public Sector, lists Savas' work as one of 41 "Highlights in the Intellectual History of American Public Administration."