| Description |
1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Public management and change series
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Public management and change.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Information Relationships and Innovation; 1 Intergovernmental Relationships, Information, and Policy Change; 2 From Information to Innovation: The Drug Court Experience; 3 Network Relationships, Implementation, and Policy Success: A National Influence; 4 Using Strategic Information to Build Programs: Templates, Mentors, and Research; 5 Information and Systemic Change: New Professionals and New Institutions; 6 Information, Synthesis, and Synergy: A National Nonprofit Information Network. |
| Summary |
How Information Matters examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for successful policy change by public administrators. Hale examines drug courts, programs that typify the highly networked, collaborative environment of public administrators today. These "special dockets" implement justice but also drug treatment, case management, drug testing, and incentive programs for non-violent offenders in lieu of jail time. In a study that spans more than two decades, Hale shows ways organizations within the network act to c. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Policy networks -- United States.
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Policy networks. |
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United States. |
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Information networks -- United States.
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Information networks. |
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Policy sciences.
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Policy sciences. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hale, Kathleen. How information matters. Washington D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011 9781589017009 (DLC) 2010036895 (OCoLC)648934570 |
| ISBN |
9781589017481 (electronic book) |
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158901748X (electronic book) |
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9781589017009 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1589017005 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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