Administrative reform is not a phenomenon exclusive to the United States, and in fact, the text mentions many countries undergoing different types of government reform. Select two of the countries mentioned in the text and briefly describe their reform strategies.
What will be an ideal response?
New Zealand is doing a type of reengineering approach that allows government officials to administer programs that cut across agency boundaries. New Zealand is also involved in reforming its performance management hand in hand with financial management in ways that are transforming the public sector. Like New Zealand, the United Kingdom is also reengineering to allow performance management and financial reforms to be renovated in such a way that costs are minimized. The United Kingdom is also promoting “joined-up government,” a tactic that improves service coordination.
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a. Economic restructuring b. Political restructuring c. Media restructuring d. Diplomatic restructuring e. Religious restructuring
When using the changing-criterion single-case research design, what is a good rule of thumb for determining how much the criterion should change at each phase?
a. in the new phase, the participant should be required to increase performance by 50% relative to the previous phase. b. the criterion change should be relatively large, to provide motivation. c. the criterion change should be relatively small, so as not to discourage the participant. d. the criterion change should be large enough to detect differences in behavior from the previous phase, but not so large as to be unattainable.
Which of the following was not established as a global economic institution shortly after World War II?
a. The General Agreement on Tariff sand Trade (GATT) b. The World Trade Organization (WTO) c. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) d. The World Bank
What kinds of programs has the federal government instituted to help the working poor?
How does that phrase "working poor" refute the stereotypes created by the concept of rugged individualism? How might the economic recession of 2008 have had a similar effect in destroying stereotypes? Answer: