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Radin, Beryl Avis was born on November 15, 1936 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States. Daughter of Norman and Sophie (Edelman) Radin.
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Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values (Public Management and Change)
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"Accountability" is a watchword of our era. Dissatisfaction with a range of public and private institutions is widespread and often expressed in strong critical rhetoric. The reasons for these views are varied and difficult to translate into concrete action, but this hasn't deterred governments and nongovernmental organizations from putting into place formal processes for determining whether their own and others' goals have been achieved and problems with performance have been avoided. In this thought-provoking book, government and public administration scholar Beryl Radin takes on many of the assumptions of the performance movement, arguing that evaluation relies too often on simplistic, one-size-fits-all solutions that are not always effective for dynamic organizations. Drawing on a wide range of ideas, including theories of intelligence and modes of thought, assumptions about numbers and information, and the nature of professionalism, Radin sheds light on the hidden complexities of creating standards to evaluate performance. She illustrates these problems by discussing a range of program areas, including health efforts as well as the education program, "No Child Left Behind." Throughout, the author devotes particular attention to concerns about government standards, from accounting for issues of equity to allowing for complicated intergovernmental relationships and fragmentation of powers. She explores in detail how recent performance measurement efforts in the U.S. government have fared, and analyzes efforts by nongovernmental organizations both inside and outside of the United States to impose standards of integrity and equity on their governments. The examination concludes with alternative assumptions and lessons for those embarking on performance measurement activities.
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New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships
(Throughout the 1990s public demand for a fundamental shif...)
Throughout the 1990s public demand for a fundamental shift in the relationship between government and its citizens has intensified. In response, a "new governance" model has emerged, emphasizing decreased federal control in favor of intergovernmental collaboration and increased involvement of state, local, and private agencies. As the authors of this volume show, one of the best examples of "new governance" can be found in the National and State Rural Development Councils (NRDC and SRDC), created in 1990 as the result of President Bush's Rural Development Initiative and now called the Rural Development Partnership. This effort was part of a move within policymaking circles to redefine a rural America that was no longer synonymous with family farming and that required innovative new solutions for economic revival. By 1994 twenty-nine states had created and ten other states were in the process of forming such councils. In this first detailed analysis of the NRDC and SRDCs, the authors examine the successes and failures of the original eight councils in Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington; as well as eight other councils subsequently created in Iowa, New Mexico, North Carolina, Vermont, New York, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Combining empirical analysis with current theories about networks and inter-organizational relations, this volume should appeal to academics and practitioners interested in rural development policy, public administration, public policy and management, and intergovernmental relations.
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(Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values ) Author: Beryl A. Radin Jun-2006
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Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age (Paperback) - Common
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Policy analysis is a relatively young field, created in the 1960s as a way to introduce data and rationality into the decision-making process. This title compares policy analysis in the 1960s with its practice in the 1990s, analyzing the transformations the profession has undergone since its birth and offering a conception of its practice today.
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Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age
(Policy analysis is a relatively young field, created in t...)
Policy analysis is a relatively young field, created in the 1960s as a way to introduce data and rationality into the decision-making process. In Beyond Machiavelli, Beryl A. Radin compares policy analysis in the 1960s with its practice in the 1990s, analyzing the transformations the profession has undergone since its birth and offering a provocative conception of its practice today. All new professions go through a maturation process, but Radin points out that policy analysis is more susceptible to change because it is directly affected by shifting political values. The United States of the 1960s was characterized by a strong belief in progress, a trust in the public sector, and a reliance on experts. By the 1990s, Americans were less confident about the future, not as trustful of the government, and less willing to defer to so-called experts. Even so, the number and range of policy analysis jobs has grown markedly. Radin explores the significant changes that have taken place in the field, including attitudes toward politics, skills and methodologies required, views about information and data, and shifts in modes of decision making. She includes profiles of six very diverse policy analysis organizations to illustrate these changes. While some argue that the 1960s were the golden day of the profession when decision makers listened to experts, Radin argues that the earlier version of the field held to traditions of elitism and secrecy and that policy analysis in the 1990s, pluralistic and open, is a more democratic American profession.
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(New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships ) Author: Beryl A. Radin Apr-1996
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Beryl Avis Radin
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Education
Bachelor, Antioch College, 1958; Master of Arts, University of Minnesota, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1973.
Career
Assistant professor Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public affairs University Texas, Austin, 1973—1977. Professor public administration Washington Public Affairs Center, University Southern California, 1978—1994, director, 1982—1985. Professor public administration and policy State University of New York, Albany, 1994—2001.
Professor government public administration University Baltimore, 2002—2005. Scholar-in-residence American University, since 2005. Visiting professor Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1985, University Hong Kong, 2009.
Visiting fellow public policy program The Australian National University, Canberra, 1985, 86, 88, 93. Visiting professor Graduate School Public Policy, University California, Berkeley, 1987, visitor Hong Kong University, 2009. Fulbright lecturer to India, Indian Institute Public Administration, New Delhi, 1990.
Speaker, presenter, consultant in field.
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Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age (Paperback) - Common
(Policy analysis is a relatively young field, created in t...)
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Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age
(Policy analysis is a relatively young field, created in t...)
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New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships
(Throughout the 1990s public demand for a fundamental shif...)
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Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values (Public Management and Change)
("Accountability" is a watchword of our era. Dissatisfacti...)
- Politics of Federal Reorganization: Creating the U.S. Department of Education (Pergamon Government and Politics Series)
- New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships by Beryl A. Radin (1996-04-01)
- By Radin B The Accountable Juggler: The Art of Leadership in a Federal Agency (part of the Public Affairs and P
- (Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values ) Author: Beryl A. Radin Jun-2006
- Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age by Radin, Beryl (2000) Paperback
- (New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships ) Author: Beryl A. Radin Apr-1996
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Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age (Paperback) - Common
Membership
Assistant information officer United States Commission on Civil Right, 1963-1965. Policy analyst Supplemental Security Income Study Group, Social Security Administration, 1975. Senior policy analyst Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 1977-1978, President's Reorganization Project, Office of Management and Budget, 1978, advisor, Office Assistant Secretary Management and Budget, Department of Health and Human Services, 1996-2000.
Assistant education director Philadelphia Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1960-1962. Consultant National Urban League, Ford Foundation, The Urban Institute, National Urban Coalition, Civil Rights Department, Survey of Race Relations in Britain, The World Bank. Board directors Human Services Research Institute.
Fellow National Association Schools Public Affairs and Administration (member standards committee, 1982-1985), National Academy Public Administration. Member American Society for Public Administration (program committee 1993, board directors National Capital Area chapter 1983-1985, Donald Stone award), Association Public Policy Analysis and Management (program committee 1991, vice chair program committee 1992, president 1995-1997), American Political Science Association (chair public administration program committee 1992, chair Gaus lecture committee 1994), Public Management Research Association (board directors).
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American