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Nathan, Richard Perle was born on November 24, 1935 in Schenectady, New York, United States. Son of Sidney Robert and Betty (Green) Nathan.
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Focusing on what happens to national policies after they are made, the authors discover that there are surprises in the implementation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility Act and its connections to other social agencies and programs. Bureaucracies typically don’t change this much and this fast. Why did it happen this time around? The book highlights three S’s to encapsulate the changes that are occurring: Signals, Services, Sanctions. Emphasis is placed on second-order devolution, the crucial role of front-line workers, the relationship between employment services and cash payment systems, varieties in goal clusters among the states and locally, the new role of diversion before welfare recipiency, and the condition and importance of welfare information systems. Field researchers in twenty states are conducting this ongoing study in conjunction with Rockefeller Institute central staff.
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By definition, a plot is "a secret project or scheme, often harmful. "THE PLOT THAT FAILED" refers to President Richard M. Nixon's attempt in 1972 and 1973 to achieve his major aims in domestic policy by controlling the management of domestic government. This strategy-referred to in this book as the "Administrative Presidency"--raises basic and intriguing questions for the American government. Under the plan, a cadre of newly appointed Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officials was to take over entrenched bureaucracies-and thus seek to attain Nixon's goals through administrative action. Watergate, however, was the downfall of the "Administrative Presidency." "THE PLOT THAT FAILED" is an account of an abortive attempt to control the machinery of domestic government. Richard P. Nathan, an official in the first term of the Nixon Administration, presents an interesting and balanced treatment of Nixon's domestic program. He underscores the fact that people across the political spectrum supported many of the aims of the "New Federalism." Was there merit in Nixon's concept of adopting an administrative strategy for putting these objective into effect? Would his strategy have worked if there had been no Watergate? What are its implications? These are some of the questions examined in this book.
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Using five American states as case studies, this volume examines the roles of job training, job placement, education and child care services as a route to transforming welfare payment programmes into systems that stress jobs and services for welfare families.
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This book presents a lively retrospective account of a career as an inner and outer in American government and academe by a social scientist who has spent many years conducting evaluation studies of what works - and what doesn't work - in domestic public affairs. The book uses rich histories of prominent policy issues and descriptions of major studies of welfare and job programs to bring to life crucial questions about how social science can best serve social policy. This is a new, substantially updated, and expanded version of a book published by Basic Books a decade ago. Richard P. Nathan writes about the real politics of social science research in a style intended to appeal to practitioners and students of American government. Reviewing the earlier version of this book, James Q. Wilson said Nathan "summarizes in plain English what he has learned about how to evaluate public policy. It is an important book for a political system that may have wearied of adopting programs simply because they make us feel good or serve ideological ends." Robert Reischauer commented, "Nathan's book is essential reading for policymakers who must look for ways to identify efficient government programs." Richard P. Nathan is director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.
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Nathan, Richard Perle was born on November 24, 1935 in Schenectady, New York, United States. Son of Sidney Robert and Betty (Green) Nathan.
AB, Brown University, 1957. Master in Public Administration, Harvard University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966.
Legislation assistant, United States Senator Kenneth B. Keating, Washington, 1959-1962;
director domestic policy research, Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1963-1964;
research associate, The Brookings Institution, Washington, 1966-1969;
senior fellow, project director monitoring studies general revenue sharing, community development block grant public service employment programs, The Brookings Institution, Washington, 1972-1979;
associated staff, The Brookings Institute, Washington, 1980-1985;
assistant director, United States Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 1969-1971;
deputy undersecretary, United States Department Health, Edition and Welfare, Washington, 1971-1972;
professor public and international affairs Woodrow Wilson School Public and International Affairs, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1979-1989;
also director Princeton Urban and Regional Research Center, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1979-1989;
Distinguished professor political science public policy, State University of New York, Albany, since 1989;
provost, Rockefeller College Public Affairs and Policy, Albany, 1989-1998. Board directors Rockefeller Institute Government. Associate director National Advisory Commision on Civil Disorders, 1967-1968.
Visiting professor government and foreign affairs University of Virginia, 1972-1977. Chairman Nixon Administration Transition Task Forces on Poverty and Intergovtl. Fiscal Rels., 1968, Domestic Council Committee on Welfare Reform Planning, 1969-1970.
Member Commision on Organisation Government of District of Columbia, 1970-1972. Board overseers New School for Social Research, 1982-1988. Member working seminar on family and welfare Marquette U., 1986-1987.
Member selection committee Rockefeller Public Svc. Awards Program, 1976-1978. Member income maintenance task force National Urban Coalition, 1975-1978.
Treasurer Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, 1974-1981, chairman, 1981-1998. Member county scholars United States Library. ofCongress, since 1989. Member of New York State Temporary Commission Constitutional Revision, 1993-1994.
Member United States Advisory Commision on Intergovtl. Rels., since 1998; board directors Fleet National, Bank. Visiting fellow General Accounting Office, 1998.
Consultant United States General Accounting Office, since 1998.
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Member American Society for Public Administration (Intergovtl. Management award 1985), National Academy Social Institute, National Academy Public Administration (James E. Webb award 1986), American Public Human Services Association (board directors 2000-2002), American Political Science Association (Charles E. Merriam award 1987), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management(president-elect 2000— president 2003-2004), Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Delta Chi.
Married Mary McNamara, June 5, 1957. Children: Robert Joseph, Carol Hewit.