Municipal coping strategies : "as soon as the dust settles"
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Municipal coping strategies : "as soon as the dust settles"
（Managing information, v. 7）
Sage Publications, c1986
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Bibliography: p. 291-294
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Description
This volume is an outcome of the Oakland Project which revealed the conditions of uncertainty under which local public decision-makers act. Starling argues that decision-making processes have not adapted to the needs of increasingly complex social, economic and political problems. Furthermore, he argues that public officials serve society better, when dealing with confusing problems, by avoiding decisions and otherwise protecting themselves than if they tried to fulfil their perceptions of ideal behaviour.
Table of Contents
Research Setting
The Kaleidoscopic City
Citizens Talk About Oakland
Through the Looking Glass
The Associated Students Union
On the Other Side of the Looking Glass
The City Council
The Art of Control
Budgeting in the Oakland Police Department
Ambitious Dreamers
The Oakland City Planning Department
Disoriented
Administration Reorganization in the Parks and Recreation Departments
A House of Cards
EDP in City Hall
From Coping Tactics to Adaptive Strategies
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