Down from bureaucracy [[electronic resource] ] : the ambiguity of privatization and empowerment / / Joel F. Handler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455492603321
• Autore: Handler Joel F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1996
• ISBN: 1-282-75302-9; 9786612753022; 1-4008-2198-3; 1-4008-1197-X
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Collana: The William G. Bowen Series ; ; 24
• Disciplina: 350/.000973
• Soggetti: Decentralization in government - United States; Community power - United States; Power (Social sciences) - United States; Privatization - United States; Decentralization in government; Welfare state; Schools - Decentralization - Illinois - Chicago; Electronic books.; United States Politics and government 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- PART I: The Organization of the Welfare State: Public and Private -- Chapter 2. The Context of Decentralization -- Chapter 3. The Uses of Decentralization -- Chapter 4. Privatization -- PART II: The View from Below: Empowerment by Invitation, Empowerment through Conflict -- Chapter 5. Power and Empowerment -- Chapter 6. Empowerment by Invitation -- Chapter 7. Empowerment through Conflict: School Reform -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new ; rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization. Here Joel Handler asks whether this restructuring of authority really allows ordinary citizens to take more control of the things that matter in their roles as parents and children, teachers and students, tenants and owners, producers and consumers. Looking at citizens as stakeholders in the modern social welfare state created by the New Deal, he traces the surprising ideological shifts of empowerment from its beginning as a cornerstone of the war on poverty in the 1960's to its central place in conservative market-based voucher schemes for school reform in the 1990's.Handler shows that in the past the gains from decentralization have proved to be more symbol than substance: some disadvantaged members of society will find new opportunities in the changes of the 1990's, but others will simply experience powerlessness under another name. He carefully distinguishes "empowerment by invitation" (in special education, worker safety, home health care, public housing tenancy, and neighborhood organizations) from the "empowerment by conflict" exemplified by the radical decentralization of the Chicago public schools. What emerges is a map of the major pitfalls and possible successes in the current journey away from a discredited regulatory state.

Christian practice described by way of essay upon the life of our Saviour [[electronic resource] /] : by Stephen Skynner .

• Record Nr.: UNISA996383638903316
• Autore: Skynner Stephen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed for Daniel Brown ..., 1693
• Descrizione fisica: [16], 144 p
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Imprimatur, Novemb. 17, 1692 C. Alston"; Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.; Marginal notes.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0014

The Fifth Crusade in context : the crusading movement in the early thirteenth century / / edited by E.J. Mylod. [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910136131003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-315-57405-5; 1-317-16018-5; 1-317-16017-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Crusades - Subsidia
• Altri autori (Persone): MylodE. J; PerryGuy J. M <1982-> (Guy Jacob Macdonald); SmithThomas W. <1962->; VandeburieJan
• Disciplina: 962/.02
• Soggetti: Crusades - Fifth, 1218-1221
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Papal and imperial influence -- pt. II. Preaching and propaganda -- pt. III. Egypt and the Holy Land -- pt. IV. Textual traditions -- pt. V. The Fifth Crusade in Europe.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Fifth Crusade represented a cardinal event in early thirteenth-century history, occurring during what was probably the most intensive period of crusading in both Europe and the Holy Land. Following the controversial outcome of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, Pope Innocent III's reform agenda was set to give momentum to a new crusading effort. Despite the untimely death of Innocent III in 1216, the elaborate organisation and firm crusading framework made it possible for Pope Honorius III to launch and oversee the expedition. The Fifth Crusade marked the last time that a medieval pope would succeed in mounting a full-scale, genuinely international crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land, yet, despite its significance, it has largely been neglected in the historiography. The crusade was much more than just a military campaign, and the present book locates it in the contemporary context for the first time. "The Fifth Crusade in Context" is of crucial ; importance not only to better understand the organisation and execution of the expedition itself, but also to appreciate its place in the longer history of crusading, as well as the significance of its impact on the medieval world.