Going Local

Download or read book Going Local written by Michael Shuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce and manufactured goods, and pushing banks to loan money to local citizens. Shuman details how dozens of communities are recapturing their own economies with these new strategies, investing not in outsiders but in locally owned businesses.

Download or read book Going Local written by Jeffrey E. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going public to gain support, especially through reliance on national addresses and the national news media, has been a central tactic for modern presidential public leadership. In Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age, Jeffrey E. Cohen argues that presidents have adapted their going-public activities to reflect the current realities of polarized parties and fragmented media. Going public now entails presidential targeting of their party base, interest groups, and localities. Cohen focuses on localities and offers a theory of presidential news management that is tested using several new data sets, including the first large-scale content analysis of local newspaper coverage of the president. The analysis finds that presidents can affect their local news coverage, which, in turn, affects public opinion toward the president. Although the post-broadcast age presents hurdles to presidential leadership, Going Local demonstrates the effectiveness of targeted presidential appeals and provides us with a refined understanding of the nature of presidential leadership.

Download or read book Going Local written by Merilee S. Grindle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduced decentralization to increase democracy and improve services, especially in small communities far from capital cities. In Going Local, an unprecedented study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities, Merilee Grindle describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources under decentralization policies. She explains why decentralization leads to better local governments in some cases--and why it fails to in others. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, Grindle examines data based on a random sample of Mexican municipalities--and ventures into town halls to follow public officials as they seek to manage a variety of tasks amid conflicting pressures and new expectations. Decentralization, she discovers, is a double-edged sword. While it allows public leaders to make significant reforms quickly, institutional weaknesses undermine the durability of change, and legacies of the past continue to affect how public problems are addressed. Citizens participate, but they are more successful at extracting resources from government than in holding local officials and agencies accountable for their actions. The benefits of decentralization regularly predicted by economists, political scientists, and management specialists are not inevitable, she argues. Rather, they are strongly influenced by the quality of local leadership and politics.

Download or read book Going Local written by John Pierson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Going Local' explains how social workers can develop approaches to neighbourhood work, engage with users and their locality, and contribute to strengthening local communities and how these principles work out in practice in specific services.

Download or read book Talk Pidgin; Speak English: Go Local; Go American written by Wayne Kiyosaki and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply traditional in their thinking but inherently pragmatic by nature, Japanese immigrants in Hawaii were driven by conviction to unite under the mantra, "For the Sake of the Children!" to commit to raising their island-born children as full-fledged Americans irrevocably committed to America's highest ideals.

Download or read book Breaking Through the Noise written by Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how presidential leadership of the public most typically occurs through leadership of the news media.

Download or read book GO AFTER YOUR DREAMS written by Dr. Margaret Curlew and published by Margaret Curlew. This book was released on 2019-07-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you have big dreams growing up? How many of those dreams have you worked on? How many have you accomplished? 1, 2, 5 or none? And why is that? In this inspirational book, you will learn: · To own your brilliance · Embrace your failures as they are stepping stones to your success · Empower yourself · Explore the world · Go after your dreams and don’t give up · Seek and surround yourself with positive energy