Public Finance or Better but Not Well

Public Finance

Author: Harvey S Rosen

Public Finance--while continuing to follow an innovative approach that is both theoretical and empirical--is now completely updated to reflect major changes in its key topics. New or revised information includes explanations of the Social Security trust fund, a new section on the alternative minimum tax (AMT), possible links between the corporation tax and high-profile scandals such as Enron, and more.

Harvey S. Rosen is a professor of economics and business policy at Princeton University. He was appointed by President Bush to serve on the Council of Economic Advisors.

Booknews

This text on public finance for undergraduates and for public administration graduate programs describes the institutional and legal settings of finance and emphasizes the links between economic analysis and current political issues. Chapters provide an overview of government's role in the economy, and explore tools for positive and normative analysis, tax analysis, and the US revenue system. The appendix discusses basic microeconomics. This fourth edition includes new chapters on health care issues and revised material on taxation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

See also: Pedras angulares de Contabilidade Administrativa

Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950

Author: Richard G Frank

The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and the availability of new medications that are easier for the patient to tolerate. Although these changes have made things better for those who have mental illness, they are not quite enough.

In Better But Not Well, Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied examine the well-being of people with mental illness in the United States over the past fifty years, addressing issues such as economics, treatment, standards of living, rights, and stigma. Marshaling a range of new empirical evidence, they first argue that people with mental illness -- severe and persistent disorders as well as less serious mental health conditions -- are faring better today than in the past. Improvements have come about for unheralded and unexpected reasons. Rather than being a result of more effective mental health treatments, progress has come from the growth of private health insurance and of mainstream social programs -- such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, housing vouchers, and food stamps -- and the development of new treatments that are easier for patients to tolerate and for physicians to manage.

The authors remind us that, despite the progress that has been made, this disadvantaged group remains worse off than most others in society. The "mainstreaming" of persons with mental illness has left a policy void, where governmental institutions responsible for meeting the needs of mental health patients lack resources and programmatic authority. To fillthis void, Frank and Glied suggest that institutional resources be applied systematically and routinely to examine and address how federal and state programs affect the well-being of people with mental illness.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	The population with mental illness	8
3	The evolving technology of mental health care	26
4	Health care financing and income support	48
5	The supply of mental health services	70
6	Policy making in mental health : integration, mainstreaming, and shifting institutions	91
7	Assessing the well-being of people with mental illness	104
8	Looking forward : improving the well-being of people with mental illness	140

Women and Leadership or Profilers

Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change

Author: Barbara Kellerman

Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This groundbreaking volume offers readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership and offers the most informed and current thinking on

·        The perils of stereotypes

·        The importance of leadership style

·        Gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles

·        Lessons from women leaders

·        “Opt out” patterns and the need for flexible career paths

·        Global inequalities and initiatives

·        Strategies that get women to the top 

 

Women and Leadership is indispensable for understanding recent progress  toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.

 

 

Table of Contents:

Foreword   Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (Ret.)     xiii
Women and Leadership: The State of Play   Deborah L. Rhode   Barbara Kellerman     1
Gender Differences and Gender Stereotypes
Crossing the Bridge: Reflections on Women and Leadership   Nannerl O. Keohane     65
The Great Women Theory of Leadership? Perils of Positive Stereotypes and Precarious Pedestals   Todd L. Pittinsky   Laura M. Bacon   Brian Welle     93
Overcoming Resistance to Women Leaders: The Importance of Leadership Style   Linda L. Carli   Alice H. Eagly     127
Women, Leadership, and the Natural Order   Rosalind Chait Barnett     149
What Difference Will Women Judges Make? Looking Once More at the "Woman Question"   Anita F. Hill     175
Leadership in Context: Women in Politics
Opening the Door: Women Leaders and Constitution Building in Iran and Afghanistan   Pippa Norris     197
Will Gender Balance in Politics Come by Itself?   Drude Dahlerup     227
The Future of Women's Political Leadership: Gender and the Decision to Run for Elective Office   Richard L. Fox     251
It's Woman Time   Marie C. Wilson     271
She's the Candidate! A Woman for President   Ruth B. Mandel     283
Leadership Redefined: Authority, Authenticity, Power
Leadership, Authority, and Women: A Man's Challenge   Ronald A. Heifetz     311
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work: Lessons in Authentic Engagement from Women Leaders   Laura Morgan Roberts     329
Women and Power: New Perspectives on Old Challenges   Evangelina Holvino     361
Women in Corporate Leadership: Status and Prospects   Katherine Giscombe     383
Redefining the Problem, Recasting the Solutions
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Women's Nonlinear Career Paths   Silvia Ann Hewlett     407
Isn't She Delightful? Creating Relationships That Get Women to the Top (and Keep Them There)   Karen L. Proudford     431
Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership   Debra Meyerson   Robin Ely   Laura Wernick     453
Acknowledgments     475
Contributors     477
Index     489

Interesting textbook: Marchés financiers et monétaires :les Institutions Financières et les Instruments dans une Place du marché Globale

Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind

Author: John H Campbell

In Profilers, editors John H. Campbell and Don DeNevi offer a selection of accounts that clarifies criminal investigative analysis, offering thorough reviews of cases and in-depth explanations of methodologies. These articles - by top homicide profilers in the FBI and other law enforcement agencies - bring together for the first time an informative yet riveting mix of styles and approaches to criminal profiling.

Publishers Weekly

A bone-chilling conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer is just one highlight from this anthology of seasoned examinations of one of law enforcement's grimmest challenges. Campbell and DeNevi's second collaboration (after Into the Minds of Madmen) casts a wide net; although famous profilers like John Douglas contribute several of the 28 essays here, most are written by accomplished but little-known specialists. The result is a no-nonsense, technically oriented but readable look at how cops grapple with the worst felonies, including hostage taking, serial rape and murder, and child abduction/murder. The contributors take a measured tone toward the lethal predators they examine, as in Robert Ressler's discussion of his Dahmer interviews: "We must never forget that... there are many Jeffrey Dahmers walking among us." James Fitzgerald gives an account of using forensic linguistics to decode more than 200 of the Unabomber's writings, such as elusive marks like "indented writing," marks left by writing on another piece of paper over the examined one. FBI Special Agent Mary Ellen O'Toole offers a useful overview of the often misunderstood science of profiling ("Contrary to the current television and movie depictions..., a successful profiler is not psychic"). Other chapters offer updates on multidisciplinary approaches to cold cases and geographic profiling innovations. This is a rigorous and disturbing collection, accessible but compiled with law enforcement professionals in mind. Illus. (Nov.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Constitution of the United States or Classics of Public Administration

Constitution of the United States: A Primer for the People

Author: David P Curri

A masterly introduction to the United States Constitution, this slim book leads the reader through a concise overview of the document's individual articles and amendments. With clear and accessible language, Currie then examines each of the three branches of the federal government and explains the relation between the federal and state governments. He analyzes those constitutional provisions that are designed to protect citizens from governmental interference, such as the due process and equal protection clauses and the confusing first amendment provisions respecting the separation of church and state, and includes discussions of judicial review and freedom of speech and of the press.
A sympathetic yet critical guide, Currie's book enables students and laypersons to understand one of the cornerstones of the Western political tradition. The second edition, along with an updated chronology and bibliography, incorporates the Supreme Court decisions over the past decade that have affected constitutional interpretation.
"Superb . . . highly recommended for those seeking a reliable, understandable, and useful introduction to our constitution."—Appellate Practice Journal and Update

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction
	Congress	2
	The President	4
	The Courts	8
	The Bill of Rights	10
	Later Amendments	12
2	Judicial Review
	Origin and Justification	15
	Scope and Limitations	19
3	Federalism
	Federal Powers	26
	The Commerce Clause and State Authority	31
	Intergovernmental Immunities	33
4	The Separation of Powers
	The Rule of Law	36
	Military Powers	40
	Independent Agencies	42
5	Due Process of Law
	Procedural Requirements	47
	Substantive Due Process	50
	Alternative Theories	55
6	Equality	59
	Racial Discrimination and Segregation	59
	Affirmative Action and De Facto Discrimination	61
	Nonracial Classifications	64
	State Action	67
	The Right to Vote	70
7	Freedom of Speech and of the Press	74
	Content Regulation	76
	Time, Place, and Manner Regulations	80
8	Church and State	83
	The Free Exercise of Religion	83
	Establishment of Religion	86
9	Conclusion	91
	App. A: Chronology	95
App. B	The Constitution of the United States	102
	Notes	127
	Bibliography	148
	Index	151

Book review: Living with Hepatitis B or First Year Prostate Cancer

Classics of Public Administration

Author: Jay M Shafritz

CLASSICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION is a collection of articles carefully chosen for their readability and continuing contribution to the study of Public Administration. Written by the most significant scholars from the field, these classics focus on topics and issues that are recognized as important ongoing themes in the field of Public Administration.