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The Black Hole of Public Administration, by Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet, reviewed by Tom Brzustowski (25/08/2011)
Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11, by Andrew R. Murphy, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (25/08/2011)
The Invention of Hebrew, by Seth L. Sanders, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, (25/08/2011)
Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England, by Joanna Picciotto, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (25/08/2011)
Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine, by Karen Brown & Daniel Gilfoyle, eds., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (25/08/2011)
Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? by Henry A. Giroux, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (25/08/2011)
Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations, by Sigrun Skogly & Mark Gibney, eds., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (25/02/2011)
American Blacklist: The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations, by Robert Justin Goldstein, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (25/02/2011)
The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy, by Thomas M. Norton-Smith, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (25/02/2011)
The Death of the Liberal Class, by Chris Hedges, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (25/02/2011)
Employee Empowerment – the rhetoric and the reality, by Rosana Huq, reviewed by Joanne Murphy (25/02/2011)
Research and Innovation Policy: Changing Government-University Relations, edited by G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (12/28/2010)
Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life, by Hilary Austen, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (12/28/2010)
Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970, by Karl Boyd Brooks, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (12/28/2010)
Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control, by Raiford Guins, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (12/28/2010)
The Ethics Primer for Public Administrators in Government and Nonprofit Organizations, by James Svara, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (12/28/2010)
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, by Wilbert Rideau, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (12/28/2010)
Leading Public Sector Innovation: Co-creating for a Better Society, by Christian Bason, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (12/28/2010)
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , by Subhabrata Banerjee, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (08/30/2010)
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK , by Kate Nash, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (08/30/2010)
Discourse and Community: Multidisciplinary Studies in Canadian Culture , edited by Howard A. Doughty and Marino Tuzi, reviewed by Eleanor D. Glor, The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal. (08/30/2010)
Dimensions of Prejudice: Towards a Political Economy of Bigotry, by Zak Cope, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (08/30/2010)
Rethinking Leadership and "Whole of Government" National Security Reform: Problems, Progress and Prospects , by Joseph B. Cerami & Jeffrey A. Engel, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (08/30/2010)
Innovation, Evolution and Economic Change: New Ideas in the Tradition of Galbraith, by Blandine Laperche, James K. Galbraith, & Dimitri Uzunidas, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (08/30/2010)
Recent Advances in Neo-Schumpeterian Economics: Essays in Honour of Horst Hanusch , by Andreas Pyka, Uwe Cantner, Alfred Greiner and Thomas Kuhn, (eds.), reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (08/30/2010)
Europe, Globalization and the Lisbon Agenda , by Maria João Rodrigues, ed., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (08/30/2010)
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism, by John McMurtry, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (03/10/2010)
Governing the Environment: Salient Institutional Issues, by Albert Breton, Giorgio Brosio, Silvanna Dalmazzone, Giovanna Garrone, eds., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (03/10/2010)
Professionalism and Public Service: Essays in Honour of Ken Kernaghan, by David Siegel and Ken Rasmussen, eds., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (03/10/2010)
Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, by Jasmin Hristov, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (03/10/2010)
Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950, by Melissa Feinberg, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (03/10/2010)
The Price of Exclusion: Race, Nationalism and the Decline of German Liberalism 1898-1933, by Eric Kurlander, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (03/10/2010)
Innovation in Public Services: Entrepreneurship. Creativity and Management, by Paul Windrum and Per Koch, eds., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (03/10/2010)
The Future of Innovation, by Bettina von Stamm and Anna Trifilova, eds., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (03/10/2010)
Governing by Network: The new Shape of the Public Sector, by Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers, reviewed by Dumisani Mphalala, South Africa. (05/10/2009)
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, by Norman Doidge, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Canada (05/10/2009)
A Cognitive Theory of the Firm: Learning, Governance and Dynamic Capabilities, by Bart Nooteboom, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Canada (05/10/2009)
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace, by Mark Tovey, ed., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty , Canada (05/10/2009)
Gwen Ifill, Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Canada (25/02/2009)
Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid, editors, Transcending New Public Management: The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Canada (25/02/2009)
Andrew Carey, Inside Project Red Stripe: Incubating Innovation and Teamwork at The Economist, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Canada (25/02/2009)
Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe: Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization, reviewed by Ed Weick, Canada (25/02/2009)
Allan Blakeney, An Honourable Calling: Political Memoirs, reviewed by Eleanor Glor, Canada (25/02/2009)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, reviewed by James Iain Gow (2008/12/20)
School Reform in a Global Society by William E. Segall, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (2008/10/25)
Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire by Peter McLaren, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (2008/10/25)
Indigenous Education and Empowerment by Ismael Abu-Saad & Duane Champaign, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (2008/10/25)
Becoming Culturally Oriented: Practical Advice for Psychologists and Educatiors by Nadya A. Fouad and Patricia Arrendondo, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2008/10/25)
'Professing' Humanistic Sociology by Glenn A. Goodwin and Martin D. Schartz, ed., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2008/10/25)
Social Learning: Towards a Sustainable World by Arjen E. J. Wals, ed., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2008/10/25)
Service User and Carer Involvement: by Mo McPhail, Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Faculty of Applied Arts & Health Science, Seneca College, CANADA (2008/06/08)
Health and Social Care: Establishing a Joint Future? by Alison Petch, Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Faculty of Applied Arts & Health Science, Seneca College, CANADA (2008/05/08)
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A monograph to accompany Good to Great (why business thinking is not the answer) by J. Collins, Reviewed by Raymond A. Lemay, Services to Children and Adults, Plantagenet, CANADA (2008/05/08)
David A. Good, The Politics of Public Money: Spenders, Guardians, Priority Setters, and Financial Watchdogs Inside the Canadian Government, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Book Reviews Editor, The Innovation Journal, Canada (2007/12/17)
Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2007/10/30)
Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (2007/10/30)
Gareth Steadman Jones: An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (2007/10/30)
William Easterley, White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (2007/10/30)
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada. (2007/10/30)
Nikolaos Karagiannis and Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi: Modern State Intervention in the Era of Globalisation, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2007/10/30)
Michael Barzelay and Colin Campbell, Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, Canada (2007/04/30)
Gustavo Ghidini, Intellectual Property and Competition Law: The Innovation Nexus, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, Canada (2007/04/30)
Organizations Evolving, Second Edition, by Howard E. Aldrich and Martin Rueff, reviewed by Eleanor D. Glor (2006/10/15)
Synchronizing Science and Technology with Human Behaviour, by Ralf Brand, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2006/06/07)
Building New Bridges / Bâtir de Nouveau Ponts, by Jeff Keshen and Sylvie Perrier, editors, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2006/06/07)
Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law, by Martha C. Nussbaum, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2006/06/07)
Governing for Results: A Director’s Guide to Good Governance by Mel D. Gill, (2006/06/07)
Metropolitan Governance: Conflict, Competition and Cooperation by Richard C. Feiock, ed., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2005/12/23)
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse, by David Grant, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick and Linda Putnam, eds., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2005/12/23)
The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest, by Bruce Knauft, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2005/12/23)
Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, ed., Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems: Towards a Philosophy of Articulation, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2005/12/23)
The Psychology of Decision Making: People in Organizations by Lee Roy Beach and Terry Connolly, reviewed by Howard A, Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2005/10/06)
Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: by Barry Dym and Harry Hutson,, reviewed by Howard A. Doughty, Seneca College, Canada (2005/10/06)
Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics by William B Gartner, Kelley G Shaver, Nancy M Carter, Paul D Reynolds, editors., reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (2005/10/06)
Where is the Public Mistrust? Review of “E-Government, ” a report of The American Planning Association. May, 2004 by Tim Gugerty, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA (2005/04/16)
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i: by Daniel W. (Kana) Shephard, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA (2005/05/08)
Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis, by
Robert J. Lempert, Steven W. Popper and Steven C. Bankes
Reviewed by Louise Bergin (03/10/04)
The Government Taketh Away: The Politics of Pain in Canada and the United States
Edited by Leslie A. Pal and R. Kent Weaver
Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (28/03/04)
Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Divide, by C. Heckscher, M. Maccoby, R. Ramirez, and P.E. Tixier
Reviewed by Rosane Giovis
(15/02/04)
The Collaborative Work Systems Fieldbook: Strategies for Building Successful Teams, edited by M. M. Beyerlein, G. Klein, and L. Broedling
Reviewed by Amanda Hunt
(07/02/04)
The Politics of Public Management: The HRDC Audit of Grants and Contributions, by David A. Good, and Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Divide, by Charles Heckscher, Michael Maccoby, Rafael Ramirez and Pierre-Eric Tixier
Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty
(04/11/03)
Organic Management, Creating a Culture of
Innovation
by Charles Sirois
Reviewed by Eleanor D. Glor
(11/10/03)
The
Growth Warriors: Creating Sustainable Global Advantage for America's
Technology Industries
by Ron Mascitelli
Reviewed by Gregory G. Gaydos
(16/06/03)
Empire of Disorder
by Alain Joxe
Reviewed by Michael Whealen
(15/05/03)
Empire: The
Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for
Global Power
by Niall Ferguson
Reviewed by Howard Doughty
(15/05/03)
The Transformation of
Governance: Public administration for the twenty-first century
America
by Donald F. Kettl
Reviewed by Stu Conger
(05/05/03)
Governance in the
Twenty-first Century: revitalizing the public service
Edited by Guy Peters
and Donald J. Savoie
Reviewed by Stu Conger
(05/05/03)
Cities in
Civilization
by Peter Hall
Reviewed by Eleanor Glor
(10/03/03)
New
Players, Partners and Processes: A Public Sector without Boundaries?
Edited by Meredith Edwards and John Langford
Reviewed
by David C. Dibbon
(23/01/03)
Beyond work-family
balance: Advancing gender equity and workplace performance
by Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, Joyke K. Fletcher and Pettye H. Pruitt
Reviewed by Mark Hammer
(12/12/02)
Primal Leadership: Realizing the power of emotional
intelligence
by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
Reviewed by Mark Hammer
(12/12/02)
The New Public Organization
by Kenneth Kernaghan, Brian Marson, and
Sandford Borins
Reviewed by Wendy MacDonald
(05/11/02)
Creating the Innovation Culture: Leveraging Visionaries, Dissenters and
Other Useful Troublemakers in Your Organization
by Frances Horibe
Reviewed by Eleanor D. Glor
(23/08/02)
Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform: Into the Twenty-first
Century,
by Gary Teeple,
and
Reimagining Social Welfare: Beyond
the Keynesian Welfare State,
by James P. Mulvale
Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty
(30/04/02)
Exposing Privatization:
Women and Health Care Reform in Canada
by Pat Armstrong, Carol Amaratunga, Jocelyne Bernier, Karen
Grant, Ann Pederson and Kay Wilson
Reviewed by Howard Doughty
(25/04/02)
Governance in
the 21st Century, edited by Wolfgang Michalski, Riel
Miller & Barrie Stevens,
and
E-Gov, an E-Business Plan for Government,
by Douglas Holmes
Reviewed by William Sheridan
(01/04/02)
Performance-Based Instruction: Linking Training to Business Results
by Dale Brethower and Karolyn Smalley
Reviewed by Charles Bishop
(21/01/02)
Blowback: The Costs and
Consequences of American Empire
by Chalmers Johnson
Reviewed by Michael Whealen
(01/01/02)
Making Sense of
Management: A Critical Introduction
by Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott
Reviewed by Eleanor Glor
(08/06/01)
The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of
Mind and Matter
by Fritjof Capra
Reviewed by Eleanor Glor
(25/09/00)
Tools for Innovators:
Creative Strategies for Managing Public Sector Organizations by Steven Cohen and
William Eimicke
Reviewed by Eleanor Glor
(25/09/00)
The Spirit in the Gene Humanity’s Proud
Illusion and the Laws of Nature
by Reg Morrison
Reviewed by Steven B. Kurtz
(17/06/00)
A comment on Steven Kurtz' review of Morrison
(17/08/00)
Building a Bridge to the
Eighteenth Century
by Neil Postman
Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty
(17/06/00)
The
Community of the Future
Edited by Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard R.
Schubert
Reviewed by Dr. Gregory G. Gaydos
Innovating with Integrity: How local heroes
are transforming American government by Sandford Borins
Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty
Innovation in American
Government: Challenges and Dilemmas
Edited by Alan A. Altshuler and Robert D. Behn
Reviewed by Eleanor Glor
Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the
End of the Twentieth Century
by John Ralston Saul
Reviewed by Eleanor Glor
Encrypting Christianity
Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty
The Potlach Papers: A Colonial Case
History, by Christopher Bracken,
and
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the
Pacific, by Gananath Obeyesekere
Reviewed by Howard Doughty
The Limits of Medicine: How Science Shapes
Our Hope for the Cure
by Edward S. Golub.
Reviewed by Howard Doughty
Policing the Risk Society , by Richard V. Ericson and Kevin D. Haggerty,
and
Harm Reduction: A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs,
edited by Patricia G. Erikson, Diane A Riley, Yuet W. Cheung and Patrick A. O'Hare
Reviewed by Howard Doughty
Needs Assessment: A Creative and Practical Guide
for Social Scientists
Edited by Rebecca Reviere, Susan Berkowitz, Carolyn C. Carter, and Carolyn Graves Ferguson
Reviewed by Gerald Halpern
Audacious Democracy: Labor, Intellectuals and the
Social Reconstruction of America, by Steven Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman,
and
Democracy and Technology, by Richard E. Sclove
Reviewed by Howard Doughty
Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for
Reinventing Government
by David Osborne and Peter Plastrik
Reviewed by Kenneth Kernaghan
The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays,
Speeches, and Documents From the Bible to the Present.
Edited by Micheline R. Ishay
Reviewed by Howard Doughty
Entropy: A New World View, Algeny, and The End of
Work. The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
by Jeremy Rifkin, Ted Howard, and Nicanor Perlas
Reviewed by Howard Doughty
Policy Innovation in Saskachewan
by Eleanor Glor
Reviewed by Howard A. Doughty (En Français)