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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As an advocate, my experience with trying to do "new things" in government, is that you only get one chance to do it right. There are many such examples in government. That there isn't enough social, organizational, community, and financial capital to take up the issue again--to expand it, improve it, etc. She didn't last long.

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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Are some governance models more effective than others for different stages of the network life-cycle? Over time do networks become political actors in their own right that can forge a measure of autonomy (Carpenter, 2001)? If there is a new governance mechanism, would that be the same network or a new one? References.

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