A Retro-Review of Edward C. Banfield’s Government Project: An Account of Big Government in Action, September 2009, by Kevin R. Kosar, August 28,2009 Public Administration Review has just published my retro-review of this terrific book: A Nearly Forgotten Classic in Public Administration: Edward C. Banfield’s Government Project, Public Administration Review, September/October, 2009. As the...
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Jerry Mitchell, Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities (Albany: State University Press, 2008). Jonathan B. Justice wrote well of this book. His review provides a summary of the book’s contents. Justice mentions that the book provides an “encyclopedic review of the literature” on business improvement districts (BIDs; p. 554). One especially...
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A charter is a document of incorporation. In the U.S.A., corporations typically are chartered through states. The Red Cross’s national organization was chartered via federal statute on January 5, 1905. Congress modified the charter most recently amended the charter in 2007. See P.L. 110-26, which became law May 11, 2007. The most up-to-date version...
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