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In Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther: Rediscovering the Moral Economy, Ivan Light and Léo-Paul Dana study the history of business, capitalism, and entrepreneurship to examine the values of social and cultural capital. Six chapters evaluate case studies that illustrate contrasting relationships between social networks, vocational culture, and entrepreneurship. Light and Dana argue that, in capitalism's early stages, cultural capital is ...

This book studies the history of business, capitalism, and entrepreneurship to examine the values of social and cultural capital and trace the moral legitimations of capitalism from the reformation to today.

The Government-Industrial Complex analyzes the federal government's blended workforce of 9 million civil service, contract, and grant employees. Noted Government reform expert Paul Light explores the history of this blended workforce, explains its rise from Reagan to Trump, and outlines a process for promoting accountability across the government-industrial divide.

It has occurred to the writer that throughout the Bible, but especially in the Old Testament, there were many references to the word "Covenant." The urge to write a book which would thoroughly investigate every occurrence of that word (in the King James Version) just would not be dismissed from my mind. And so it lingered there until I finally decided that I would tackle the job. If I am not mistaken, the word "Covenant" appears 292 times in t...

First published in 1993, the authors of this book examine the recent literature on situated cognition in children. They explain contextual sensitivity in relation to ecological theories of cognition, and contrast intuitive reasoning in mathematical and other scientific domains with the failure of such reasoning in formal school contexts.

In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In...

This volume offers the first systematic evaluation of the offices of inspector general (OIG) and examines the government-wide investment in the OIGs concept. Despite their increasingly prominent, often controversial, role in the internal oversight of government, very little is known about their institutional or operational problems.

Paul C. Light's new book, "The New Public Service, " examines federal careers and finds that they cannot compete for challenging work against the private and nonprofit sector.

Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence provides data on the impact of recent reform efforts from professionals who have observed them firsthand. Based on interviews with leading thinkers from the worlds of philanthropy, scholarship, and consulting, as well as executive directors of some of the nation's most effective nonprofits, the book illuminates the characteristics of effective organizations.

Government is under enormous pressure to change. Call it reinventing, reengineering, or plain old change, but the mandate remains the same: produce more with less, and satisfy the customer while doing it. Yet, successful reform must involve more than exhortation and slogans. Paul Light argues that a failure to pay attention to the thickening of government over the past half century may doom any reinventing effort. The federal government has ne...

Learning with Computers brings together research that shows how working with others at the computer can be beneficial to learners of all ages, from early school years to the highest levels of education.

Examines and evaluates the 100 most significant investigations of policy failures, bureaucratic mistakes, and personal misconduct undertaken by the US federal government between 1945 and 2012. Launched by Congress or the president, sometimes by both at the same time, the investigations at the core of this book were driven by the search for answers about significant breakdowns in government performance.

In this book-the first that attempts to establish firm estimates of the shadow work force-Paul C. Light explores the reasons why the official size of the federal government has remained so small while the shadow of government has grown so large.

In this book-the first that attempts to establish firm estimates of the shadow work force-Paul C. Light explores the reasons why the official size of the federal government has remained so small while the shadow of government has grown so large.

Written for nonprofit and public organizations, this work shows how to innovate successfully. The book is divided into four parts: organizational environment, internal bureaucracy, leadership, and management systems. The author shows how each of these work in practice, and with one another.

This report charts the current trends of management reform in the nonprofit sector, and examines the four most popular methods being advocated.

The US Federal Government helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly and put men on the moon. This volume explores the federal government's most successful accomplishments from 1944 to 1999, and anticipates the most significant challenges of the following half century. While some successes have come through major legislation or large-scale e...

During the past fifty years, the Congresses and presidents of the United States have made many efforts to improve the performance of the federal government. In this book, a leading expert in public management examines the most important reform statutes passed and concludes that the problem is not too little reform but too much.Paul Light explains that Congress and the presidency have never decided whether they trust government and its employee...

In this third edition of The President's Agenda, Paul Light brings his acclaimed study up to date by weighing the successes and failures of the Bush and Clinton presidencies in setting a legislative agenda of domestic issues for Congress. The most noticeable development, according to Light, is the shrinking of the agenda and the absence of fresh new ideas. Explaining the emergence of "the derivative Presidency, " he attributes this increasingl...