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Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the US healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms and underlying sets of organizing principles. This book [...]

This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in American politic[...]

The Quality Movement and Organization Theory is the first comprehensive study of quality management to be linked with the principles of organizational behaviour and analysis. The contributors are at the forefront of assessing new quality approaches, how they work, and the conditions under which they[...]