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• Testing for bias in the impact of AmeriCorps service on volunteer participants: Evidence of success in achieving a neutrality program objective AI翻译
  作者：Simon, CA
  作者单位：Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Reno
  摘要：During its nine years of existence, AmeriCorps has had a tremendous impact on its volunteers and the communities it serves. Despite concerns expressed by the Republican congressional leadership, the Corporation for National and Community Service-the federally funded administrative organization that directs AmeriCorps programs at the national level-has made clear its intention to operate in a nonpartisan, politically neutral manner A study of AmeriCorps programs in four western states finds the...
• Keeping public officials accountable through dialogue: Resolving the accountability paradox AI翻译
  作者：Roberts, NC
  作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School; United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School
  摘要：How can public officials be held accountable, and yet avoid the paradoxes and pathologies of the current mechanisms of accountability? The answer, claims Harmon (1995), is dialogue. But what exactly is dialogue, and how is it created? More importantly, how can dialogue ensure accountability? To address these questions, I begin with a brief description of dialogue and its basic features, distinguishing it from other forms of communication. An example illustrates how dialogue occurs in actual pr...