This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social settings that influence actions; while portraying the infra-structure of social change -- the knowledge, personnel, and organizations -- that enable such work to be successfully accomplished. The text brings together the practicalities of organizing and development -- fund raising, working out news releases, running an organization, orchestrating political actions, academic knowledge -- and explains why various approaches work; as well as the values and ideologies that guide what is to be done. It provides the foundations of organizing and development work and then describes how activists -- through following either a social confrontation model or an economic and social production approach -- can respond to economic and social problems.

Community Organizing and Development

Politics & Social Sciences

Rubin, Irene

Rubin, Herbert

Social Sciences

Pearson/Allyn and Bacon

Book by Rubin, Herbert J., Rubin, Irene

Rubin, Herb

Merrill College

The Politics of Retrenchment: How Local Governments Manage Fiscal Stress (SAGE Library of Social Research)

′Levine, Rubin, and Wolohojian′s study is an important addition to the urban politics and administration literature...The book fulfills its purpose; it is valuable for both urban administrators and students of urban administration.′ -- Perspective, March 1983  ′...provides valuable insights for urban theorists with a sociological interest in the political economy of retrenchment.′ -- Contemporary Sociology, Vol 12 No 6, November 1983

Business & Money

Levine, Charles H.

Wolohojian, George G.

Economics

Sage Publications, Inc.

Book contains some highlighting. paperback

Budgeting: A Guide for Local Government

Bland, Robert L.

International City/County Management Association

Finance

Intl City County Management Assn

Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Financial Stress

This case study of a politically reformed, middle-sized Midwestern city provides a model of fiscal stress that contrasts sharply with that of America's vast metropolitan centers. Dr. Rubin examines the interaction of social, political, and economic causes of the city's predicament. She then goes on to analyze the specific factors that solved the city's problems over a six-year period. Finally, she offers a self-correcting mechanism that would allow a city to save itself from financial trouble without direct state or federal assistance. This study suggests that local political factors were even more important than national factors in contributing to the city's fiscal stress. It also brings into question the theory that generosity to the poor creates urban fiscal stress and that giving less to the poor will solve urban financial problems.

Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress (Suny Series on Urban Public Policy)

Politics & Government

State Univ of New York Pr

This case study of a politically reformed, middle-sized Midwestern city provides a model of fiscal stress that contrasts sharply with that of America’s vast metropolitan centers. Dr. Rubin examines the interaction of social, political, and economic causes of the city’s predicament. She then goes on to analyze the specific factors that solved the city’s problems over a six-year period. Finally, she offers a self-correcting mechanism that would allow a city to save itself from financial trouble without direct state or federal assistance. This study suggests that local political factors were even more important than national factors in contributing to the city’s fiscal stress. It also brings into question the theory that generosity to the poor creates urban fiscal stress and that giving less to the poor will solve urban financial problems.

The politics of public budgeting: Getting and spending, borrowing and balancing (Chatham House series on change in American politics)

Chatham House

Fighting Falsehoods: Suspicion, Analysis, and Response

This book offers the reader tools to recognize, analyze, and fight back against the fake news, misinformation, and disinformation that come at us from every corner. This volume: <ul> <li>Uses real, lively examples to help readers detect fake news, false claims, suspicious information/data, biased reporting, and hate speech;</li> <li>Demonstrates through case studies where to look for information, what to look for, how to analyze the logic/illogic involved, and uncover the truth value of a story;</li> <li>Discusses fact-checking sites, what they examine, and their reliability;</li> <li>Provides examples and analyzes the components, purposes, and consequences of conspiracy theories;</li> <li>Illustrates the tricks of using numbers/data to mislead readers;</li> <li>Explains what to look for to help decide whether to believe the conclusions of stories based on surveys;</li> <li>Offers a range of concrete, effective responses to dangerous, exaggerated, distorted, and false narratives;</li> <li>Examines policy responses to fake news, disinformation, and misinformation across the world. </li></ul> A key manual to negotiate the information age, this book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals of journalism and mass communication, public policy, politics, and the social sciences. It will also be an indispensable handbook for the lay reader.

Fighting Falsehoods

Routledge India

This book offers the reader tools to recognize, analyze, and fight back against the fake news, misinformation, and disinformation that come at us from every corner. 
This volume: Uses real, lively examples to help readers detect fake news, false claims, suspicious information/data, biased reporting, and hate speech; Demonstrates through case studies where to look for information, what to look for, how to analyze the logic/illogic involved, and uncover the truth value of a story; Discusses fact-checking sites, what they examine, and their reliability; Provides examples and analyzes the components, purposes, and consequences of conspiracy theories; Illustrates the tricks of using numbers/data to mislead readers; Explains what to look for to help decide whether to believe the conclusions of stories based on surveys; Offers a range of concrete, effective responses to dangerous, exaggerated, distorted, and false narratives; Examines policy responses to fake news, disinformation, and misinformation across the world. 
A key manual to negotiate the information age, this book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals of journalism and mass communication, public policy, politics, and the social sciences. It will also be an indispensable handbook for the lay reader.

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Community Organizing and Development

Community Organizing and Development

The Politics of Retrenchment: How Local Governments Manage Fiscal Stress (SAGE Library of Social Research)

The Politics of Retrenchment: How Local Governments Manage Fiscal Stress (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Budgeting: A Guide for Local Government

Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress (Suny Series on Urban Public Policy)

Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Financial Stress

The politics of public budgeting: Getting and spending, borrowing and balancing (Chatham House series on change in American politics)

Fighting Falsehoods

Fighting Falsehoods: Suspicion, Analysis, and Response