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Measuring
Government Performance:
The
Role of Reporters, Academics, and Practitioners
April
25, 2000
Suggested Readings
The Widening Gap between Military and Society
U.S. military personnel of all ranks are feeling increasingly
alienated from their own country, and are becoming both more
conservative and more politically active than ever before. Do they
see America clearly?
By, Thomas E. Ricks, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1777.
Invisible Deaths
The Fatal Neglect of D.C.'s Retarded; System
Loses Lives and Trust; Since 1993, at least 116 people have died
in D.C.'s costly system of group homes for the mentally
retarded--many under troubling circumstances. In 34 of the deaths,
The Post found delayed treatment, neglect, false reports or other
flaws.
By, Katherine Boo, The Washington
Post, December, 1999.
What
Welfare-To-Work Really Means
By,
Jason DeParle, The New York Times
Magazine, December 1998.
For District
Voters, a Way to Keep Score
By,
Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post, April 21, 2000.
The
Pen and the Sword
It's
the Press vs. the Pentagon in a clash of two mighty—and
increasingly polarized—cultures.
By
James Kitfield, Government Executive
Magazine, April 2000.
The Price of Power—Military Exploits: Of Men and Money,
And How the Pentagon Often Wastes Both
On
the Roosevelt, It’s All Job, No Adventure, Scrubbing Floors with
Steel wool. 'Just A Professional
Janitor'
by:
Greg Jaffe and Thomas E. Ricks, The
Wall Street Journal, September
1999.
Depleted Capitals - Missing Story at the State House
State governments are doing more
than ever. So why are newspapers paying less attention?
By,
Charles Layton and Mary Walton, American
Journalism Review, July 1998.
Beaten
Washington
bureaus have largely abandoned agencies to embrace softer, topical
assignments.
By
John Herbers and James McCarthy, American
Journalism Review, April 1999.
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