Organizing locally : how the new decentralists improve education, health care, and trade / Bruce Fuller ; with Mary Berg, Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, and Lynette Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Bruce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decentralization in government--United States.

Decentralization in government.

United States.

Community organization--United States.

Community organization.

Health services administration.

Community banks.

Charter schools.

Physical Description:

xxii, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Summary:

We love the local. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. But the fact is that huge, bureaucratic organizations often still shape the character of our jobs, schools, the groceries where we shop, and even the hospitals we entrust with our lives. So how, exactly, can we work small, when everything around us is so big? In Organizing Locally, Bruce Fuller shows us, taking stock of America's rekindled commitment to localism across an illuminating range of sectors-including education, health care and business-and unearthing the crucial values and practices of decentralized firms that work. Book jacket.

Contents:

The drive to decentralize : after markets and hierarchies disappoint

How decentralized organizations work / with Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon

Organizing health care from the ground up / with Mary Berg

International banking goes local : Swedish organizing in New York

The four R's : a school where relationships come first / with Lynette Parker

The limits of localism : lifting vets in Iowa

Learning from the new decentralists : cornerstones of local organizing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226246406

022624640X

9780226246543

022624654X

OCLC:

886881063

Publisher Number:

40024769116