Charles Brecher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Brecher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Brecher |
| SIGNATURE | BRECHER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding the Political Context of "New" Policy Issues
This article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework to identify the stakeholders and their coalitions in the arena of after-school policy, which drew much new attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies in five cities, we show how the framework can be extended beyond stakeholder analysis to include identification of core and secondary value conflicts and of opportunities for policy analysis to h…
Finding the Impact in a Messy Intervention
This article uses the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Urban Health Initiative (UHI), a 10-year effort to improve health and safety outcomes in distressed cities, to demonstrate the strength of an evaluation design that integrates theory of change and quasi-experimental approaches, including the use of comparison cities. This paper focuses on the later stages of implementation and, especially, our methods for estimating p…
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Collaborations between nonprofit and public sector organizations have become an increasingly important phenomenon in state and local public service delivery since the publication of the Winter Commission report in 1993. This article focuses on one of the less studied types of public–nonprofit collaborations, those in which philanthropic support from nonprofit organizations supplements the resources and activities of public agencies. Drawing on th…
Following the Money
This article describes the nature and utility of fiscal analysis in evaluating complex community interventions. Using New York University’s evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Urban Health Initiative as an example, the authors describe issues arising in defining and operationalizing constructs for fiscal analysis. The approach’s utility is demonstrated in the use of interim findings to help redefine the program’s goals for resource…
Setting an Agenda for Local Action
Many social programs, funded by government or philanthropy, begin with efforts to improve local conditions with strategic planning. Mandated by funders, these processes aim to include the views of community residents and those with technical expertise. Program leaders are left to reconcile public and expert opinions in determining how to shape their programs. The experience of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative suggests …
Power Failure
Power failure
New York City's municipal government is the largest and most complex in the nation, perhaps in the world. Its annual operating budget is now a staggering $29 billion a year, plus it has a capital budget of $4 billion more. The city and its various agencies employ approximately 360,000 full-time workers. The Office of the Mayor alone employs some 1,600 people (and spends some $135 million). And the Police Department boasts a small army of over 25,…
America's Ailing Cities
Financement privé et réglementation
Private Financing and the regulation of health care : the United States experience. The United States health care System is distinguished by a relatively large share of expenditures made in the private sector. However, despite some popular beliefs, this large role for private financing has not been associated with freedom from regulation. Private purchasers of care, including businesses and unions, are increasingly concerned with controlling cost…
Urban
Local Simulations of Alternative Policies for Financing Services to the Elderly
Because of demographic, economic, and social pressures, it is likely that public programs benefitting the elderly population will be subject to much public debate and calls for the reform in the next few years. This paper presents an analysis of two prototypical reforms that are based on alternative views of government's role in caring for the elderly. One view focuses on means-testing as a method for restricting the role of government to caring …
Retrenchment and Recovery
Retrenchment has been a common theme in municipal government for the better part of a decade. Contraction raised serious challenges for elected officials, professional administrators, and students of city government who were accustomed to nearly continuous growth in the local public sector. It was not clear what role, if any, municipal policy could play in reversing the local economic decline that often underlay public sector retrenchment. Nor wa…
Setting Municipal Priorities, 1983
Setting Municipal Priorities 1981
Setting Municipal Priorities 1981
Who Shot N. Y
Controlling Social Expenditures
The Urban Labor Market
Understanding the Political Context of "New" Policy Issues
This article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework to identify the stakeholders and their coalitions in the arena of after-school policy, which drew much new attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies in five cities, we show how the framework can be extended beyond stakeholder analysis to include identification of core and secondary value conflicts and of opportunities for policy analysis to h…
Setting an Agenda for Local Action
Many social programs, funded by government or philanthropy, begin with efforts to improve local conditions with strategic planning. Mandated by funders, these processes aim to include the views of community residents and those with technical expertise. Program leaders are left to reconcile public and expert opinions in determining how to shape their programs. The experience of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative suggests …
Finding the Impact in a Messy Intervention
This article uses the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Urban Health Initiative (UHI), a 10-year effort to improve health and safety outcomes in distressed cities, to demonstrate the strength of an evaluation design that integrates theory of change and quasi-experimental approaches, including the use of comparison cities. This paper focuses on the later stages of implementation and, especially, our methods for estimating p…
America's Ailing Cities
The Urban Labor Market
Controlling Social Expenditures
Setting Municipal Priorities 1981
Setting Municipal Priorities 1981
Who Shot N. Y
Setting Municipal Priorities, 1983
Retrenchment and Recovery
Retrenchment has been a common theme in municipal government for the better part of a decade. Contraction raised serious challenges for elected officials, professional administrators, and students of city government who were accustomed to nearly continuous growth in the local public sector. It was not clear what role, if any, municipal policy could play in reversing the local economic decline that often underlay public sector retrenchment. Nor wa…
Urban
Local Simulations of Alternative Policies for Financing Services to the Elderly
Because of demographic, economic, and social pressures, it is likely that public programs benefitting the elderly population will be subject to much public debate and calls for the reform in the next few years. This paper presents an analysis of two prototypical reforms that are based on alternative views of government's role in caring for the elderly. One view focuses on means-testing as a method for restricting the role of government to caring …
Financement privé et réglementation
Private Financing and the regulation of health care : the United States experience. The United States health care System is distinguished by a relatively large share of expenditures made in the private sector. However, despite some popular beliefs, this large role for private financing has not been associated with freedom from regulation. Private purchasers of care, including businesses and unions, are increasingly concerned with controlling cost…
America's Ailing Cities
Power failure
New York City's municipal government is the largest and most complex in the nation, perhaps in the world. Its annual operating budget is now a staggering $29 billion a year, plus it has a capital budget of $4 billion more. The city and its various agencies employ approximately 360,000 full-time workers. The Office of the Mayor alone employs some 1,600 people (and spends some $135 million). And the Police Department boasts a small army of over 25,…
Power Failure
Setting an Agenda for Local Action
Many social programs, funded by government or philanthropy, begin with efforts to improve local conditions with strategic planning. Mandated by funders, these processes aim to include the views of community residents and those with technical expertise. Program leaders are left to reconcile public and expert opinions in determining how to shape their programs. The experience of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative suggests …
Following the Money
This article describes the nature and utility of fiscal analysis in evaluating complex community interventions. Using New York University’s evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Urban Health Initiative as an example, the authors describe issues arising in defining and operationalizing constructs for fiscal analysis. The approach’s utility is demonstrated in the use of interim findings to help redefine the program’s goals for resource…
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Collaborations between nonprofit and public sector organizations have become an increasingly important phenomenon in state and local public service delivery since the publication of the Winter Commission report in 1993. This article focuses on one of the less studied types of public–nonprofit collaborations, those in which philanthropic support from nonprofit organizations supplements the resources and activities of public agencies. Drawing on th…
Finding the Impact in a Messy Intervention
This article uses the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Urban Health Initiative (UHI), a 10-year effort to improve health and safety outcomes in distressed cities, to demonstrate the strength of an evaluation design that integrates theory of change and quasi-experimental approaches, including the use of comparison cities. This paper focuses on the later stages of implementation and, especially, our methods for estimating p…
Understanding the Political Context of "New" Policy Issues
This article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework to identify the stakeholders and their coalitions in the arena of after-school policy, which drew much new attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies in five cities, we show how the framework can be extended beyond stakeholder analysis to include identification of core and secondary value conflicts and of opportunities for policy analysis to h…
Political science (13 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (3 works)