Max O Stephenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max O Stephenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | O Stephenson |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENSON M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Magic concepts” and Usaid: Framing food systems reform to support the status quo
Community cultural development: Exploring the connections between collective art making, capacity building and sustainable community-based tourism
Nonprofit Governance, Management, and Organizational Learning: Exploring the Implications of One “Mega-Gift”
Little scholarly attention has focused on understanding the impact of large gifts for small nonprofit organizations or on the mechanisms by which those institutions respond to such events. The authors studied the organizational and governance stresses mega-gifts create by examining the case of the $175 million Ruth Lilly gift to the Modern Poetry Association. The association's governing board successfully adapted to its changed circumstances by s…
Governance Structures Matter, and We Must Maintain What We Construct: Considering the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Public Policy Processes
Tales of the Once and Future City
Rescuing ADR from Its Advocates
Whither the Public-Private Partnership: A Critical Overview
The conceptual underpinnings of the public-private partnership idea are examined from the vantage point of whether such entities can produce economically efficient outcomes, can be considered politically effective, can prove administratively feasible, and can equitably distribute the benefits that they purchase. The author concludes by addressing the issue of what the future may hold for such collaborations
Teaching the Missing Pieces of Policy Analysis
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The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher
Conflict Resolution Methods and the Policy Process
Advocates of a wide variety of conflict resolution techniques and processes assume that these efforts can open the path to more efficient and effective public program development and implementation.1 This article contends that to approach, much less achieve, such goals, scholars and practitioners must conceive of their task differently than they have up to now. A contextual analysis is necessary for first designing and then employing conflict res…
The Policy and Premises of Urban Development Action Grant Program Implementation: A Comparative Analysis of the Carter and Reagan Presidencies
This article sketches the key dimensions of the pattern of politics which characterized the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program during the Carter presidency and compares and contrasts that with the pattern which has emerged during the Reagan years. The article suggests strongly that Reagan policy initiatives have quickened a shift in the politics of the program away from an emphasis on targeting to defined need toward a more distributio…
Community cultural development: Exploring the connections between collective art making, capacity building and sustainable community-based tourism
Nonprofit Governance, Management, and Organizational Learning: Exploring the Implications of One “Mega-Gift”
Little scholarly attention has focused on understanding the impact of large gifts for small nonprofit organizations or on the mechanisms by which those institutions respond to such events. The authors studied the organizational and governance stresses mega-gifts create by examining the case of the $175 million Ruth Lilly gift to the Modern Poetry Association. The association's governing board successfully adapted to its changed circumstances by s…
The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher
The Policy and Premises of Urban Development Action Grant Program Implementation: A Comparative Analysis of the Carter and Reagan Presidencies
This article sketches the key dimensions of the pattern of politics which characterized the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program during the Carter presidency and compares and contrasts that with the pattern which has emerged during the Reagan years. The article suggests strongly that Reagan policy initiatives have quickened a shift in the politics of the program away from an emphasis on targeting to defined need toward a more distributio…
Teaching the Missing Pieces of Policy Analysis
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Policy and Premises of Urban Development Action Grant Program Implementation: A Comparative Analysis of the Carter and Reagan Presidencies
This article sketches the key dimensions of the pattern of politics which characterized the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program during the Carter presidency and compares and contrasts that with the pattern which has emerged during the Reagan years. The article suggests strongly that Reagan policy initiatives have quickened a shift in the politics of the program away from an emphasis on targeting to defined need toward a more distributio…
Conflict Resolution Methods and the Policy Process
Advocates of a wide variety of conflict resolution techniques and processes assume that these efforts can open the path to more efficient and effective public program development and implementation.1 This article contends that to approach, much less achieve, such goals, scholars and practitioners must conceive of their task differently than they have up to now. A contextual analysis is necessary for first designing and then employing conflict res…
Whither the Public-Private Partnership: A Critical Overview
The conceptual underpinnings of the public-private partnership idea are examined from the vantage point of whether such entities can produce economically efficient outcomes, can be considered politically effective, can prove administratively feasible, and can equitably distribute the benefits that they purchase. The author concludes by addressing the issue of what the future may hold for such collaborations
Teaching the Missing Pieces of Policy Analysis
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher
Rescuing ADR from Its Advocates
Tales of the Once and Future City
Nonprofit Governance, Management, and Organizational Learning: Exploring the Implications of One “Mega-Gift”
Little scholarly attention has focused on understanding the impact of large gifts for small nonprofit organizations or on the mechanisms by which those institutions respond to such events. The authors studied the organizational and governance stresses mega-gifts create by examining the case of the $175 million Ruth Lilly gift to the Modern Poetry Association. The association's governing board successfully adapted to its changed circumstances by s…
Governance Structures Matter, and We Must Maintain What We Construct: Considering the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Public Policy Processes
Community cultural development: Exploring the connections between collective art making, capacity building and sustainable community-based tourism
“Magic concepts” and Usaid: Framing food systems reform to support the status quo
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)