Author: Savas E
Publisher: CQ Pre
Keywords: partnerships, private, public, privatization
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 1566430739
ISBN-13: 9781566430739

Savas provides a complete guide to privatization--the background, theory, and practical reality. This book explains what, why, when, and how to privatize. Contracting services, using franchises and vouchers, divesting government-owned businesses, privatizing infrastructure through public-private partnerships, reforming education, privatizing the welfare state, and overcoming opposition to privatization are discussed in detail. In addition, Savas provides hundreds of examples from local, state, and federal government in the U.S. and other countries.

Author: E.S." "Savas
Publisher: CQ Press
Keywords: lessons, failures, successes, city, privatization
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-05-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1568029578
ISBN-13: 9781568029573

In Privatization in the City, E .S. Savas comprehensively examines the evolution and implementation of former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s aggressive privatization program in the face of a city council generally hostile to privatization. Savas identifies, examines, evaluates, and documents all forms of privatization employed, including contracting, competitive sourcing, divestment, leases, vouchers, franchises, default, withdrawal, and voluntarism. He contrasts these efforts in New York with privatization in several other cities across the country, ranging from In

Author: Foy Savas
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: way, merb
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-07-04
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0321606388
ISBN-13: 9780321606389

“Foy is a gifted writer and his descriptions of the philosophies that( impacted the design and implementation of Merb are definitely useful to( everyone affected by the changes in Rails 3.” –Obie Fernandez, Series Editor   The Expert Guide to Building Merb Applications   Thousands of Ruby and Rails developers are discovering the extraordinary scalability, agility, flexibility, and performance offered by the new Merb MVC framework. The Merb Way is the first comprehensive guide to using, extending, and deploying Merb. Like the bestseller The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley, 2008), this bo

Author: Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: categorization, linguistics, studies, prototypes, meanings
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1990-12
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0415036127
ISBN-13: 9780415036122

There are far fewer kinds of elements (such as words) in a natural language than there are kinds of things in the universe. If, therefore, the languages people speak are related to the universe their speakers live in, a primary function of the various kinds of elements constituting a language is to allow the much more varied kinds of things that populate the universe to be categorized in specific ways. A "prototype" approach to linguistic categories is a particular way of answering the question of how this categorization operates. It involves two claims. First, that linguistic categorization e