| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
MacDonald, Susan Hardie
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| Author's Email Address |
smacdonald1@mac.com |
| URN |
etd-08272000-10310002 |
| Title |
Alternative Responses to the Orange County Bankruptcy:
An Inquiry into the Images Underlying Theory
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| Degree |
PhD |
| Department |
Public Administration/Public Affairs |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Orion F. White |
Committee Chair |
| Gary Wamsley |
Committee Member |
| Joseph Rees |
Committee Member |
| Karen Hult |
Committee Member |
| Michael Harmon |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- Globalization
- Orange County bankruptcy
- Risk
- Civil society
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| Date of Defense |
2000-08-18 |
| Availability |
restricted |
Abstract
The bankruptcy of the government of Orange County, California in 1994 is treated as a case study depicting a potentially critical problem emerging for democracies. The analysis links finan-cial and fiduciary perspectives by re-examining the actions of Orange County officials and citi-zens through three separate analytical frames: the dynamics of economic globalization; citizen engagement through the channel of civil society; and the theory of risk—both its nature generally and its financial aspect specifically. The conclusion reached is that globalization has made con-tingency and uncertainty ubiquitous and this indicates that the practice of governance in its pub-lic administration dimension should include a return to pragmatic, process approaches to policy and implementation.
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