Virginia Tech
Alternative Responses to the Orange County Bankruptcy: An Inquiry into the Images Underlying Theory
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe 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.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Public Administration and Public Affairs
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Public Administration and Public Affairs
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2000
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- MacDonald, Susan Hardie
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
-
- White, Orion F. Jr.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
-
- Harmon, Michael M.
- Rees, Joseph V.
- Hult, Karen M.
- Wamsley, Gary L.
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
-
- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-08272000-10310002
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/28808