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Working for Change

Making a Career in International Public Service

By: Derick W. Brinkerhoff,Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

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Working for Change

Making a Career in International Public Service

By: Derick W. Brinkerhoff,Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

* A Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Finalist for 2005! * Focuses on development management positions in international service employment * Devises the concept of the "service-choice spiral" in career evolution * Provides information about volunteer and professional opportunities, organizations, and degree programs In Working for Change, Derick and Jennifer Brinkerhoff explore career paths in international public service, focusing on development management positions. They offer practical and inspiring guidance on finding the right mix of public service objectives, degree programs, job opportunities, and personal lifestyle choices. The Brinkerhoffs’ concept of career evolution is encapsulated in a framework they call the service-choice spiral. This model rejects standard set-the-goal, plot-the-steps planning and pulls one’s personal values, skills, professional goals, and sense of altruism into a solid career choice. Through profiles of six public service professionals, the Brinkerhoffs illustrate how real people have faced the choices that confronted them in the course of their careers. Working for Change will assuredly become the ideal guide and resource for anyone considering work in public service and mid-career professionals looking for a change in direction. It will also serve as a powerful resource for university career development officers and faculty advisors. View the entire book online at ebrary.com here.

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Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs

The In-Between Advantage

By: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

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Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs

The In-Between Advantage

By: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin-may offer an In-Between Advantage for institutional reform, which links problem understanding with potential solutions, and encompasses vision, impact, operational, and psycho-social advantages. Individuals with entrepreneurial characteristics can catalyzing institutional reform. Diasporans may have particular advantages for entrepreneurship, as they live both psychologically and materially between the place of origin they left and the new destination they have embraced. Their entrepreneurial characteristics may be accidental, cultivated through the migration and diaspora experience, or innate to individuals' personalities. This book articulates the diaspora institutional entrepreneur In-Between Advantage, proposes a model for understanding the characteristics and motivational influences of entrepreneurs generally and how they apply to diaspora entrepreneurs in particular, and presents a staged model of institutional entrepreneur actions. I test these frameworks through case narratives of social institutional reform in Egypt, economic institutional reform in Ethiopia, and political institutional reform in Chad. In addition to identifying policy implications, this book makes important theoretical contributions in three areas. First, it builds on existing and emerging critiques of international development assistance that articulate prescriptions related to alternative theories of change. Second, it fills an important gap in the literature by focusing squarely on the role of agency in institutional reform processes while still accounting for organizational systems and socio-political contexts. In doing so, it integrates a more expansive view of entrepreneurism into extant understandings of institutional entrepreneurism, and it sheds light on what happens in the frequently-invoked black box of agency. Third, it demonstrates the fallacy of many theoretical frameworks that seek to order institutional change processes into neatly definable linear stages.

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Oxford University Press

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0190278234

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Digital Diasporas

Identity and Transnational Engagement

By: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

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Digital Diasporas

Identity and Transnational Engagement

By: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

In the first full-length scholarly study of the increasingly important phenomenon of digital diasporas, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff examines how immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin use the internet. She argues that digital diasporas can ease security concerns in both the homeland and the host society, improve diaspora members' quality of life in the host society, and contribute to socio-economic development in the homeland. Drawing on case studies of nine digital diaspora organizations, Brinkerhoff's research supplies new empirical material regarding digital diasporas and their potential security and development impacts. She also explores their impact on identity negotiation, arguing that digital diasporas create communities and organizations that represent hybrid identities and encourage solidarity, identity, and material benefits among their members. The book also explores these communities' implications for policy and practice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139475789

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Partnership for International Development

Rhetoric Or Results?

By: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

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Partnership for International Development

Rhetoric Or Results?

By: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

Partnership, says Brinkerhoff (public administration, George Washington U.) is the polite term for minimizing the responsibility of government in development projects. She seeks to clarify the concepts and its practice, to critique the understanding and practice of it in international development to date, and to specify its defining dimensions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1588260690

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Working for Change

Making a Career in International Public Service

By: Derick W. Brinkerhoff,Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

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Making a Career in International Public Service

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Digital Diasporas

Identity and Transnational Engagement

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Identity and Transnational Engagement

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Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs

The In-Between Advantage

By: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

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The In-Between Advantage

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