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Paul C. Light

Author of Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It

22+ Works 271 Members

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Paul C. Light is Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University.

Includes the names: Paul C. Light, Paul C. Light

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Works by Paul C. Light

Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It (2004) 29 copies

A Delicate Balance: An Introduction to American Government (1997) 26 copies

Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence (A Center for Public Service Report) (2002) 24 copies

Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally (Jossey Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series) (1998) 24 copies

Making Nonprofits Work: A Report on the Tides of Nonprofit Management Reform (2000) 22 copies

The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (2008) 22 copies

A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It (2008) 20 copies

The Four Pillars of High Performance (2005) 17 copies

Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security (2002) 16 copies

Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World's Toughest Problems (2010) 14 copies

Baby Boomers (1988) 11 copies

The tides of reform : making government work, 1945-1995 (1997) 8 copies

The New Public Service (1999) 7 copies

Forging Legislation (1991) 6 copies

Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability (1995) 5 copies

The True Size of Government (1999) 5 copies

Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability (1993) 5 copies

Still Artful Work: The Continuing Politics of Social Security Reform (1994) 3 copies

The Government-Industrial Complex: The True Size of the Federal Government, 1984-2018 (2018) 3 copies

Government by investigation : Congress, presidents, and the search for answers, 1945-2012 (2013) 2 copies

The Search for Social Entrepreneurship 1 copy

Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally (1601) 1 copy

Associated Works

Government by the people (1952) — some editions — 263 copies, 1 review

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Canonical name: Light, Paul C.
Legal name: Light, Paul Charles
Gender: male

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Louis Brownlow Book Award

Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability (1995)

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Works: 22
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Members: 271
Popularity: #85,375
Rating: 3.9

ISBNs: 52

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