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Bureaucracy and democracy: a happy marriage?(Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance)(Book review)
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William T. Gormley, Jr. and Steven J. Balla. 2004. Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 215 pp.
Bureaucracy is a significant element of American governance; yet, its role in democratic governance is all too often vilified, misunderstood, and reduced to stereotypical assumptions that fail to recognize the contributions of bureaucratic structures and actors in the design and implementation of public policy. These misguided assumptions and underestimations of public sector bureaucracy, therefore, require practical and ...
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Season of the Witch - Ridden by a Witch.(The Brocken)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World and I
; The Brocken appears in a number of fairytales. The...pours scorn on claims that witches ride to Brocken Mountain on Walpurgisnacht. "Nonsense...being ridden like a winged horse toward the Brocken. Rather than being a lightweight bundle...
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Brocken Rock; Liars' Witch Project Moves to Berlin
Magazine article from: The Stranger
; ...unspeakably wicked bash on Germany's Brocken Mountain. As reality had it, in the...goth iconography. Consider Wrong Liars' Brocken Witch Project. The album rides a wild...rustic bunker two weeks ago and relocated - Brocken beats and all - to Berlin. "I think...
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Spectre rising.(Brocken Spectres, clouds or ghosts)
Magazine article from: Weatherwise
; ...the Middle Ages, the tale goes, a priest was climbing the Brocken, the highest peak in Germany's Harz Mountains. As the cleric...real; such misty phantoms across the world have been dubbed "Brocken Spectres." What is this vaporous mountain phantom? Meteorologists...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Liars take a side trip to Brocken Mountain.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...flying witches who gathered once a year atop Germany's Brocken Mountain, "They Were Wrong So We Drowned" is the Liars...have catchy titles both serious and tongue-in-cheek: "Brocken Witch," "There's Always Room on the Broom," "Steam...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Whatever happened to all that anarchy in the UK?; On the 25th anniversary of the death of Sid Vicious, David Charters talks to Mike Brocken,a former Liverpool punk and now a leading academic, about the legacy of the Sex Pistols.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...hit of a different sort. As all this was happening, Mike Brocken and his wife, Christine, were almost camped in Eric's Club...Punk is not just music, it is an aesthetic,'' says Brocken. ``It represented the era very well. The country was falling...
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Germany's magic mountain unites east and west
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...were banned from climbing their beloved Brocken, writes DEREK SCALLY THE GLISTENING black...the narrow-gauge Harz railway to the Brocken, the closest thing Germany has to a zauberberg...peak in the beautiful Harz region, the Brocken has been hallowed ground since the visits...
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Spectral sights
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...international spy organisation. I am referring to Brocken spectres. A Brocken spectre is a greatly magnified shadow of the observer...observer plays a part; nevertheless most of the Brocken spectres I have witnessed have occurred in December...
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The British Folk Revival, 1944-2002.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Folk Revival, 1944-2002. By Michael Brocken. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series...American experience, but not until Michael Brocken's The British Folk Revival, 1944...music revival. From the very beginning, Brocken makes his prejudices and point of view...
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British tourists targeted by gangs of New Orleans.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...BBC Radio Merseyside presenter Michael Brocken, his wife, Christine and 18-year...it was a very unpleasant situation. Mr Brocken, Professor of music and senior lecturer...than the local population, he said. Mr Brocken said: "The local population thought...
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The British Folk Revival, 1944-2002
Magazine article from: Folk Music Journal
; ...British Folk Revival, 1944-2002 Michael Brocken. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series...The folk scene here portrayed by Mr Brocken is not recognisable from that of which...which, quite simply, is not true. Brocken's comments about earlier collectors...
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