Books by George M. Guess

The history of transit system management in the United States has largely been a history of failure--failure to come to grips with the real issues involved and failure to develop effective policies for an efficient and rational system.This book, the first major survey in more than a decade, catalogues management attempts to overcome constraints imposed by external institutional and sociopolitical factors, as well as by internal labor and resource problems. In combining actual case histories with academic insights, it offers managers and consultants the tools to make transit systems work.

Explores contemporary US foreign aid policies and thinking in the Reagan era. This book argues that aid policy is often confused as a result of bureaucratic decision-making processes. It contrasts the experience of the many countries where aid-giving has produced unwished-for effects with the few countries where the desired results have occurred.

Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist, this third edition offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies.