The Nebraska Ombudsman & Executive Ombudsmen by Alan J. Wyner 2 Book Bundle
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The Nebraska Ombudsman & Executive Ombudsmen by Alan J. Wyner 2 Book Bundle. Starting in the early 19th century in Sweden, the Ombudsman institution has spread--first slowly, and now more rapidly--throughout the world. He may also initiate investigations on his own motion. The Nebraska Ombudsman: Starting in the early 19th century in Sweden, the Ombudsman institution has spread--first slowly, and now more rapidly--throughout the world. Although there are many variations, a "classical" Ombudsman is an of-ficial selected by a legislature to investigate and make recommendations on complaints against administra-tive agencies, usually brought to him by private citi-zens. He may also initiate investigations on his own motion. Appointed by the legislature for a fixed term and at a fixed salary, he can usually be removed only by an extraordinary legislative majority, upon demon-stration of adequate cause. To help achieve impartial-ity and independence, legislatures have made Ombudsmen relatively free from direct, politically motivated re-prisals. Anderson offers a concise summary of an Om-budsman's nature when he says, "The essential character-istics of the Ombudsman post require that the individual filling it be: (1) independent, (2) impartial, (3) ex-pert in government, (4) universally accessible, and (5) empowered only to recommend and to publicize. Executive Ombudsmen in the United States: For the last two years, the United States Office of Economic Opportunity has funded the Ombudsman Activities Project at the University of Cali-fornia, Santa Barbara, through the Institute of Governmental Studies on the Berkeley campus. Professors Stanley Anderson and John Moore and the editor of this volume have been the principal research members of the project, and the planning and execution of this collection of original essays has in many ways been our joint venture. The two other Santa Barbara authors are Professor Dean Mann, chairman of the Department of Political Science, and Albert Liston, a graduate student in political science and research analyst in the Ombudsman Activities Project. Pro-fessor Philip Hannon of Skidmore College and Douglas Capps, currently a law student at Lewis and Clark University, have also worked under the project's auspices. The Office of Economic Opportunity has supported all of the research reported in this book except for the papers on Boston and Puerto Rico. In these two cases, the Ombudsman Activities Project was able to per-suade Professor Eric Nordlinger of Brown University and Professors Philip Burgess and C. Richard Hofstetter and Louis Higgs of Ohio State University to revise work originally completed under other auspices.
