Are We at the Tipping Point in Building a New State-Local Partnership?

摘要

The debut of Malcolm Gladwell's seminal book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference in 2000 had quite an impact on many people. The book is about how change can happen quickly and unexpectedly. Gladwell's thesis - that ideas, behavior and messages sometimes spread just like outbreaks of an infectious disease (or "social epidemics") - was as refreshing as it was startling.