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Environmental Policy

New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017

Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for the twenty-first century. You will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional...
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by Jeremy Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

First published in 1982, Policy Styles in Western Europe considers the growth of the modern state in the 1980s and examines the implications of this for the making and implementation of public policy decisions. It argues that the business of government was simply easier in the 1970s and that the growth...
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The Politics of Information

Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

by Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015

How does the government decide what’s a problem and what isn’t? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the “paradox of search.” If policy makers don’t look for problems, they won’t find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry...
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Collaboration in Public Services

The Challenge for Evaluation

by Bill Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017

The International Group for Policy and Program Evaluation (INTEVAL) serves as a forum for scholars and practitioners of public policy to discuss ideas and developments as a community dedicated to enhancing the contribution of evaluation to government. From the group's studies has emerged a concern...
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Sand in the Gears

How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing

by Andrew O. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape. It is also clear from the dormant...
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Good Governance in China - A Way Towards Social Harmony

Case Studies by China’s Rising Leaders

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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008

Good governance is necessary for effective public administration and delivery of public goods and services. This is an important issue for all countries, but in particular for rapidly developing countries such as China where reform of governance and public administration is a key element of the public...
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Empowering Public Wisdom

A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics

by Tom Atlee
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests...
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Collaboration in public policy and practice

Perspectives on boundary spanners

by Williams, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012

Collaborative working is an established feature of the public, business and third sector environments, but its effectiveness can be hampered by complex structural and personal variants. This original book explores the influence of agency through the role of individual actors in collaborative working...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017

This book highlights the use of an outcome-oriented view of performance to frame and assess the desirability of the effects produced by adopted policies, so to allow governments not only to consider effects in the short, but also the long run. Furthermore, it does not only focus on policy from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013. Open contests in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston, for example, offer laboratories to examine electoral trends in urban politics. Cities are facing varied predicaments. Boston was rocked by the bombing of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences. Attention is a crucial variable in understanding...
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The Guardian

Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario

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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011

Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse. In The Guardian, a multidisciplinary group of contributors examines the Ministry of Finance of Ontario since the Second World War. During the last sixty years the Ministry was transformed from a relatively small 'Treasury'...
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Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance

The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora

by D. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013

Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and global policy actors need to...
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Leading public sector innovation (second edition)

Co-creating for a better society

by Bason, Christian
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018

The second edition of this significant text has been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest literature, case studies and international developments in the field. Drawing on global research and practical examples, Bason illustrates the key triggers and practices of public sector innovation....
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