Public Policy category: 4660 books
Advancing Collaboration Theory
Models, Typologies, and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental relationships....
African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Employment, politics, and prospects for change
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The much heralded growth and transformation of many economies in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade continues to receive prominent attention in academic scholarship and among policy practitioners. An apparent feature about this transformation, however, is that Africa’s youth appear to have...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
As water demand has increased globally and resources have become more limited because of physical scarcity, over-exploitation and pollution, it has been necessary to develop more options for water supplies. These options include the production at large scale of high-quality reused water from municipal...
Right to Education in India
Resources, institutions and public policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This is one of the first volumes to comprehensively discuss resource constraints and institutional challenges in realizing the Fundamental Right to Education (RTE) in India. It looks at various aspects of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the primary vehicle to implement RTE and a flagship programme...
Federal Ecosystem Management
Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
For the better part of the last century, "preservation" and "multi-use conservation" were the watchwords for managing federal lands and resources. But in the 1990s, amidst notable failures and overwhelming needs, policymakers, land managers, and environmental scholars were calling...
Simulating Societal Change
Counterfactual Modelling for Social and Policy Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
This book presents a method for creating a working model of society, using data systems and simulation techniques, that can be used for testing propositions of scientific and policy nature. The model is based on the example of New Zealand, but will be applicable to other countries. It is expected...
Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe
Executive Coordination and Political Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2019
This book explores how power-sharing between the president and the prime minister works in semi-presidential regimes. In contrast to much of the existing comparative work on semi-presidentialism, the book emphasizes the role of institutional coordination at the most concrete level of executive policy-making,...
Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific
Emerging Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development. However, the emerging policy issues vary greatly across the world.
With 32 contributors, this volume provides a timely, research-based overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the sustainability...
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational...
Public Accountability and Health Care Governance
Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book deals with the critical empirical void created by the speed at which healthcare restructuring has taken place in Europe. Chapters explore the political uncertainty and budgetary pressures which have led governments increasingly to turn to New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms to attempt...
by Sidney Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness examines Congress, the Presidency, the public, and public policy, demonstrating the important impact of the public's selfishness, morality, compassion, and religious beliefs on the American political system. The influence of public opinion on our...
Right Moves
The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism. Positioning themselves against the alleged liberal bias of the media, academia, and the federal bureaucracy, conservative think tanks gained the attention of politicians and the...
Public Affairs and Administration
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Effective administration of government and governmental organizations is a crucial part of achieving success in those organizations. To develop and implement best practices, policymakers and leaders must first understand the fundamental tenants and recent advances in public administration. Public...
by Paul Joyce, Anne Drumaux
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book investigates the role and effectiveness of strategic management within public governance in Europe. Using findings from qualitative studies, it explores the governance processes at the level of the European Union as a supranational institution, and the level of national governments. It presents...