Public Policy category: 4660 books
Nonbeliever Nation
The Rise of Secular Americans
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
A new group of Americans is challenging the reign of the Religious Right
Today, nearly one in five Americans are nonbelievers - a rapidly growing group at a time when traditional Christian churches are dwindling in numbers - and they are flexing their muscles like never before. Yet we still...
by Laurel A. Rockefeller
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
In 2014 the inability of the Obama administration to deter Russian aggression towards the Ukraine called into question America's international sphere of influence. But what if America's international problems, including terrorism, have less to do with the military and more to do with domestic policies,...
Just and Lasting Change
When Communities Own Their Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
How can public health workers, policy experts, and medical professionals work with members of developing nations to promote social change in rapid, cost-effective, and locally appropriate ways? In Just and Lasting Change, Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor present readers with an innovative, proven, and...
by Jim Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them.
Operating...
Investigating the President
Congressional Checks on Presidential Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Although congressional investigations have provided some of the most dramatic moments in American political history, they have often been dismissed as mere political theater. But these investigations are far more than grandstanding. Investigating the President shows that congressional investigations...
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives...
Why Do We Recycle?
Markets, Values, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The earnest warnings of an impending "solid waste crisis" that permeated the 1980s provided the impetus for the widespread adoption of municipal recycling programs, and since that time America has witnessed a remarkable rise in public participation in recycling activities. Recently, however, a backlash...
The Congressional Budget Office
Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Created in 1974, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. A critical component of our system of checks and balances, the CBO has given Congress the analytical capacity to challenge the president on budget issues while it protects...
The AIDS Pandemic
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population--infected and uninfected--by influencing...
Cheap and Clean
How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.S. energy and climate change policy.
How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative...
Extreme Environment
How environmental exaggeration harms emerging economies
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Extreme Environment promises to provoke fresh – and spirited – debate about the modern environmental movement and the many ways in which environmentalism, media, economics, public policy and the politics of liberty intersect. In order to reduce poverty and continue to raise living standards requires...
Making Collaboration Work
Lessons From Innovation In Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Across the United States, diverse groups are turning away from confrontation and toward collaboration in an attempt to tackle some of our nation's mintractable environmental problems. Governmagencies, community groups, businesses, and private individuals have begun working together to solve common...
Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities
Public Policy and Management Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities. Drawing from theoretical arguments and several case studies, the book is divided into three parts, namely devising regulation, installing...
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the importance...