Public Policy category: 4660 books
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment
The Politics of Local Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2000
The tension between professional expertise and democratic governance has become increasingly significant in Western politics. Environmental politics in particular is a hotbed for citizens who actively challenge the imposition of expert theories that ignore forms of local knowledge that can help to...
Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation
Biking for all?
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged. This stereotype evolves just as investments in cycling play an increasingly important role in neighborhood transformations. However, despite stereotypes, the cycling public is actually quite...
Presidential Administration and the Environment
Executive Leadership in the Age of Gridlock
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
After sweeping environmental legislation passed in the 1970s and 1980s, the 1990s ushered in an era when new legislation and reforms to existing laws were consistently caught up in a gridlock. In response, environmental groups became more specialized and professional, learning how to effect policy...
Book Review: Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
A manifesto of libertarian paternalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard H. Thaler and the Harvard Law School...
Governing Asia
Reflections on a Research Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
These thirty-eight essays by the professors and research fellows of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the School. The core theme of the essays is governance in Asia and what its governments and peoples ar
by Mark Furlong
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book interrogates the current reputation of Psychology, both as an industry and as part of the academy. It disputes Psychology's claim to be a science, questions its claims to effectiveness and examines relationships with other disciplines and fields. Just as Psychology's role in the design of...
Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Key topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material.
This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates, and in-depth analysis. The contributing authors,...
Ganga Rejuvenation
Governance Challenges and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Attempts over the past three decades to clean up and rejuvenate one of the world's greatest rivers have proved futile. The major reasons for...
by Samuel K. Burlum
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
“The Race to Protect Our Most Important Natural Resource: Water,” is an investigative view into the most pressing threats against modern society’s most precious natural resource; water; and how to mitigate them.
This book is NOT about taking shorter showers, and it is NOT about selling...
by Leo Barasi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Climate Majority is the first book to investigate climate apathy, to describe how it prevents action to stop climate change and to show how it can be beaten with an approach developed for political campaigns.
Leo Barasi argues that dangerous climate change will only be prevented if the...
Building the Federal Schoolhouse
Localism and the American Education State
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Over the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system...
by Lucie Cerna
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This book examines the variation in high-skilled immigration policies in OECD countries. These countries face economic and social pressures from slowing productivity, ageing populations and pressing labour shortages. To address these inter-related challenges, the potential of the global labour market...
by David Davenport, Gordon Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is widely understood as a turning point in American history. Roosevelt's decisions of 1933 reset the balance of power away from Congress and the states toward a strong executive branch. They shifted the federal government away from the Founders' vision of deliberation...
International E-Government Development
Policy, Implementation and Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book provides an examination of e-Government frameworks and maturity stages in governments around the world, including an overview of the legal frameworks that have supported them. Divided into three sections, the first part of this book analyses the theoretical context of current policies, codes...