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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs?
This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors...
Going Mobile
How Wireless Technology is Reshaping Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
The world is going mobile at an astounding pace. Estimates show 80 percent of global Internet access will take place through mobile devices by 2016. Smartphones, tablets, and handheld devices have reshaped communications, the global economy, and the very way in which we live. The revolution is an...
Law and Policy in Latin America
Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary problems in Latin America, such as human rights violations, regulatory dilemmas, economic inequality, and access to knowledge and medicine. It includes 19 chapters written by sociologists, lawyers, and political...
by K. Sabeel Rahman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In 2008, the collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. In its aftermath, the financial crisis pushed to the forefront fundamental moral and institutional questions about how we govern the modern economy. What are the values...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required. Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World aims to make normative theorising on climate justice more relevant and applicable to political realities and public policy. The motivation...
Paradiplomacy
Cities and States as Global Players
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments. Yet as Rodrigo Tavares demonstrates, the vast majority of leading sub-states and cities are currently practicing foreign affairs, both bilaterally and multilaterally. Subnational...
Unhealthy Politics
The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine
The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously...
International Regimes in China
Domestic Implementation of the International Fisheries Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, more than 80% of world’s fish stocks are fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted, or recovering from depletion. Although several international agreements have promoted more responsible fisheries, coastal states have...
The Sri Lankan Economy
Charting A New Course
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This is a pivotal period in Sri Lanka's economic development. The end of conflict opens a door for accelerated economic growth and poverty reduction. Reform is needed to regain momentum because fiscal imbalances and rising public debt could jeopardize macroeconomic stability. The economy would benefit...
Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security
New Methods in Understanding Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas,...
Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating...
Deep Cultural Diversity
A Governance Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Political commentator and public policy analyst Gilles Paquet examines the benefits and drawbacks of Canada's multiculturalism policy. He rejects the current policy which perpetuates difference and articulates a model for Canadian transculturalism, a more fluid understanding of multiculturalism based...
Discerning Experts
The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Discerning Experts assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors explore how experts deliberate and decide on the scientific...
Constructions of Terrorism
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective...