Public Policy category: 4660 books
Making Policy in Turbulent Times
Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
How is policy made in higher education, particularly in the wake of recent economic turbulence? Has policy development converged internationally, and if so, what impact has this had on academic life and institutions? What role does policy-oriented research play in shaping the direction of higher education?...
Financing Infrastructure
Who Should Pay?
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada’s urban infrastructure urgently needs work. Roads and bridges are overdue for repair, aging water systems should be replaced, sewage must be adequately treated, urban transit needs to be updated and extended, and it is necessary that public...
Soda Politics
Taking on Big Soda (And Winning)
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have turned their makers--principally Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--into a multibillion-dollar industry with global recognition, distribution, and political power. Billed as...
by Maciej M Sokołowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Since the very beginning of European integration, electricity has been within the legal sphere of the EU. Much of this is found within the binding European acts making up the framework of the Energy Packages. The established legal institutions have had a significant impact on the shape of the energy...
Subversion in Institutional Change and Stability
A Neglected Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book theorizes subversive action, a neglected mechanism in the new institutionalism literature. Subversive action is political in nature, secretly undermining some institutions to open up alternative ideas or to secure existing institutions by secretly undermining adversaries. An example is a...
Private Equity at Work
When Wall Street Manages Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies. Are these firms financial innovators that save failing businesses or financial predators that bankrupt otherwise healthy companies and destroy jobs? The first comprehensive...
Digital Government
Leveraging Innovation to Improve Public Sector Performance and Outcomes for Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany. The case studies presented examine different digital projects by looking at their impact as well as their alignment with their national governments’ digital strategies....
A New City O/S
The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local government
At a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective—indeed...
Public-Private Partnerships in Health
Improving Infrastructure and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector. The PPP model represents the most complex form of contracting transaction yet to have emerged in the health sector,...
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Obesity and the Limits of Shame
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and overweight individuals make up more than two-thirds of the adult population. Public health organizations...
Environmental Crises in Central Asia
From steppes to seas, from deserts to glaciers
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Environmental conditions do not exist in a vacuum. They are influenced by science, politics, history, public policy, culture, economics, public attitudes, and competing priorities, as well as past human decisions. In the case of Central Asia, such Soviet-era decisions include irrigation systems and...
Racial Taxation
Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869–1973
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer citizenship--the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh shows how tax policy and taxpayer...
Faith in Schools?
Autonomy, Citizenship, and Religious Education in the Liberal State
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools? Should it fund them? What principles should govern these decisions in a society marked by religious and cultural pluralism? In Faith in Schools?, Ian MacMullen tackles these important questions through both political and educational theory,...
Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe
Unpacking the Policy Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Unpacking the Policy Cycle - Critical Issues in Comparative Media Regulation and Governance in Europe represents the continuation and further development of a long tradition of media policy books, focusing on the development of media structures and media policy within Europe. It provides a comprehensive...