Public Policy category: 4660 books
International Bureaucracy
Challenges and Lessons for Public Administration Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the commonalities and differences between national and...
Water Policy Reform in Southern Alberta
An Advocacy Coalition Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Between 1995 and 2005, the government of Alberta undertook major reforms to the way water is governed in the arid southern part of the province. Among the most significant reforms was the imposition of moratoria on new water licenses, the introduction of a market for buying and selling existing water...
Who Speaks for Nature?
Indigenous Movements, Public Opinion, and the Petro-State in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
In 2009, Ecuador became the first nation ever to enshrine rights for nature in its constitution. Nature was accorded inalienable rights, and every citizen was granted standing to defend those rights. At the same time, the government advanced a policy of "extractive populism," buying public support...
Anti-Corruption Evidence
The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
This book discusses parliamentary oversight and its role in curbing corruption in developing countries. Over the past decade, a growing body of research at the global and regional levels has demonstrated that parliamentary oversight is an important determinant of corruption and that effective oversight...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
While most current studies on law and politics in Israel focus on the legal aspects of public policymaking within the courts, this book explores the relationship between law and government from a positive perspective. That is to say that the question asked is: how the political relationships between...
by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
It’s time to unmask the villain within healthcare. The Root Cause That Washington Conceals, Book 3 does just that: it pulls back the curtain so you can see the so-called wizard.
Though Books 1 and 2 were both Amazon Bestsellers, frankly, Book 3 is the best of the “diagnosis” books...
From Austerity to Abundance?
Creative Approaches to Coordinating the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
This volume explores the ways in which civil society and governments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinating efforts toward the common good. The chapters highlight alternatives that are philosophically and pragmatically different from neoliberal austerity measures, which...
Cultural Policy in South Korea
Making a New Patron State
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea, which critically historicises and analyses the contentious and dynamic development of the policy. It highlights that the evolution of cultural policy has been bound up with the complicated political, economic and social trajectory...
Confronting the Climate Challenge
U.S. Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Without significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will cause substantial damage to the environment and the economy. The scope of the threat demands a close look at the policies capable of reducing the harm. Confronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for...
Green-lite
Complexity in Fifty Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Governance, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Anchored in the core literature on natural resources, energy production, and environmental analysis, Green-lite is a critical examination of Canadian environmental policy, governance, and politics drawing out key policy and governance patterns to show that the Canadian story is one of complexity and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This is the first handbook to provide a global policy perspective on energy, bringing together a diverse range of international energy issues in one volume.
Maps the emerging field of global energy policy both for scholars and practitioners; the focus is on global issues, but it also explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Covering issues of policy and practice, planning, legislation and regulation of a range of sustainable energy technologies in the...
Transforming Masculine Rule
Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
"The premise of mainstreaming gender is to bring equality concerns into every aspect of policy-making, and this brave book offers a close look at how feminists have taken up the challenge to transform the hidden dynamics of male domination in agricultural policy in Europe. In contrast to the...
Sustainable Development Policy
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Sustainable Development Policy: A European Perspective uses a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives to explore the ways in which sustainable infrastructures can play a more prominent and effective role in international development policy. Building on a solid introduction to sustainability and...