Public Policy category: 4660 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the environment. It combines the strengths of an interdisciplinary team of experts from around the world to explore current debates and the latest thinking in...
by Carole Rosenstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Understanding Cultural Policy provides a practical, comprehensive introduction to thinking about how and why governments intervene in the arts and culture.
Cultural policy expert Carole Rosenstein examines the field through comparative, historical, and administrative lenses, while engaging...
by Lewis Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Energy policy is a mess: a tangle of interconnected problems stirred by competing political agendas. Whether it’s soaring fuel prices, noxious pollution, climate worries, security risks, or threats to the economy and jobs, energy politics are vexed by the tendency of single-issue solutions to make...
After Legalization
Understanding the future of marijuana policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
After Legalization: Understanding the Future of Marijuana Policy is a groundbreaking new book examining how legal marijuana will likely be treated in the United States 20 years from now.
According to Gallup 58% of Americans support ending marijuana prohibition, and Colorado and Washington State...
What Works for Workers?
Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The majority of new jobs created in the United States today are low-wage jobs, and a fourth of the labor force earns no more than poverty-level wages. Policymakers and citizens alike agree that declining real wages and constrained spending among such a large segment of workers imperil economic prosperity...
Understanding Climate Change
Science, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions.
Understanding...
Policy Worlds
Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance...
Taming the Beloved Beast
How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry....
Coping with the Climate Crisis
Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Reducing carbon emissions is the most complex political and economic problem humanity has ever confronted. Coping with the Climate Crisis brings together leading experts from academia and policy circles to explore issues related to the implementation of the COP21 Paris Agreement and the challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This innovative new handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which domestic education policy is framed and influenced by global institutions and actors.
Surveys current debates about the role of education in a global polity, highlights key transnational policy actors, accessibly...
Green Japan
Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries around the world are trying to implement green strategies that will simultaneously curb emissions and spur economic growth.
Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic...
Privacy in the Modern Age
The Search for Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records...
China
Development and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
China has achieved significant socio-economic progress and has become a key player on the international stage after several decades of open-door and reform policy. Looking beyond China's transformation, this book focusses on the theme of governance which is widely regarded as the next most critical...
Learning While Governing
Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although their leaders and staff are not elected, bureaucratic agencies have the power to make policy decisions that carry the full force of the law. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty explore an issue central to political science and public administration: How do Congress...