Public Policy category: 4660 books
by Walter A. Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Walter A. Rosenbaum’s classic Environmental Politics and Policy, Tenth Edition once again provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues. The first half of the book sets needed context and describes...
Managing Uncertainty in Crisis
Exploring the Impact of Institutionalization on Organizational Sensemaking
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book studies the variety of organizational strategies selected to cope with critical uncertainties during crises. This research formulates and applies an institutional sense-making model to explain the selection of strategies for coping with uncertainties during crises to answer the question...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
American politics is most notably characterized by the heated debates on constitutional interpretation at the core of its ever-raging culture wars, and the coverage of these lingering disputes are often inundated with public-opinion polls. Yet for all their prominence in contemporary society, there...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this volume, several leading foreign policy and international relations experts consider the long term prospects and implications of US foreign policy as it has been shaped and practiced during the presidency of George W. Bush.
The essays in this collection - based on the research of well-respected...
Civic Engagement in Food System Governance
A comparative perspective of American and British local food movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 documents, interviews, and participant observations, and provides the first descriptive history of local food movement national policy achievements in the...
Dams and Development in China
The Moral Economy of Water and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
China is home to half of the world's large dams and adds dozens more each year. The benefits are considerable: dams deliver hydropower, provide reliable irrigation water, protect people and farmland against flooding, and produce hydroelectricity in a nation with a seeimingly insatiable appetite for...
by Ronald Bailey, James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...
by Vera Vogelsang-Coombs
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This book provides a defense of democratic politics in American public service and offers the political ethics of public service as a realistic and optimistic alternative to the cynical American view toward politics and public service. The author’s alternative helps career public servants regain...
Speaking Green with a Southern Accent
Environmental Management and Innovation in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they...
Housing Policy in Latin American Cities
A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas...
Communications Research in Action
Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A synergy between academia and activism has long been a goal of both scholars and advocacy organizations in communications research. The essays in Communications Research in Action demonstrate, for the first time in one volume, how an effective partnership between the two can contribute to a more...
Steering from the Centre
Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform. Steering from the Centre details how chief executives in ten Western democracies have responded to governance challenges in the wake of...
by Daniel Araya
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The concept of the 'smart city' as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse. Despite its expanding influence, however, there is little consensus on the precise meaning of a 'smart city'. One reason for this ambiguity...
Labour's Immigration Policy
The Making of the Migration State
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This book explains how and why the New Labour governments transformed Britain’s immigration system from a highly restrictive regime to one of the most expansive in Europe, otherwise known as the Managed Migration policy. It offers the first in-depth and candid account of this period of dramatic...