Public Policy category: 4660 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
The Munk Debates is Canada's premier international debate series, a highly anticipated cultural event and feast of ideas. Launched in 2008 by philanthropists Peter and Melanie Munk, these debates bring together some of the world's greatest thinkers to discuss the most pressing political, social, and...
by Emily Ying Yang Chan
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered the global population increasingly vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters. With a primary focus on medical and public health humanitarian response...
by Stuart Shapiro, Debra Borie-Holtz
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Regulation has become a front-page topic recently, often referenced by politicians in conjunction with the current state of the U.S. economy. Yet despite regulation’s increased presence in current politics and media, The Politics of Regulatory Reform argues that the regulatory process and its influence...
A Phenomenology of Institutions
Relationality and Governance in China and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity. China is a case in point. An amalgam of socialist, capitalist, corporatist, and pluralist characteristics, China's systems of governance defy classification using extant categories in the...
Powerless Science?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health...
The Perils of Federalism
Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Much of the existing research on race and crime focuses on the manipulation of crime by political elites or the racially biased nature of crime policy. In contrast, Lisa L. Miller here specifically focuses on political and socio-legal institutions and actors that drive these developments and their...
Varieties of Legal Order
The Politics of Adversarial and Bureaucratic Legalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Across the globe, law in all its variety is becoming more central to politics, public policy, and everyday life. For over four decades, Robert A. Kagan has been a leading scholar of the causes and consequences of the march of law that is characteristic of late 20th and early 21st century governance....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level. Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume...
Protecting Immigrant Rights in Mexico
Understanding the State-Civil Society Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. Laura González-Murphy offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies...
Refinancing the College Dream
Access, Equal Opportunity, and Justice for Taxpayers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
During the 1990s, rising tuition costs and inadequate federal grant aid prevented more than a million otherwise qualified, low-income students from continuing their education past high school. Education policy expert Edward P. St. John is troubled by this situation and argues that equal access to...
by Tim Stroshane
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights...
Global Climate Change Policy and Carbon Markets
Transition to a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In this book, Richard Rosenzweig, describes the policies proposed and adopted in the first generation of climate change policy-making including the Kyoto Protocol and the carbon markets and assesses their failure to halt the increases of rising emissions of greenhouse gases. Carefully structured throughout,...
Choosing to Engage
The Scaffle method - Practical steps for purposeful stakeholder engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
The reality of day-to-day engagement practice is at odds with the importance of engagement and the regularity with which it happens. We need to build the capability of anyone planning engagement or consultation, in order to have this important work achieve its potential in influencing policies and...
Changing Climate Politics
U.S. Policies and Civic Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Changing Climate Politics provides a comprehensive account of the current state of government action and political participation in the United States on the issue of climate change. Author Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias evaluates the role of the federal government, the courts, states, and cities in tackling...