Public Policy category: 4660 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is the first report, issued in September 2015, of the Obama White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST): a cross-agency group of experts in applied behavioral...
Making Electricity Resilient
Risk and Security in a Liberalized Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Energy risk and security have become topical matters in Western and international policy discussions; ranging from international climate change mitigation to investment in energy infrastructures to support economic growth and more sustainable energy provisions. As such, ensuring the resilience of...
Community Development and Public Administration Theory
Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines. Moreover, the concept of community development has been historically abstracted, not only in the way the concept has been conceptualized in academic studies, but also by the...
Public Produce
Cultivating Our Parks, Plazas, and Streets for Healthier Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Plum and pear trees shade park benches in Kamloops, British Columbia. Tomatoes and cucumbers burst forth from planters at City Hall in Provo, Utah. Strawberries and carrots flourish along the sunny sidewalks of a Los Angeles neighborhood.The idea that public land could be used creatively to grow fresh...
by Trevor Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This Brief discusses the current policy environment in which the United States space program operates and proposes an industry-government partnership as a long-term policy solution. Since the Reagan administration, American space policy has increasingly sought to involve private sector operators for...
Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints
Assessing the Multiple-Streams Framework
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Policy issues have grown ever more complex and politically more contestable. So governments in advanced democracies often do not understand the problems they have to deal with and do not know how to solve them. Thus, rational problem-solving models are highly unconvincing. Conversely, the Multiple-Streams...
Speaking Power to Truth
Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals—intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is rooted...
The Trojan Horse
The Growth of Commercial Sponsorship
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served...
by Noralou Roos, Sharon Manson Singer, Kathleen O'Grady
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Canadian Health Policy in the News is a compendium of the commentaries (or OpEds) we have published in major newspapers across the country since the birth of EvidenceNetwork.ca in April 2011 up to October 2012. It is a timely, balanced and non-partisan snapshot of what’s new and controversial...
The Social Process of Lobbying
Cooperation or Collusion?
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Despite a wealth of theorizing and research about each concept, lobbying and norms still raise a number of interesting issues. Why do lobbyists and politicians engage in cooperative behavior? How does cooperative behavior in lobbying affect policy making? If democratic participation is good, why do...
Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000
Major Documents and Speeches (Rideau Series #1)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Canada's role on the world stage has increased dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century. Once an offshoot of England, we have grown to become a recognized voice internationally.
Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000 is a collection of key documents and speeches tracing the evolution...
Dams, Migration and Authoritarianism in China
The Local State in Yunnan
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Past studies on the Chinese state point towards the inherent adaptability, effectiveness and overall stability of authoritarian rule in China. The key question addressed here is how this adaptive capacity plays out at the local level in China, clarifying the extent to which local state actors are...
by Dana Lee Baker, Brandon Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book focuses on neuroethics in higher education in the United States. After introducing readers to the philosophical and policy foundations of the neuroethics of higher education, this book explores essential conundrums in the neuroethical practice of higher education in modern democracies. Focusing...
Intelligent Health Policy
Theory, Concept and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book provides a general overview of intelligence in health policy, health-care organizations and health services in the light of the current EU digital agenda, which aims to make health data and e-health tools publicly available. The first part analyses the implications of knowledge management...