Public Policy category: 4660 books
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy
Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
An examination of the politics of green jobs that foresees a potential ideological shift away from neoliberalism toward “developmentalism.”
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy is the first book to explore the broad implications of the convergence of industrial and environnmental policy...
The Future of Retail Financial Services
What Policy Mix For a Balanced Digital Transformation?
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In recent years, the digitalisation of retail financial services – retail payments, current/savings accounts, consumer/housing credit, car insurance, property insurance and health insurance – has accelerated significantly. While policy-makers are gradually creating the necessary conditions to...
A Journey through Governance
A Public Servant's Experience Under Six Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
A Journey through Governance: A Public Servant’s Experience under Six Presidents
Bureaucratic Ambition
Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration "entrepreneurs" do not profit from their innovations....
Aiming High
Progressive Politics in a High-Risk, High-Opportunity Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Progressive politics finds itself in an incredibly testing era. The accelerating economic, social and political shifts put vast pressure on progressive movements. Being electorally challenged by the conservative right and the radical left they struggle to appeal to voters or bear the fruits of their...
A Way Out
America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate...
by Felix R. FitzRoy, Elissaios Papyrakis
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The 2nd edition of An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy explains the key scientific, economic and policy issues related to climate change in a completely up-to-date introduction for anyone interested, and students at all levels in various related courses, including environmental...
by Karen Orren
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Policy is government’s response to changing times, the key to its successful adaptation. It tackles problems as they arise, from foreign relations and economic affairs to race relations and family affairs. Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek take a close look at this well-known reality of modern governance: the expanded domain of the “policy state.”
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
An original contribution to our understanding of a phenomenon that is reshaping the world, this title thoroughly discusses the transformation of the energy security policy arena brought on by two dramatic developments – the increased potential availability of energy in many parts of the world on...
by M. Pawar
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Manohar Pawar discusses the relevance and importance of social policy for water issues. By analysing several interrelated perspectives on water, he suggests core values as bases for formulating and implementing social policies so as to provide universal free access to safe drinking water for all, particularly for the most poor and disadvantaged.
Chinese Environmental Governance
Dynamics, Challenges, and Prospects in a Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In this edited volume, leading environmental policy experts from China, USA, and Europe provide a contemporary view of Chinese environmental policy, analyzing current discussions among various actors and agencies. The book covers a wide range of topics including the gap between national policy goals...
The Politics of Party Policy
From Members to Legislators
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Examining the complexities and tensions in relations between party members and parliamentarians through an in-depth analysis of the processes that shape the development of party policy in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, this book Presents new evidence on the challenges facing parties in encouraging citizen participation in policy development.
Scholars, Policymakers, and International Affairs
Finding Common Cause
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Scholars, Policymakers, and International Affairs shows how to build mutually beneficial connections between the worlds of ideas and action, analysis and policy. Drawing on contributions from top international scholars with policy experience in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, and Latin America,...
When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics
Running the Numbers on Health Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Since the 1960s, America's policymaking system has transitioned from one in which leaders like Lyndon Johnson could simply disparage the concept of budget projections to one in which policymakers consciously manipulate cost estimates. Paradoxically, the very safeguards put in place to thwart economically...