Public Policy category: 4660 books
EU Railway Policy-Making
On Track?
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Through policy and intervention national governments in Europe have long held an active interest in railways, an interest that has transferred to the supranational level via the EU commission. This book explores why the EU Commission has been so slow in creating an EU railway policy, pointing the finger at strong resistance by national governments
The Conflicted Superpower
America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in high-tech...
Culture, Economy and Politics
The Case of New Labour
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This book focuses on cultural policy in the UK between 1997 and 2010 under the Labour party (or 'New Labour', as it was temporarily rebranded). It is based on interviews with major figures and examines a range of policy areas including the arts, creative industries, copyright, film policy, heritage, urban regeneration and regional policy.
by Christopher Findlay, Shujiro Urata
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia as regional economies rush to catch up with the rest of the world — but what difference do they make? This book answers that question by providing an up-to-date assessment of the quality and impact of FTAs in the region. Featuring a collection...
Reframing the Problem of Climate Change
From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field. It also gives an important and original perspective on interpreting climate action and provides...
Performing Policy
How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This book demonstrates how and why a majority of US artists must now function as producers of their original works, as well as creators. The author shows how, over the span of 20 years, the USA's cultural policy sector radically redefined US artists' practices without cohesively articulating the expectations of artists' new role.
Reducing Toxics
A New Approach To Policy And Industrial Decisionmaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In Reducing Toxics, leading experts address industry, technology, health, and policy issues and explore the potential for pollution prevention at the industry and facility levels. They consider both the regulatory and institutional settings of toxics reduction initiatives, prescribe strategies for...
Reclaiming local democracy
A progressive future for local government
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Austerity has left local government struggling to meet the demands for local services. In this context, this book asks ‘what are the fundamental principles that should guide decision-making by local councillors and officers?’ It seeks to move the agenda from ‘what works?’ to ‘what should...
Unfriendly Fire
How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
When the "don't ask, don't tell" policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes...
Globalization and the Challenges of Public Administration
Governance, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Ethics, E-Governance and Sustainability in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration interchangeably to argue that the tasks of implementation require the cooperation...
No Place Distant
Roads and Motorized Recreation on America's Public Lands
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
While many of the roads on public lands provide a great service with relatively little harm, others create significant problems -- from habitat fragmentation to noise pollution to increased animal mortality -- with little or no benefit.In No Place Distant, author David Havlick presents for the first...
Republic in Peril
American Empire and the Liberal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In Republic in Peril, David C. Hendrickson advances a powerful critique of American policy since the end of the Cold War. America's outsized military spending and global commitments, he shows, undermine rather than uphold international order. They raise rather than reduce the danger of war, imperiling...
Public Confidence in Criminal Justice
A History and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system. The focus on measuring public confidence in criminal justice by researchers, politicians and criminal justice...
Climate Change Policy in the European Union
Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The European Union (EU) has emerged as a leading governing body in the international struggle to govern climate change. The transformation that has occurred in its policies and institutions has profoundly affected climate change politics at the international level and within its 27 Member States....