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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Individual chapters highlight the unique issues related to policy making in this field - the important role of diverse Aboriginal organizations, the need to address Aboriginal and Treaty rights and the right to self-government, and the lack of governmental leadership - revealing a complex jurisdictional...
Selling War
The Role of the Mass Media in Hostile Conflicts from World War I to the "War on Terror"
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book is the first collection of essays to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from a multidisciplinary perspective and over an extended historical period. It is also the first textbook for students in this field, discussing a wide range of theoretical concepts...
Federalism on Trial
State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system," Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932, "that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." It is one...
by Felipe Amin Filomeno
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization. The author emphasizes the horizontal interactions between local governments, and vertical interactions...
by Ralph Horne
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.
Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by developing an interdisciplinary approach...
Environmental Policy in North America
Approaches, Capacity, and the Management of Transboundary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This comprehensive analysis of key issues in North American environmental policy provides an overview of how the US, Mexico, and Canada differ in their environmental management approaches and capacity levels, and how these differences play into cross-border cooperation on environmental problems. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
The authors assess the constitutional and partisan powers of Asian presidents, and analyse how they are used in actual policy-making processes. Country case studies on Afghanistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan analyze how their constitutional and partisan powers are used in actual policy-making processes.
Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy
Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This volume examines visual artists’ careers in the East German region of Saxony, as seen through the lens of cultural policy studies. The book discusses how myth binaries, memory layers and identity markers shaped artists professional lives in an interwoven and fluid approach following German unification,...
by Christopher Ham
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Systematically updated throughout, the 6th edition of this leading text takes the story of health policy to the end of the Blair era and into the early years of the Brown premiership. It offers a clear and thorough introduction to the history of the NHS, its funding and priorities, and to the process of policy making.
by Adrian Smith, Mariano Fressoli, Dinesh Abrol
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice...
Governing by Contract
Challenges and Opportunities for Public Managers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Is the public getting a good deal when the government contracts out the delivery of goods and services? Phillip Cooper attempts to get at the heart of this question by exploring what happens when public sector organizations—at the federal, state and local levels—form working relationships with...
Beyond Broadband Access
Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding “information societies”? And, more important, in shaping their policies? Beyond counting people with broadband access, how can economic and social metrics inform broadband policies, help evaluate their outcomes, and...
Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy
Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Environmental stories have all the elements of a good drama—villains that plunge the world into danger and heroes that fight for positive change. Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us illuminates the interplay between environmental policies...
The Environmental Case
Translating Values Into Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Answers to environmental issues are not black and white. Debates around policy are often among those with fundamentally different values, and the way that problems and solutions are defined plays a central role in shaping how those values are translated into policy.** The Environmental Case **captures...