Public Policy category: 4660 books
Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy
Federalism in the United States, Brazil, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Since the Kyoto Protocol’s signing in 1997 the United States has been the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw. In the United States, air pollution policymaking starts and ends with the states, whose governmental units implement federal programs.
But we find ourselves in uncharted...
External Governance as Security Community Building
The Limits and Potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was initially intended to create ‘a ring of friends surrounding the Union, from Morocco to Russia and the Black Sea’ (Prodi, 2002). Today, however, the ever-worsening security situation in the region clearly shows that the aim has not been achieved. With...
European Governance
Policy Making between Politicization and Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This collection provides a balanced evaluation of multi-level governance. Written by international experts of policy-making in the European Union, each contribution builds on common conceptual definitions, critically debating their adaptation to policy-specific contexts and investigating their usefulness...
Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms
A Guide to Economic and Political Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Countries around the world are spending up to $500 billion per year on subsidising fossil fuel consumption. By some estimates, the G20 countries alone are spending around another $450 billion on subsidising fossil fuel production. In addition, the indirect social welfare costs of these subsidies have...
Global Education Policy, Impact Evaluations, and Alternatives
The Political Economy of Knowledge Production
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform. After elaborating on what it means to approach the intersection of these issues from a political economy perspective,...
by Robert H. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Making of Federal Coal Policy provides a unique record of—as well as important future perspectives on—one of the most significant ideological conflicts in national policymaking in the last decade. The management of federally owned coal, almost one-third of the U.S.'s total coal resources,...
Managing the Environmental Crisis
Incorporating Competing Values in Natural Resource Administration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Second edition
With a new foreword by Lynton Keith Caldwell
In Managing the Environmental Crisis William R. Mangun and Daniel H. Henning provide a balanced and comprehensive guide to the management of complex environmental and natural resource policy issues. Taking into account new developments,...
by Adam B. Masters
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book explores how professional and organisational cultures influence global public-private partnerships, which form a key element of global governance. Using case studies, the partnerships of three international government organisations – the International Telecommunication Union, Interpol...
Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect
Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies. However, the capacity of many countries for action is limited and may result in a ‘boomerang effect’, defined as the unintended negative...
Interpretative Policy-Analyse
Eine Einführung
Language: German
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Mit der interpretativen Wende vollzieht sich seit einigen Jahren eine Öffnung der Policy-Analyse für die diskursive Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit. Politikverläufe stellen sich in diesem Verständnis als Interpretationsprozesse und Interpretationskämpfe dar. Angesichts der Heterogenität der unter...
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines...
Theology and Public Philosophy
Four Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America’s public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that...
Hydrocarbon Hucksters
Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public stew with myths about...
Public Value
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
This text provides a concise and internationalized restatement of the public value approach, an assessment of its impact to date - in theory and practice - and of its particular relevance to the challenges of public management in a time of crisis and austerity.