Public Policy category: 4660 books
by Christine Crudo Blackburn, Paul E. Lenze Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book highlights the elements of armed conflict that cause the re-emergence of infectious disease in conflict-affected countries and how the breakdown of public health infrastructure within a country leads to public health challenges for those in countries hosting displaced persons. By examining...
Smarter Planet?
IBM's Climate Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
On October 19, 2011, Sharon Nunes participated in The National Climate Seminar, a series of webinars sponsored by Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. The online seminars provide a forum for leading scientists, writers, and other experts to talk about critical issues regarding climate...
Kissinger the Negotiator
Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Foreword by Henry Kissinger
In this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors—all experienced negotiators—offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time.
Politicians, world leaders, and business...
by Dennis A. Henigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
“Guns don't kill people; people kill people.”“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”“An armed society is a polite society.”Who hasn't heard these engaging assertions, time and time again? Burned into the national consciousness by years of targeted, disciplined messaging by...
America Needs Talent
Attracting, Educating & Deploying the 21st-Century Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
"This book should be on the desk of every 2016 Presidential candidate." —Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New AmericaWith falling wages and rising inequality, persistent unemployment, failing schools, and broken cities, have America’s best days come and gone?In America Needs...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
On September 21, 2011, David Roberts participated in The National Climate Seminar, a series of webinars sponsored by Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. The online seminars provide a forum for leading scientists, writers, and other experts to talk about critical issues regarding climate...
Bombs in the Backyard
Atomic Testing and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada, providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test Site's beginnings. Fifty years later, author A. Costandina Titus reviews contemporary nuclear policy issues concerning the...
Environmental Law and Policy in Wales
Responding to Local and Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
This book is a collective academic response from environmental law scholars sharing an interest in Welsh perspectives on today’s local and global environmental challenges. The editors brought colleagues together at a ground-breaking colloquium at Swansea University in April 2011, seeking to foster...
Getting Back to Full Employment
A Better Bargain for Working People
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
While most people intuitively know that low unemployment is important to job seekers, they may not realize that high levels of employment actually would make an enormous difference in the lives of large segments of the workforce who already have jobs. Particularly in an era of historically high wage...
The Politics of Health Policy Reform in the UK
England’s Permanent Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book explains the politics of thirty years of ‘market reform’ in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual. Paton shows how each subsequent reform has been shaped by the confusion left by the previous reform. The long-term ideology has been anti-statist but policy-making...
Unbroken Government
Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development. Utilizing policy areas as diverse as human spaceflight, clean air, homeland security, and foreign policy, this work shows how these patterns manifest themselves in the policymaking process.
Down to the Wire
Confronting Climate Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent...
The Reproach of Hunger
Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Hailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised.
Can we provide enough...