Public Policy category: 4660 books
Plan Prediction
Which Policy is Preferred by Which People?
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
This book develops an innovative system, in the form of an "app", that harnesses the power of the internet to predict which sorts of people will prefer which policy in ANY planning situation.
It chronicles the accumulated research wisdom behind the system’s reasoning, along with...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of...
Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant
The Politics of Immigration Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2008
While the United States cherishes its identity as a nation of immigrants, the country’s immigration policies are historically characterized by cycles of openness and xenophobia. Outbursts of anti-immigrant sentiment among political leaders and in the broader public are fueled by a debate over who...
Cries of Crisis
Rethinking the Health Care Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health...
Beyond the Broker State
Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln both considered small business the backbone of American democracy and free enterprise. In Beyond the Broker State, Jonathan Bean considers the impact of this ideology on American politics from the Great Depression to the creation of the Small Business Administration...
Competitive Interests
Competition and Compromise in American Interest Group Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Competitive Interests does more than simply challenge the long-held belief that a small set of interests control large domains of the public policy making landscape. It shows how the explosion in the sheer number of new groups, and the broad range of ideological demands they advocate, have created a...
by George M. Woodwell, John P. Abraham, Michael C. MacCracken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
"This marvelously accessible book highlights a full color presentation of climate science with solutions. On the most highly-charged environmental policy issue of the 21st Century, top climate scientists join forces with 2013 Common Ground Student Essayists to expand public awareness and activism...
A River Captured
The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
A River Captured explores the controversial history of the Columbia River Treaty and its impact on the ecosystems, indigenous peoples, contemporary culture, provincial politics and recent history of southeastern British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.
Long lauded as a model of international...
by John McCormick
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in environmental policy; and a selection of specific environmental problems including their causes, the challenges and results of addressing them to date.
Neoliberal Environments
False Promises and Unnatural Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This volume explores the nexus between nature, markets, deregulation and valuation, using theoretically sharp and empirically rich real-world case studies and analyses of actually existing policy from around the world and across a range of resources. In short, it answers the questions: does neoliberalizing...
On Fire
The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal—explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.
For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein...
Civil Society Organizations, Advocacy, and Policy Making in Latin American Democracies
Pathways to Participation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
What explains civil society participation in policy making in Latin American democracies? Risley comparatively analyzes actors who have advocated for children's rights, the environment, and freedom of information in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Successful issue framing and effective alliance building are identified as 'pathways' to participation.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book is a comparative study of educational policies over the past two decades in Latin America. These policies, enacted through constitutional reforms, sought to protect the right of Indigenous peoples to a culturally inclusive education. The book assesses the impact of these policies on educational...
The Commons in History
Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.
The history of the commons—jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use—provides a useful context for current debates...