Public Policy category: 4660 books
Managing the Fiscal Metropolis
The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities is an important book. This first comprehensive analysis of the financial condition, management, and policy making of local governments in a metropolitan region offers local governments currently dealing...
Payments for Ecological Services and Eco-Compensation
Practices and Innovations in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Policy makers in the People's Republic of China have been experimenting with new approaches to environmental management, resulting in a wide array of policy and program innovations under the broad heading of eco-compensation. Many of these are market-based instruments, particularly payments for ecological...
Political Change in Switzerland
From Stability to Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Political Change in Switzerland explains the striking recent political developments in Switzerland, an important but surprisingly little known and often misunderstood country, aiming to dissipate prevailing myths about Switzerland in its European context. Firstly, the title provides an analysis of...
Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy
Creative Collaborations in Arts and Humanities Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
This book develops important new insights into the conditions that enable effective collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and SMEs in the creative economy. Drawing on the work of Creativeworks London, an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy, this is an in-depth...
The 21st Century
Geopolitics, Democracy and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book examines a wide range of issues that are expected to play a dominant role in shaping the 21st century. Delineating key concerns in geopolitics, democracy and peace, it studies the functions and influences of educational institutions, progressive religious and social groups, communities,...
by James W. Conrad Jr., Susan Dudley, George M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional...
by Guo And Guo
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
The problems of corruption, social injustice, public unrest, disparity in income and regional development, shortage of energy and resources, unemployment, aging population, inadequate social and economic safety network, pollution, etc., are poised to jeopardize political stability and cast a shadow...
Climate Change and Carbon Markets
A Handbook of Emissions Reduction Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Climate change is an environmental problem of unprecedented complexity, not just in terms of its physical, social, economic and political impacts, but particularly in terms of the range of policy instruments being designed by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Climate Change and Carbon...
Power Failure
The Inside Story of Climate Politics Under Rudd and Gillard
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The inside story of a wicked problem … What should Australia do about climate change? A succession of leaders has tried to answer this question – and come unstuck. Politicians and public servants call it a “wicked” problem – one highly resistant to solution – and many approaches have been...
Southern Nation
Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil War
No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions...
European Regulatory Agencies in EU Decision-Making
Between Expertise and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
European Regulatory Agencies (ERAs) have become increasingly important features in EU decision-making. They aim to provide expert advice independent of political or economic considerations. This book explains whether and under what conditions ERAs comply with this scientific mandate. Expanding on...
The Other Rights Revolution
Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state--the sets of rules, legal precedents, and bureaucratic...
Politics of Memory
The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This book illustrates how a dominant political party, the Mapai, under the leadership of P.M. David Ben-Gurion, chose to ‘hug,’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families,’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party,...
The Governance of Sustainable Rural Renewal
A comparative global perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book examines examples of rural regeneration projects through the public administration lens, analysing how governance arrangements in rural settings work. In particular, the author focusses on the role of communities, business and tiers of governance (local, regional, national, and supra national)...