Public Policy category: 4660 books
Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy
Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea...
by Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would “become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics.”...
Substance not spin
An insider's view of success and failure in government
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Why does policy succeed or fail? Nick Raynsford, a former MP, Minister and campaigner, tells us how it looks from the front line of policymaking. Based on his vast personal experience at the very heart of government and the voluntary sector, Raynsford explores what works and what doesn’t in making...
Education and Public Policy in the European Union
Crossing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This book fleshes out activities and initiatives in the field of education from across areas of European Union competence in order to highlight the extent to which education and training have penetrated the European Community’s policymaking since its creation. Policies are all too often placed in...
by Jonas Pieper
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state. It compares for-profit firms as providers of hospital services and pensions and investigates the new private actors in social policy provision, whether they become political actors, and the extent of their power...
by Berry Tholen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged. While many scientific policy advisors routinely present themselves as neutral or value free scientists, here is demonstrated that the ideal of scientific integrity as neutrality...
Partnerships in International Policy-Making
Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals. Multi-stakeholder initiatives, private-public partnership, sub-contracting, political alliances, hybrid coalitions, multi-sectoral networks, pluralist co-governance, and...
Policy Capacity and Governance
Assessing Governmental Competences and Capabilities in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies. The book is structured into a series of sections on policy capacity in theory and practice, each focusing on a specific...
The Other Invisible Hand
Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to...
The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Reissued with a new introduction by B. Guy Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis is a classic work of the Public Policy discipline. Wildavsky’s emphasis on the values involved in public policies, as well as the need to build political understandings about the nature of policy, are as important for 21st century policymaking as they were in...
by Lijun Yang, Wei Shan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
New Humanism and Global Governance is the first in this subject to study how a variety of factors related to globalization will shape the future of the human community. It discusses the major challenges to today's world order and governance, as well as international experience in responding to these...
Guns, Gun Control, and Elections
The Politics and Policy of Firearms
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Gun-related violence remains an intractable problem despite a decline in the past decade. Some believe the solution lies in stricter gun control laws while others think these measures would be ineffective or counter-productive. Guns, Gun Control, and Elections examines current gun control policy and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The "Israeli History, Politics and Society" series comprises multidisciplinary studies that range from elections and the Yom Kippur war to the search for a true Israeli identity and the various initiatives to foment or prevent the peace process. This volume brings together a set of articles...
by Sara R. Rinfret, Michelle C. Pautz
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, increasing partisan rhetoric, and escalating debates about federal/state relations....