Public Affairs category: 1291 books
by Lucie Cerna
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This book examines the variation in high-skilled immigration policies in OECD countries. These countries face economic and social pressures from slowing productivity, ageing populations and pressing labour shortages. To address these inter-related challenges, the potential of the global labour market...
John Key's perspective on the welfare state from a social democratic point of view
Based on Key's speech before the 2008 General election
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 2,0, Massey University, New Zealand (School of People, Environment and Planning), course: Politics and Public Policy in New Zealand, language: English, abstract: There are two main stances concerning...
Fabricating the People
Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2009
Since the 1960s, hostility and mistrust toward the U.S. government has risen precipitously. At the same time, the field of public administration has wrestled with its own crisis of legitimacy. What is at the root of current antigovernment sentiment? Conventionally, two explanations for this problem...
Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism
Comparative Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
High performance during catastrophic terrorist events require the ability to assess and adapt capacity rapidly, restore or enhance disrupted or inadequate communications, utilize flexible decision making swiftly, and expand coordination and trust between multiple emergency and crisis response agencies....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases have been developed with input from mid-career professionals...
Copyfight
The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Widespread file sharing has led content industries – publishers and distributors of books, music, films, and software – to view their customers as growing threats to their survival. Content providers and their allies, especially the U.S. government, have pushed for stronger global copyright policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
South Korea is renowned as one of the success stories of fast economic development. The Korean developmental state was a highly efficient, meritocratic, and fully monopolized coercive force. These resources were skilfully leveraged to shape the direction of private sector actors towards strategic...
Choosing to Engage
The Scaffle method - Practical steps for purposeful stakeholder engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
The reality of day-to-day engagement practice is at odds with the importance of engagement and the regularity with which it happens. We need to build the capability of anyone planning engagement or consultation, in order to have this important work achieve its potential in influencing policies and...
Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions
Channeling and Containing Administrative Discretion
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
As first responders to public problems, administrators must survey situations, identify solutions, and occasionally make executive decisions that are binding upon the government as a whole. The ability for administrators to assert claims that orient the government in a particular direction is not...
Changing Climate Politics
U.S. Policies and Civic Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Changing Climate Politics provides a comprehensive account of the current state of government action and political participation in the United States on the issue of climate change. Author Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias evaluates the role of the federal government, the courts, states, and cities in tackling...
Seeing Red
HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service....
Disaster Resiliency
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue...
Governmental Financial Resilience
International Perspectives on How Local Governments Face Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local governments have maintained financial resilience in the face of the significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an international perspective, it provides an enlightening and practical analysis of the different capacities and...