Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Rescuing EU Emissions Trading
The Climate Policy Flagship
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book draws upon a meticulous study of background documents and a string of fresh interviews to tell the fascinating story of how the EU’s climate flagship was significantly improved. The EU’s emissions trading system (ETS) covers almost half of its greenhouse gas emissions and has been hailed...
Policy Learning from Canada
Reforming Scandinavian Immigration and Integration Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model. To reveal how the Canadian immigration model has shaped the reform process in Scandinavia,...
Blaming the Government: Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies
Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This work examines the impact of macroeconomic conditions on public support for the government in Britain, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
by Dr. Steven J. Cann
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
In this new edition, author Steven J. Cann once again enlivens the topic of United States administrative law through the use of recent and "classic" legal cases to make it accessible and interesting to students. Administrative Law, Fourth Edition is an engaging casebook that presents a...
Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities
Insights from Agent-Based Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
As the study of environmental policy and justice becomes increasingly significant in today’s global climate, standard statistical approaches to gathering data have become less helpful at generating new insights and possibilities. None of the conventional frameworks easily allow for the empirical...
The Media War II
Evolution of the Media in Hungary 2010-2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The 2nd part of a two-part series describing the evolution of Media legislation in Hungary focusing on the period from 2010-2013. The author is a former member of the Hungarian Media Authority and noted television journalist. The purpose of the book is to provide a detailed account of some relevant...
Practical Program Evaluations
Getting from Ideas to Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Program evaluation requires attention to rationality, rigor, and careful methods. Yet precision and accuracy alone do not guarantee that program evaluations will be implemented. What prevents an evaluation from being thrown on a shelf to gather dust?
Author Gerald Emison, a practitioner with...
The Dynamics of Risk
Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and finance. In this important book, Louise Comfort provides an unprecedented examination of how twelve communities...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Government policy refers primarily to the actions planned and implemented by the executive branch of a state to meet its society’s needs. One of the most demanding areas both for policy makers and in terms of people’s expectations is health, which social analysts and historians place among the...
by D. Othniel Forte
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Liberian Administrative System has been a little understood system to many of its practitioners and technocrats. This is part of the poor governance regime that plagues the system. This is the book that discusses the system in an easy to understand manner. The author navigates his readers...
Transparencia y opacidad
Mediciones y prácticas organizacionales en municipios. Ilustrado con casos del Estado de México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 25, 2016
La corrupción es un problema que en México ha provocado la desconfianza, inseguridad, desigualdad y poco desarrollo económico. Por sus consecuencias en el desarrollo político y económico del país, desde hace varios años se han intentado diversas estrategias para combatirla o, por lo menos,...
State Politics and the Affordable Care Act
Choices and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
After a great deal of discussion and debate across all levels of government, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in March 2010. Since President Trump's election into office, the ACA has stayed in the headlines. Trump has continued to call for the replacement and repeal of...
by Gaetano Tuoro
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Sognare! A chi non è mai capitato di fare dei sogni, soprattutto a occhi aperti, pensando a come la nostra vita di tutti i giorni potrebbe essere migliore se solo avessimo dei politici e governanti migliori, degli amministratori migliori; se vivessimo in uno Stato che sapesse ascoltare i suoi cittadini...
by Tomás Montero, Virginia Domingo, Daniel Montesdeoca
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Un nuevo año y un nuevo número de nuestra revista ve la luz, con los mismos medios que el primero pero con más ilusión, si cabe.Nuevo año que ha venido plagado de noticias, especialmente por el anuncio que el recientemente nombrado Ministro de Justicia ha hecho....