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A Plague of Prisons
The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The public health expert and prison reform activist offers “meticulous analysis” on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration (The Washington Post).
An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate...
The Case against Fluoride
How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
When the U.S. Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1950, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, six decades later and after most countries have rejected the practice, more than 70 percent of Americans, as well as 200 million people worldwide, are drinking fluoridated water....
Police Services
Leadership and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of policing against the backdrop of massive cuts in public expenditure experienced and the changing landscape of policing. The challenges of funding, training, online-crimes and cultural transformation are now felt...
Columns to Characters
The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter...
by Victoria D. Weisfeld, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
This tenth edition of a classic textbook, updated in November 2013 with a free, downloadable chapter on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), presents the critical issues and core challenges surrounding our health care system. Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, it includes the contributions...
Racial Taxation
Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869–1973
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer citizenship--the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh shows how tax policy and taxpayer...
Intergovernmental Relations in Transition
Reflections and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The field of intergovernmental relations has changed substantially over the past five decades. It maintains a critical and evolving role in the US federal system as well as in public policy and administration. Building upon the legacy of Deil S.Wright’s scholarship, this collection of essays by...
Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi
Social, Political and Environmental Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s northeast coastline on March 11, 2011. It provides riveting insights into the social and political landscape...
Financing the EU Budget
Moving Forward or Backwards?
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Often described as complex, opaque and unfair, the EU budget financing system is an “unfinished journey.” One of the most critical issues is that EU revenue, drawn from the cashbox of national taxation, remains impalpable to the general public.
The nature of the EU as a union of states...
Journalism in Crisis
Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology.
Public policies...
by XiaoHu Wang, Evan M. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Through the use of critical thinking questions and data-based exercises, Evan Berman and Xiaohu Wang’s Exercising Essential Statistics helps students apply the techniques described in Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, Fourth Edition. This accompanying workbook gives students...
These Estimable Courts
Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In These Estimable Courts, Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates explore how citizens feel about the government institutions at the front lines of jurisprudential policy-making in America - our nation's state and local courts. The book's central focus concerns a primary question of governance: why do people...
Faith in Schools?
Autonomy, Citizenship, and Religious Education in the Liberal State
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools? Should it fund them? What principles should govern these decisions in a society marked by religious and cultural pluralism? In Faith in Schools?, Ian MacMullen tackles these important questions through both political and educational theory,...
Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy
Practical Lessons in Design and Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders,...