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Combating AIDS
Communication Strategies in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
·****· Awarded the Annual Award for Distinguished Scholarly Book in Applied Communication, by the National Communication Association, USA**·****·**
`This gripping narrative not only documents the history of humankind's interaction with a clever virus, it brings to the forefront...
by Kari Karppinen
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Access to a broad range of different political views and cultural expressions is often regarded as a self-evident value in both theoretical and political debates on media and democracy. Pluralism is commonly accepted as a guiding principle of media policy in addressing media concentration, the role...
Senator Pete Domenici's Legacy 2012
The Proceedings from the 2012 Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) served in the U.S. Senate for over thirty-six years. He had a long legacy of contributions to New Mexico as well as the entire country. The Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute, located at New Mexico State University, holds an annual conference on Domenici’s legacy...
Singapore's Health Care System
What 50 Years Have Achieved
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but its standards of health care, not only in curative medicine but also in prevention, are exemplary. Fifty years ago, the infant mortality rate (IMR) was 26 per thousand live...
Dust-Up
Asbestos Litigation and the Failure of Commonsense Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
In an era of polarization, narrow party majorities, and increasing use of supermajority requirements in the Senate, policy entrepreneurs must find ways to reach across the aisle and build bipartisan coalitions in Congress. One such coalition-building strategy is the “politics of efficiency,” or reform...
The Politics of Information
Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
How does the government decide what’s a problem and what isn’t? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the “paradox of search.” If policy makers don’t look for problems, they won’t find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry...
Cinematic Prophylaxis
Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
A timely contribution to the fields of film history, visual cultures, and globalization studies, Cinematic Prophylaxis provides essential historical information about how the representation of biological contagion has affected understandings of the origins and vectors of disease. Kirsten Ostherr tracks...
Community-Based Participatory Research for Health
Advancing Social and Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The definitive guide to CBPR concepts and practice, updated and expanded
Community-Based Participatory Research for Health: Advancing Health and Social Equity provides a comprehensive reference for this rapidly growing field in participatory and community-engaged research. Hailed as effective...
Called to Serve
The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Called to Serve, founding director Charles F. Hermann and writer Sally Dee Wade chronicle the twenty-year history of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, which has rapidly evolved into one of the nation’s major professional graduate schools of public and international affairs.
The...
The Trusted Leader
Building the Relationships that Make Government Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Improving government on a macro level is only possible with public managers who herald change on a micro level. While many studies of government reform focus on new policies and programs, these public managers—building relationships built on trust—are the real drivers behind many successful reforms.
In...
by L Shanthakumari Sunder
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Values and Influence of Religion in Public Administration is a study of the influence of religion on the values and ethics of the ‘steel frame of India’—the Indian Civil Service (ICS) and its successor, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Examining pertinent subjects like the historical...
Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education
American Women Learn to Speak
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation...
Do Think Tanks Matter?, Second Edition
Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Do Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This perception...
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural...