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Harm Reduction
A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Since the First International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, held in 1990, the term 'harm reduction' has gained wide currency in the areas of public health and drug policy. Previously the field was characterized by heated struggle between prohibition and legalization of addictive...
Policy-Making at the European Periphery
The Case of Croatia
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book examines Croatia's economic and political transformation over the last 30 years. It brings together the best political scientists, macroeconomists and public finance experts from Croatia to provide an in-depth analysis of the Croatian policy-making context and the impact of Europeanization...
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...
The Politics of Evidence (Open Access)
From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast...
Technology, Culture, and Public Policy
Critical Lessons from Finland
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
In a relatively short time, Finland has transformed a society of approximately 5.3 million people into one of the most educated and technologically sophisticated in the world, while maintaining relative political stability and an enviable quality of life among its people. In all comparative measures...
by Ami J. Abou-bakr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, generated a great deal of discussion in public policy and disaster management circles about the importance of increasing national resilience to rebound from catastrophic events. Since the majority of physical and virtual...
A Legacy of Innovation
Governors and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
From La Follette to Faubus, from Rockefeller to Reagan, U.S. governors have addressed some of the most contentious policy questions of the twentieth century. In doing so, they not only responded to dramatic changes in the political landscape, they shaped that landscape. The influence of governors...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This Handbook offers a systematic review of state-of-the-art knowledge on public administration in Europe. Covering the theoretical, epistemological and practical aspects of the field, it focuses on how public administration operates and is studied in European countries. In sixty-three chapters, written...
Housing Policy at a Crossroads
The Why, How, and Who of Assistance Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, American housing policy has focused on building homes for the poor. But seventy-five years of federal housing projects have not significantly ameliorated crime, decreased unemployment, or improved health; recent reforms have failed to revitalize low-income neighborhoods...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science," the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an engaging and accessible...
Evidence for Public Policy Design
How to Learn from Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Learning from the successes and failures of others is a necessity in the field of public sector innovation. This book develops guidelines for policymakers, practitioners and policy analysts to understand what drives policy success and to transfer innovations from a source case to a target case with a view to assisting effective policy design.
Coordinating Global Health Policy Responses
From HIV/AIDS to Ebola and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels. First, at the level of zoonosis, to which HIV and Ebola, as well as H1Nn, MERS-CoV, and SARS belong, and which promise to continue to emerge. Second, at the level of the spread of these across bio-,...
by Derek A. Epp
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the Red Scare seized the American public. While President Eisenhower cautioned restraint, his hand was forced, and NASA’s budget had increased five thousand percent over its pre-Sputnik levels by the time President Kennedy proposed landing a man on the moon....
The New and Changing Transatlanticism
Politics and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The European Union and the US are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), with potentially enormous economic gains for both partners. Experts from the European Union and the US explore not only the groundwork laid for TTIP under the "New Transatlanticism,"...