Public Policy category: 4660 books
Administrative Law in the Political System
Law, Politics, and Regulatory Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Emphasizing that administrative law must be understood within the context of the political system, this core text combines a descriptive systems approach with a social science focus. Author Kenneth F. Warren explains the role of administrative law in shaping, guiding, and restricting the actions of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Policy-makers are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations. Variations and trends in climatic factors and extreme weather events impact many health outcomes, including malaria, heat stress and undernutrition.
Climate...
Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library...
Planning with Complexity
An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In an era of rapid change, uncertainty, and hyperpartisanship, when wicked problems abound, tools for solving public problems are more essential than ever. The authors lay out a new theory for collaborative practice in planning, public administration, and public policy. Planning with Complexity provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Indonesia over the past two decades has embarked on a process of decentralization as part of a broader process of democratization, which followed earlier periods of centralized governance and authoritarian rule across the archipelago. The purpose of this book is to begin to explore the connections...
Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China
New Socialist Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
At the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods, underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese countryside were increasingly seen as posing a manifest threat to social harmony and economic and political stability. At that time the term "three...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book analyzes policy-making and implementation in Indonesia. Conducted at the School of Government and Public Policy (Indonesia), the research presented here provides original insights into the country’s public policy processes by exploring the conditions on the ground that shape implementation.
The...
Green Inside Activism for Sustainable Development
Political Agency and Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change. The phenomenon of inside activism has been shown to be crucial for green policy change and...
Drugs and Drug Policy
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises...
Accounting for Culture
Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural...
Public Policymaking by Private Organizations
Challenges to Democratic Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
How private groups increasingly set public policy and regulate lives-with little public knowledge or attention.
From accrediting doctors and lawyers to setting industry and professional standards, private groups establish many of the public policies in today’s advanced societies. Yet this...
Local knowledge matters
Power, context and policy making in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used...
Framing Environmental Disaster
Environmental Advocacy and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent underground oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is considered by many to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Interest groups, public officials, and media organizations have spent considerable time documenting the economic and...
Cultural Policy
Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary...