Public Policy category: 4660 books
Climate Adaptation Policy and Evidence
Understanding the Tensions between Politics and Expertise in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical considerations. Under the evidence-based mandate, both experts and non-experts often assume that policy problems are sufficiently tractable and that...
Struggling for Social Citizenship
Disabled Canadians, Income Security, and Prime Ministerial Eras
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation...
Dealing with Differences
Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is a perennial challenge for activists, politicians,...
Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy
Arguments for a Minimum Wage
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor it and argue it improves the...
Business in a Changing Climate
Explaining Industry Support for Carbon Pricing
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Climate change skeptics and business pundits alike are convinced that any public policy instruments used to curtail environmental degradation are antithetical to the interests of the corporate community. However, many companies have actually come out in favour of carbon pricing.
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Learning in Public Policy
Analysis, Modes and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
This book explains the causal pathways, the mechanisms and the politics that define the quantity and quality of policy learning. A rich collection of case studies structured around a strong conceptual architecture, the volume comprises fresh, original, empirical evidence for a large number of countries,...
The National Environmental Policy Act
An Agenda for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1999
The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College
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Providing a Sure Start
How government discovered early childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
This book tells the story of Sure Start, one of the flagship programmes of the last government. It tells how Sure Start was set up, the numerous changes it went through, and how it has changed the landscape of services for all young children in England. Offering insight into the key debates on services...
Using Evidence to Inform Policy
Report of Impact and Policy Conference: Evidence in Governance, Financial Inclusion, and Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
To promote evidence-based policy making, the Asian Development Bank partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2012 to deliver a 3-day conference on impact evaluation and public policy in Bangkok. Over 200 scholars, practitioners and policy makers...
British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy
Neoliberalism, Citizenship and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point. Unlike most books on broadcasting,...
Prostitution Policy
Revolutionizing Practice through a Gendered Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
While widely acknowledged as the world's oldest profession, and often glamorized or demonized in the media, prostitution is a critical part of American culture and its economy, as well as a social problem in need of an updated public policy.
In Prostitution Policy, Lenore Kuo combines feminist social...
by Yanzhong Huang
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in...
Governance in Russian Regions
A Policy Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book investigates the emergence and working of governance networks in contemporary Russia. Drawing on a case study design, it provides a novel comparison of seven policy issues each investigated across various Russian regions or over time. Its authors reveal that governance networks are a ubiquitous...
Public Administration in the 21st Century
A Global South Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century.
This book examines the transformations happening in global societies, the economy and in politics, to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic...