Public Policy category: 4660 books
Challenging choices
Ideology, consumerism and policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Choice pervades our society: it is founded on political rights to choose and our economy on market choices, but we have now reached the point where choice is extended almost everywhere. This lively and topical book provides a critique of choice in contemporary society and policy, arguing that we can...
Public Sector Employment Regimes
Transformations of the State as an Employer
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform. It demonstrates how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of public service, contesting the idea that the state remains a 'model' employer.
by Rune Ervik, Nanna Kildal
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The ’Golden Age' of the welfare state in Europe was characterised by a strengthening of social rights as citizens became increasingly protected through the collective provision of income security and social services. The oil crisis, inflation and high unemployment of the 1970s largely saw the end...
The Energy Conundrum
Climate Change, Global Prosperity, and the Tough Decisions We Have to Make
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive and balanced account of global energy policy; covering moral, political, social, technical and economic aspects of the subject. While The Energy Conundrum does not offer easy solutions, it provides the facts and evidence gathered from sources in government, industry,...
Pricing Carbon in Australia
Contestation, the State and Market Failure
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy. A decade on, the experiment in carbon trading is failing. Carbon market schemes have been plagued by problems and resistance to carbon pricing has come from...
Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation
Wartime mobilisation as a model for action?
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2°C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply.This book examines how such rapid mitigation can proceed – in the scale and speed required for effective climate action – using an analogy provided by the mobilisation for a war...
Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities
Insights from Agent-Based Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
As the study of environmental policy and justice becomes increasingly significant in today’s global climate, standard statistical approaches to gathering data have become less helpful at generating new insights and possibilities. None of the conventional frameworks easily allow for the empirical...
The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl
Policy Lessons For A New Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The controversy over the managemof national forests in the Pacific Northwest vividly demonstrates the shortcomings of existing manageminstitutions and natural resource policies. The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl explores the American policymaking process through the case of the spotted owl -- a case that...
Frontiers of Space Risk
Natural Cosmic Hazards & Societal Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
CHOICE Recommended Title, March 2019
This book brings together diverse new perspectives on current and emerging themes in space risk, covering both the threats to Earth-based activities arising from space events (natural and man-made), and those inherent in space activity itself. Drawing on...
The challenge of sustainability
Linking politics, education and learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This timely and accessible book explores the links between politics, learning and sustainability. Its central focus is the future of people and the planet itself. The challenges that we face in combatting climate change and building a more sustainable world are complex and the book argues that if...
by Jonathan P. Caulkins, Angela Hawken, Beau Kilmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Debate around drugs and the policies, taxes, and regulations that surround them have left citizens and officials with questions on what can be done about both illicit drugs and marijuana. The foremost public and scholarly authorities on U.S. drug policy provide a truly balanced and comprehensive overview...
Delivering Policy
The Contested Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Are assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) a medical issue or a matter of public policy, subject to restrictions? Francesca Scala employs the concept of boundary work to explain the protracted debates that ensued when Canada appointed a royal commission in 1989 to settle the issue. She reveals...
Political Institutions and Elderly Care Policy
Comparative Politics of Long-Term Care in Advanced Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Although most advanced industrialized countries are facing population aging and other social changes, public long-term care programs for the aged are remarkably diverse across them. This book accounts for the variations in elderly care policy by combining statistical analysis with historical case studies of Sweden, Japan and the USA.
The Politics of Wellbeing
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirically-grounded research, and investigation across different settings, this book aims to provide fresh insights and develop new lenses through...