Public Policy category: 4660 books
by Eric Brousseau, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Bernd Siebenhüner
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.
Governance of Public Sector Organizations
Proliferation, Autonomy and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Governance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity of government organizations, and explain this layering process with multiple theories.
Hiding Politics in Plain Sight
Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
As late as the 1980s, breast cancer was a stigmatized disease, so much so that local reporters avoided using the word "breast" in their stories and early breast cancer organizations steered clear of it in their names. But activists with business backgrounds began to partner with corporations...
A Plague of Prisons
The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The public health expert and prison reform activist offers “meticulous analysis” on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration (The Washington Post).
An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate...
The Case against Fluoride
How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
When the U.S. Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1950, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, six decades later and after most countries have rejected the practice, more than 70 percent of Americans, as well as 200 million people worldwide, are drinking fluoridated water....
Columns to Characters
The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter...
by Shaun Hendy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ... the Fonterra botulism scare ... the Christchurch earthquakes in all these recent crises the role played by scientists has been under the spotlight.What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis to the government, to their employer, or to the wider public desperate...
The Federal Management Playbook
Leading and Succeeding in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Stories of government management failures often make the headlines, but quietly much gets done as well. What makes the difference? Ira Goldstein offers wisdom about how to lead and succeed in the federal realm, even during periods when the political climate is intensely negative, based on his decades...
Plunder of the Commons
A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian Eno
We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off...
Marketing Leadership in Government
Communicating Responsiveness, Leadership and Credibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
This book explores how contemporary governing leaders can overcome the typical trend of losing a public support in power by following more effective communication strategies. It shows how new forms of communication that emphasise acknowledgement and respect for public criticisms and concerns can be...
Public Services and Financial Austerity
Getting Out of the Hole?
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The authors suggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success 'at a price we cannot afford'. It proposes a radical alternative and discusses practical ways it could be implemented. It also explores the threats and opportunities that such an approach might face.
New Forms of Governing
A Foucauldian inspired analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Triantafillou analyzes the changing ways of governing the public sector and the ways in which public organizations have become the target of interventions seeking to improve their efficiency and quality. He exposes how political and social science theories were adopted in often unpredictable ways in the process of reforming the public sector.
Christy Clark
Behind the Smile
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
A political insider offers a revealing perspective and examines the public and private life of BC’s controversial premier.
In the blood-sport arena of provincial politics, BC’s enigmatic premier, Christy Clark, has defied the pundits to win both party leadership and an upset election victory...
The Language of Fear
Communicating Threat in Public Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media and institutional discourses. It describes the ways in which the construction of closeness and remoteness...