Public Policy category: 4660 books
by S. Coulter
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
New Labour was outwardly hostile to trade unions and their concerns. Yet the Blair government worked closely with the TUC on several key employment reforms. Steve Coulter analyses the dimensions of the often fractious Labour-union partnership and shows how the TUC pursued an 'insider lobbying' route to influence the shape of New Labour's policies.
Building Nations from Diversity
Canadian and American Experience Compared
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Building Nations from Diversity explores the question of whether the Canadian "mosaic" has differed from the American "melting pot" and provides an informative comparison of both countries' historical and present-day similarities and differences. Garth Stevenson examines the origins...
Collective Action and Exchange
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying...
The National Politics of Nuclear Power
Economics, Security, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.
The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary...
Making Medicare
New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This...
The Need for Speed
A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. Robert Litan and Hal Singer argue that given the speed of innovation in this sector, the Federal Communications Commission's outdated policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This book explores the contested notion of compassionate migration in its discourse and practice. In the context of today's migration patterns within the Americas, compassionate migration can play a fundamental role in responding to the hardships that many migrants suffer before, during, and after...
Neoliberal Industrial Relations Policy in the UK
How the Labour Movement Lost the Argument
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
From attempts to control inflation in the 1970s, through the reforms of the Thatcher years, to the rise and fall of New Labour, this book shows how different theories and conceptual models have been critical to the development of industrial relations in the UK.
Does Government Need to be Involved in Primary and Secondary Education
Evaluating Policy Options Using Market Role Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
This book is an investigation of some of the policy issues related to the government's role in the reform of primary and secondary education in the United States.
Universities and Global Human Development
Theoretical and empirical insights for social change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book makes the case for a critical turn in development thinking around universities and their contributions in making a more equal post-2015 world. It puts forward a normative approach based on human development and the capability approach, one which can gain a hearing from policy, scholarship,...
Sustainable Energy and the States
Essays on Politics, Markets and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
With America’s dependence on fossil fuels painfully apparent due to world events and the resultant sharply rising gas prices, the search for renewable energy sources has never been more important. Still, the quest for sustainable energy is far from new. Since passage of the National Energy Act of...
Police Reform in Mexico
Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity. Why have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful?...
Radical Transformational Leadership
Strategic Action for Change Agents
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than twenty years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to transformational...
Tomorrow's Silk Road
Assessing an EU-China Free Trade Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This CEPS book comprises a first-ever economic and regulatory analysis of a possible Free Trade Area (FTA) between China and the EU, whose design is supposed to be 'deep and comprehensive'. It provides an overview of the global economic environment in which EU-Chinese economic relations have developed...