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Governing by Network
The New Shape of the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services...
Unhealthy Politics
The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine
The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously...
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational...
The Creative Destruction of New York City
Engineering the City for the Elite
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-class New Yorkers, making city government work better for everyone-not just those who thrived during Bloomberg's tenure as mayor. But well into de Blasio's...
Eating in the Dark
America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis, but few of us are aware we’re eating something that has been altered. Meanwhile, consumers abroad refuse to buy our engineered crops; their groceries are labeled so that everyone knows if the contents have been modified. What’s going...
by Micah L. Sifry
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Technology and the Internet are changing democracy. TechPresident is one hub for the conversation already underway between political practitioners and technologists - we provide a daily pulse of reporting and updates on all the news that we think is important to our community of hacks and hackers.
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Applying Public Opinion in Governance
The Uses and Future of Public Opinion in Managing Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book explores how public opinion is used to design, monitor and evaluate government programmes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Using information collected from the media and from international practitioners in the public opinion field, as well as interviews in each...
by Yoku Shaw-Taylor, Lorraine McCall
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Immigration reform and border security are highly charged topics in America today. Immigration, Assimilation, and Border Security examines the history of immigration along with the immigration debate of today. This book shows how attitudes about immigration have shifted and the author examines recent...
By Order of the President
The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action within our democracy. In this revised and expanded edition, noted scholar Phillip Cooper offers a cogent guide to these powers and shows how presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama have used and abused...
Marijuana
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From Reefer Madness to legal purchase at the corner store.
With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the United States, the time has come for an accessible and informative look at attitudes toward the dried byproduct of Cannabis sativa. Marijuana: A Short...
Legalized It!
Inside Colorado and Washington State’s Historic Votes to End Marijuana Prohibition, and Other Tales of Adventure from a Fully-Embedded High Times Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
In Legalized It!, David Bienenstock, author of The Official High Times Pot Smoker’s Handbook (Chronicle Books), takes you to the frontlines of the War on Marijuana for an insider’s look at two states that just voted to end cannabis prohibition. ...
by Dr. Filipe Teles
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Territory and scale have been some of the most relevant topics in recent political science, but do we know enough about cooperation between local governments? How we think about local government has changed significantly and requires us to be equipped with new epistemological gear, considering more variables...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
Army Regulation AR 420-1 Facilities Engineering Army Facilities Management March 2019
This regulation, Army Regulation AR 420-1 Facilities Engineering Army Facilities Management March 2019, addresses the management of Army facilities. Specifically, it describes the management of public works...
The Vermont Manifesto
The Second Vermont Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Not unlike other states, Vermonts quality of life, political independence, and sustainability are threatened by Corporate America, the U.S. government, the war on terrorism, homeland security, American imperialism, and globalization. This is a call for Vermont to reclaim its soul to return to its...