Public Policy category: 4660 books
Public Policy and the Internet
Privacy, Taxes, and Contract
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This book presents the initial findings that framed early discussions on Internet public policy and outlines proposals that should guide policymaking in the future. In addition, Cronin, McLure, and Radin's viewpoints show that the future of e-commerce has as much to do with how policy issues are resolved as with how technological challenges are overcome.
Governors, Grants, and Elections
Fiscal Federalism in the American States
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Each year, states receive hundreds of billions of dollars in grants-in-aid from the federal government. Gubernatorial success is often contingent upon the pursuit and allocation of these grants. In Governors, Grants, and Elections, Sean Nicholson-Crotty reveals the truth about how U.S. governors strategically...
Is the Good Book Good Enough?
Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal development in America in the past quarter century. And while their voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual...
Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy
Practical Lessons in Design and Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders,...
Better Environmental Policy Studies
How To Design And Conduct More Effective Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Environmental policy studies commissioned by governmagencies or other stakeholders can play a vital role in environmental decisionmaking; they provide much-needed insight into policy options and specific recommendations for action. But the results of even the mrigorous studies are frequently misappropriated...
Challenging governance theory
From networks to hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Theories heralding the rise of network governance have dominated for a generation. Yet, empirical research suggests that claims for the transformative potential of networks are exaggerated. This topical and timely book takes a critical look at contemporary governance theory, elaborating a Gramscian...
Policy Paradigms in Theory and Practice
Discourses, Ideas and Anomalies in Public Policy Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The contributors investigate policy paradigms and their ability to explain the policy process actors, ideas, discourses and strategies employed to provide readers with a better understanding of public policy and its dynamics.
Work and the Welfare State
Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK,...
The GM Debate
Risk, Politics and Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public participation: the government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of ‘GM’ crops in the UK. Giving a unique and systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume sets it within its political and intellectual...
Dust-Up
Asbestos Litigation and the Failure of Commonsense Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
In an era of polarization, narrow party majorities, and increasing use of supermajority requirements in the Senate, policy entrepreneurs must find ways to reach across the aisle and build bipartisan coalitions in Congress. One such coalition-building strategy is the “politics of efficiency,” or reform...
Environmental Sustainability and American Public Administration
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators...
Overpromising and Underperforming?
Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Public reporting has been used experimentally in federal-provincial relations since the mid-1990s as an accountability mechanism to promote policy effectiveness, intergovernmental cooperation, and democratic legitimacy. Our understanding of how well it is working, however, remains limited to very...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors making...
Disabled Rights
American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
"Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace,...