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by Colin Knox, Padraic Quirk
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is now referred to as a post-conflict society largely due to the absence of political...
Senator Pete Domenici's Legacy 2012
The Proceedings from the 2012 Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) served in the U.S. Senate for over thirty-six years. He had a long legacy of contributions to New Mexico as well as the entire country. The Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute, located at New Mexico State University, holds an annual conference on Domenici’s legacy...
The Argumentative Turn Revisited
Public Policy as Communicative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this new collection consider how far argumentative...
Immigration and the Border
Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The advent of the twenty-first century marks a significant moment in the history of Latinos in the United States. The “fourth wave” of immigration to America is primarily Latino, and the last decades of the twentieth century saw a significant increase in the number of Latino migrants, a diversification...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook provides regular updates on trends and developments associated with sovereign borrowing requirements, funding strategies, market infrastructure and debt levels from the perspective of public debt managers. The Outlook makes a policy distinction between funding...
Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority
Knowledge and action in liberal democracies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on expert knowledge, they seem to defer to people whose authority derives, not politically from the sovereign...
High-Stakes Reform
The Politics of Educational Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Performance accountability has been the dominant trend in education policy reform since the 1970s. State and federal policies set standards for what students should learn; require students to take “high-stakes” tests to measure what they have learned; and then hold students, schools, and school districts...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The world of public policy is becoming increasingly small due to dramatic changes in global communications, political and economic institutional structures, and to nation states themselves. This book evaluates the implications of these changes and challenges for both the study and the practice of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book discusses economic development in general and selected public policy issues with a focus on philosophy, Gandhian thoughts and sectoral issues in the Indian context. It presents scholarly contributions on growth and development in India, with particular emphasis on human development in connection...
by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
“Single Payer Won’t Save Us” looks at all the evidence about single payer healthcare systems including those here in the U.S. as well as in other countries. Single payer, universal health care, government healthcare, and the “public option” are all the same: the government is in charge of,...
Inalienable Rights Versus Abuse
A Commonsense Approach to Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
The theme of this book is simple. Everyone is created equal and is born with the rights to live freely and healthfully, to pursue happiness, and to access the common good. Everyone deserves the opportunities to experience these rights. To abuse (mistreat, deceive, violently injure) other people is...
Into the New Millennium
New Jersey and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The Hall Institute of Public Policy-New Jersey was founded in 2005 by George E. Hall. These essays, as well as others, can be found on the Hall Institute web site at http://www.HallNJ.org. The website has hundreds of articles on a variety of topics, both regional and national. The Institute has also...
Financial Sustainability of Public Sector Entities
The Relevance of Accounting Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book analyses the role of public sector accounting, and the relevance of accounting frameworks, in assisting financially sustainable policy making. Focussing on the European context, the book examines financial reporting, management accounting, budgeting and other reporting requirements, for...
Lessons from Europe?
What Americans Can Learn from European Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
What can American policymakers learn from the experiences of European democracies? While we can look to our own history and to the ideas emanating from our own public sphere, by looking abroad we can also learn lessons from European policies – from both those that have proven successful and those...