Public Policy category: 4660 books
The Fukushima Effect
A New Geopolitical Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out from the disaster. Grounded in the field of science, technology and society (STS) studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the Asia-Pacific,...
Public Performance Budgeting
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Performance budgeting involves costs, from the drafting and passage of legal foundations, and the political capital and will to implement it, to training personnel to create a performance-oriented culture, and information technology requirements to track performance. Through comprehensive examination...
Gun Violence in American Society
Crime, Justice and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society’s major social, public health and political concerns—death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical,...
by Susannah Bunce
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities explores the growing convergences between urban sustainability policy, planning practices and gentrification in cities. Via a study of governmental policy and planning initiatives and informal, community-based forms of sustainability planning,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Experts from academia, governments, think tanks, NGOs, trade unions, and business investigate whether the public should play a greater role in foreign policy making by analysing their current role in the Iraq war (USA), Post-Apartheid (South Africa), trade relations with China (New Zealand) and other cases.
Cultural Policy in Jordan
System, Process, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This Brief examines the objectives of cultural policy in Jordan, the institutional framework within which it operates, and its outcomes. It considers the principles and methods of cultural policy, evaluates cultural attitudes and values, and places Jordan’s institutional, administrative, and legislative...
Senator Pete Domenici's Legacy 2011
The Proceedings from the 2011 Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
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...
Why the Third Way failed
Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises...
The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy
How Foreign Nations and International Organizations Influence U.S. Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This unique book examines how U.S. domestic policy regarding the death penalty has been influenced by international pressures, in particular, by foreign nations and international organizations.
International pressure has mounted against America’s use of the death penalty, straining diplomatic ties....
Climate Finance
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
How is the struggle against climate change financed? Climate Finance: Theory and Practice gives an overview of the key debates that have emerged in the field of climate finance, including those concerned with efficiency, equity, justice, and contribution to the public good between developed and developing...
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis
The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In the Fifth Edition of A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, Eugene Bardach and new co-author Eric Patashnik draw on more than 40 years of experience teaching students to be effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. This bestselling...
by Virginia Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive (but not universal) health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010. The most common explanation for the failure of past reform efforts is that special interests were continually...
Designs on Nature
Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that...
Governance in Northern Ontario
Economic Development and Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book analyzes economic development policy governance in northern Ontario over the past thirty years, with the goal of making practical policy recommendations for present and future government engagement with the region. It brings together scholars from several disciplines to address the policy...