Public Policy category: 4660 books
Cross-national Policy Convergence
Concepts, Causes and Empirical Findings
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
A fresh analysis of policy convergences across nations, which identifies their key driving forces.
To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This...
Poststructural Policy Analysis
A Guide to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government’s best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce “problems” as particular sorts of problems, with...
by John Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Politics and Crisis Management of Animal Health Security addresses the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in the United Kingdom - one of, if not the, most significant crises ever to face the UK farming industry. Underpinned by interviews with politicians and bureaucrats and with significant primary...
Big Oil in the United States: Industry Influence on Institutions, Policy, and Politics
Industry Influence on Institutions, Policy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book explains how and why large oil-producing corporations have affected government institutions, energy policy, and politics in the United States—and suggests how their influence can be reduced.
• Focuses on big oil's impact on U.S. government policy—regulatory, environmental, and...
Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care
Canada's Provinces in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Through Canadian and international perspectives, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care explores the management of growing health costs in an extraordinarily complex arena. The book moves beyond previous debates, agreeing that while efficiencies and better value for money may yet be found, more fundamental...
by Thomas B Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Since becoming editor-in-chief in 2009 Thomas Fischer has overseen the publication of 22 issues of the Journal of Environmental and Policy Management. This wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume presents a selection of papers from this period.
A number of these papers discuss the topics...
Climate and Clean Energy Policy
State Institutions and Economic Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
State climate and clean energy policy will play a critical role in the future of the political dialogue and economic development. Policymakers from around the world already recognize the leadership of American states in this domain.
Rooted in public policy theory, and employing a mixed-methods...
Environmental Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading
Towards a Low-Carbon Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies. Using insights about markets...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world. This ‘economic miracle’ has led hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, but has also come at a high cost. Environmental degradation and the impact...
The Art and Craft of Policy Advising
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author’s extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in central and local government.
Effective policy advising does not proceed in ‘cycles’ or neatly ordered ‘stages’ and...
Green Gentrification
Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "greening" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive...
The Role of Economic Advisers in Israel's Economic Policy
Crises, Reform and Stabilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book illustrates the role of international economic advisors in the development of Israel’s economic policies. Based on extensive archival and historical research, it presents case studies on the policy impacts of the world-renowned advisors Michal Kalecki, Abba Lerner, Richard Kahn, Milton...
by Ian Bache
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2019
This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change. In doing so, it draws on contributions from political science, policy theory and literature specifically on the evidence and policy relationship....
Deadly Spin
An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information...