Public Policy category: 4660 books
Learning From Comparative Public Policy
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This textbook offers a fresh approach to the study of comparative politics and public policy. Instead of concentrating on why countries differ, Learning From Comparative Public Policy explores how countries can learn from each other about the success and failure of policy initiatives. With its theory...
by Andrew J. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound science. The public, on the other hand, is skeptical...
Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias
Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Canada is known for its inclusive citizenship and multiculturalism policies that have been largely successful in integrating an increased diversity of Canadians. In contrast to the previous approach, in 2007, the Conservative government initiated a fundamental change to make citizenship more meaningful...
The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change
Public Understanding and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial...
Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking
The Transformation of American Attitudes and Cigarette Use, 1890–2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking tracks Americans’ changing attitudes about cigarette smoking over the last century. With data from more than five thousand public and privately conducted polls, this book carefully examines how Americans came to understand the health risks of smoking; how...
Governance and Public Policy in Canada
A View from the Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Governance and Public Policy in Canada lays the foundation for a systematic analysis of policy developments, shaped as they are by multiple players, institutional tensions, and governance legacies. Arguing that provinces are now the most central site of governance and policy innovation, the book assesses...
A Guide to Ethics and Public Policy
Finding Our Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Developed by D. Don Welch during his 28 years of teaching ethics and public policy, the rationale behind A Guide to Ethics and Public Policy is to present a comprehensive guide for making policy judgments. Rather than present specific cases that raise moral issues or discuss the role a few concepts...
Sustainability Policy
Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
A complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levels
Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability policy development, implementation, strategy, and practice. Featuring...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West is the first regional public policy study of American higher education. Presidents of the Western State Commission for Higher Education and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, alongside nationally recognized...
by Robert Mann, Shaun Gabbidon, Jackelyn Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality, edited by Josh Grimm and Jaime Loke, brings together scholars of political science, sociology, and mass communication to provide an in-depth analysis of race in the United States through the lens of public policy. This vital collection outlines how issues...
Designing public policy for co-production
Theory, practice and change
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This important book is a response to crises of public policy. Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges, and suggest co-production as a more democratic...
Crisis Management and Public Policy
Singapore's Approach to Economic Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
This book is an annual effort by the economists from the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights on contemporary economic issues affecting Singapore.
In 2010, Singapore's economy was just recovering from the sharp economic downturn in 2008/09 caused...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters. This volume represents an indispensable companion to other...
Visual Culture and Public Policy
Towards a visual polity?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Traditionally, images have played an important role in politics and policy making, mostly in relation to propaganda and public communication. However, contemporary society is inundated with visual material due to the increasing ubiquity of media and visual technologies that facilitate the production,...