Public Policy category: 4660 books
Politics and Public Policy
Strategic Actors and Policy Domains
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Getting beyond the traditional policy cycle discussed in most textbooks, the fully updated fourth edition of Politics and Public Policy offers a more comprehensive and realistic view of policymaking in the United States—one that looks beyond the jockeying between presidents and members of Congress,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects...
by Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, François Pétry
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Heated debate surrounds the topic of health care in both the US and in Canada. In each country, these debates are based in some measure on perceptions about health care in their neighboring country. The perceptions held by Canadians about the US health care system, or those held by Americans about...
The Korean Government and Public Policies in a Development Nexus
Sustaining Development and Tackling Policy Changes – Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This volume chronicles the policy challenges and adaptations faced and made by the South Korean government during the post-industrialization and democratization period. Following the model set by the first volume in the series, which covered the economic and social development during the developmental...
Comparative Public Management
Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. Why, for example, is managerial networking important in the United States, moderately effective in the United Kingdom, and of little...
by Göktuğ Morçöl
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have been applied by scholars of public affairs in North...
The Fifth Estate
Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance is a comprehensive look at think tanks and the important role they play in shaping public policy and public discourse in the United States. Author James G. McGann illustrates the lasting impact of think tanks in today’s civil society.
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Judging Policy
Courts and Policy Reform in Democratic Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Courts, like other government institutions, shape public policy. But how are courts drawn into the policy process, and how are patterns of policy debate shaped by the institutional structure of the courts?
Drawing on the experience of the Brazilian federal courts since the transition to democracy,...
Beyond Machiavelli
Policy Analysis Reaches Midlife, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In this new edition of Beyond Machiavelli, Beryl Radin updates her popular overview of the field of policy analysis. Radin, winner of the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association, considers the critical issues that confront the policy analysis practitioner, changes in the field,...
by Barrie Houlihan, Iain Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Barrie Houlihan examine and analyze sport policy since the appointment of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party in 1990.
John Major’s period...
Japan Fund for Public Policy Training
Annual Report 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Japan Fund for Public Policy Training was established in March 2004 as a trust fund to enhance developing member countries' capacity building for public policy management, focusing on regional economies in transition. Since its inception, the Government of Japan has contributed more than $22 million....
Understanding the policy process (Second edition)
Analysing welfare policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
This book draws on the latest and best social science to explain how and why social policy change occurs. Focusing on the policy making process as the key to change, it uses core concepts of policy analysis, one in each chapter, to build up a fully worked explanation of social policy change and to...
Japan Fund for Public Policy Training
Final Report
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Japan Fund for Public Policy Training was established in March 2004 as a trust fund to enhance developing member countries' capacity building for public policy management, focusing on regional economies in transition. Since its inception, the Government of Japan has contributed more than $22 million....
Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries
Work, public policy and action
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Climate change is at the forefront of ideas about public policy, the economy and labour issues. However, the gendered dimensions of climate change and the public policy issues associated with it in wealthy nations are much less understood.
Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries covers...