Central / national / federal government policies Books
Bristol University Press Tracing the Political
Book SynopsisTracing the political uses a broad range of international case studies to chart the politicising and depoliticising dynamics that shape debates about the future of democracy and governance in the neoliberal state.Trade Review“An excellent group of scholars tackle the complex issue of depoliticisation and leave the reader with still a few puzzles but also a considerable advance in understanding and insight” Professor Gerry Stoker, University of Canberra (Australia) and University of Southampton (UK)"This important edited volume takes one of the most heated debates among contemporary British students of politics and public policy one step further and provides important theoretical and empirical insights that can qualify further research into the role and function of the political in Western liberal democracies." Eva Sørensen, Roskilde University, DenmarkTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Matthew Flinders and Matt Wood; Rethinking depoliticisation: beyond the governmental ~ Matthew Flinders and Matthew Wood; Depoliticisation, governance and political participation ~ Paul Fawcett and David Marsh; Depoliticisation: economic crisis and political management ~ Peter Burnham; Repoliticising depoliticisation: theoretical preliminaries on some responses to the American fiscal and Eurozone debt crises ~ Bob Jessop; Rolling back to roll forward: depoliticisation and the extension of government ~ Emma Ann foster, Peter Kerr and Christopher Byrne; (De)politicisation and the Father's Clause parliamentary debates ~ Stephen Bates, Laura Jenkins and Fran Amery; Politicising UK energy: what 'speaking energy security' can do ~ Caroline Kuzemko; Global norms, local contestation: privatisation and de/politicisation in Berlin ~ Ross Beveridge and Matthias Naumann; Depoliticisation as process, governance as practice: what did the 'first wave' get wrong and do we need a 'second wave' to put it right? ~ Colin Hay; Conclusion ~ Matthew Flinders and Matt Wood.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Housing Politics in the United Kingdom
Book SynopsisAs housing moves up the UK political agenda, Brian Lund uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social constructionism to explore the political processes involved in constructing and implementing housing policy and its political consequences.Trade Review"A valuable addition to literature on the development of housing policy in the UK ,incorporating rich insights from political debates that have shaped policy." Alan Murie, university of Birmingham"A well-written, insightful and timely book, highlighting the politics involved in shaping the supply and distribution of housing in the United Kingdom." Peter Somerville, University of LincolnTable of ContentsPreface; Housing and politics; Land politics; Urban renewal: Fencing the cities; Private landlords: ‘Rachman’ or ‘residential property owner’?; A property-owning democracy?; Eclipsing council housing; ‘Bending the ‘third arm’: Politicians and housing associations; Homelessness politics; Devolution: Where's the difference?; Conclusion: What next?.
£71.25
Bristol University Press Housing Politics in the United Kingdom
Book SynopsisAs housing moves up the UK political agenda, Brian Lund uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social constructionism to explore the political processes involved in constructing and implementing housing policy and its political consequences.Trade Review"A valuable addition to literature on the development of housing policy in the UK ,incorporating rich insights from political debates that have shaped policy." Alan Murie, university of Birmingham"A well-written, insightful and timely book, highlighting the politics involved in shaping the supply and distribution of housing in the United Kingdom." Peter Somerville, University of LincolnTable of ContentsPreface; Housing and politics; Land politics; Urban renewal: Fencing the cities; Private landlords: ‘Rachman’ or ‘residential property owner’?; A property-owning democracy?; Eclipsing council housing; ‘Bending the ‘third arm’: Politicians and housing associations; Homelessness politics; Devolution: Where's the difference?; Conclusion: What next?.
£26.59
Bristol University Press Hungry Britain
Book SynopsisDrawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest Food Banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity.Trade Review“Lambie-Mumford argues effectively for the state to recognise and protect the fundamental right to food and draws attention to areas in which a charitable response, while allowing an avenue through which to enact values of care, proves insufficient. It can be recommended to readers with the additional hope that it spurs further discussion about the implications of foodbanks in the wider welfare mix.” Voluntary Sector Review“This is a benchmark study of hunger, charity and human rights, exposing UK government neglect. Ethical, critical, and constructive, it is essential reading for those concerned about breadline Britain.” Graham Riches, University of British Columbia“Thorough and thought-provoking, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the many dimensions of charitable food provisioning in the UK.” Rachel Loopstra, King’s College London“This is a benchmark study of hunger, charity and human rights, exposing UK government neglect. Ethical, critical, and constructive, it is essential reading for those concerned about breadline Britain.” Graham Riches, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Hunger and charitable emergency food provision in the UK and beyond; Theories of the food insecurity ‘problem’ and the right to food ‘solution’; Food charity: the ‘other’ food system; The sustainability of food charity; Food charity as caring; Food charity and the changing welfare state; Conclusion.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Hungry Britain
Book SynopsisDrawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest Food Banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity.Trade Review“Lambie-Mumford argues effectively for the state to recognise and protect the fundamental right to food and draws attention to areas in which a charitable response, while allowing an avenue through which to enact values of care, proves insufficient. It can be recommended to readers with the additional hope that it spurs further discussion about the implications of foodbanks in the wider welfare mix.” Voluntary Sector Review“This is a benchmark study of hunger, charity and human rights, exposing UK government neglect. Ethical, critical, and constructive, it is essential reading for those concerned about breadline Britain.” Graham Riches, University of British Columbia“Thorough and thought-provoking, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the many dimensions of charitable food provisioning in the UK.” Rachel Loopstra, King’s College London“This is a benchmark study of hunger, charity and human rights, exposing UK government neglect. Ethical, critical, and constructive, it is essential reading for those concerned about breadline Britain.” Graham Riches, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Hunger and charitable emergency food provision in the UK and beyond; Theories of the food insecurity ‘problem’ and the right to food ‘solution’; Food charity: the ‘other’ food system; The sustainability of food charity; Food charity as caring; Food charity and the changing welfare state; Conclusion.
£26.59
Bristol University Press Policy Analysis in Mexico
Book SynopsisProvides the 1st detailed examination of the practice of policy analysis in Mexico. Contributors study the nature of policy analysis at different sectors and levels of government as well as by non-governmental actors, such as unions, business, NGOs and the media to promote the use of evidence-based policy analysis, leading to better policy results.Trade Review"This volume offers important insights into policy analysis as a field – not just in Mexico but also more generally. It deserves careful attention" Martin Lodge, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, LSE"An excellent line-up of policy scholars have produced a timely publication of great interest to those studying the relationship between public policy analysis and governance in Mexico and, more widely, in Latin America”. Theo Papadopoulos, University of BathTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ José Luis Méndez and Mauricio Dussauge-Laguna; PART ONE: POLICY ANALYSIS AS A FIELD OF STUDY IN MEXICO; Evolution of Policy Analysis as a Field of Study in Mexico ~ José Luis Méndez; PART TWO: POLICY ANALYSIS WITHIN THE FEDERAL STATE; Policy Analysis in the Federal Government ~ Guillermo Cejudo; Policy Analysis and Bureaucratic Capacity in the Federal Government ~ Jesus F. Hernandez-Galicia and David Arellano-Gault; Policy Analysis in Advisory Councils ~ Laura Flamand; Policy Analysis in Autonomous Agencies ~ María del Carmen Pardo and Mauricio Dussauge-Laguna; Policy Analysis in the Chamber of Deputies ~ Rodrigo Velázquez Lopez Velarde; Evolution of Policy Analysis as a Profession and Field of Studies in Mexico ~ José Luis Méndez; PART THREE: POLICY ANALYSIS IN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS; Policy Analysis in State Governments in Mexico ~ Juan Olmeda; Policy Analysis in Local Governments ~ Oliver Meza; PART FOUR: POLICY ANALYSIS BEYOND THE STATE; Policy Analysis in Political Parties ~ Irma Mendez de Hoyos; Policy Analysis in Think Tanks ~ Mauricio Dussauge-Laguna and Marcela I. Vazquez; Policy Analysis in NGOs ~ Ma. Fernanda Somuano; Policy Analysis and Public Policy in the Private Sector ~ Carlos Alba Vega; Policy Analysis, the Political Game and Institutional Change in the Labor Market ~ Graciela Bensusán and Ilán Bizberg; Policy Analysis in the Media ~Manuel Guerrero, Monica Luengas Restrepo, Carlos Fuentes Ochoa and Martha Lizbeth Palacios; Conclusions ~ José Luis Méndez and Mauricio Dussauge.
£100.79
Bristol University Press Dismantling the NHS
Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of the NHS reforms ushered in by UK Coalition Government under the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. Essential reading for those studying the NHS, those who work in it, and those who seek to gain a better understanding of this key public service.Trade Review"An insightful and incisive account of the most controversial health policy reform since the foundation of the NHS. Essential reading." Huw T. O. Davies, University of St Andrews"Provides an excellent and balanced account of the Coalition Government’s health reforms including analysis of the reforms through diverse theoretical lenses that makes for an insightful read." Katharina Kieslich, King's College London"A multi-faceted and nuanced account of the health reforms of the UK Coalition Government from some of the leading scholars in the field. This book serves as a pertinent reminder of the challenges and high stakes of health system reform in the age of austerity." Stefanie Ettelt, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineTable of ContentsForeword ~ Rudolf Klein; Section A: Health reforms in context; Evaluating the impact of NHS reforms – policy, process and power ~ Mark Exworthy and Russell Mannion; Orders of change in the ordered changes in the NHS ~ Martin Powell; Section B: National health policy; NHS finances under the Coalition ~ Anita Charlesworth, Adam Roberts and Sarah Lafond; Did NHS productivity increase under the Coalition government? ~ Chris Bojke, Adriana Castelli, Katja Grašič, Daniel Howdon and Andrew Street; The central management of the English NHS ~ Scott Greer, David Rowland and Holly Jarman; An argument lost by both sides? The Parliamentary debate over the 2010 NHS White Paper ~ Ian Greener; UK-wide health policy under the Coalition ~ David Hughes; Section C: Commissioning and service provision; Clinically-led commissioning: past, present and future? ~ Kath Checkland, Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott and Stephen Peckham; ‘Much ado about nothing?’ Pursuing the ‘holy grail’ of health and social care integration under the Coalition ~ Robin Miller and Jon Glasby; Public health: unchained or shackled? ~ David Hunter; Provider plurality and supply-side reform ~ Rod Sheaff and Pauline Allen; Achieving equity in health service commissioning ~ Martin Wenzl and Elias Mossialos; Section D: Governance; Setting the workers free? Managers in the (once again) reformed NHS ~ Paula Hyde and Mark Exworthy; Health and Wellbeing Boards: the new system stewards? ~ Anna Coleman, Surindar Dhesi and Stephen Peckham; Blowin’ in the wind: The involvement of people who use services and the public in health and social care ~ Karen Newbigging; ‘Ground hog day’: the Coalition government’s quality and safety reforms ~ Martin Powell and Russell Mannion; A view from abroad: a New Zealand perspective on the English NHS health reforms ~ Robin Gauld; Section E: Conclusions; Never again? A retrospective and prospective view of English health reforms ~ Martin Powell and Mark Exworthy.
£81.89
Bristol University Press Dismantling the NHS
Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of the NHS reforms ushered in by UK Coalition Government under the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. Essential reading for those studying the NHS, those who work in it, and those who seek to gain a better understanding of this key public service.Trade Review"An insightful and incisive account of the most controversial health policy reform since the foundation of the NHS. Essential reading." Huw T. O. Davies, University of St Andrews"Provides an excellent and balanced account of the Coalition Government’s health reforms including analysis of the reforms through diverse theoretical lenses that makes for an insightful read." Katharina Kieslich, King's College London"A multi-faceted and nuanced account of the health reforms of the UK Coalition Government from some of the leading scholars in the field. This book serves as a pertinent reminder of the challenges and high stakes of health system reform in the age of austerity." Stefanie Ettelt, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineTable of ContentsForeword ~ Rudolf Klein; Section A: Health reforms in context; Evaluating the impact of NHS reforms – policy, process and power ~ Mark Exworthy and Russell Mannion; Orders of change in the ordered changes in the NHS ~ Martin Powell; Section B: National health policy; NHS finances under the Coalition ~ Anita Charlesworth, Adam Roberts and Sarah Lafond; Did NHS productivity increase under the Coalition government? ~ Chris Bojke, Adriana Castelli, Katja Grašič, Daniel Howdon and Andrew Street; The central management of the English NHS ~ Scott Greer, David Rowland and Holly Jarman; An argument lost by both sides? The Parliamentary debate over the 2010 NHS White Paper ~ Ian Greener; UK-wide health policy under the Coalition ~ David Hughes; Section C: Commissioning and service provision; Clinically-led commissioning: past, present and future? ~ Kath Checkland, Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott and Stephen Peckham; ‘Much ado about nothing?’ Pursuing the ‘holy grail’ of health and social care integration under the Coalition ~ Robin Miller and Jon Glasby; Public health: unchained or shackled? ~ David Hunter; Provider plurality and supply-side reform ~ Rod Sheaff and Pauline Allen; Achieving equity in health service commissioning ~ Martin Wenzl and Elias Mossialos; Section D: Governance; Setting the workers free? Managers in the (once again) reformed NHS ~ Paula Hyde and Mark Exworthy; Health and Wellbeing Boards: the new system stewards? ~ Anna Coleman, Surindar Dhesi and Stephen Peckham; Blowin’ in the wind: The involvement of people who use services and the public in health and social care ~ Karen Newbigging; ‘Ground hog day’: the Coalition government’s quality and safety reforms ~ Martin Powell and Russell Mannion; A view from abroad: a New Zealand perspective on the English NHS health reforms ~ Robin Gauld; Section E: Conclusions; Never again? A retrospective and prospective view of English health reforms ~ Martin Powell and Mark Exworthy.
£28.49
Bristol University Press Health Divides
Book SynopsisClare Bambra examines the social, environmental, economic and political causes of health inequalities, how they have evolved over time and what they are like today. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates that where you live can kill you.Trade Review“This clearly written book, full of striking examples from around the world, shows that geography is as relevant for population health as ever” Professor Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands"This numerical journey through the geographies of health and disease drives home one vital message: inequalities of place create inequalities in health. As the book eloquently observes, the political economy and geography of inequality largely determines how well, and how long, one is likely to live." Professor Ronald Labonte, University of Ottawa, Canada"Bambra’s razor sharp, timely and comprehensive analysis should be read by anyone concerned about inequality." Mary O'Hara, Guardian Journalist and author“Drawing on current and historical data from the UK and the US, Clare Bambra brilliantly demonstrates how increasing geographical and social health inequities stem from policy decisions and how different political choices could reduce them” Professor Louise Potvin, Canada Research Chair, University of Montreal, Canada & Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences“A highly accessible text that provides a forensic investigation into how and why geography matters for health and inequalities.…Profoundly important and complemented with urgent and thought- provoking guidelines for what needs to be done to address this seemingly intractable societal problem.” Professor Jamie Pearce, University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Co-Editor, Health and Place"An excellent overview of the importance of geography for public health. A strong contribution to the health geography and public health literatures which highlights the importance of politics and policies for the unequal spatial distribution of health. I recommend it.” Dr Paul Norman, University of Leeds, England and Co-Editor, Population, Space and Place“Clare Bambra, a global leader in population health research who has been at the avant-garde in understanding how politics matters for life and death, has contributed a major, readable new statement that captures crucial insights from a new wave of political epidemiology. Health Divides will change the way you think about health and illness”. Professor Jason Beckfield, Harvard University, USA"A broad-ranging account of how place is implicated in large and growing health inequalities in some of the most affluent societies of the world. …squarely implicates policies of the neoliberal era in a compelling argument that, if heeded, could make for a healthier society" Professor James R. Dunn, McMaster University, Canada and Co-Editor, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health“I recommend this book strongly to health professionals and medical students as it provides a comprehensive overview of health inequalities and the multiple connections between where we live and how long we live” Professor Pali Hungin, President of the British Medical Association"A welcome supplemental text for courses in health policy and introductory epidemiology, as well as a valuable primer for policy-makers." Science"Clare Bambra provides a good, easy-to-understand introduction to the major causes of health inequality in rich countries." Socialist Party"Inequality in the UK is nothing to do with the poor being a hopeless underclass, destined for extinction in a Darwinian world where only the fittest survive. As Clare Bambra... spells out, it has everything to do with factors such as poor housing, poor nutrition and lack of educational and employment opportunities." Times Higher Education"[The book's] messages should be loudly broadcast and be compulsory reading for politicians." Doctors for the NHS Newsletter"A careful analysis of persistent geographical health inequalities." - Health Affairs“an important book that demonstrates the value of careful analysis of health inequities data and close examination of the factors that explain why the data show the patterns they do.” International Journal of Epidemiology"getAbstract recommends Bambra’s report to forwardthinking leaders and public health advocates." - getAbstract, Vietnam News“Bambra also ends the book with a rallying note to her readers: we need income redistribution, devolution of power and a resourcing of the regions to make economic growth work for all.” People, Place and PolicyTable of ContentsForeword ~ Danny Dorling; Health Divides; From King Cholera to the C Word; In Sickness and In Health; Placing Life and Death; It’s the (Political) Economy; Too Little, Too Late; Past, Present, Future.
£13.99
Bristol University Press AgeFriendly Cities and Communities
Book SynopsisThis important book provides a comprehensive survey of different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices.Trade Review"An invaluable resource for anybody interested in the global age-friendly movement and a clear and insightful agenda for future action." Alana Officer, responsible for the World Health Organization’s Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities"Useful for second and third year undergraduates and especially in modules with international context and a focus on older citizens. A welcome addition to our curriculum." Paul Simpson, Edgehill University“This important new collection should be read by planners, place makers, gerontologists and urban sociologists, everyone, in short, who is concerned with urban areas and how they might respond to demographic change. (It is) a fresh politicised approach to the AFC discussion… this book offers inspiration to those looking to understand and implement change in the complexity of the city.” International Journal of Housing PolicyTable of ContentsPart One:Age-friendly cities and communities; background, theory and development Introduction ~ Tine Buffel, Sophie Handler and Chris Phillipson; The development of age-friendly cities and communities ~ Samuèle Rémillard-Boilard; Neighbourhood change, social inequalities and age-friendly communities ~ Fleur Thomése,Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson; Addressing erasure, microfication and social change: age-friendly initiatives and environmental gerontology in the 21st century ~ Jessica A. Kelley, Dale Dannefer and Luma Issa Al Masarweh; Part Two: Case studies from Europe, Asia and Australia; Age and gentrification in Berlin: urban ageing policy and the experiences of disadvantaged older people ~ Meredith Dale, Josefine Heusinger and Birgit Wolter; Towards an “active caring community” in Brussels ~ An-Sofie Smetcoren, Liesbeth De Donder, Daan Duppen, Nico De Witte, Olivia Vanmechelen and Dominique Verté; Exploring the age-friendliness of Hong Kong: opportunities, initiatives and challenges in an ageing Asian city ~ David Phillips, Jean Woo, Francis Cheung, Moses Wong and Pui Hing Chau; Creating an age-friendly county in Ireland: stakeholders' perspectives on implementation ~ Bernard McDonald, Thomas Scharf and Kieran Walsh; Implementing age-friendly cities in Australia ~ Hal Kendig, Cathy Gong and Lisa Cannon; Part Three: Age-friendly policies, urban design and a manifesto for change; From representation to active ageing in a Manchester neighbourhood: designing the age-friendly city ~ Stefan White and Mark Hammond; Alternative age-friendly initiatives: redefining age-friendly design ~ Sophie Handler; Developing age-friendly policies for cities: strategies, challenges and reflections ~ Paul McGarry; The age-friendly community: a test for inclusivity ~ Sheila Peace, Jeanne Katz, Caroline Holland and Rebecca L. Jones; Age-friendly cities and communities: a manifesto for change ~ Tine Buffel, Sophie Handler and Chris Phillipson.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research
Book SynopsisUniversities are increasingly taking an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations but they, their funders and institutions struggle to articulate the value of this work. This book addresses the key challenges in collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.Trade Review"An inspirational and practical guide for deepening our understanding of the immediate impact and long-term legacy of collaborative research—an important resource for students, academic researchers, and practitioners." Mary Brydon-Miller, Teachers College, University of CincinnatiTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Keri Facer and Kate Pahl; Section 1: Understanding legacy in practice; Weighing value: Who decides what counts? ~ Sophie Duncan, Kim Aumann; Evaluating Legacy: The who, what, why, when and where of evaluation for community research ~ Peter Matthews, Janice Astbury, Julie Brown, Laura Brown, Steve Connelly, Dave O’Brien; Implicit values: Uncounted legacies ~ Julian Brigstocke, Elona Hoover, Marie Harder, Paula Graham, Sophia de Sousa, Andy Dearden, Ann Light, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Katerina Alexiou, Gemma Burford, Justine Gaubert, Colin Fosket; Socialising heritage/socialising legacy ~ Martin Bashforth, Mike Benson, Tim Boon, Lianne Brigham, Richard Brigham, Karen Brookfield, Peter Brown, Danny Callaghan, Jean-Phillipe Calvin, Richard Courtney, Kathy Cremin, Paul Furness, Helen Graham, Alex Hale, Paddy Hodgkiss, John Lawson, Rebecca Madgin, Paul Manners, David Robinson, John Stanley, Martin Swan, Jennifer Timothy, Rachael Turner; Performing the legacy of animative and iterative approaches to co-producing knowledge ~ Mihaela Kelemen, Martin Phillips, Deborah James, Sue Moffat; What is the role of artists in interdisciplinary collaborative projects with universities and communities? ~ Hugh Escott, Helen Graham, Kimberley Marwood, Kate Pahl, Steve Pool and Amanda Ravetz; Material legacies: Shaping things and places through heritage ~ Jo Vergunst, Elizabeth Curtis, Oliver Davis, Robert Johnston, Helen Graham and Colin Shepherd; Translation across borders: Connecting the academic and policy communities ~ Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Peter Matthews, Liz Richardson and Robert Rutherfoord; Culturally mapping legacies of collaborative heritage projects ~ Karen Smyth, Andrew Power and Rik Martin; Section 2: Understanding collaborative research practices: A Lexicon ~ Kate Pahl and Keri Facer; Section 3: Future directions ~ Keri Facer and Kate Pahl.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research
Book SynopsisUniversities are increasingly taking an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations but they, their funders and institutions struggle to articulate the value of this work. This book addresses the key challenges in collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.Trade Review"An inspirational and practical guide for deepening our understanding of the immediate impact and long-term legacy of collaborative research—an important resource for students, academic researchers, and practitioners." Mary Brydon-Miller, Teachers College, University of CincinnatiTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Keri Facer and Kate Pahl; Section 1: Understanding legacy in practice; Weighing value: Who decides what counts? ~ Sophie Duncan, Kim Aumann; Evaluating Legacy: The who, what, why, when and where of evaluation for community research ~ Peter Matthews, Janice Astbury, Julie Brown, Laura Brown, Steve Connelly, Dave O’Brien; Implicit values: Uncounted legacies ~ Julian Brigstocke, Elona Hoover, Marie Harder, Paula Graham, Sophia de Sousa, Andy Dearden, Ann Light, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Katerina Alexiou, Gemma Burford, Justine Gaubert, Colin Fosket; Socialising heritage/socialising legacy ~ Martin Bashforth, Mike Benson, Tim Boon, Lianne Brigham, Richard Brigham, Karen Brookfield, Peter Brown, Danny Callaghan, Jean-Phillipe Calvin, Richard Courtney, Kathy Cremin, Paul Furness, Helen Graham, Alex Hale, Paddy Hodgkiss, John Lawson, Rebecca Madgin, Paul Manners, David Robinson, John Stanley, Martin Swan, Jennifer Timothy, Rachael Turner; Performing the legacy of animative and iterative approaches to co-producing knowledge ~ Mihaela Kelemen, Martin Phillips, Deborah James, Sue Moffat; What is the role of artists in interdisciplinary collaborative projects with universities and communities? ~ Hugh Escott, Helen Graham, Kimberley Marwood, Kate Pahl, Steve Pool and Amanda Ravetz; Material legacies: Shaping things and places through heritage ~ Jo Vergunst, Elizabeth Curtis, Oliver Davis, Robert Johnston, Helen Graham and Colin Shepherd; Translation across borders: Connecting the academic and policy communities ~ Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Peter Matthews, Liz Richardson and Robert Rutherfoord; Culturally mapping legacies of collaborative heritage projects ~ Karen Smyth, Andrew Power and Rik Martin; Section 2: Understanding collaborative research practices: A Lexicon ~ Kate Pahl and Keri Facer; Section 3: Future directions ~ Keri Facer and Kate Pahl.
£26.59
Bristol University Press Reconsidering Policy
Book SynopsisThis book reconsiders traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-develops and extends new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.Trade Review“Offers a timely premise – that the needs of public policy have not been particularly well served by policy literature. Taking issue with common refrains like a need for governance, the book’s chapters provide an expansive critical canvas for a sort of public policy soul-searching.” International Journal of Public AdministrationTable of ContentsPreface Reconsidering policy – our agenda Reconsidering policy systems Reconsidering institutions Reconsidering the state Reconsidering borders Reconsidering advice and advisory systems Reconsidering information Reconsidering implementation Reconsidering policy change Reconsidering policy – our agenda revisited
£75.99
Bristol University Press Demystifying Evaluation
Book SynopsisDemystifying evaluation is an accessible introductory guide explaining the options open to evaluators and how to make appropriate choices of research methods and covering issues such as managing expectations of evaluation, quantitative and qualitative methods, engaging stakeholders and providing action-orientated approaches to help end-users.Trade Review"Adds to an astonishingly slim collection of works that seek to make evaluation widely accessible. Prof Parsons' contribution has enormous potential to assist in the relationships building needed between evaluators and the policy community to enhance evaluation and its use." J Bradley Cousins, University of Ottawa"This book gets to the heart of the practical and methodological issues evaluators face. An excellent resource for social researchers and commissioners alike." Lindsey Bowes, Research Director, CFE Research"Evaluating the effects of spending public money is crucial, but in many policy areas it is easier said than done. David Parsons draws on his considerable experience in this very accessible introductory guide which will be of interest to both evaluators and policy leads." Barbara Leach, Head of Evaluation, WRAP“A concise and highly engaging text that provides a valuable overview of the growing and important area of evaluation. Those new to evaluation; researchers, commissioners and policymakers alike, will find this book an accessible and important resource” Stephen Morris, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Compilation: setting the right foundations Composition: designing for needs Conducting process evaluation Conducting economic evaluation Conducting impact evaluation Analysis, reporting and communications Emerging challenges for evaluation and evaluators
£14.24
Bristol University Press Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive
Book SynopsisThis edited volume investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since the politics of austerity took hold in 2010.Trade Review"This edited volume provides the most exhaustive and systematic analysis of labour market policy reforms in Western and Eastern European countries during and after the 2007-08 financial crisis" Tim Vlandas, Associate Professor in Comparative Political Economy, University of Reading"...the breadth and relevance of the topics addressed in the book will appeal to a range of audiences. It constitutes an up-to-date resource for researchers and advanced students of social policy with an interest in European countries" Social Policy & AdminstrationTable of ContentsLabour market policies in the era of European pervasive austerity: a review ~ Sotiria Theodoropoulou Structural reforms in Europe: a comparative overview ~ Chiara Agostini and David Natali Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece ~ Manos Matsaganis The Italian labour market policy reforms and the economic crisis: coming towards the end of Italian exceptionalism? ~ Patrik Vesan and Emmanuele Pavolini French employment market policies: dualisation and destabilisation ~ Hélène Caune and Sotiria Theodoropoulou The German exception: welfare protectionism instead of retrenchment ~ Werner Eichhorst and Anke Hassel The Netherlands and the crisis: from activation to ‘deficiency compensation’ ~ Marcel Hoogenboom Dualising the Swedish model: Insiders and outsiders and labour market policy reform in Sweden: an overview ~ Johan Bo Davidsson No longer ‘fit for purpose’? Consolidation and catch-up in Irish labour market policy ~ Fiona Dukelow Retrenchment, conditionality and flexibility: UK labour market policies in the era of austerity ~ Elke Heins and Hayley Bennett Czechia: political experimentation or incremental reforms? ~ Tomáš Sirovátka Slovakia: perpetual austerity and growing emphasis on activation ~ Stefan Domonkos Slovenian labour market policies under austerity: narrowing the gap between the well- and the less well-protected in the labour market? ~ Miroljub Ignjatović and Maša Filipovič Hrast Conclusions ~ Sotiria Theodoropoulou
£77.39
Bristol University Press Who Stole the Town Hall
Book SynopsisArguing that the UK Government intends to privatise all local services through its devolution agenda, Peter Latham proposes a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy, including land value taxation and a wealth tax.Trade Review"A serious analysis of how democracy in local government has been imperceptibly slipping away." Camden New Journal"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in local democracy and the provision of local services. In particular anyone thinking of standing as a local councillor should read it from cover to cover." Inside Croydon"Neoliberalism is unsustainable and this book uses compelling and accessible evidence that a different form of politics is both possible and essential." The Morning Star“Peter Latham provides a vivid account of how the power of local government has been reduced by central government and hollowed out by the private sector as well as making important suggestions for rebuilding it.” Jane Lethbridge, University of Greenwich"Latham’s passion for democracy and social justice shines through in his detailed critique of the latest wave of neoliberal attacks on local government." Kevan Nelson, North West Regional Secretary, UNISONTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Localism Act 2011, Open Public Services and the neoliberalisation of councils; Imposed ‘metro’ mayors: new wine in old bottles; Police and Crime Commissioners: another half-baked' import; Local government finance; Towards a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy.
£14.24
Bristol University Press Towards a Spatial Social Policy
Book SynopsisBringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of social policy scholarship, practice and experience.Trade Review“This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect – certainly to downplay – the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance.” Nick Ellison, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Adam Whitworth Section 1: Concepts Spaces of Welfare Localism: Geographies of Locality-Making ~ Martin Jones Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion-inclusion and the spatial history of social policy ~ Chris Philo Section 2: Themes Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life ~ Anna Minton Re-placing employment support: Multi-spatial activation diorama ~ Adam Whitworth Making markets: social impact investing and new spaces of financialisation in social policy ~ Jay Wiggan A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy ~ Jessica Pykett Section 3: Methods Not just nuisance. Spatializing social statistics ~ Richard Harris Situating social policy analysis: Possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS ~ Scott Orford and Brian Webb Retrospective Developing a spatial social policy: Taking stock and looking to the future ~ John Clarke
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Bristol University Press Towards a Spatial Social Policy
Book SynopsisBringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of social policy scholarship, practice and experience.Trade Review“This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect – certainly to downplay – the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance.” Nick Ellison, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Adam Whitworth Section 1: Concepts Spaces of Welfare Localism: Geographies of Locality-Making ~ Martin Jones Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion-inclusion and the spatial history of social policy ~ Chris Philo Section 2: Themes Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life ~ Anna Minton Re-placing employment support: Multi-spatial activation diorama ~ Adam Whitworth Making markets: social impact investing and new spaces of financialisation in social policy ~ Jay Wiggan A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy ~ Jessica Pykett Section 3: Methods Not just nuisance. Spatializing social statistics ~ Richard Harris Situating social policy analysis: Possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS ~ Scott Orford and Brian Webb Retrospective Developing a spatial social policy: Taking stock and looking to the future ~ John Clarke
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Policy Press Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and
Book SynopsisBased on more than 30 case studies in eight different countries, this book explores the governance dynamics of local social innovations in the field of poverty reduction, illustrating how different governance dynamics and welfare mixes enable or hinder poverty reduction strategies.Trade Review“This book is a milestone in the experimental world of social innovation, the micro-governance of social innovation and the debate on practices of future democracy.” Frank Moulaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven“In today’s welfare states, poverty remains a largely intractable problem for policy makers and a persistent reality for many citizens. This book critically assesses the potential of social innovation. The book successfully paves the way for different policy paradigms – social protection, social investment and social innovation – to speak to each other. Against the background of the major challenges we face, this is an important, and even necessary, task.” Bea Cantillon, Universiteit Antwerpen"This interdisciplinary volume sheds important new light on the governance challenges facing social innovations in Europe and Brazil. Participatory bottom-up politics empowers excluded citizens, satisfies needs, and improves public programs.” Hilary Silver, Georgetown University and Brown University“Theoretically strong with interesting case studies based on excellent European research.” Enzo Mingione, Università di Milano-BicoccaTable of ContentsGoverning Local Social Innovations against Poverty across Europe ~ Stijn Oosterlynck, Yuri Kazepov and Andreas Novy The Historical Trajectory of Social Innovation in the European Union ~ Gert Verschraegen, Stijn Oosterlynck, Sebastiano Sabato and Andreas Novy On Elephants, Butterflies and Lions: Social Protection, Innovation and Investment ~ Yuri Kazepov, Tatiana Saruis, Fabio Colombo Modalities of Governing the Welfare Mix ~ Stijn Oosterlynck and Pieter Cools The Multi-scalar Puzzle of Social Innovation ~ Yuri Kazepov, Fabio Colombo, Tatiana Saruis Contradictory Dynamics of Empowerment in Social Innovation Initiatives ~ Stijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy, Bernhard Leubolt and Carla Weinzierl Negotiating Diversity and Equality ~ Andreas Novy and Carla Weinzierl Knowledge for Social Innovation ~ Andreas Novy, Pieter Cools, Gert Verschraegen and Carla Weinzierl Consolidating Social Innovation ~ Yuri Kazepov, Tatiana Saruis and Fabio Colombo Conclusion: Local Social Innovation and Welfare Reform ~ Stijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy and Yuri Kazepov
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Policy Press How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside
Book SynopsisFocusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn't work, and why there needs to be both planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government.Trade Review"This book is a fascinating read and its message is spot on. The need for increasing the delivery of new homes has never been more urgent - but equally vital is building homes that are beautiful, energy efficient and that add value to the local community. Thank you Shaun, this book is essential reading for all housing policy makers." Sue Chalkley, Hastoe Housing Association"A must read for anyone interested in housing." Evan Davis, Journalist and Presenter"Finally a solution to the housing argument: Shaun Spiers has shown how we can build more homes and still save the countryside, so everyone wins." Alice Thomson, The Times"This is a book that needed to be written and which I hope officials, ministers, local authorities and - perhaps most of all - the volume house-builders read." Fiona Reynolds, Master of Emmanuel College and author of The Fight for Beauty“This book is at once reasonable and visionary - a remarkable combination, and a remarkably important contribution to one of the most important social policy debates of our time. Everyone interested in the question of how to meet our urgent housing needs, while also protecting the landscape, should read it.” Sir Andrew Motion"Rural planning in Britain has all but collapsed. How to restore it, how to reinvigorate the rural economy and chart who will live in it and how, is by far the biggest challenge to domestic politics in Britain. Thank god for this book and its clear thinking on the subject." Simon Jenkins, journalist and author“This book argues convincingly that the beauty of the English countryside is compatible with reasonable growth in housing if it is well planned and well designed - only matching beauty will do! Well done Shaun Spiers.” Sir Terry Farrell, Architect and Urban DesignerTable of ContentsHow to think about housing and planning; The housing crisis; Rural Housing; Environmental constraints; Political constraints; Structural constraints; Solutions; Challenge.
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Bristol University Press How Does Collaborative Governance Scale
Book SynopsisExplores the role of scale and scaling in collaborative governance focusing on a wide range of policy areas with cases drawn from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.Trade Review"This volume offers an unparalleled examination of the issues of scale and scaling in collaborative governance. The theoretical framework and case study illustrations provide invaluable insights to both scholars and practitioners. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to better understand and better engage in effective collaborative problem-solving." Tina Nabatchi, Associate Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsHow does collaborative governance scale? ~ Chris Ansell and Jacob Torfing Governing EU employment policy: does collaborative governance scale up? ~ Eva Sørensen, Peter Triantafillou and Bodil Damgaard Bridging the hierarchical and collaborative divide: the role of network managers in scaling up a network approach to water governance in California ~ Esther Conrad Scale and intensity of collaboration as determinants of performance management gaps in polycentric governance networks: evidence from a national survey of metropolitan planning organisations ~ Asim Zia, Christopher Koliba, Jack Meek and Anna Schulz When collaborative governance scales up: lessons from global public health about compound collaboration ~ Chris Ansell; The 'Milky Way' of intermediary organisations: a transnational field of university governance ~ Kerstin Sahlin, Filip Wijkström, Lisa Dellmuth, Torbjörn Einarsson amd Achim Oberg Scaling up networks for starving artists ~ Ben Farr-Wharton and Robyn Keast Shifts in control disciplines and rescaling as a response to network governance failure: the BCJ case, Brazil ~ Charles Kirschbaum Institutional embeddedness and the scaling-up of collaboration and social innovation: the case of a Hong Kong-based international NGO ~ Eliza WY Lee and Juan Manuel Restrepo
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Policy Press Planning and Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis book uses an international perspective to look at the sources of conflict and cooperation between the different landscapes of knowledge driving contemporary urban change, and the rise of new technocracy in urban governance.Trade Review"Planning and Knowledge is an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary politics and urban development. It highlights the dilemmas of an urban world that appears to be increasingly in the hands of technocrats seeking to depoliticise policy and practice". Rob Imrie, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsPart I: Conceptual framings of technocracy The rise of a new urban technocracy ~ Federico Savini and Mike Raco Planning, knowledge and technocracy in historical perspective ~ Michael Hebbert Part II: Public planning and bureaucracies in contemporary urban development politics Dealing with tensions: the expertise of boundary spanners in facilitating community initiatives ~ Ward Rauws and Martine de Jong Plurality of expert knowledge: public planners' experience with urban contractulism in Amsterdam ~ Tuna Tasan-Kok & Martijn van den Hurk Local government in the face of crisis: changing public management of urban projects in Amsterdam ~ Thijs Koolmees and Stan Majoor Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge ~ Nanke Verloo Part III: Corporate knowledge and the land and property development sector Anticipatory knowledge: how development consultants see the future ~ Rachel Weber Towards an `information technocracy’: discourses of London’s post-referendum real estate markets ~ Nicola Livingstone Finance as technocratic agent in urban development ~ Sabine Dörry Planning professionalism in the face of technocracy: ethics, values and practices ~ Susannah Gunn Part IV: private consultants and the delivery of public policy Professional lobbying in urban planning: depoliticization or REpoliticization? ~ Aino Hirvola and Raine Mäntysalo Advocates, advisors and scrutineers: the technocracies of private sector planning in England ~ Gavin Parker, Emma Street and Matthew Wargent Localism and the reconfiguration of planning’s publics in the landscapes of technocrac ~ Sue Brownill The politics of new urban professions: the case of urban development engineers ~ Jonathan Metzger and Sherif Zakhour Part V: New constellations of actors and the management and governance of contemporary cities Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats ~ Rob Kitchin, Claudio Coletta, Leighton Evans, Liam Heaphy and Darach Mac Donncha Planning by numbers: affordable housing and viability in England ~ Antonya Layard Transnational design and local implications for planning: project flights and landings ~ Davide Ponzini Researching the best-practice: academic knowledge production, planning and the post-politicisation of environmental politics ~ Samuel Mössner and Catarina Gomes de Matos Conclusions: The technocratic logics of contemporary planning ~ Federico Savini and Mike Raco
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Bristol University Press Commissioning Healthcare in England
Book SynopsisThis timely book is the most comprehensive account yet of recent commissioning practice in the English NHS and its impact on health services and the healthcare system.Trade Review“Commissioning has been a cornerstone of the NHS since the early 1990s but is now being challenged. This important book charts its history and impact. As the NHS embarks on further major change, its findings deserve to be heeded.“ David J Hunter, Newcastle University“This collection of findings from recent studies of how NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups have been working shows what this part of recent English health policy has meant in practice.” Rod Sheaff, University of PlymouthTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland, Stephen Peckham, Marie Sanderson and Valerie Moran Context: commissioning in the English NHS ~ Imelda McDermott, Pauline Allen, Valerie Moran, Anna Coleman, Kath Checkland and Stephen Peckham The development and early operation of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) ~ Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott, Lynsey Warwick-Giles and Kath Checkland Clinical engagement in commissioning: past and present ~ Kath Checkland, Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott, Rosalind Miller, Stephen Peckham, Julia Segar, Stephen Harrison, Neil Perkins Commissioning primary care services: concepts and practice ~ Imelda McDermott, Kath Checkland, Anna Coleman, Lynsey Warwick-Giles, Stephen Peckham, Donna Bramwell, Valerie Moran and Oz Gore Commissioning of healthcare through competitive and cooperative mechanisms under the HSCA 2012 ~ Dorota Osipovic, Pauline Allen, Elizabeth Shepherd, Christina Petsoulas, Anna Coleman, Neil Perkins, Lorraine Williams and Marie Sanderson Healthcare contracts and the allocation of financial risk ~ Pauline Allen, Marie Sanderson, Christina Petsoulas and Ben Ritchie The changing public health system: an examination of the new commissioning infrastructure ~ Stephen Peckham, Anna Coleman, Erica Gadsby, Julia Segar, Neil Perkins and Donna Bramwell Conclusion ~ Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland, Stephen Peckham and Valerie Moran
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Policy Press Commissioning Healthcare in England
Book SynopsisThis timely book is the most comprehensive account yet of recent commissioning practice in the English NHS and its impact on health services and the healthcare system.Trade Review“Commissioning has been a cornerstone of the NHS since the early 1990s but is now being challenged. This important book charts its history and impact. As the NHS embarks on further major change, its findings deserve to be heeded.“ David J Hunter, Newcastle University“This collection of findings from recent studies of how NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups have been working shows what this part of recent English health policy has meant in practice.” Rod Sheaff, University of PlymouthTable of ContentsInroduction ~ Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland, Stephen Peckham, Marie Sanderson, Valerie Moran Context: Commissioning in the English NHS ~ Imelda McDermott, Pauline Allen, Valerie Moran, Anna Coleman, Kath Checkland, Stephen Peckham The Development and Early Operation of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) ~ Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott, Lynsey Warwick-Giles, Kath Checkland Clinical Engagement in Commissioning: Past and Present ~ Kath Checkland, Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott, Rosalind Miller, Stephen Peckham, Julia Segar, Stephen Harrison, Neil Perkins Commissioning Primary Care Services: Concepts and Practice ~ Imelda McDermott, Kath Checkland, Anna Coleman, Lynsey Warwick-Giles, Stephen Peckham, Donna Bramwell, Valerie Moran, Oz Gor Commissioning of Healthcare through Competitive and Cooperative Mechanisms Under the HSCA 2012 ~ Dorota Osipovic, Pauline Allen, Elizabeth Shepherd, Christina Petsoulas, Anna Coleman, Neil Perkins, Lorraine Williams, Marie Sanderson Healthcare Contracts and the Allocation of Financial Risk ~ Pauline Allen, Marie Sanderson, Christina Petsoulas, Ben Ritchie The Changing Public Health System: An Examination of the New Commissioning Infrastructure ~ Stephen Peckham, Anna Coleman, Erica Gadsby, Julia Segar, Neil Perkins, Donna Bramwell Conclusion ~ Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland, Stephen Peckham, Valerie Moran
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Bristol University Press Social Housing Wellbeing and Welfare
Book SynopsisBridging housing studies and social policy, this book analyses competing interpretations of the role and value of social housing in the UK. The author provides new research on the relationship between housing and wellbeing, and challenges the pervasive policy and social consensus that owner-occupation is the ‘natural’ choice of aspiring people.Table of Contents1. Introduction: housing, wellbeing and welfare PART I Meaning and purpose: discourses of social housing 2. Wellbeing: meaning and measurement 3. Discourses of dependency: social housing, welfare, and political debate 4. Counter-narratives: dependency, culture, and the myth of worklessness PART II Social housing, wellbeing, and experiences of the home 5. Experiences of the home: place, identity, and security 6. Mental health, happiness, and satisfaction with life PART III Rethinking the ‘social’ in social housing: common needs, shared identities 7. Social housing and welfare spheres 8. Rethinking the ‘social’ in social housing: common needs, shared identities
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Bristol University Press Culture and Values at the Heart of Policy Making
Book SynopsisThis illuminating study sets out why policy makers need to take culture seriously, how culture and values shape the political system and presents essential, practical recommendations for what governments should do differently.Table of ContentsIntroduction What are culture and values? Part One: Why culture and values matter for public policy Culture determines whether policies work Culture and values determine whether policies are legitimate Arguments about values and the purpose of democracy Governments can't help affecting culture Part Two: How culture and values shape the political system Values voters Accountability in a values-driven system Part Three: How policy makers can take culture seriously Taking symbols seriously Doing more locally Building organisations Being smart about evidence Conclusion
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BUP - Policy Press A Critical Approach to Research and Analysis
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Springer L Universit En Transition L Volution de Son R Le
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and
Book SynopsisIn this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on experts who collaborated across borders, Rosemblatt traces how intellectuals forged shared networks in which they discussed ethnic minorities.
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University of Texas Press Border Policing
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary group of borderlands scholars provide the first expansive comparative history of the way North American borders have been policedand transgressedover the past two centuries.Trade Review[Border Policing] is an excellent updated introduction to borderlands studies of the region. Readers will find that the authors, based primarily in the discipline of history, make the volume accessible to academic and nonacademic audiences alike as they deftly connect the themes over time...The contributions of this volume are timely. * Gender, Place & Culture *An intelligent and engaging collection of mostly historical scholarship on the often nettlesome challenges arising along the two international borders that trisect North America...despite this volume’s geographic, topical, and chronological range, the essays in Border Policing work together nicely...Borderlands scholars across disciplinary boundaries will find this volume rewarding. * American Historical Review *A volume such as this one could not be more timely...One cannot read through the fine essays in this collection without encountering fascinating historical examples of contemporary border realities and follies. Everything old is indeed new again along the nation's frontiers...Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Border Policing is an important collection of scholarship. Its most exciting and innovative sections center on Indigenous sovereignty, settler colonialism, and colonial border policies. Cohesively, this volume demonstrates that borders have historically been both permeable and policed. * Journal of American History *The framing of 'crisis' has been a recurring feature of border policing in U.S. history since at least the early nineteenth century. This much is deftly and effectively argued in [Border Policing]...the book aptly shows the partial, incomplete, and contingent nature of border policing itself...Scholars of Texas history would do well to engage this book for its range of case studies grappling with, among other things, transborder political collaboration (chapter 2), the policing of Mexican identity (chapter 4), vigilantism (chapter 7), peyotism (chapter 8), and the policing of smuggling and gender roles (chapter 9). * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Border Policing is...one of the best of a small but growing number of anthologies that put the histories of US-Mexico and US-Canada borderlands in conversation...this is an exceptionally well-organized and thoughtfully arranged anthology. Every essay can be grouped with at least two or three others either thematically, chronologically, or geographically, which makes it an excellent teaching resource for courses about nationalism, borderlands, or policing. The amount of fresh scholarship and interpretations means this collection is also pushing the field forward in distinct ways. * H-Net Reviews *Border Policing presents the story of border control from the perspective of the borderlands. The authors offer rigorous and insightful contributions on 'the experiences of borderlands residents.' … This focus brings to light important experiences too-long hidden and ignored. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *[Border Policing] is important, if for no other reason than our need to know more about how these borders became the complex, contentious zones they are today...The empirical richness of the case studies is impressive...the volume is a great resource for scholars and students of borders and security issues alike. * Journal of Strategic Security *Temporally and spatially expansive...Border Policing is an impressive collection of essays on enforcement and invasion in the North American borderlands. * Journal of Arizona History *Table of Contents Abbreviations Foreword (Elaine Carey and Andrae Marak) Introduction (Holly M. Karibo and George T. Díaz) Part I: Emerging Borders: Policing Boundaries in the Nineteenth Century 1. Defining the Acceptable Bounds of Deception: Policing the Prize Game in the Northeastern Borderlands, 1812–1815 (Edward J. Martin) 2. Dominance in an Imagined Border: Santos Benavides’s and Santiago Vidaurri’s Policing of the Rio Grande (Luis Alberto García) 3. A Border without Guards: First Nations and the Enforcement of National Space (Benjamin Hoy) Part II: Solidifying States, Testing Boundaries 4. To Protect and Police: Mexican Consuls in the American Borderlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (María de Jesús Duarte) 5. Enforcing US Immigration Laws at the US-Canada Border, 1891–1940: The View from Detroit (Thomas A. Klug) 6. The Roots of the Border Patrol: Line Riders and the Bureaucratization of US-Mexican Border Policing, 1894–1924 (James Dupree) 7. Home Guard: State-Sponsored Vigilantism and Violence in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands (Miguel A. Levario) Part III: Building and Resisting a Prohibition Apparatus 8. Policing Peyote Country in the Early Twentieth Century (Lisa D. Barnett) 9. Skirting the Law: Female Liquor Smugglers and Sellers and Policing through Prohibition along the Rio Grande (Carolina Monsiváis) 10. Building a Villain/Hero Binary: Public Rhetoric, Smuggling, and Enforcement in the Postwar Borderlands (Holly M. Karibo) Part IV: Expanding State Authority and Its Challenges 11. Diversity and the Border Patrol: Race and Gender in Immigration Enforcement along the US-Mexico Border (Jensen Branscombe) 12. Refusing Borders: Haudenosaunee Resistance, Tobacco, and Settler-Colonial Borderlands (Devin Clancy and Tyler Chartrand) 13. Border Surge: Drug Trafficking and Escalating Police Power on the Rio Grande (Santiago Ivan Guerra) 14. Bordering Reality: Dramatizing Policing the North American Borderlands in Reality Television (Anita Huizar-Hernández) Afterword: Within and Without Borders (Karl Jacoby) Acknowledgments Notes Contributors Index
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New York University Press Progressive Punishment
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 American Society of Criminology''s Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book AwardAn examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation for and then participating in the conservative tough on crime movement that is largely credited with the rise of the prison state. But what of those politicians and activists on the Left who reject punitive politics in favor of rehabilitation and a stronger welfare state? Can progressive policies such as these, with their benevolent intentions, nevertheless contribute to the expansion of mass incarceration?In Progressive Punishment, Judah Schept offers an ethnographic examination into the politics of incarceration in Bloomington, Indiana in order to consider the ways that liberal discourses Trade ReviewProgressive Punishment pushes relentlessly and appropriately against the & common sense understandings of liberal reform that simply exacerbate mass incarceration. -- Michelle Brown,author of The Culture of PunishmentSchepts stunningly original analysis shows how difficult it will be to escape the carceral state we have built over the past four decades. A breakthrough in punishment and society research. -- Jonathan Simon,author of Mass Incarceration on TrialThis is a significant contribution that crosses disciplinary boundaries. * Choice Connect *
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New York University Press Progressive Punishment
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 American Society of Criminology''s Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book AwardAn examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation for and then participating in the conservative tough on crime movement that is largely credited with the rise of the prison state. But what of those politicians and activists on the Left who reject punitive politics in favor of rehabilitation and a stronger welfare state? Can progressive policies such as these, with their benevolent intentions, nevertheless contribute to the expansion of mass incarceration?In Progressive Punishment, Judah Schept offers an ethnographic examination into the politics of incarceration in Bloomington, Indiana in order to consider the ways that liberal discourses Trade ReviewProgressive Punishment pushes relentlessly and appropriately against the & common sense understandings of liberal reform that simply exacerbate mass incarceration. -- Michelle Brown,author of The Culture of PunishmentSchepts stunningly original analysis shows how difficult it will be to escape the carceral state we have built over the past four decades. A breakthrough in punishment and society research. -- Jonathan Simon,author of Mass Incarceration on TrialThis is a significant contribution that crosses disciplinary boundaries. * Choice Connect *
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New York University Press No Shortcut to Change
Book SynopsisA critical examination of the weaknesses inherent in international gender policy2018 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science AssociationGender equality has become a central aspect of global governance and development in the 21st century. States increasingly promote women in government, ensure women's economic rights and protect women from violence, all in the name of creating a more gender equitable world. No Shortcut to Change is a historical, theoretical, and political overview of why the common, liberal-feminist-driven shortcut' approach has not actually improved the status of women throughout the worldand why a new approach taking social, racial, and political hierarchies into account alongside gender is sorely needed. This innovative book unites several streams of international relations and feminist theory in pursuit of a practical solution to global gender inequality. She gives an overview of what add-women' policymaking looks like and has (or has not) accompliTrade Review"No Shortcut to Change should be in all libraries that serve gender and women’s studies programs. Not only is it beautifully written in a pedagogical style that clearly defines key terms; it also addresses the most fundamental questions and dilemmas at the core of the discipline. Individual chapters even work well as standalone texts. The book is most appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the social sciences. It will also be of interest to activists, policy makers, and members of international organizations whose work hopes to contribute to gender equality." -- Resources for Gender and Women's Studies"No Shortcut to Change is a groundbreaking critique of common-sense approaches to improving gender equality throughout the world. A must-read book for anyone who seriously cares about this important issue." -- Laura Sjoberg,author of Women as Wartime Rapists: Beyond Sensation and Stereotyping"Kara Ellerby's book is necessary and required reading for all those engaged with debates on gender empowerment, equality, equity, or quotas in global or national contexts. This is a powerful and lucid argument about why the gender inclusion model may not achieve feminist goals or provide a path to improving women's (or anyone else's) lives. Ellerby has advanced feminist thinking and politics." -- Inderpal Grewal,author of Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
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New York University Press Beyond Economic Migration
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important addition to the literature on immigration. The multidisciplinary analyses of cross-border movements and resettlement underscore the urgent need for immigration reform." -- Carl Bankston, Tulane University"Edited and written by leading scholars in the study of international migration, this highly original volume offers a nuanced, multilevel, and empirically grounded resource for understanding the significance of non-economic factors in shaping the migration experiences of diverse groups in the US. . . . Includes valuable research on understudied populations, such as skilled Africans, skilled Pakistani women, skilled Latin Americans, and transnational women. A groundbreaking contribution to the field." -- Steven Gold, Michigan State University
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New York University Press In the Spirit in the Dark
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New York University Press Wealth
Book SynopsisAn in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies.Wealth, and specifically its distribution, has been a topic of great debate in recent years. Calls for justice against corporations implicated in the 2008 financial crash; populist rallying against the one percent; distrust of the influence of wealthy donors on elections and policyall of these issues have their roots in a larger discussion of how wealth operates in American economic and political life. In Wealth a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars in political science, law and philosophy address the complex set of questions that relate to economic wealth and its implications for social and political life in modern societies. The volume thus brings together a range of perspectives on wealth, inequality, capitalism, oligarchy, and democracy. The essays also cover a number of more specific topics including limitarianism, US Consti
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New York University Press Reorganizing Government
Book SynopsisA pioneering model for constructing and assessing government authority and achieving policy goals more effectivelyRegulation is frequently less successful than it could be, largely because the allocation of authority to regulatory institutions, and the relationships between them, are misunderstood. As a result, attempts to create new regulatory programs or mend under-performing ones are often poorly designed. Reorganizing Government explains how past approaches have failed to appreciate the full diversity of alternative approaches to organizing governmental authority. The authors illustrate the often neglected dimensional and functional aspects of inter-jurisdictional relations through in-depth explorations of several diverse case studies involving securities and banking regulation, food safety, pollution control, resource conservation, and terrorism prevention. This volume advances an analytical framework of governmental authority structured along three dimensionscentralization, overlTrade Review"Reorganizing Government is a crucial contribution to the scholarly literature concerning how policymakers should allocate governmental authority. The pioneering analytical framework it crafts has the potential to make government reorganizations more rational and justifiable. If adopted, its approach can spur much-needed open discussion, clarity, and transparent justification with regard to institutional arrangements." * Administrative Law Review Accord *"The case studies are fascinating snapshots of agencies at work." * Choice *
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New York University Press Locked Out
Book SynopsisA rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era This content is not available in your country. At some point, most media consumers around the world have run into a message like this. Whether trying to watch a DVD purchased during a vacation abroad, play an imported Japanese video game, or listen to a Spotify library while traveling, we are constantly reminded of geography's imprint on digital culture. We are locked out. Despite utopian hopes of a borderless digital society, DVDs, video games, and streaming platforms include digital rights management mechanisms that block media access within certain territories. These technologies of regional lockout are meant first and foremost to keep the entertainment industries' global markets distinct. But they also frustrate consumers and place territories on a hierarchy of global media access. Drawing on extensive research of media-industry strategies,Trade Review‘Lockout’—the region code restrictions in DVDs and videogame consoles and geo-blocking in on-demand services—is at once a more insidious and banal form of control than that envisaged by critics of cultural imperialism. In this wide-ranging book, Evan Elkins has brought us up to date on the textured detail of such technological control, and bequeathed us the theory tools to understand its impact on culture, audiences, and producers. -- Stuart Cunningham, co-author of Social Media EntertainmentLocked Out effectively illustrates the complex cultural, technological, regulatory, and economic reasons why consumers’ access to media content remains so unequal on a global basis. Historically informed, methodologically rich, and fluidly written, Locked Out represents a significant contribution to work on global media flows, distribution cultures, and the cultural history of technology. -- Alisa Perren, author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990sElkins quickly puts aside the staid dichotomy of critical-cultural and political economy approaches to the study of media industries, and instead engages both arenas to paint a more nuanced picture of how regional lockout shapes global media culture [...] Highly accessible, Locked Out would be a generative text in both undergraduate and graduate courses on digital media, media industries, transnational and global media, and cultural geography, as well as for scholars in these fields. * Media Industries *
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New York University Press LGBTQ Politics
Book SynopsisA definitive collection of original essays on queer politics From Harvey Milk to ACT UP to Proposition 8, no political change in the last two decades has been as rapid as the advancement of civil rights for LGBTQ people. As we face a critical juncture in progressive activism, political science, which has been slower than most disciplines to study the complexity of queer politics, must grapple with the shifting landscape of LGBTQ rights and inclusion. LGBTQ Politics analyzes both the successes and obstacles to building the LGBTQ movement over the past twenty years, offering analyses that point to possibilities for the movement's future. Essays cover a range of topics, including activism, law, and coalition-building, and draw on subfields such as American politics, comparative politics, political theory, and international relations. LGBTQ Politics presents the full range of methodological, ideological, and substantive approaches to LGBTQ politics that exist inTrade Review"LGBTQ Politics happily upends whatever it is we thought we meant by LGBTQ politics. In addition to the volume's superb makeovers of the now-usual suspects-marriage equality and public opinion on LGBTQ lives and rights-this reader makes a winning argument that so many not gay vectors of inequality and politicization are of critical import to queer communities and a queerer future...comprehensive and commanding." -Joseph J. Fischel,Author of Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent "For far too long, LGBTQ and sexuality politics have been sidelined, considered less important, less respectable, or less necessary research topics in political science. This expansive, impressive, and needed volume provides a forceful and dynamic response. By bringing together some of today's leading lights and newest scholars, this anthology illuminates just how central these questions are to our discipline, how they provide rich opportunities to hone our methodological concerns and substantive analysis, how they provide a means to integrate the many subfields of political science, how they can foster links between our discipline and the broader social sciences, and how political inquiry must connect to the ongoing challenges of contemporary intersectional activism, law, and policymaking." -Stephen Engel,Author of Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives "This volume is both definitive and comprehensive in its treatment of LGBTQ politics. Collectively, the essays encompass a mature and vital area of scholarly inquiry that spans the range of methods, questions, geographic territory, and historical scope of analysis across political science. They illustrate both the independent importance of LGBTQ politics and the ways that understanding LGBTQ politics challenges and strengthens the discipline of political science. A sterling achievement." -Julie Novkov,Author of The Supreme Court and the Presidency: Struggles for Supremacy "For decades, queer scholars assailed an exclusionary US political science. Now, following the groundbreaking intersectional work of feminist political analysis, these three remarkable scholars have crafted a critical reader to mark the arrival of LGBTQ politics at the center of the American discipline's concerns.Reaching across the LGBTQ political landscape and US structural inequalities, the editors and contributors engage with core concepts for American scholars, students, and activists, then extend the collection's analysis into the world." -Michael Bosia,Co-editor of Global Homophobia: States, Movements, and the Politics of Oppression
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New York University Press Contraceptive Risk
Book SynopsisThe story of Depo-Provera joins the national struggle over the drug''s FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal justice uses.Depo-Provera is known as an injectable hormonal birth control method, but few are familiar with its dark and complicated history. Depo-Provera was tested on women since the mid-1960s without their informed consent until it was FDA-approved in 1992, but never FDA-approved as chemical castration for male sex offenders.Contraceptive Risk is William Green''s landmark study of Depo-Provera. Based on a fascinating combination of archival materials and interviews, the book is framed as three interconnected stories told by Judith Weisz, who chaired the FDA''s Public Board of Inquiry on Depo-Provera, a scientific court; by Anne MacMurdo who brought a products liability suit against Upjohn, the drug''s manufacturer, for the deleterious side effects she suffered from the drug''s use; and by Roger Gauntlett, an UpjTrade ReviewBy far the most thorough account of the Depo-Provera story to date. Though we may never get clear answers about whether Depo-Provera has done more harm than good over the past few decades, this well-researched history will be of great interest to those in the public health and women and gender studies fields, as well as many women contemplating the use of Depo-Provera themselves. -- Judy Norsigian, co-author and co-founder of Our Bodies Ourselves and the Boston Women’s Health Book CollectiveWilliam Greens fascinating tale of the use and misuse of Depo-Provera highlights the complex and faulty world of & risk management, the competing powerful interests at stake in drug approval and use, and the misuse of contraceptive drugs in controlling reproduction and sexual deviance. -- Karen L. Baird, co-author of Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public PolicySeldom has a study connected the micro with the macro, the personal with the legal, the individual with the structural in the manner and depth present in Contraceptive Risk. Using three concurrent and overlapping stories, Green explores in dizzying fashion, the politics of contraceptive risk management. * New Genetics and Society *
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New York University Press Policy Drift
Book SynopsisThe role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of U.S. public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policyThere is no finality to the public policy process. Although it's often assumed that once a law is enacted it is implemented faithfully, even policies believed to be stable can change or drift in unexpected directions. The Fourth Amendment, for example, guarantees Americans' privacy rights, but the 9/11 terrorist attacks set off one of the worst cases of government-sponsored espionage. Policy changes instituted by the National Security Agency led to widespread warrantless surveillance, a drift in public policy that led to lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of wiretapping the American people. Much of the research in recent decades ignores the impact of large-scale, slow-moving, secular forces in political, social, and economic environments on public policy. In Policy Drift, Norma Riccucci sheds light on how institutional forces collectTrade ReviewPolicy Drift is a timely and important book on how policies evolve and change after they are enacted. Norma Riccucci shows that, as time passes between enactment and initial implementation, policies can drift far from the apparent intent of their advocates. Riccucci demonstrates how the three branches of government and stakeholders continually jockey for influence over policy, while changes in broader political, economic, and social forces influence the relative power of contestants in policy making, often with profound consequences...a fresh and readable approach to the policy process. -- Thomas A. Birkland,Author of An Introduction to the Policy Process: Theories, Concepts, and Models of Public PolicyA welcome addition to a field largely constructed around a mechanistic view of policy, law and institutions. Norma Riccuccis attention to three significant policy areas surveillance and privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy illustrates the surprises that are likely to emerge in an adaptive world that is more like the exploding universe than a two-dimensional assembly line. -- Beryl A. Radin,Author of Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Reaches MidlifeIn Policy Drift, award winning author, Norma Riccucci, emphasizes that & governance unfolds overtime and that there is no one size fits all model of public policy formulation and implementation that will guarantee, predict, or explain policy durability, stability, and instability. Rather, there are a multiplicity of actors, institutions, conditions, and particularistic factors that contribute to policy drift. Riccuccis exceptionally well-crafted, cogent analysis provides an excellent framework for future theory building and research and is a very welcomeindeed, necessary--contribution to the fields of public administration and policy studies -- David H. Rosenbloom,Author of Administrative Law for Public Managers
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New York University Press Policy Drift
Book SynopsisThe role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of U.S. public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policyThere is no finality to the public policy process. Although it's often assumed that once a law is enacted it is implemented faithfully, even policies believed to be stable can change or drift in unexpected directions. The Fourth Amendment, for example, guarantees Americans' privacy rights, but the 9/11 terrorist attacks set off one of the worst cases of government-sponsored espionage. Policy changes instituted by the National Security Agency led to widespread warrantless surveillance, a drift in public policy that led to lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of wiretapping the American people. Much of the research in recent decades ignores the impact of large-scale, slow-moving, secular forces in political, social, and economic environments on public policy. In Policy Drift, Norma Riccucci sheds light on how institutional forces collectTrade ReviewPolicy Drift is a timely and important book on how policies evolve and change after they are enacted. Norma Riccucci shows that, as time passes between enactment and initial implementation, policies can drift far from the apparent intent of their advocates. Riccucci demonstrates how the three branches of government and stakeholders continually jockey for influence over policy, while changes in broader political, economic, and social forces influence the relative power of contestants in policy making, often with profound consequences...a fresh and readable approach to the policy process. -- Thomas A. Birkland,Author of An Introduction to the Policy Process: Theories, Concepts, and Models of Public PolicyA welcome addition to a field largely constructed around a mechanistic view of policy, law and institutions. Norma Riccuccis attention to three significant policy areas surveillance and privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy illustrates the surprises that are likely to emerge in an adaptive world that is more like the exploding universe than a two-dimensional assembly line. -- Beryl A. Radin,Author of Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Reaches MidlifeIn Policy Drift, award winning author, Norma Riccucci, emphasizes that & governance unfolds overtime and that there is no one size fits all model of public policy formulation and implementation that will guarantee, predict, or explain policy durability, stability, and instability. Rather, there are a multiplicity of actors, institutions, conditions, and particularistic factors that contribute to policy drift. Riccuccis exceptionally well-crafted, cogent analysis provides an excellent framework for future theory building and research and is a very welcomeindeed, necessary--contribution to the fields of public administration and policy studies -- David H. Rosenbloom,Author of Administrative Law for Public Managers
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New York University Press Biocitizenship
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenshipCitizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years, developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies have given rise to new ways in which bodies shape the idea and practices of citizenship, or what has been called biocitizenship. This book, the first collection of essays on the topic of biocitizenship, aims to examine biocitizenship as a mode of political action and expand readers' understanding of biopolitics. Organized into four distinct sections covering topics including AIDS, drug testing on the mentally ill, and force-feeding prisoners, Biocitizenship delves deep into the relationship between private and public identity, politics, and power. Composed of pieces by leading scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, Biocitizenship offers a clear and comprehensive discussion on biocitizenship, biopolitiTrade ReviewBiocitizenship offers marvelous transdisciplinary perspectives on how health, bodies, and life are entangled in power dynamics manifesting variously in civic belonging and political subjection, social exclusion, and creative resistance. -- Jennifer Terry,Author of Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century AmericaThis timely collection offers up rich and generative archives for thinking about the concept of biocitizenship, and in so doing becomes a vital resource for discussions on how we narrate and navigate engagements with the materiality of bodies alongside processes of biomedicalization, entangled as they are with the interests of capital and the differential valuation of lives. -- Angela Willey,Author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology
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New York University Press Unequal Coverage
Book SynopsisThe Affordable Care Act's impact on coverage, access to care, and systematic exclusion in our health care system The Affordable Care Act set off an unprecedented wave of health insurance enrollment as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system since 1965. In the years since its enactment, some 20 million uninsured Americans gained access to coverage. And yet, the law remained unpopular and politically vulnerable. While the ACA extended social protections to some groups, its implementation was troubled and the act itself created new forms of exclusion. Access to affordable coverage options were highly segmented by state of residence, income, and citizenship status. Unequal Coverage documents the everyday experiences of individuals and families across the U.S. as they attempted to access coverage and care in the five years following the passage of the ACA.It argues that while the Affordable Care Act succeeded in expanding access to care, it did sTrade ReviewUnequal Coverage,edited by Mulligan and Castan~eda, is an excellent group of ethnographic studies describing the lived experiences of unfair health insurance in the United States. It is must-reading for anyone interested in understanding the Affordable Care Act and how it has impacted the population and health care providers. * Choice *Unequal Coverage will be of interest to medical anthropologists and sociologists, as well as their students, as it is a book that captures the lived experience of health reform. But this book should not be missed by those of us who are students of policy and politics, as it is a fascinating study in implementation. It captures the many layers of unintended consequences that invariably flow from incremental policy strategies designed to shore up gaps in insurance coverage within complex, market-based health care systems. Readers will come away appreciating that the unintended consequences of the ACA have been far-reaching, extending well beyond the health care system. -- Medical Anthropology QuarterlyThis insightful and timely volume foregrounds individuals lived experiences of health reformwhether they were included in the reform or excluded. By attending to the nuances of political subjectivities, the complexity of regional variation, and the messiness of the laws implementation on the ground, the contributors help illuminate how a middle-of-road reform became one of the most politically contentious issues of our time. -- Sarah Horton, author ,They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and “Illegality” among U.S. Farmworkers"If there was ever a time to shed light on the policies fostering health care inequality in the United States, that time is now. The contributors to this volume invite us to consider how healthcare reform creates often contradictory inclusions and exclusions for different populations across the country, and documents the real-world impacts of policies that foster stratification and specific notions of risk and responsibility. This book will appeal to health policy students and scholars, but is also an engaging ethnographic work accessible to any reader interested in understanding the inequalities created by the U.S. healthcare system." -- Mark Nichter,Regents Professor of Anthropology, Public Health and Family Medicine University of ArizonaUnequal Coverage presents telling ethnographic studies of how the Affordable Care Act is explained in the distinctive local moral worlds that constitute inequality in America. It is the most important effort by anthropologists that I have come across to describe the lived experience of inequality in health insurance. Timely and salient! -- Arthur Kleinman, MD,Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Harvard University
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New York University Press The Sex Obsession
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesOffers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and powerAmerican politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy's telegenic sex appeal is now widely accepted but taking sexual politics seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, marked by a series of widely recognized issues and movements women's liberation and gay liberation in the 1960s and '70s, the AIDS crisis and ACT UP in the 80s and '90s, welfare and immigration reform in the 90s, wars claiming to save women in the 2000s, and battles overTrade ReviewIt has become common sense that U.S. politics around issues of sex, race, and gender are an intransigent political struggle between Christian conservatives and secular libertines. Yet how true is this narrative—and whom does it serve? Jakobsen argues this simplistic dichotomy of religious traditionalists vs. secular progressives shores up, rather than dismantles, persistent inequalities ... Highly recommended for those seeking greater clarity about how sex, race, and gender are mobilized in American political life. * STARRED Library Journal *Janet Jakobsen’s The Sex Obsession is a tremendous book; it makes a major contribution to our understanding of US culture. In four crisp chapters, Jakobsen convincingly demonstrates that many of our most strongly held assumptions about politics and sex are false—and also dangerous. She skillfully highlights the ways in which narratives of ‘progress’ produce skewed understandings of US culture and politics. Jakobsen’s analysis of the complicated relationships between secular ideologies and religious ones is especially compelling. The Sex Obsession is both timely and brilliant.” -- David Harrington Watt, author of Antifundamentalism in Modern AmericaJakobsen presents an interesting, loosely structured series of cases to support the thesis that American politics is characterized by a tension between a white, Protestant, and evangelical conception of the family animating conservatives and a secular mimicry of that ideal animating Liberals. * Choice *An essential companion to this moment and all that troubles it, The Sex Obsession begins with the beguiling question, why is sex everywhere in US policy debates? It then refutes the commonsensical answer: because of religion. By showing how the secular/religious binary clouds an understanding of the dense intersections between myriad social forces, Janet Jakobsen offers a brilliant, riveting, and incisive study full of transformative conceptions of the possible and previously hidden passages to social change. Read this book to imagine life differently.” -- Mary Pat Brady, author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of SpaceShreds our common-sense narratives about sexual politics in the United States. The author dismantles the misleading opposition between religious regulation and secular freedom and leads us through a dynamic intersectional analysis to a provocatively thrilling call for theoretical promiscuity and relational perversity in the service of an expansive practice of social justice. This meticulously argued, groundbreaking book is a must-read for all of us engaged in building another world from the ground up. -- Lisa Duggan, author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of GreedThis original and deeply learned book provides a compelling examination of sexual politics over the past five decades in relation to religious intolerance as well as the possibilities for an expansive ethics of care. Jakobsen brings together queer, feminist, critical race, postcolonial, disability, and religious studies to analyze how and why sex has come to overshadow other progressive values for evaluating moral wellbeing, such as economic equality, racial justice, opposition to war, and environmental health. Jakobsen’s argument is irrefutable: until we recognize the complex relations among the sexual, the economic, and the political, we undermine the prospects for alliance building and social justice. -- David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Radicalization of IntimacyIn The Sex Obsession, Janet R. Jakobsen offers a masterful analysis of a question that has drawn the attention of many commentators on US religions: “Why sex?” ... Should become required reading for scholars. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Feminist and queer scholarship in religious studies will undoubtedly benefit immensely from Jakobsen’s kaleidoscopic approach to what sex and religion have to contribute to the project of imagining and materializing alternative worlds. * Reading Religion *
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New York University Press In Our Hands
Book SynopsisA call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families. Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women's paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families' incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child carebut although most developed countries offer state-funded child care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in prosperous times, child care is rarely a priority for U.S. policy makers. In In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy, Elizabeth Palley and Corey S. Shdaimah explore the reasons behind the relative paucity of U.S. child care and child care support. They examine the history of child care advocacy and legislation in the United States, from the Child Care Development Act of the 1970s that was vetoed by Nixon through the Obama administration's CTrade ReviewPalley and Shdaimah's book is at its best in revealing the tensions among child care advocates. * The American Prospect *Adeep dive into the history of child care policy in the United States and an examination of the cultural forces which have influenced the debate as well as the lawmakers, advocates and stakeholders who have shaped the availability of child care in America today. * NBC News *[T]he book makes a scholarly contribution with its comprehensive approach and rich detail regarding the history and current status of child care policy. Use of policy theories, furthermore, contributes to our understanding of policymaking more broadly. * Political Science Quarterly *This books main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S. However, Palley and Shdaimahs research into what child care advocates actually think about their own work brings a unique perspective on this issue. Their discussion of these interviews, which happily includes a number of quotes from subjects, is both interesting and thought-provoking. Based on this research, the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change. In Our Hands was clearly a labor of love for its two authors . . . . The book is scholarly in tone and scope, but there is an underlying note of urgency that amplifies the authors arguments. * Law and Politics Book Review *This book offers an approachable, intelligent treatment of child care that is suitable for undergraduate and graduate academic audiences, activists, policymakers, and the general public. * Journal of Women, Politics & Policy *The authors make a compelling case that for too long, child care has been marginalized as an issue, in part because it has been framed as a personal responsibility . . . As authors Elizabeth Palley and Corey Shdaimah document inIn Our Hands, this draconian choice between providing cash or care is not a personal failure. It is a collective failure reflected in the lack of a national child care policy. * Families and Work Institute *This book provides a great overview of barriers within the political system and illustrates many of the unmet needs of families and children in the current system. The analysis of the child care movement as an effective social movement adds to the current literature and provides insights for practitioners about how to move forward. * Affilia *A first rate comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the history of child care in the United States and the failure to address adequate policy for the poor. The book provides an extensive literature review and assessment of the political process at the national and state levels. Palley and Shadimah highlight the reasons for the inability of pro child care forces to develop an effective coalition. This book presents a long overdue look at the absence of national policy on child care and suggests some possible approaches to address this issue in the future. -- Joyce Gelb,Professor Emerita, City College and Graduate Center CUNYA first rate piece of public policy advocacy which advances in a most comprehensive form the issue of a national policy for child care in this country. [This book] incorporates the essence of many political debates and the actual language of the people who attempted to move forward with the child care agenda over the past decades. -- David Katner,Tulane UniversityIn their quest to understand why the United States lags so far behind Western Europe in supporting early child care, Dr. Palley and Dr. Shdaimah interviewed advocates, researchers and others who have been working to address the issue. -- Bonnie Eissner * Erudition *This book tells us why, despite a growing number of women in the workforce and the well-documented struggles of working families across the economic spectrum to access and afford child care, the U.S. has been unable to make any headway on a problem that touches so many families. Palley and Shdiamah look through the lens of social movement theory to remind us that in the context of U.S. culture and politics, building a broad based movement around child care is essential if we are to move from a piecemeal approach to comprehensive policy. The authors' conversations with long-time advocates and activists lead to provocative questions about how to reframe the child care issue toward building a broad-based movement in the context of today's challenges and opportunities. This book is a must-read for advocates, union leaders and activists, early childhood workers and educators. -- Denise Dowell ,Early Learning and Care Programs, CSEAWhether you are a parent, provider or policy wonk, this book will help you understand why quality child care is so difficult to find and even more challenging to afford. It will then lift your spirits with some reasonable solutions. -- Dana E. Friedman,Founder and President, The Early Years InstitutePalley and Shdaimah have done a commendable job at tackling such a difficult task. Given the fragmentation of U.S. childcare policy, their rich, historical analysis provides an important integration of multiple sources of data and literature. Their interviews with respondents from a variety of interest groups, experts, and childcare advocates provide key insights into how childcare isframed and why it is not viewed as a necessary public good in the USA . . . . [T]his book makes an important contribution. It clearly shows the mechanisms underlying childcare policy developments in the USA and israther unique in its social movement approach to understanding childcare advocacy. * Community, Work & Family *Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US. . . . This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Framing 3 History 4 The Role of Interest Groups 5 Current U.S. Child Care Policies 6 Women and Child Care 7 Strategic Framing of Child Care 8 Child Care as a Social Movement 9 If We Have a Major Social Problem, Why Is There No Movement for Change? Afterword Appendix 1: A Brief Note on Research Methods Appendix 2: Interview Guide for Interest Groups and Organizations Including Unions Appendix 3: Study Respondents by Organization and Role Appendix 4: Conservative Organization Websites Reviewed Notes References Index About the Authors
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New York University Press Biocitizenship
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenshipCitizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years, developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies have given rise to new ways in which bodies shape the idea and practices of citizenship, or what has been called biocitizenship. This book, the first collection of essays on the topic of biocitizenship, aims to examine biocitizenship as a mode of political action and expand readers' understanding of biopolitics. Organized into four distinct sections covering topics including AIDS, drug testing on the mentally ill, and force-feeding prisoners, Biocitizenship delves deep into the relationship between private and public identity, politics, and power. Composed of pieces by leading scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, Biocitizenship offers a clear and comprehensive discussion on biocitizenship, biopolitiTrade ReviewBiocitizenship offers marvelous transdisciplinary perspectives on how health, bodies, and life are entangled in power dynamics manifesting variously in civic belonging and political subjection, social exclusion, and creative resistance. -- Jennifer Terry,Author of Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century AmericaThis timely collection offers up rich and generative archives for thinking about the concept of biocitizenship, and in so doing becomes a vital resource for discussions on how we narrate and navigate engagements with the materiality of bodies alongside processes of biomedicalization, entangled as they are with the interests of capital and the differential valuation of lives. -- Angela Willey,Author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology
£26.59
New York University Press Immigration Emigration and Migration
Book SynopsisImmigration, Emigration and Migration consists of essays written by distinguished scholars across the fields of law, political science, and philosophy that examine questions of travel and migration across national borders. Questions of immigration and border enforcement practices are particularly salient in contemporary public discourse, and examinations of policy and practice bring forth new philosophical quandaries. Why the common assumption that each country has the right to control its own borders? How are laws that restrict or regulate migration created and justified? Why has the criminalization of migration increased? How can migration be better considered through the point of view of the migrants themselves? What are the differences in international and national institutional migratory policy? The volume explores questions of border control and enforcement, criminalization of borders, and how to address current debates and changes in regards to migration an
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