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Book SynopsisWilliam Letwin's thorough, carefully argued, and elegantly written work is the only book length study of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law designed to shape the economic life of a large complex society through maintaining the correct level of competition in the economy. This is a superb history and complete analysis of the Act, from its English and American common law antecedents to the events that led to the first revisions of the Act in the form of the Clayton Antitrust and Federal Trade Commission Acts.

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Book SynopsisA study of the first attempts to understand how radiation affected the survivors of the atomic bomb and subsequent generations of Japanese, this book argues that Cold War politics and cultural values shaped this research. Using varied sources, it examines how US science was socially constructed.

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Book SynopsisPostulates that for decades, both policymakers and analysts have been frustrated by conflicts between expert and lay perceptions of environmental risk. This work examines the role of intuition, mental habits, and cognitive frameworks in the construction of public opinion.

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Book SynopsisThe Obama administration has been criticized for its inability to convey how much it has accomplished for ordinary citizens. This title argues that this difficulty is not merely a failure of communication; rather it is endemic to the formidable presence of the 'submerged state.'Trade Review"Americans want government policies to be transparent, straightforward, and fair, but many social programs are confusing and opaque and shower benefits disproportionately on the well-to-do. In this timely, penetrating, and highly readable book, Suzanne Mettler illuminates the hidden government benefits and subsidies that comprise our 'submerged state' and demonstrates how its murky operation impairs democratic practice and weakens civic engagement." (Eric M. Patashnik, University of Virginia)"

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Book SynopsisEpp looks at how lawmakers and agencies figure out what policies to implement and how to develop them, and at whether particular approachesresponding to news events, or building long-term plans, for examplelead to better or worse outcomes.Trade Review"Scholars of public administration and public policy grapple with an enduring question: under which conditions is public governance efficient and responsive? In this wonderful book, Epp argues that issues matter. Some issues are inherently more complex than others and therefore will be processed differently by decision-making bodies."--Christian Breunig, University of Konstanz "Epp makes a valuable contribution to policy theory, making the compelling case that stability is in and of itself an important goal within the broader desire of policy theorists to understand basic questions of policy change. His discussion also extends to explore the implications for institutional design."--Chris Koski, Reed College

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Book SynopsisEpp looks at how lawmakers and agencies figure out what policies to implement and how to develop them, and at whether particular approachesresponding to news events, or building long-term plans, for examplelead to better or worse outcomes.Trade Review"Scholars of public administration and public policy grapple with an enduring question: under which conditions is public governance efficient and responsive? In this wonderful book, Epp argues that issues matter. Some issues are inherently more complex than others and therefore will be processed differently by decision-making bodies."--Christian Breunig, University of Konstanz "Epp makes a valuable contribution to policy theory, making the compelling case that stability is in and of itself an important goal within the broader desire of policy theorists to understand basic questions of policy change. His discussion also extends to explore the implications for institutional design."--Chris Koski, Reed College

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Book SynopsisAn account of the relationship between American policy and public opinion during the Gulf crisis. Comparisons are made to other wars such as those in Panama, Vietnam, Korea and the Falklands, as well as to World War II. The book features 300 tables charting public opinion through the Gulf crisis.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Ch. 1: A Perspective on Public Opinion Ch. 2: The Approach to War: Data Ch. 3: The Approach to War: Conclusions and Comparisons Ch. 4: War Ch. 5: The War's Aftermath Ch. 6: Electoral Consequences of the War Ch. 7: Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War Ch. 8: The War in Retrospect: Policy Debates Ch. 9: The Decline of the War as a Memorable Event List of Tables Note on Conventions Used in Tables The Tables Notes References Name Index Subject Index Figures

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Book SynopsisAn account of the relationship between American policy and public opinion during the Gulf crisis. Comparisons are made to other wars such as those in Panama, Vietnam, Korea and the Falklands, as well as to World War II. The book features 300 tables charting public opinion through the Gulf crisis.

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Book SynopsisAn argument for changing the way we finance American highways to a pay-as-you-go model.

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Book SynopsisThis text provides an overview of 20th-century United States foreign policy, from the Roosevelt and Taft administrations through the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson. The development of the global strategy from early in the century through to the Vietnam war is also examined.

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Book SynopsisIn developed countries, men's labor force participation at older ages has increased in recent years, reversing a decades-long pattern of decline. Participation rates for older women have also been rising. What explains these patterns, and the differences in them across countries? The answers to these questions are pivotal as countries face fiscal and retirement security challenges posed by longer life-spans. This eighth phase of the International Social Security project, which compares the social security and retirement experiences of twelve developed countries, documents trends in participation and employment and explores reasons for the rising participation rates of older workers. The chapters use a common template for analysis, which facilitates comparison of results across countries. Using within-country natural experiments and cross-country comparisons, the researchers study the impact of improving health and education, changes in the occupation mix, the retirement incentives of social security programs, and the emergence of women in the workplace, on labor markets. The findings suggest that social security reforms and other factors such as the movement of women into the labor force have played an important role in labor force participation trends.

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Book SynopsisCan governments do anything right? This work argues that federal, state, and local governments can and should do a great deal. It analyzes government programmes that affect Americans' food, housing, health care, education, jobs and wages, incomes and taxes.Trade Review"[A] deft and detailed defense of government activism to alleviate poverty and extreme inequality in the US.... [T]he detail with which [the authors] present their views and the richness of the overall vision make this a compelling treatise.... A sterling contribution to the ongoing discussion of what this country might or should become." - Kirkus Reviews "Since the mid-1970s, many Americans have contended that government cannot solve the social and economic problems we face. Page and Simmons are more optimistic. In this well-written book, they argue that many government programs, here and abroad, have reduced poverty and inequality.... This timely, thoughtful book presents a strong case for greater government action." - Library Journal

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Book SynopsisExploring how government works and how voters and their elected representatives make decisions, this text responds to the media's negative portrayal of the cynical political atmosphere in America, suggesting that elected officials actually do tend to vote according to their constituents' interests.

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Book SynopsisWhile large, multinational corporations have supported the removal of tariffs, behind the scenes these firms have fought for protection in the form of product regulations, including testing, labeling, and registration requirements. Unlike tariffs, these regulations can raise fixed costs, excluding smaller firms from the market and shifting profits toward global giants. Narrowing the Channel demonstrates that globalization and globalized firms can paradoxically hinder rather than foster economic cooperation as larger firms seek to protect their markets through often unnecessarily strict product regulations. To illustrate the problem of regulatory protectionism, Robert Gulotty offers an in-depth analysis of contemporary rulemaking in the United States and the European Union in the areas of health, safety, and environmental standards. He shows how large firms seek regulatory schemes that disproportionately disadvantage small firms. When multinationals are embedded in the local economy, governments too have an incentive to use these regulations to shift profits back home. Today, the key challenge to governing global trade is not how much trade occurs but who is allowed to participate, and this book shows that new rules will be needed to allow governments to widen the benefits of global commerce and avoid further inequality and market concentration.

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Book SynopsisExamines literary evidence and government and scientific documents to uncover the history of changing attitudes towards wetlands in the American Midwest. This text charts the changes brought about in scientific research agendas, government policies, and farmers' strategies for managing their land.Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Preface 1: Changing Attitudes 2: Physical Characteristics of Wet Prairies and Bogs 3: Native American Occupation 4: Early Nineteenth-century Views of Wetlands 5: Landowners, Cattlemen, Railroads, and Tenants on Wet Prairies 6: Draining and Agricultural Change on Wet Prairies 7: Occupying, Draining, and Abandoning Northern Bogs and Swamps 8: Utilizing and Conserving Wet Prairies since 1930 9: Changing Wetland Images and Values Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe basic shape of American federal policy in housing as in many other areas, was determined during the New Deal - but not without conflict among movements and intellectuals advocating alternatives. One of these was "modern housing" - proposals for a radical rethinking of homes and neighbourhoods.

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays from scholars and activists writing from a number of different perspectives providing a comprehensive overview of civil rights for lesbians and gays. They also address the strategies and ideology of opposition groups and focus on issues for public policy.

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Book SynopsisAmerican foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times of war and peace. Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of competing grand strategies that accounts for objectives and means of security policy. Miller puts forward a model that is widely applicable, based on empirical evidence from post-WWII to today, and shows that external factors--rather than internal concerns--are the most determinative.Trade Review“Miller and Rubinovitz take US grand strategy seriously and offer in this landmark study an original, provocative, and engaging explanation for how and why it has evolved over the last seventy-five years.” -- Peter Feaver, Duke University“No scholar is more adept than Miller at combining domestic and systemic factors to explain the workings of the international system. His formidable skills are on full display in his new book, where he tells a fascinating story about the evolution of American grand strategy.” -- John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago“This book provides a powerful explanation for the significant, consequential, and often puzzling changes in American foreign policy since World War II. International relations theorists, historians, and policy analysts will all want to engage Miller and Rubinovitz’s provocative argument, which combines innovative theorizing and detailed historical analysis.” -- Jack S. Levy, Rutgers University“Integrating broad strands of international relations theory and tackling the gigantic literature on American foreign policy writ large, Miller and Rubinovitz propose and evaluate a sweeping and ambitious explanation of shifts in US grand strategy since WWII. Empirically rich and theoretically savvy, this is a signal contribution to scholarship on topics of enormous real-world importance.” -- William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College“This bold and provocative account of US foreign policy marries conceptual innovation to a parsimonious realist theoretical framework to empirics of impressive sweep. Even skeptics will have to concede that Miller’s rigorous focus on the distribution of international power and on the level of international threat generates powerful insights into the changing emphases of US foreign policy over the decades. A welcome, major addition to the burgeoning literature on grand strategy.” -- Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota“With a carefully wrought synthetic theory and a sweeping historical narrative, Miller and Rubinovitz advance a new explanation for great-power grand strategies. They argue that whether the US follows a realist or liberal foreign policy, and whether it does so in offensive or defensive fashion, it is responding to changes in the international balance of power and level of threat. It’s a realist answer, one that many leading realists have long resisted.” -- John Owen, University of Virginia“Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump asks one of the most consequential questions of our day: what leads great powers to shift their strategy? The authors answer it by laying out a novel theory and applying it to the US since WWII. The result is an important book that ought to be read by all those interested in the US role in the world.” -- Nuno P. Monteiro, Yale University"Combining innovative theoretical insights with careful historical research, Miller and Rubinovitz’s new book makes an important contribution to our understanding of American strategy since World War II.” -- Thomas Christensen, Columbia University"Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump is an interesting and innovative book that accounts for variations and shifts in American grand strategy... Anyone interested in academic, theory-driven debates on grand strategy should definitely read this book." * International Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Benjamin Miller Introduction The Puzzle and the Argument 1 Between Offensive Liberalism and Defensive Realism—Four Approaches to Grand Strategy 2 Explaining Changes in Grand Strategy 3 The Road to Offensive Realism: The Evolution of US Grand Strategy in the Early Cold War, 1945–50 4 From Preponderance to Détente after the Cuban Missile Crisis 5 From Détente to the “Second Cold War”: From Kennedy to Carter 6 Reagan’s Turn to the Second Détente 7 Making the World in Its Own Image: The Post–Cold War Grand Strategy 8 The Post-9/11 Period: The Emergence of Offensive Liberalism 9 Obama: From Defensive Liberalism to Defensive Realism—Systemic Changes Lead to the End of the Liberalization Project 10 America First: The Trump Grand Strategy in a Comparative Perspective 11 The Past, Present, and Future of American Grand Strategy: Some Final Observations Appendix 1: Indicators of Grand Strategy Change Appendix 2: Summary of Major Changes in US Grand Strategy and Their Explanation Appendix 3: Competing US Approaches to Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times of war and peace. Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of competing grand strategies that accounts for objectives and means of security policy. Miller puts forward a model that is widely applicable, based on empirical evidence from post-WWII to today, and shows that external factors--rather than internal concerns--are the most determinative.Trade Review“Miller and Rubinovitz take US grand strategy seriously and offer in this landmark study an original, provocative, and engaging explanation for how and why it has evolved over the last seventy-five years.” -- Peter Feaver, Duke University“No scholar is more adept than Miller at combining domestic and systemic factors to explain the workings of the international system. His formidable skills are on full display in his new book, where he tells a fascinating story about the evolution of American grand strategy.” -- John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago“This book provides a powerful explanation for the significant, consequential, and often puzzling changes in American foreign policy since World War II. International relations theorists, historians, and policy analysts will all want to engage Miller and Rubinovitz’s provocative argument, which combines innovative theorizing and detailed historical analysis.” -- Jack S. Levy, Rutgers University“Integrating broad strands of international relations theory and tackling the gigantic literature on American foreign policy writ large, Miller and Rubinovitz propose and evaluate a sweeping and ambitious explanation of shifts in US grand strategy since WWII. Empirically rich and theoretically savvy, this is a signal contribution to scholarship on topics of enormous real-world importance.” -- William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College“This bold and provocative account of US foreign policy marries conceptual innovation to a parsimonious realist theoretical framework to empirics of impressive sweep. Even skeptics will have to concede that Miller’s rigorous focus on the distribution of international power and on the level of international threat generates powerful insights into the changing emphases of US foreign policy over the decades. A welcome, major addition to the burgeoning literature on grand strategy.” -- Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota“With a carefully wrought synthetic theory and a sweeping historical narrative, Miller and Rubinovitz advance a new explanation for great-power grand strategies. They argue that whether the US follows a realist or liberal foreign policy, and whether it does so in offensive or defensive fashion, it is responding to changes in the international balance of power and level of threat. It’s a realist answer, one that many leading realists have long resisted.” -- John Owen, University of Virginia“Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump asks one of the most consequential questions of our day: what leads great powers to shift their strategy? The authors answer it by laying out a novel theory and applying it to the US since WWII. The result is an important book that ought to be read by all those interested in the US role in the world.” -- Nuno P. Monteiro, Yale University"Combining innovative theoretical insights with careful historical research, Miller and Rubinovitz’s new book makes an important contribution to our understanding of American strategy since World War II.” -- Thomas Christensen, Columbia University"Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump is an interesting and innovative book that accounts for variations and shifts in American grand strategy... Anyone interested in academic, theory-driven debates on grand strategy should definitely read this book." * International Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Benjamin Miller Introduction The Puzzle and the Argument 1 Between Offensive Liberalism and Defensive Realism—Four Approaches to Grand Strategy 2 Explaining Changes in Grand Strategy 3 The Road to Offensive Realism: The Evolution of US Grand Strategy in the Early Cold War, 1945–50 4 From Preponderance to Détente after the Cuban Missile Crisis 5 From Détente to the “Second Cold War”: From Kennedy to Carter 6 Reagan’s Turn to the Second Détente 7 Making the World in Its Own Image: The Post–Cold War Grand Strategy 8 The Post-9/11 Period: The Emergence of Offensive Liberalism 9 Obama: From Defensive Liberalism to Defensive Realism—Systemic Changes Lead to the End of the Liberalization Project 10 America First: The Trump Grand Strategy in a Comparative Perspective 11 The Past, Present, and Future of American Grand Strategy: Some Final Observations Appendix 1: Indicators of Grand Strategy Change Appendix 2: Summary of Major Changes in US Grand Strategy and Their Explanation Appendix 3: Competing US Approaches to Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis work makes a contribution to the public understanding of the issues involved in reforming Social Security. It describes the current system and the pressures that have been brought to bear upon it, before dissecting and evaluating the various reform proposals.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on their experience as government insiders, the authors of this book show how economic policy is shaped at the highest levels of government. They reveal the interconnections between economic, social and international policy, covering such issues as the advocacy system.

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Book SynopsisLays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.Trade Review"Disciplining the Poor is a landmark book on the governance of poverty in the United States, the most important such work since Piven and Cloward's Regulating the Poor, written a generation ago, and an exemplar of multi-method social science research." (Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"

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Book SynopsisLays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.Trade Review"Disciplining the Poor is a landmark book on the governance of poverty in the United States, the most important such work since Piven and Cloward's Regulating the Poor, written a generation ago, and an exemplar of multi-method social science research." (Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"

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Book SynopsisIn this study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, the author shows that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. It shows that liberal marketplace principles have come into contradiction with themselves.

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Book SynopsisPresents late-1990s thinking on monetary policy rules. The text seeks to determine which types of rules/policy guidelines function best. It presents research findings on the potential response of interest rates to an array of variables, including alterations in the rates of inflation and exchange.

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Book SynopsisAn updated and passionate second edition of a foundational book. How did environmental law first emerge in the United States? Why has it evolved in the ways that it has? And what are the unique challenges inherent to environmental lawmaking in general and in the United States in particular? Since its first edition, TheMaking of Environmental Lawhas been foundational to our understanding of these questions. For the second edition, Richard J. Lazarus returns to his landmark book and takes stock of developments over the last two decades. Drawing on many years of experience on the frontlines of legal and policy battles, Lazarus provides a theoretical overview of the challenges that environmental protection poses for lawmaking, related to both the distinctive features of US lawmaking institutions and the spatial and temporal dimensions of ecological change. The book explains why environmental law emerged in the manner and form that it did in the 1970s and traces how it developed over sTrade Review"In the second edition of The Making of Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus provides an updated account of the ways environmental law in the United States first emerged, its evolution over more than half a century, its unique inherent challenges, and its prospects. . . .the book offers a readable, informative, and detailed overview of the major developments in environmental law, with new chapters covering issues since the early 2000s. It is an essential resource on the recent history of federal environmental law in the United States." * H-Net (H-Environment) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Making Environmental Law 1. Time, Space, and Ecological Injury 2. The Implications of Ecological Injury for Environmental Protection Law 3. The Challenges for US Lawmaking Institutions and Processes of Environmental Protection Law Part II: The Road First Taken—The Twentieth Century 4. Becoming Environmental Law 5. Building a Road: The 1970s 6. Expanding the Road: The 1980s 7. Maintaining the Road: The 1990s Part III: A Road Disrupted—The Twenty-First Century 8. The Super Wicked Problem of Climate Change 9. The George W. Bush Administration: Redrawing the Battle Lines 10. The Obama Administration: Getting to Paris 11. The Trump Administration: Swinging the Meat Ax Part IV: Looking Back and Going Forward 12. Convergence and Building Blocks within Environmental Law 13. The Next Fifty Years Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn expansive study of the problems encountered by educational leaders in pursuit of reform, and how these issues cyclically translate into future topics of reform. School reform is almost always born out of big dreams and well-meaning desires to change the status quo. But between lofty reform legislation and the students whose education is at stake, there are numerous additional policies and policymakers who determine how reforms operate. Even in the best cases, school reform initiatives can perpetuate problems created by earlier reforms or existing injustices, all while introducing new complications. In Reforming the Reform, political scientist Susan L. Moffitt, education policy scholar Michaela Krug O'Neill, and the late policy and education scholar David K. Cohen take on a wide-ranging examination of the many intricacies of school reform. With a particular focus on policymakers in the spaces between legislation and implementation, such as the countless school superintendents and district leaders tasked with developing new policies in the unique context of their district or schools, the authors identify common problems that arise when trying to operationalize ambitious reform ideas. Their research draws on more than 250 interviews with administrators in Tennessee and California (chosen as contrasts for their different political makeup and centralization of the education system) and is presented here alongside survey data from across the United States as well as archival data to demonstrate how public schools shoulder enormous responsibilities for the American social safety net. They provide a general explanation for problems facing social policy reforms in federalist systems (including healthcare) and offer pathways forward for education policy in particular. Trade Review"This multifaceted and fascinating book contributes on so many levels. Like no other work, it illuminates the policymaking stages between legislative passage of policy reforms and frontline implementation, centering on mid-level actors whose consequential decisions occur far from the limelight. As a case study in contemporary education policy, it vividly demonstrates the complications of foisting social policy responsibilities onto K-12 schools, to compensate for the threadbare safety net elsewhere. And it gives voice to teachers, principals, district officials, and others who must navigate the fresh problems arising from the collision of new reform efforts with old capacities and policy terrains. An unparalleled, expert analysis of the promise and pitfalls of the American policymaking system in education and well beyond." -- Andrea Louise Campbell, author of Trapped in America’s Safety Net"This book meticulously analyzes an enduring tension between change and continuity in education policy. Focusing on policymaking in the middle, between national legislation and frontline practice, the authors cogently theorize how knowledge, organization, and politics interact to enable and constrain policy and practice. By using the words and experiences of policymakers in state agencies, county offices, and school districts, the authors animate mezzo-level policymaking and its entailments for policy implementation. A must-read for all education policy scholars and for practitioners of policymaking and implementation!" -- James Spillane, Northwestern University“Reforming the Reform provides an original conceptual framework for thinking through the processes the reform sparks and the obstacles that challenge making those reforms work and stick. Offering an up-to-date and wide-ranging review of major policy initiatives, it will find a wide audience among education policy scholars and policy makers.” -- Jeffrey Henig, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface 1 What Happens after Reforms? 2 Inherited Terrains: The Political, Economic, and Social Foundations of American Public Schools 3 How Reforms Create Problems: New Policies, Inherited Terrains, and New Problems 4 Problems of Policy Spillover 5 Problems of Policy Overload With Cadence Willse 6 Problems of Policy Pockets With Cadence Willse 7 Problems of Policy Sparks 8 Learning from Reforms to the Reform Technical Appendix A: Supplemental Tables Technical Appendix B: Methodological Approach Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA comparative study of the development of regulatory policy for genetic engineering in the US and the UK. The author analyzes government responses to the struggles among corporations, scientists, universities, trade unions and public-interest groups over regulating this new field.

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Book SynopsisEven as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. This book recovers this crucial aspect of American history, tracing the roots of the modern American welfare state.Trade Review"A marvelous, deeply researched history of the largely forgotten role of federal disaster relief in the historical development of the American welfare state. Michele Landis Dauber shows very creatively how the Great Depression came to be understood as a single, monolithic event - as a disaster - that justified new and expansive forms of relief. Political scientists and historians will have to contend with her central argument: that the New Deal was less the product of a 'constitutional revolution' than ordinary lawyering from long-settled precedents." (Michael Willrich, author of Pox: An American History)"

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Book SynopsisBy considering both the costs and benefits of potential policy solutions, the author stresses that real-world decision making is best served by an explicit recognition of as many trade-offs as possible. He incorporates developments in policy debates, including the rise of new paternalism, or policies designed to protect people from themselves.Trade Review"With shrewd verbal reasoning, Harold Winter brings home a number of concepts the general public has difficulty digesting.... This precious little book will become widespread reading in basic courses on economics, but every sensible person interested in societal matters and not familiar with law and economics issues should also read it." (History of Economic Ideas)"

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Book SynopsisA detailed and timely examination, The Right to an Age-Friendly City offers both broad and tangible insights into the intermingled political, economic, cultural, and administrative changes needed to protect the rights of senior citizens to access urban space in Toronto and beyond.Trade Review"Compellingly presented and convincing in its conclusions, The Right to an Age-Friendly City is a serious and impressive look at -- and evaluation of -- Toronto's approach to providing a system of care for the city's senior citizens." Peter Kresl, Bucknell University“... a reader-friendly book [that] uses compelling narratives and research evidence to support its main arguments. The Right to an Age-Friendly City offers a fresh and valuable perspective into the largely “technical” or nonpolitical body of AFC [Age-Friendly City] literature.” Journal of Urban Affairs

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Book SynopsisChomsky takes on the international scene since 1945, devoting particular attention to events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He develops a forceful critique of Western government, from imperialist foreign policies to the Clinton administration's empty promises to the poor.Trade ReviewFor nearly thirty years now, Noam Chomsky has parsed the main proposition of American power-what they do is aggression, what we do upholds freedom-with encyclopedic attention to detail and an unflagging sense of outrage. World Orders Old and New... may be his best book; it's certainly his most concise and far-ranging. Utne Reader With his customary mastery of the historical record and his command of enormous amounts of source material, Chomsky here debunks the notion that the 'new world order' of Bush and Clinton is different in any essentials from the old world order... Impressive. The Progressive Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty, and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive. New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe most complete picture to date of how U.S. strategies of containment and empire-building spiraled out of control in Southeast Asia, investigating also how the demoralizing experience of Vietnam radically undermined U.S. enthusiasm for the region in a strategic sense.Table of Contents1. The Colonial Order 2. The Roots of Intervention, 1945-1950 3. Searching for Stability, 1950-1954 4. The Deepening Crisis, 1954-1961 5. At War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1968 6. Disengagement, 1968-1975 7. Toward a New Regional Order, 1975-1998

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Book SynopsisLooks at the politics behind child care legislation. Identifying junctures at which child care bills were introduced and debated, this book examines the politics surrounding each of these events and identifies the political structures and negotiations that evolved. It also looks at how child care legislation became part of other issues.Trade ReviewA comprehensive history and analysis of the politics that have shaped U.S. federal child care policy throughout the past 30 years. Journal of Marriage and Family Championing Child Care will undoubtedly stand as the definitive account of late twentieth-century federal child care policy making. -- Sonya Michel Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword by Senator Christopher Dodd 1. Introduction Why Study Child Care Politics? Context of the Book 2. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1971 Overview of the Book 3. From Political Stalemate to Welfare Entitlement, 1972-1988 Prelude to Child Care Legislation of 1971 4. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1987-1990 Child Care Lands on the Legislative Agenda 5. Regulations, Implementation, and High Expectations, 1991-1993 Moving Child Care Through Congress 6. Child Care and Welfare Reform, 1994--1996 Nixon and Child Care: A Battle Among the President's Men 7. High Hopes, 1997-2000 The Demise of Child Care Legislation 8. A View from the States, 1996--2000 Federal Interagency Day Care Regulations 9. Looking Back and to the Future The Early 1980s: Retrenchment and Regrouping Welfare Reform Features the First Federal Child Care Entitlement Launching a Child Care Initiative The Other Side of the Story: Conservatives Offer Competing Proposals 1989: Senate Success 1989: The House Imbroglio over Child Care Legislation 1990: The Last Chance Placing Child Care Regulations in Context CCDBG Regulations Spark Feuds over Standards and Other Concerns At-Risk Child Care Regulations Add More Fuel to the Fire Implementing the 1990 Child Care Package 1993: A New Political Era 1994: Elections Set a New Stage for Child Care Child Care and Welfare Reform Legislation The Changed Face of Political Action for Child Care and Children 1997: New Opportunities for Child Care 1998: New Twists for Child Care Legislation Ushering Federal Child Care Policy into the Twenty-first Century Child Care and American Federalism Federal Child Care Regulations Revisited Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Care Linking Child Care with Other Early Education Initiatives It's Not Just Women's Participation in the Labor Force What's Institutional Structure Got to Do with It? The Influence of Organized Interests Looking Ahead State Child Care Policies Assume a New Look

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Book SynopsisIn addition to examining the role of the legislative and executive branches of government, Stein covers the often-overlooked role of the judiciary, showing how social welfare practitioners should interpret (1) conflicting judicial rulings in cases where courts of equal jurisdiction rule differently on the same matter and (2) judicial rulings that signal significant changes in the law.Trade ReviewStein has written what may well be the most comprehensive text on social policy ever... A superior primary text. -- Charles Atherton Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Preface Part I 1. Social Policy: An Introduction 2. Social Workers and Social Policy: The Historical Context 3. Social Work and Social Policy: The Present Context Part II 4. Social Welfare Policy in the Colonies and Early Nineteenth Century and the Discriminatory Treatment of Racial Minorities 5. Issues, Problems, and Agenda Setting 6. Policymaking 7. The Federal Budget Process Part III 8. Poverty 9. Social Insurance 10. Programs of Public Assistance 11. Food and Housing 12. Health Policy 13. Civil Rights Part IV 14. Social Services 15. Child Welfare 16. Education Part V 17. Implementation 18. Policy Practice Guide to On-Line Research Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis "Long War" has left its imprint on virtually every aspect of American life. This book looks at America's response to the national-security crisis touched off by the events of World War II. It considers topics ranging from grand strategy and strategic bombing to ideology and economics, and assesses the changing American way of war.Trade ReviewA remarkable collection. -- Major Stephanie D. Halcrow, U.S. Air Force Proceedings A valuable resource. The Journal of Cold War Studies A welcome antidote to much of the traditional historiography that takes its cues from the official paradigms of US security policy. -- Thorsten B. Olesen The International History Review Bacevich has produced a volume that illuminates the present as much as it does the past... A fine work of history. -- Marilyn B. YoungTable of ContentsAndrew J. Bacevich * The Pattern of U.S. Civil-Military Relations Since World War II Tami Davis Biddle * U.S. Strategic Forces and Doctrine Since 1945 James Burk * The Changing Moral Contract for Military Service Charles Chatfield * Dissent from the "Long War" Benjamin O. Fordham * Costs and Benefits of Postwar U.S. Military Spending James Kurth * Variations on the American Way of War Anna Kasten Nelson * The Evolution of the National Security State William L. O'Neill * National Security and American Culture Arnold A. Offner * The Ideology of U.S. National Security Policy George H. Quester * The Politics of Conventional Warfare in an Unconventional Age John Prados * Intelligence for Empire Alex Roland * The Military-Industrial Complex

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Book SynopsisThis timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens. Dubber explores the roots of the power to police-the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers-by focusing on its most obvious and problematic manifestation: criminal law.Trade ReviewAn ambitious new work of political science...His historical model is already raising interest amongst theorists of crime and policing in Britain. -- T. Endicott, J. Getzler & E. Peel Properties of Law: Essays in Honor of James W. Harris This book is useful for at least two reasons: 1) It places in historical perspective some aspects of 20th century criminal law that are difficult to understand otherwise; 2) It helps explain the relative inattention to limits on the criminal law. -- Jack E. Call Law and Politics Book Review The volume begins with a fascinating discussion of household governance in old Rome... Dubber places 20th-century criminal law in historical perspective and examines the relationship between police power and patriarchy... Recommended. Choice Dubber covers it all. -- Arthur L. Rizer III Federal Lawyer The Police Power is a deeply penetrating appraisal of the historical expression and significance of the concept of police. -- Christopher Tomlins Buffalo Law Review This is a fascinating book -- provocative and demanding. -- Michael Willrich The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "The Power to Govern Men and Things" Part I. From Household Governance to Political Economy 1. Police as Patria Potestas 2. Blackstone's Police 3. Continental Police Science Part II. American Police Power 4. Policing the New Republic 5. Definition by Exclusion 6. Police Power and Commerce Power Part III. Police, Law, Criminal Law 7. The Forgotten Power and the Problem of Legitimation 8. The Law of Police: Internal and External Constraints 9. Lochner's Law and Substantive Due Process Conclusion: Toward a Critical Analysis of Police and Punishment Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Joseph Wronka Introduction 1. Development and History of Human Rights 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 4. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 5. Diversity Within a Human Rights Perspective 6. Human Rights and Children, Persons with Disabilities, Persons with HIV-AIDS, Gays and Lesbians, Older Persons, and Victims of Racism 7: International Aspects of Human Rights 8: Applying Human Rights to the Social Work Profession Conclusion Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Appendix B: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Including Optional Protocol Appendix C: International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Appendix D: Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly Appendix E: Suggested Internet Websites for Further Research Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Sustainability Management] will be used widely as a text for environmental studies, political science, and business majors. Strongly recommended. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. What Is Sustainability Management? 2. Sustainable Manufacturing and Service Businesses 3. The Centrality of Energy 4. Sustainable Water 5. Sustainable Food Supply 6. Sustainable Cities 7. A Sustainable Planet 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Sustainability Management] will be used widely as a text for environmental studies, political science, and business majors. Strongly recommended. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. What Is Sustainability Management? 2. Sustainable Manufacturing and Service Businesses 3. The Centrality of Energy 4. Sustainable Water 5. Sustainable Food Supply 6. Sustainable Cities 7. A Sustainable Planet 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn his study, Clarence Taylor...explores the nature and extent of the Communist influence. Relying on thorough research and presenting much detail, he finds that the Teachers Union (TU) indeed adopted policies of the Communist Party, but without abandoning the interests of the teachers they led. -- Robert D. Parmet History News Network ...offers a highly readable and engaging story of the rise of [the Teacher's Union] model, as well as the ferocious onslaught against it during the McCarthy era. It is a must-read... Socialist Worker.org Serious students of labor should read it. -- Steve Leberstein Working USATable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1 1. The War Within: Battling for the Soul of the Union 2. Communist Front? The TU During the Popular Front Era 3. The Fight Over Revocation 4. To Be a Good American: The New York City Teachers Union and the Issue of Race During the Second World War Part 2 5. The Opening Salvo: Louis Jaffe, Taft-Hartley, and Minnie Gutride 6. The First Wave of Suspensions and Dismissals 7. Banning Subversives 8. Anti-Semitism: Rhetoric and Perception 9. Undercover Agents, Informers, and Cooperating Witnesses Part 3 10. Crusading for Civil Rights 11. Women and the Teachers Union 12. The Triumph of the United Federation of Teachers and the Demise of Social Unionism Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisStates have banned smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and bars. They have increased tobacco tax rates, extended clean air laws, and mounted dramatic antismoking campaigns. Yet tobacco use remains high among Americans, prompting many health professionals to seek bolder measures to reduce smoking rates, which has raised concerns about the social and economic consequences of these measures. Retail and hospitality businesses worry smoking bans and excise taxes will reduce profit, and with tobacco farming and cigarette manufacturing concentrated in southeastern states, policymakers fear the decline of regional economies. Such concerns are not necessarily unfounded, though until now, no comprehensive survey has responded to these beliefs by capturing the impact of tobacco control across the nation. This book, the result of research commissioned by Legacy and Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, considers the economic impact of reducing smoking rateTrade ReviewThis collection dealing with the economic 'fallout' of a nonsmoking society provides a solid scientific basis for understanding just what would be the costs, benefits, and consequences if all the hard-fought interventions against smoking succeeded. This should be mandatory reading for policy makers and public health professionals who need to fully understand and communicate the benefits of a smoke-free society to those who remain skeptical about these benefits. -- Thomas E. Novotny, former assistant United States surgeon general As these important essays so clearly show, if America became truly smoke free, the social, economic, and health consequences would be nothing short of profound. The essays collected here-representing diverse disciplinary approaches-point us toward the next critical phase of informed and effective tobacco control policies. -- Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University What would happen if smoking rates plummeted because of more vigorous application of proven policies such as increasing the taxes on tobacco products and expanding the range of smoke-free locations? After Tobacco rigorously examines the potential impact of greatly decreased tobacco use on myriad sectors. It is an important resource for those interested in public policy, public health, government, economics, and health care. -- Steven A. Schroeder, Director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, University of California The expansive overview here is distinctive, while the work's technical nature makes it useful primarily for academic and government libraries serving policy makers. The antismoking lobby will also love it. Library Journal A provocative book worthy of a careful read. Kirkus Reviews a welcome contribution to an important public health topic for students as well as policy makers. Health Affairs ...provides a full, scholarly, creative, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful analysis. -- Ross Koppel Contemporary Sociology

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Book SynopsisThis big-picture, policy-oriented book explains in gripping terms what rising oceans will do to coastal cities and the drastic actions we need to take now to remove vulnerable populations. The authors detail effective approaches for addressing climate-change denialism and powerful arguments for changing U.S. federal coastal-management policies.Trade ReviewRetreat from a Rising Sea is a landmark work long overdue. The book offers deep analysis, case histories, and names villains of denial. It offers visions, solutions, and historic examples of how coastal cities and communities have dealt in the past and will need to cope in the future with rising coastal risks. It is a must-read for coastal residents and policy makers alike. If this book had been written ten years ago, the world would be better off. -- Klaus Jacob, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Earth Institute Retreat from a Rising Sea is a book that should be read by everyone concerned about our coasts. In its passion to explain the conclusion that science clearly indicates, it signals the urgency of our retreat from the coast. -- Carl Hobbs, author of The Beach Book In Retreat from a Rising Sea, the authors raise tough and crucial questions about living in coastal communities in an era of rising seas and more frequent superstorms. In highlighting the vulnerabilities of many cities and communities in the United States and around the world, they provide a sobering wake-up call for policy makers and planners-and for the billions of people on the front lines of a changing climate. -- Vicki Arroyo, executive director, Georgetown Climate Center, and professor from practice, Georgetown University Law Center This accessible, impassioned argument considers the scientific, political, and socioeconomic dimensions of climate change and fervently presses for Americans to come to terms with the disastrous changes to the world's oceans sooner rather than later. Publishers Weekly Clear and authoritative... If only our leaders would read this book. Miami HeraldTable of ContentsForeword, by the Santa Aguila Foundation Preface Acknowledgments 1. Control + Alt + Retreat 2. The Overflowing Ocean 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans 4. New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands 5. Cities on the Brink 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future Bibliography Index

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