Public administration / Public policy Books
University of British Columbia Press Behind Closed Doors
Book SynopsisBehind Closed Doors asks and answers whether the doctrine of Cabinet secrecy still has a role in the Westminster parliamentary system.Trade Review"Yan Campagnolo’s excellent book is rigorous, learned, very well written, clear, and to the point. It is a must-read for scholars as well as public officials and judges." -- Suzanne Comtois, Université de SherbrookeTable of ContentsForeword / The Honourable Louis LeBel, CCIntroduction1 Constitutional Conventions2 Common Law Public Interest Immunity3 Statutory Public Interest Immunity4 The Rule of LawConclusionAppendix: Statutory ProvisionsNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press Superfund The Political Economy of Risk
Book SynopsisOver recent years, the Federal hazardous waste clean-up programme - Superfund - has been mired in controversy. This book discusses Superfund within the context of environmental risk management, offering an evaluation and critique of the program, and an informed solution to the current impasse.Trade ReviewA thorough, extensively documented, and well-written description of... the Superfund program and an astute appraisal of its many flaws... The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on Superfund policy and politics. Policy Currents Hird has masterfully reviewed the superfund program. Environment
£30.01
Johns Hopkins University Press Making Governments Plan State Experiments in
Book SynopsisPublished in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia.Trade ReviewA rigorously researched and informative book on the effects of state planning mandates on local planmaking and local growth management... the book is essential reading. -- Ernest Sternberg Journal of Environmental Planning and ManagementTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The States and Planning MandatesPart I: State Experiments in Managing Land UseChapter 2. California: Coping with CongestionChapter 3. North Carolina: Mandated Planning to Protect the CoastChapter 4. Florida: Putting it All Together Chapter 5. Texas and Washington: Marching to a Different DrummerPart II: Mandate Design and OutcomesChapter 6. Designing and Implementing MandatesChapter 7. Enhancing PlanningChapter 8. Managing DevelopmentPart III: Prospects for Making Governments Plan Chapter 9. Rethinking Planning MandatesAppendix: Research Design and Measurement of VariablesReferencesIndex
£40.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees
Book SynopsisIn this paperback edition, he includes a discussion of the recent nomination of Stephen Breyer, addressing various reform proposals made by critics of the current process and crediting President Clinton's protracted selection process with restoring some decorum to the proceedings.Trade ReviewA careful and concise history, description, and analysis of the modern Supreme Court appointment process... A model of concese and careful scholarship, and I highly recommend it. -- Michael Comiskey Journal of Politics Stands out in its scholarly thoroughness and innovative theory... one of the best books currently available for understanding the contemporary politics of Supreme Court nominations. -- John B. Gates The Law and Politics Book Review A highly informative study of presidential appointments and senatorial confirmation-or rejection-of those nominees to the Supreme Court throughout our history... This book is clearly written, fast paced, and very well documented. It is recommended to all interested to the political gateway to the federal appellate judiciary. Appellate Practice Journal and Update A model of concise and careful scholarship. Journal of PoliticsTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForwardPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The President Versus the SenateChapter 2. In the BeginningChapter 3. The Rise of Organized InterestsChapter 4. Interests Versus Nominees: The Defeat of John J. ParkerChapter 5. Interests Versus Nominees: The Defeat of Clement HaynsworthChapter 6. Speaking Out: Interest Groups, Nominees, and Presidents Chapter 7. The Institutional Presidency: Strategic Resources and the Supreme Court Selection ProcessChapter 8. The Clinton Appointments and Proposals for ReformAfterword, 1998NotesIndex
£28.62
Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower The
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: A New Beginning, Old Problems; January 1957 to May 1957Chapter 1: The Mideast and the Eisenhower DoctrineChapter 2: Foreign AidPart II: Civil Rights; June 1957 to September 1957Chapter 3: "I am astonished and chagrined"Chapter 4: "Logic and reason must operate gradually"Chapter 5: Little RockPart III: The Space Age Begins; October 1957 to January 1958Chapter 6: Sputnik and "the fears of our own people"Chapter 7; NATO and the Cold War
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower The
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.Table of ContentsPart IV: Recession and Reform; February 1958 to May 1958Chapter 8: "To engender confidence"Chapter 9: "The problems inherent in this job"Chapter 10: Restructuring for National SecurityPart V: Forcing the President's Hand; June 1958 to October 1958Chapter 11: "Take time by the forelock"Chapter 12: American Invades the MideastChapter 13: Quemoy and MatsuPart VI: Setbacks; November 1958 to February 1959Chapter 14: A "dreary election result"Chapter 15: "Debate is the breath of life"
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower The
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.Table of ContentsPart VII: Berlin and the Chance for a Summit; March 1959 to August 1959Chapter 16: A "staunch bulwark" resignsChapter 17: "Source of division" among alliesChapter 18: "These extremist approaches"Part VIII: "Friends and Foes"; September 1959 to February 1960Chapter 19: Khrushchev in AmericaChapter 20: "No substitute for personal contact"Part IX: Shattered Dreams; March 1960 to July 1960Chapter 21: "Progess in a knotty problem"Chapter 22: Disaster in Paris
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower The
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.Table of ContentsPart X: Ending an Era; August 1960 to January 1961Chapter 23: "To keep the Free World free"Chapter 24: "We missed by such a narrow margin"Chapter 25: Farewells and WarningsBibliography: Note on Primary SourcesBibliography: Secondary Sources CitedGlossaryChronologyGeneral Index
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press Managing the Presidents Message The White House
Book SynopsisPresents an analyses of the media and communications operations of the past four administrations, including chapters on George W Bush and Bill Clinton. This work describes how White House communications and media operations can be at once in flux and remarkably stable over time. It also describes how the presidential Press Office has evolved.Trade ReviewKumar combines her years of observation in the White House press room and hours of frank discussion with current and former officials to create a fascinating-and sometimes disheartening-history of how [the] dance has evolved over the last century. -- Jane Roh National Journal 2007 Having been a regular in the White House Press Room since the early years of the Clinton administration, Kumar can offer an insider's view... Political science and journalism scholars will appreciate the rich detail and scholarship here. Library Journal 2007 A must-read for political junkies. History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2007 Some of the book is historical research, but much of it comes from the days and days that Kumar spends in the belly of the beast, hanging out in the press room in the West Wing of the White House. -- Michael Hill Baltimore Sun 2007 Kumar's insightful Managing the President's Message provides much-needed insight, charting the recent changes in presidential media management strategies and in the routines practiced by the two most-recent White Houses, and provides an important addition to the academic discourse on political communication, framing, and leadership. Political Science Quarterly 2008 Its place among scholarship on the presidency was quickly sealed when the presidency section of APSA awarded it the 2008 Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency. The book is rich with detail regarding the Clinton and Bush communications and press operations... there is much to be mined in Kumar's descriptions and explanations. -- Stephanie Burkhalter Political Communication 2009 This is a well-written and detailed book and an ideal starting place from which to study the White House communications operations before moving on to fuller autobiographical accounts or the study of individual presidencies. -- Rob Griffiths Political Studies Review 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Creating an Effective Communications Operation2. The Communications Operation of President Bill Clinton3. The Communications Operation of President George W. Bush4. White House Communications Advisers5. The Press Secretary to the President6. The Gaggle and the Daily Briefing7. Presidential Press Conferences8. Managing the MessagePostscriptNotesIndex
£37.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Higher Education and the New Society
Book SynopsisWhile he celebrated higher education as the engine of progress in every aspect of American life, George Keller also challenged academia's sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative ideas designed to induce creative discomfort. Completed shortly before his death in 2007, Higher Education and the New Society caps the career of one of higher education's exceptional minds. Refining and expanding ideas Keller developed over his fifty-year career, this book is a clarion call for change. In the face of a transformed American society marked by population shifts, technological upheavals, and a volatile economic landscape, Keller urges leaders in higher education to see and confront their own serious problems.With characteristic forthrightness and inimitable wit, Keller targets critical areas where bold thinking is especially important, taking on such explosive issues as the configuration of academic disciplines, the runaway problem of big-time sports, the decline of the liberal arts, and the urgent problems of finances and costs. Keller expected this book to ignite discussion and controversy within academic circles, and he hoped fervently that it would also lead to real thinking, real analysis, and urgently needed transformation.Trade ReviewErudite, well-written, and thoughtful. -- William G. Tierney Review of Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface1. The Ingredients of the New Society2. Education's Response to the New Society3. What's Next for America's Colleges and Universities?4. Remodeling the KingpinNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£32.59
Johns Hopkins University Press Policy and Performance in American Higher
Book SynopsisIncorporating rich data from seven years of observations, interviews, and research, Richardson and Martinez offer a clear comparative framework for understanding state higher education.Trade ReviewRichardson and Martinez (2009) have provided us with a valuable case-study-based assessment of the relationship between states' policies and practices related to higher education system performance and the outcomes they get. -- Wililiam Zumeta Teachers College Record 2010 This is a unique approach to higher education policy. -- Mary Catharine Lennon Academic Matters 2010 Policy and Performance in American Higher Education is a valiant attempt to shed more light on the many aspects of state systems and how well they work. -- Lisa Rosenberg AACRAO 2010 [ Policy and Performance in American Higher Education] substantially advances[s] our understanding of how governance varies across higher education systems. -- John J. Cheslock Journal of Higher Education 2010Table of ContentsForeword, by Patrick M. CallanPreface1. Strengthening the Policy–Performance Connection2. Rules in Use and Performance3. New Mexico4. California5. South Dakota6. New York7. New Jersey8. New Ways of Thinking about Policy and PerformanceAppendix: Rules Observed, Including Those Not Associated with Differences in PerformanceReferencesIndex
£43.00
The University Press of Kentucky College for the Commonwealth A Case for Higher
Book SynopsisIllustrates how colleges and universities are the sustaining lifeblood of civil society and that when these vital institutions are underfunded, both the community and economy suffer. Michael T. Benson and Hal R. Boyd examine the historical origins of higher education in America and analyze the benefits of postsecondary education.
£34.16
The University of Alabama Press Justice and Public Administration
Book SynopsisPublic Administration has been a field for professionals, its academic component concerned with such empirical matters as training practitioners, evaluating models, and assembling a body of evidence within which to test assumptions. This book is an effort to grapple with justice as a theoretical component of the practice of public administration.Trade ReviewA valuable and interesting work. This book addresses a real gap in the literature; few if any works seek to be as comprehensive and substantive.... It will stimulate considerable intellectual and practical debate. - Danny Lee Balfour, coauthor of Unmasking Administrative Evil, winner of the Brownlow Book Award
£999.99
The University of Alabama Press Area and Administration
Book SynopsisDeals with public administration.Trade ReviewThe seminal statement on the subject. - Mordecai Lee, Public Voices ""Thoughtful, workmanlike.... The essays deal with field service areas and a real coordination of field activities. Here Fesler is a master and shows his skill most effectively."" - George Benson, American Political Science Review ""This is a book of great importance and usefulness. Fesler has brought to one of the most difficult problems of government an interpretation of administrative experience as a source of new insight into the general problem of government, as well as providing suggestions for the treatment of problems of organization and procedure."" - John M. Gaus, Annals of the American Academy of Political Science
£999.99
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. The Illusion of Net Neutrality
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£17.95
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Speaking the Law The Obama Administrations
Book SynopsisOffers a detailed examination of the speeches of the Obama administration on national security legal issues. Viewed together here for the first time, the authors lay out a broad array of legal and policy positions regarding a large number of principles currently contested at both the domestic and international levels.
£29.56
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Game Changers Energy on the Move
Book SynopsisIt is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States needs reliable and inexpensive energy to propel the economy and protect national security interests. Game Changers presents five research and development efforts from American universities that offer a cheaper, cleaner, and more secure national energy system.
£13.46
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Three Tweets to Midnight Effects of the Global
Book SynopsisConsiders how digital misinformation might affect the likelihood of international conflict and how it might influence the perceptions and actions of leaders and their publics before and during a crisis. The authors sound the alarm about how social media fuels information overload and promotes 'fast thinking' over deliberation.Trade Review“A gripping story of how social media can result in a nuclear catastrophe, either through a blunder or through the actions of a malignant provocateur. No issue could be timelier or more important, considering the profligate use of tweets today by the president and other government officials, and the need for deliberation in dealing with national security crises.” — William J. Perry, 19th US Secretary of Defense “Highlights new and rising dangers that social media pose to managing any future great power crisis, and in the extreme to avoiding nuclear war. It is a must-read for policy makers, legislators, foreign policy experts, nuclear strategists, and indeed for any serious student of national security.” — James N. Miller, former US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy “The next nuclear crisis will be tweeted. How decision makers cope with the increasing speed and volume of information during that crisis will weigh heavily on whether the world can avoid nuclear catastrophe. The authors in this volume brilliantly help us understand—and get ahead of—the challenges from today’s information ecosystem.” — Keith Porter, President, the Stanley Center for Peace and Security “We know that the new media environment has an impact on nuclear crises, but how and when does it matter? This pathbreaking volume assembles an impressive interdisciplinary lineup to explore these questions with new frameworks, new evidence, and new arguments. An important opening contribution to what is clearly a phenomenon that is here to stay.” — Vipin Narang, Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT and a member of MIT’s Security Studies Program
£17.06
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. A Hinge of History
Book SynopsisThe world is at an inflection point. Advancing technologies are creating new opportunities and challenges. Great demographic changes are occurring rapidly, with significant consequences. Governance everywhere is in disarray. A new world is emerging. These are some of the key insights to emerge from a series of interdisciplinary roundtables and global expert contributions hosted by the Hoover Institution. In these pages, George P. Shultz and James Timbie examine a range of issues shaping our present and future, region by region. Concrete proposals address migration, reversing the decline of K-12 education, updating the social safety net, maintaining economic productivity, protecting our democratic processes, improving national security, and more. Meeting these transformational challenges will require international cooperation, constructive engagement, and strong governance. The United States is well positioned to ride this wave of change-and lead other nations in doing the same.
£29.71
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Foreign Policy for America in the TwentyFirst
Book SynopsisPresents six carefully crafted and bold approaches to American foreign policy from some of the country's foremost foreign policy experts. Such issues as grand strategy, globalization, isolationism, and free trade are discussed in the context of a post-cold war world and a new century.
£13.46
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Property Rights A Practical Guide to Freedom and
Book SynopsisDrawing on the thoughts of various philosophers, political thinkers, economists, and lawyers, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins present a blueprint for the nonexpert-expert on how societies can encourage or discourage freedom and prosperity through their property rights institutions. This Hoover Classic edition of Property Rightsdetails step-by-step what property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.
£13.46
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. You Have to Admit Its Getting Better From
Book SynopsisContrary to popular belief, economic growth is not the antithesis of environmental quality; rather, the two go hand in hand if the incentives are right. This book shows how, by developing and protecting the institutions of freedom rather than regulating human use of natural resources, we can have our environmental cake and eat it too.
£13.46
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Swing Dance
Book SynopsisWith a journalist's eye for detail, Robert Zelnick looks at Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's key role in the controversial University of Michigan affirmative action cases of 2003, providing key background information, detailed descriptions of daily arguments, and an evaluation of the final rulings.
£8.50
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Greener Than Thou Are You Really an
Book SynopsisIn a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape.
£21.21
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Greener than Thou Are You Really an
Book SynopsisIn a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape.
£14.36
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Breaking the Environmental Policy Gridlock Hoover
Book SynopsisAlthough the US Congress has made progress toward fundamental change in economic and social programs, it remains gridlocked when it comes to creating needed environmental policy reform. This book shows how policymakers and opinion leader's can break that gridlock and offers specific policy recommendations.
£8.95
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Public Policy and the Internet
Book SynopsisPresents the initial findings that framed early discussions on Internet public policy and outlines proposals that should guide policymaking in the future. In addition, the authors show that the future of e-commerce has as much to do with how policy issues are resolved as with how technological challenges are overcome.
£8.95
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. To Americas Health A Proposal to Reform the Food
Book SynopsisA government monopoly over drug regulation is not sacrosanct. This hard-hitting book describes the current regulation of drugs by the FDA and proposes a model for fundamental, yet workable, reform - including an innovative proposal for drug testing and certification review.
£13.46
University of Hawai'i Press Hawaii Regional Cuisine
Book SynopsisThe first book dedicated to the Hawai’i Regional Cuisine movement. It is based on interviews with thirty-six chefs, farmers, retailers, culinary arts educators, and food writers, as well as on nearly everything written about the HRC chefs in the national and local media.
£999.99
Michigan State University Press Public Address and Moral Judgment Critical
Book SynopsisPublic Address and Moral Judgment offers a critical look at the ways in which public address can enact moral codes, articulate moral judgments, and manifest ethical tensions.
£999.99
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Reflections of a Pragmatic Economist My
Book SynopsisTraces an intellectual journey that spans more than half a century and has helped shape the fields of agricultural, resource, and rural economics. Emery Castle's memoir is grounded in the integration of his personal and professional experiences.
£999.99
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi New Strategies for Wicked Problems Science and
Book SynopsisA ""wicked problem"" is a problem that is impossible or difficult to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements. Classic examples include economic, environmental, and political issues. This collection focuses on contemporary environmental and natural resource policy issues, and proposes an assortment of alternative problem-solving methodologies to tackle such problems.
£999.99
Urban Land Institute,U.S. AFTER SANDY Advancing Strategies for LongTerm
Book SynopsisOffers guidance on post-disaster rebuilding and building in anticipation of future disasters in a way that helps preserve the environment, boost economic prosperity, and foster a high quality of life. This report acknowledges that the increased frequency of severe weather events are compelling the real estate industry to address climate change by working with the public sector to implement adaptive measures that better protect both the built and natural environment.
£14.95
Georgetown University Press The Fiscal Crisis of the States Lessons for the
Book SynopsisDescribes and analyzes how state governments in the 1990s have coped with fiscal stress through changes in tax and spending policies, as well as through attempts to "reinvent government" by abandoning long-established policies. This book is suitable for academics, policymakers, and public administrators, as well as the general readers.Trade ReviewThe good news is that Steven Gold knows more about the states than many governors do; the bad news is that Steven Gold knows more about the states than many governors do. Either way, Steven Gold may be our greatest authority on one of the most important areas of American politics. -- David M. Shribman, Washington bureau chief, The Boston Globe
£48.00
Georgetown University Press Globalization and Decentralization Institutional
Book SynopsisExplores the effects of global socio-economic forces on the domestic policies and administrative institutions of Japan and the United States. This title explains how these global factors have shifted power and authority downward from the national government to subnational governments.Table of ContentsForewordR. Scott Fosler and Shinyasu Hoshino Globalization and Decentralization: An OverviewJong S. Jun and Deil S. Wright Part I: Institutional Contexts Introduction 1. From Dual to Coercive Federalism in American Intergovernmental RelationsJohn Kincaid 2. Intergovernmental Relations in Japan: Historical and Legal Patterns of Power DistributionFukashi Horie 3. Innovative Policies and Administrative Strategies for Intergovernmental Change in JapanHiromi Muto 4. Remapping Federalism: The Rediscovery of Civic Governance in the United StatesDeWitt John, Alex Halley, and R. Scott Fosler 5. Emerging Regional Organizational and Institutional Forms: Strategies and Prospects for Transcending Localism in the United StatesJohn Kirlin 6. Understanding Regional Administration in Japan: Dynamism in Stability and Continuity in ChangeTakashi Nishio Part II: Public Policy Issues Introduction 7. The Roles of Central Government and Local Government in Japan's Regional Development PoliciesNaohisa Nagata 8. Public Infrastructure, Capital Investment, and Economic Development in the United StatesBruce McDowell 9. The "Tokyo Problem" and the Development of Urban Issues in JapanAkira Nakamura 10. Metropolitan Growth and Development in the United States: Human Problems and ProspectsRalph Widner 11. Service Integration Revisited and Reinvented: The Strategic Role of Schools in Human ServicesAstrid Merget and William Colman 12. Social Welfare Issues in Japan: Meeting the Needs of an Aging SocietyAkira Morita 13. Perspectives on Intergovernmental Relations in Japan: The Problem of Solid Waste ManagementKatsumi Yorimoto 14. The Interstate Transport of Solid Waste: Intergovernmental Tensions and the Conflict Between Law and PolicyRosemary O'Leary and Paul Weiland 15. Fiscal Disparities in the United States: Concepts, Trends, and PoliciesRobert Rafuse 16. The Politics of Local Government Finance in JapanYoshio Kobayashi Part III: Internationalization and Globalization Introduction 17. State and Local Boundary-Spanning Strategies in the United States: Political, Economic, and Social Transgovernmental InteractionsJohn M. Kline 18. Technology Transfer from Iowa to Japan: Internationalization and the Quality of Life in Rural AreasKazunori Ishiguro 19. Japanese Local Government in an Era of Global Economic InterdependencyShinyasu Hoshino 20. The Domestic Consequences of Internationalization: Emerging Conflicts Enid Beaumont
£48.00
Leete's Island Books,U.S. SOUL OF THE SEA
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SAGE Publications Inc American Public Policy
Book SynopsisAmerican Public Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the policy-making process. From procedural approaches and policy instruments to in-depth analysis of specific policy issues, bestselling author B. Guy Peters does not shy away from the complexity of governmental procedure and ensures that the mechanisms of the policy process are understandable through the discussion of topical policy areas. The Twelfth Edition shows readers how the background for policy in the United States has changed dramatically over the past several years in the midst of political polarization and gridlock, unemployment and recessions, and calls for greater diversity and inclusion. New topics include the eroding trust in government, the COVID-19 pandemic and relief packages, the expanding national debt, the rising costs of health care and calls for Medicare for All, the rollback of environmental regulations under the Trump administration, and the rebuildinTable of ContentsPART I THE NATURE OF PUBLIC POLICY Chapter 1 What Is Public Policy Chapter 2 The Structure of Policymaking in American Government Chapter 3 Explaining Policy Choices PART II THE MAKING OF PUBLIC POLICY Chapter 4 Agenda Setting and Public Policy Chapter 5 Legitimating Policy Choices Chapter 6 Organizations and Implementation Chapter 7 Budgeting: Allocation and Public Policy Chapter 8 Evaluation and Policy Change PART III SUBSTANTIVE POLICY ISSUES Chapter 9 Economic Policy Chapter 10 Tax Policy Chapter 11 Health Care Policies Chapter 12 Social Security and Welfare Chapter 13 Education Policy Chapter 14 Energy and the Environment Chapter 15 Defense and Law Enforcement Chapter 16 Social Values and Public Policy PART IV ANALYZING PUBLIC POLICY Chapter 17 Policy Analysis: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Ethical Analysis
£143.00
SAGE Publications Inc Politics of the Administrative Process
Book SynopsisEfficient public administration requires a delicate balance between politics, accountability, and performance--bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective but also accountable to elected officials and citizens. Author Don Kettl understands that the push and pull of political forces in a democracy make the functions of bureaucracy both contentious and crucial. InThe Politics of the Administrative Process, hegives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched view of the field featuring engaging vignettes and rich examples from current events like the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ninth Edition has been thoroughly updated with an additional chapter, as well as new scholarship, data, and case studies, givingstudents multiple opportunities to apply ideas and analysis as they read.Table of ContentsPreface About the Author 1. The Foundations of Public Administration 2. Accountability PART I: The Job of Government 3. What Government Does—and How It Does It 4. What Is Public Administration? PART II: Organizational Theory and the Role of Government’s Structure 5. Organizational Theory 6. The Executive Branch 7. Organization Problems 8. Administrative Reform PART III: People in Government Organizations 9. The Civil Service 10. Human Capital PART IV: Making and Implementing Government Decisions 11. Decision Making: Rationality and Risk 12. Budgeting 13. Implementation and Performance PART V: Administration in a Democracy 14. Regulation and the Courts 15. Accountability and Oversight Glossary of Key Concepts
£999.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and
Book SynopsisGlobal climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order to allow proactive action.Table of ContentsList of contributors, ix 1 Climate adaptation governance in cities and regions: framework conditions, theoretical concepts and research questions 1Jörg Knieling and Katharina Klindworth Part 1: Theoretical basis 2 Applying social resilience concepts and indicators to support climate adaptation in tropical North Queensland, Australia 23Allan Patrick Dale, Karen Vella, Ruth Potts, Bronwyn Voyce, Bob Stevenson, Alison Cottrell, David King, Hurriyet Babacan, Helen Boon, Margaret Gooch and Petina Pert 3 Spatial planning to promote urban resilience in coping with climate change and flooding: exploring two cases in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 45Peiwen Lu 4 Adaptation to climate change and participatory action research (PAR): lessons from municipalities in Quebec, Canada 69Steve Plante, Liette Vasseur and Charlotte DaCunha 5 Generating narratives on future risk to inform regional climate change adaptation planning 89Douglas K. Bardsley, Nathanael D. Wiseman and Graeme J. Hugo 6 Advancing climate change adaptation and climate risk understanding through intervention research: case studies from Brazil and Australia 113Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Gabriela Marques Di Giulio, Lucia Costa Ferreira and Darryl Low Choy 7 Climate adaptation and the significance of different modes of local political leadership: views of Swedish local political leaders 131Mattias Hjerpe and Sofie Storbjörk Part 2: Hierarchical forms of coordination 8 Regulating climate change adaptation, the case of surface water 155Trude Rauken 9 Climate adaptation governance – theory, concepts, and praxis in cities and regions. The role of climate and water governance in supporting climate change adaptation processes 171Walter Leal Filho, Margot A. Hurlbert and Harry Diaz 10 Climate problem and territorial governance: an overview of adaptation initiatives at the French regional level 191François Bertrand, Elsa Richard and Corinne Larrue 11 Regional rescaling in adaptation governance: from agency to collaborative control in flood management in England? 209Irene Lorenzoni, David Benson and Hadrian Cook 12 From case studies to policy-making: adapting to climate change in Lithuania 223Justas Kays, Egidijus Rimkus and Julija Naujëkaitë 13 The rise and fall of climate adaptation governance on the Gold Coast, Australia 237Michael Howes and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes 14 Climate change adaptation in private real estate development: essential concepts about development for feasible research, regulation and governance 251Eddo Coiacetto 15 Pro-poor climate change adaptation in Zambia 267Danny Simatele Part 3: Informal and corporative forms of coordination 16 Climate change adaptation through hierarchies and networks in the city of Bergen 287Marte Winsvold, Kari Johanne Hjeltnes, Jan Erling Klausen and Ove Langeland 17 Influence of citizens and stakeholders in shaping adaptation policy – opportunities and barriers 305Søren Gram, Bjørn Bedsted and Andreas Hastrup Clemmensen 18 Public participation in the governance of metropolitan scale climate adaptation: panacea or problem? 317Paul Burton and Johanna Nalau 19 Governance for (climate) change in American "Legacy" cities: a case study of Cleveland 333Sanda Kaufman 20 Governance of climate change adaptation on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 355Ilan Kelman 21 Adaptation in small coastal towns in Australia 371Janet Stanley 22 Transnational learning for climate change adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region 389Stefanie Lange Scherbenske and Lisa Van Well Part 4: Findings of Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and Regions 23 Climate adaptation governance in cities and regions between hierarchical steering and network cooperation: findings from theoretical considerations and international practice 405Jörg Knieling and Katharina Klindworth Index, 421
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Commodification Gap
Book SynopsisTHE COMMODIFICATION GAP In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive contextual processes. Matthias Bernt develops a new concept, the commodification gap, which is tested in three richly researched cases. With this, the concept of gentrification becomes a multiplicity and the possibility of conversations across different urban contexts is expanded. A richly rewarding read!' Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Human Geography, University College London, UK Urban studies has reached a stalemate of universalism versus particularism. Matthias Bernt is breaking out of this deadlock by being very precise about what exactly is universal and what is not and how one can conceptualize both. The Commodity Gap is a key contribution to not only gentrification studies, but also to comparative urbanism and urban studies at large.' Manuel B. Aalbers, Division of GeographyTrade Review‘In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive contextual processes. Matthias Bernt develops a new concept, the “commodification gap”, which is tested in three richly researched cases. With this, the concept of gentrification becomes a multiplicity and the possibility of conversations across different urban contexts is expanded. A richly rewarding read!’Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Human Geography, University College London, UK‘Urban studies has reached a stalemate of universalism versus particularism. Matthias Bernt is breaking out of this deadlock by being very precise about what exactly is universal and what is not – and how one can conceptualize both. The Commodity Gap is a key contribution to not only gentrification studies, but also to comparative urbanism and urban studies at large.’Manuel B. Aalbers, Division of Geography & Tourism, KU Leuven, BelgiumTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables x Series Editors’ Preface xi Preface xii 1 Introduction 1 Gentrification Between Universality and Particularity 1 How to Compare? Why Compare? 8 Concepts and Causation 11 Design of this Study 15 Notes 22 2 Why the Rent Gap isn’t Enough 25 Where the Rent Gap Works Well 25 Where the Rent Gap Falls Short 30 When and Why does Capital Flow? 32 At Which Scale is the Rent Gap Positioned? 34 Which Rent? 37 Property as Control? 40 How is the Rent Gap Realised? 43 Embedding Gentrification 48 Economy, Society and States 48 The Commodification Gap 51 Notes 54 3 Three Countries, Three Housing Systems 57 The British Experience 57 From Private Landlordism to a Dual Market 58 The Thatcherite Revolution 60 New Labour: More of the Same? 65 Austerity and New ‘Class War Conservatism’ Under the Coalition Government 70 Conclusion: Neoliberalism, Tenurial Transformation and Gentrification 73 The German Experience 77 From the Controlled Housing Economy to the Lücke Plan 77 The Design of Tenant Protections 84 The Conservative Wende 86 Reunification and Neoliberal Consensus 89 Conclusion: Gentrification Between Regulation and Deregulation 91 The Russian Experience 98 Housing in the Soviet Union 99 From Shock Therapy to Failing Markets 102 Restricted State Capacities and Opportunity Planning 110 Conclusion: Gentrification in a Dysfunctional Market 112 State Intervention in Housing: Setting the Parameters for Gentrification 118 Notes 124 4 Barnsbury: Gentrification and the Policies of Tenure 129 The Making of Early Gentrification 129 The Right to Buy: Pouring Fuel on the Fire 137 The New Economy of Gentrification 141 Capital Gains Instead of Owner-Occupation 142 Penalty Renting 145 From Value Gap to Super-gentrification 150 Notes 154 5 Prenzlauer Berg: Gentrification Between Regulation and Deregulation 157 From Plan to Market 158 Rolling out the Market, Weakening Public Control 162 Since 2000: Privately Financed Refurbishments, Condominium Boom and No Regulation 164 New Build Gentrification and Energy Efficient Displacement 167 Between Deregulation and Re-regulation 171 Gentrification with Brakes? 174 Notes 179 6 Splintered Gentrification: St Petersburg, Russia 181 Unpredictable Regeneration Schemes 183 World Heritage vs. Gentrification 186 The Dissolution of Kommunalki Flats 192 State-run Repair and Renewal 198 Pro and Contra Gentrification 202 Notes 206 7 The Commodification Gap 207 Universality vs. Particularity Revisited 207 Gentrification and Decommodification 216 Meeting the Challenge: New Directions for Research and Politics 217 Notes 221 Appendix A Compulsory Purchase in Barnsbury 223 Appendix B Residents in NS-SeC Classes 1 and 2 229 References 235 Index 257
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rethinking Public Strategy The Public Management
Book SynopsisSean Lusk is head of strategy at the UK's Valuation Office Agency. Previously he was Principal Lecturer in Policy, Government and Europe at the UK's Civil Service College/National School of Government and Head of its Leadership and Strategy faculty. He has also worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Africa and South Asia, and as a consultant to ministers and officials in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East. Nick Birks was formerly Head of Strategic Insight and Horizon Scanning for a central UK government department, where he spent ten years working in strategy units as well as having experience in many other capacities. As Head of Strategic Insight and Horizon Scanning he worked with futures specialists and officials throughout the public sector and was responsible for building strategic thinking capability across the organisation.
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WW Norton & Co Try Common Sense
Book SynopsisAward-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society.Trade Review"[A] thunderous little book." -- Gillian Tett - Financial Times"If you have the feeling that America and its government and institutions are malfunctioning, then you should read this important book. It is time for us to… try common sense." -- Jonathan Haidt, New York University Stern School of Business, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind"[A] blockbuster." -- Steve Forbes - Forbes"Philip K. Howard has written a transcendent guidebook for life after Trump. This profound and practical new book makes us hope for the particular situation of a Philip Howard presidential candidacy at the head of his exemplary party for the Common Good." -- George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty and Life After Google"E]ngagingly written and never-dull aperçu that pinpoints with deadly accuracy … so much that is wrong with the current American administrative state." -- Charlotte Allen - Law & Liberty"[M]asterful. … [D]emand that your elected officials read it – and act according to Howard’s advice." -- Quin Hillyer - Washington Examiner"A breath of fresh air in an America where the political atmosphere has been poisoned by partisan invective." -- Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law professor and author of Rights Talk and The Forum and the Tower"Try Common Sense will send Washington reeling. Howard provides practical vision certain to offend the political establishment." -- Alan K. Simpson, U.S. Senator, Wyoming (Ret.)"Wonderful ideas beautifully expressed." -- John Sweller, Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology, University of New South Wales"With provocative arguments and convincing solutions, Howard offers a fresh, nonpartisan approach that will appeal to anyone frustrated with government's ongoing failures." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Johns Hopkins University Press Bureaucracy and SelfGovernment
Book SynopsisRevisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions of politics, government, and public administration, the author offers a novel way of thinking constitutionally about public administration that transcends debates about big government.Trade ReviewUseful for advanced students and faculty... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionSeries Editor's ForewordPreface to the First EditionAcknowledgments to the First Edition1. Public Administration as Instrument and Institution2. Preserving the Chain of Dependence: The Ideas of the Founding and Early Republic3. Restoring Republican Virtue: The Impact of Jacksonian Ideals4. Perfecting the Neutral Instrument: Transformations of the Second State and Progressive Reforms5. Serving the Liberal State: Administration and the Rise of the New Deal Political Order6. Politics and Administration after the New Deal: Liberal Orthodoxy and Its Challenges7. The Constitutive Dimension of Public Administration: Appreciating Consequences8. Bureaucracy and the Future of American Self-GovernmentReferencesIndex
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Lexington Books What is Happening in Your Community
Book SynopsisThis book examines ways in which communities can affect change by providing strategies on creating and developing communities that enables people to live their lives. Through a model of our comprehensive community development efforts, collective impact, enhancing social capital, developing neighborhoods with affordable housing that create opportunity and community and placemaking.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: What is Community? What is Community Development? History of Community Development; Models of Community DevelopmentChapter 2: Social Capital: Dimensions of Social Capital, Social Networks, Critiques of Social Capital Chapter 3: The Social Capital Implications of Habitat for Humanity Homeownership Matthew J. Hanka, Mohammed Khayum and Ramona HarveyChapter 4: Social Capital and Economic Development: A Neighborhood PerspectiveMatthew J. Hanka and Trent EngbersChapter 5: Service Learning and Community Development Anne Statham and Helen RosenbergChapter 6: Adaptive Collaborative Community Transformation (ACCT) model of Comprehensive Community Development and Case Studies: Glenwood, Jacobsville, and Engage Henderson Chapter 7: What is Collective Impact? Case Studies of Collective Impact: VOICE and Promise ZoneChapter 8: HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and Social CapitalMatthew J. Hanka and John GilderbloomChapter 9: Placemaking and Social CapitalConclusion: Lessons learned in community development and collective impact
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CQ Press Environmental Policy
Book SynopsisAuthoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for the twenty-first century. You will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today’s environmental politics.The Tenth Edition examines how policy has changed within federal institutions and state and local governments, as well as how environmental governance affects private sector policies and practices. The book provides in-depth examinations of public policy dilemmas including fracking, food production, urban sustainability, and the viability of using market solutions to address policy challenges. Students will also develop a deeper understanding of global issues such as climate change governance, the implications of the Paris Agreement, and the role of environmental policy in the developing world. Students walk away with a measured yet hopeful evaluation of the future challenges policymakers will confront as the American environmental movement continues to affect the political process.
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Rowman & Littlefield Democracy in Danger: How Hackers and Activists
Book SynopsisWhen Jake Braun challenged hackers at DEFCON, the largest hacking conference in the world, to breach the security of a voting machine, a hacker in Europe conquered the task in less than two minutes. From hacking into voting machines to more mundane, but no less serious problems, our democracy faces unprecedented tests from without and within. In Democracy Endangered, cybersecurity expert Jake Braun, a veteran of three presidential campaigns and former White House Liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, reveals what the national security apparatus, local election administrators, and political parties have gotten wrong about election security and what America needs to do to protect the ballot box in 2020 and beyond.Trade ReviewWhile much has been written about the role of Russian propaganda, Democracy in Danger focuses instead on Russia’s hacking of voting systems across the United States, erasing voters from voter registration databases and hacking the websites of several secretaries of state. Written as a first-person narrative but packed with information, the book uses Braun’s background and expertise to stress the importance of securing our voting systems. . . . Democracy in Danger is a harrowing account of just how unprepared states were, and remain, to stop election-crippling Russian hacks. It explains the problem in thorough and clear detail, with a call to action to protect the fundamentals of American democracy. This is a good and important work. * Foreword Reviews *“From the frontlines of democracy as a political operative to the Department of Homeland Security to academia – Jake Braun has thought about the intersection of cybersecurity and America from all angles, and weaves his personal vignettes into Democracy in Danger. At home and abroad, from Europe to Africa, cyberattacks on democratic infrastructure are occurring regularly and we must all think and act with greater urgency. Jake understands true stakes and the solutions.” -- John F. Kerry, 68th U.S. Secretary of StateJake Braun has done a great service to the Nation with the publication of this book. There can be no doubt about the threat to our democracy from cyber space and the immediate need for us to get beyond politics to confront and defeat this threat. Jake’s journey of discovery and action sets the stage for the future. The book reflects my strong view on the need for immediate action. -- Francis X Taylor, Brig General, USAF (Retired), Former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis (2014 to 2017)Democracy in Danger reads like a spy thriller, but feels like a horror movie. In his brilliant book, Jake Braun relates, in details emerging from his front row seat, the too-slow recognition of the vulnerabilities of our election system well before 2016 and how a series of missteps, blinders, bureacracy and politics led to the events surrounding the 2016 election. But all is not lost. Braun shows us how stakeholders, election officials and even hackers are building a community with one, and only one, goal: to save our elections and therefore our democracy. An engaging, detailed and honest account, Democracy in Danger is an essential read for those who have the same mission. -- Juliette Kayyem, former Assistant Secretary Department of Homeland Security, current Faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School of GovernmentTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Table Setting: The Putin Problem 2. Clusterf*ck 3. Mandela-Level Turnout 4. Reset? 5. Same-Old-Same-Old or Something New? 6. Here Come the Hackers 7. “You Have to Sit on Those Boxes” 8. “We Have No Evidence”: DEF CON 9. “Child’s Play” 10. Cyber Politics Epilogue Notes Index About the Author
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PublicAffairs The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the
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SAGE Publications Inc Politics of the Administrative Process
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