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  • - Restoring America's Rivers
    av William R. Lowry
    644,-

    The politics of building dams and levees and other structures are just part of the policies determining how American rivers are managed or mismanaged. This title looks at how public policy and rivers interact, examines the physical differences in rivers that affect policies, and analyzes the political differences among the groups that use them.

  • - The Dynamics of National Policymaking
    av Timothy J. Conlan, Paul L. Posner & David R. Beam
    384 - 1 032,-

    Bridging the gap between textbook models of how public policy should work, and how the process actually works in contemporary Washington, this book provides a framework that integrates the roles of political interests and policy ideals in the contemporary policy process.

  • - The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities
    av Rebecca M. Hendrick
    402,-

    A comprehensive analysis of the financial condition, management, and policy making of local governments in a metropolitan region that offers local governments currently dealing with the Great Recession a better understanding of what affects them financially and how to operate with less revenue.

  • - Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Social Policies
     
    625,-

    With budgets squeezed at every level of government, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) holds outstanding potential for assessing the efficiency of many programs. This book addresses the application of CBA to social policy. It discusses the applicability of CBA to actual programs, describing both proven and promising examples.

  • - Federalism, Policy Durability, and Health Reform
    av Frank J. Thompson
    389,-

    Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans. This title examines the program's evolution during the presidential administrations of Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Barack Obama and its pivotal role in the epic health reform law of 2010.

  • - The Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada
     
    629,-

    Democratic government is about making choices. Sometimes those choices involve the distribution of benefits. This work examines the repercussions of unpopular government decisions in Canada and the USA, the two great democratic nations of North America.

  • - Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and National Policy Dynamics
    av George J. Busenberg
    625,-

    Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska. This book illuminates the processes and consequences of these reforms at the state, national, and international levels.

  • - Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking
    av Philip G. Joyce
    411,-

    Created in 1974, the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. This title discusses the CBO's role in larger budget policy and the more narrow 'scoring' of individual legislation, such as its role in the 2009-2010 Obama health care reform.

  • - Values, Expertise, and Interests in Organ Transplantation
    av David L. Weimer
    644,-

    Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care. This title explores an alternative regulatory approach to medical care based on the delegation of decisions about the allocation of scarce medical resources to private nonprofit organizations.

  • - Policy Analysis in the States
    av John A. Hird
    625,-

    Through a comparative examination of institutions and testing theories of the use of policy analysis, Hird draws conclusions that are more useful than those derived from single cases. Hird examines nonpartisan policy research organizations established by and operating in U.S.

  • - Trust and the Politics of Implementation, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
    av Denise Scheberle
    658,-

    Examines reasons why environmental laws seldom work out exactly as planned. Casting federal-state working relationships as 'pulling together,' 'coming apart,' or somewhere in-between, this title provides dozens of observations from federal and state officials.

  • - Ethics and State Politics
    av Beth A. Rosenson
    625,-

    Although the linking of 'ethics' and 'politics' may seem more like the ingredients for a comedian's monologue, it is a sober issue and one that affects every American. This title offers an exploration with that moment when New York became the first state to enact a general ethics law, setting standards and guidelines for behavior.

  • - Beyond the Digital Divide
    av Karen Mossberger
    629,-

    That there is a 'digital divide' - which falls between those who have and can afford the latest in technological tools and those who have neither in our society - is indisputable. This title redefines the issue as it explores the cascades of that divide, which involve access, skill, political participation, as well as the obvious economics.

  • - The Suburbanization of American Politics
    av Juliet F. Gainsborough
    629,-

    Argues that since the 1980s a distinctive suburban politics has emerged in the United States. This title also argues that the political differences between urban and suburban voters have found expression in changes in congressional representation and new electoral strategies for the major political parties.

  • av Kathryn A. Foster
    629,-

    Over the years local governments across America have increasingly turned specialized functions over to autonomous agencies. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the causes and consequences of special-purpose governments in more than 300 metropolitan areas in the United States.

  • - The Politics of Intergenerational Goods
    av William R. Lowry
    697,-

    Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, this title investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. It examines the effect of institutional structure on the public delivery of these goods.

  • - Policy Change after Catastrophic Events
    av Thomas A. Birkland
    384,-

    To determine when and how a catastrophic event serves as a catalyst for true policy change, this work examines four categories of disasters: aviation security, homeland security, earthquakes, and hurricanes. It explores lessons learned from each, focusing on three types of policy change.

  • - Interest Group Coalitions in Legislative Politics
    av Kevin W. Hula
    629,-

    Whether joining forces to address tobacco legislation or proposed air safety regulations, Washington lobbyists with little in common are combining their clout to get results. This book examines why coalition strategies have emerged as a dominant lobbying technique, when lobbyists use them, and how these strategies affect their activities.

  • - The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany
    av Mark Cassell
    694,-

    A study of two successful divestment agencies - the US Resolution Trust Corporation and the German Treuhandanstalt - that presents a complex understanding of the two agencies' performance in privatizing hundreds of billions of dollars of assets following two very different crises, the savings and loan debacle in the US and unification in Germany.

  • - Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference
    av Gerard W. Boychuk
    644,-

    After World War II, the US and Canada struck out on divergent paths to public health insurance. This work probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the social and political aspects of each country, and the politics of race in the US and territorial politics in Canada.

  • - Federalism and the National Education Agenda
    av Paul Manna
    377,-

    Based on analyses of public laws, presidential speeches, congressional testimony, political advertising, and personal interviews, this title draws on concepts of federalism and agenda-setting to offer a view of the growing federal role in education policy. It also provides insights about the nature of federalism in the United States.

  • - Politics and Public Opinion in America's School Districts
    av Michael B. Berkman
    694,-

    Begins with educational reforms from the Progressive era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the civil rights movement and ending with Pennsylvania's 2004 tax relief measure. This title explores what factors determine education spending levels in school districts.

  • - Welfare, Medicare, and Social Security Reform in the United States
    av Daniel Beland
    370,-

    Compares and contrasts the developments in three major federal policy areas in the United States: welfare, Medicare, and Social Security. This title concentrates on three cases of social policy reform (or attempted reform) that took place during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W Bush, Beland and Waddan.

  • - Improving America's Schools
    av Kenneth K. Wong
    644,-

    In 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. This work takes a critical look at mayoral control of urban school districts, beginning with Boston's schools in 1992 and examining more than 100 school districts in 40 states.

  • - Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections, and Policy Representation
    av Donald P. Haider-Markel
    384,-

    Presents a systematic analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political representation that explores the dynamics of state legislative campaigns and the influence of lesbian and gay legislators in the state policymaking process.

  • - An Interbranch Perspective
     
    444,-

    Provides a combination of contemporary policy analysis, an interbranch perspective, and diverse methodological approaches that speak to a gap in the literature dealing with the role of the courts in the American policymaking process. This book unravels the interplay of governmental agencies and provides a look at how the US government functions.

  • av Martha L. Gibson
    629,-

    Traces the competing forces that interject conflict into an overall consensus on the value of a liberalized trade policy. This title shows why it is impossible to understand trade legislation without first understanding how electoral politics and the institutional rules of Congress distort legislators' interests, incentives, and policy goals.

  • - A New Logic for Empirical Research
    av Laurence E. Lynn, Carolyn J. Heinrich & Carolyn J. Hill
    1 890,-

    Proposing a framework for research based on the premise that any particular governance arrangement is embedded in a wider social, fiscal, and political context, this title argues that theory-based empirical research, when well conceived and executed, can be a primary source of fundamental, durable knowledge about governance and policy management.

  • - Vacant Land and Urban Strategies
    av Ann O’M. Bowman
    625,-

    Explores how brownfields (environmentally contaminated land), trashed lots and abandoned buildings, and greenspaces (parks, community gardens, etcetera) are affected by the decisions of local governments, and shows how vacant land can be a valuable strategic asset for localities.

  • - Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events
    av Thomas A. Birkland
    373,-

    Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events - sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This book explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies.

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