How to Do Public Policy, Paperback - ***

This book offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve problem-solving with policies in a political world.Publisher: Oxford Unive...

Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about itWhy are Americans gov...

Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, the...

Reducere. There are two types of barriers that can hinder an excon's successful re-entry into society. There are those created by public policy and public at...

How would we design, implement and evaluate public policy if it were based on our love for future generations? For the philosopher Walter Kaufman, ...

This book provides a narrative of how R can be useful in the analysis of public administration, public policy, and political science data specifica...

DescriptionDiscerning Experts assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their c...

To what extent do federal systems promote multiple identities and attachments? How do their identities affect the trust that is assigned to various...

While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to...

Reducere. Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt...

Reducere. As an environmental scientist, you are used to writing scientific articles, but how confident do you feel writing policy or regulatory documents? D...

Reducere. Welcome to the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) field If you are interested in a career in this field, you've come to the right book. So what exa...

Reducere. This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities, but it reverses the 'normal' causal process. That is, many chapters analyze h...

DescriptionTraditional strategy assumes stability and predictability. Today's world is better characterised by turbulence, uncertainty, novelty and...

Reducere. Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place...

Legislative solutions to pressing problems like balancing the budget, climate change, and poverty usually require compromise. Yet national, state, ...

Reducere. While the achievement gap has dominated policy discussions over the past two decades, relatively little attention has been paid to a gap even more ...

DescriptionRecently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. T...

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it d...

Reducere. Jehovah's Witnesses number into the millions globally and are well known for their public evangelism about God's kingdom. But beneath the facade of...

Reducere. It's The AP Style guide for media relations. Yours will be dog-eared in no time Dealing with the press is a high wire act. Skilled spokespeople rea...

Reducere. Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest comp...

One of the major features of politics in the past few years has been a renewed attention to race as a driving factor in both politics and everyday ...

Reducere. Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is prese...

Contributor(s): Author: Kosuke ImaiAn introductory textbook on data analysis and statistics written especially for students in the social sciences ...

Reducere. Once called the "dismal science, " economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness. In this book Richard Easterlin, the "father...

The most solemn obligation of any president is to safeguard the nation's security. But the president cannot do this alone. He needs help. In the pa...

Reducere. Mark Zuckerberg's inaugural pick for his "Year of Books" challenge, The End of Power updates the very notion of power for the 21st century. Power, ...