Central Government Policies

The neo-Weberian state constitutes an attempt to combine the Weberian model of administration with the principles laid down during the retreat from...

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Why do public issues like the environment rise and fall inimportance over time? To what extent can the trends in salience beexplained by real-world...

Financial and material resources are correctly perceived as the life blood of terrorist operations, and governments have determined that fighting t...

Canadian advocacy has evolved over the past few decades. A core function of the nonprofit sector, advocacy endures in an unsympathetic neoliberal l...

After the devastation of the First World War, France welcomed immigrants on an unprecedented scale. To manage these new residents, the French gover...

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How does the United States view Canada? As a country too unimportant to deserve any defined policy, or one that is to be used simply to complement ...

China's one-child family policy has been applauded by demographers and condemned by human rights activists. This study argues that most city distri...

Over the last fifty years the nature of work and work injury has changed dramatically. Since the 1980s, workers’ compensation claims have grown ste...

First published in 1999, this book analyzes the process involved in implementing Technical and Vocational Education and Training policies in the co...

As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxious...

First published in 1991. In this volume, the author states that is not an economic history or 'an economic analysis, although it draws upon both di...

China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and bec...

The United States lacks a comprehensive and coordinated labor market policy. The components of U.S. labor market policy are derived from the activi...

The Constraint of Race offers a challenging new approach to understanding the evolution of American social policy and the racial politics shaping i...

Choices about budget priorities are arguably the most important made by the federal government, profoundly affecting the well-being of citizens. Br...

Choices about budget priorities are arguably the most important made by the federal government, profoundly affecting the well-being of citizens. Br...

Exploring the current state of relationships between public universities, government leaders, and the citizens who elect them, this book offers ins...

In Japan, the main local administrative affairs are traditionally allotted to prefectures and municipalities, while communal disposal systems, fire...