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An expansive study shows how politics can work for, not just against, efforts to improve America’s schools.   The education reform project has alw...

This is a study of government publicity activities in Britain between the wars. Mariel Grant focuses on the development of public relations bureaux...

This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies, processes, and practices across the home nations (England, Scotl...

As the public face of American has changed, so has the face of its foreign policy. Diversity and U.S. ForeignPolicy, goes beyond the traditional te...

This volume presents an approach for resolving a variety of public policy debates. It proposes that a single standard - marginal cost methodology -...

Arguing that the performance of industrial environmental regulation is determined by the level and nature of the innovation it stimulates, this tex...

Horace's Hope, Friedman's Folly explains the forces behind the current efforts to privatize education. It also works to debunk the idea that public...

A detailed analysis of economic policy in Latin America with particular attention devoted to the problem of controlling inflation and stabilization...

Unfortunately, to date, detailed information about the distribution of federal dollars has not been readily available or accessible. This volume at...

The idea of `economic planning' was a central theme of the radical economic policy debate in the 1930s. Born of the inter-war economic crisis, the ...

Addresses and analyses the increasing influence of transnational economic, commercial, political and legal policies on the national policies of dev...

Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continue...

Are ordinary citizens capable of shaping foreign policy? To answer this question, fifteen established and emerging scholars use South Africa as a c...

This book contains a number of cross-national analyses of policies and policy-processes regarding higher education. Design, dynamics and outcomes o...

A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim...

This book describes racist rule in Hawai’i during the first half of the twentieth century and how statehood made possible a fundamental transformat...

This book assesses the value and relevance of the literature on complex systems to policy-making, contributing to both social theory and policy ana...

As the public face of American has changed, so has the face of its foreign policy. Diversity and U.S. ForeignPolicy, goes beyond the traditional te...

The Minister for External Affairs, and the dominant force in the formation of Australian foreign policy for a crucial decade in the battle over Pal...

This volume clearly demonstrates the diversity of our field. Twenty-two scholars have contributed thirteen unique pieces of research on a wide vari...

In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s econo...

Organizational Behavior and Public Management reveals how organizational behavior enables managers to direct resources that advance the programs an...

This core text book takes social policy back to its basics. Concise, accessible and engaging, each chapter is structured around a key question, suc...

This handy guide and supplemental text examines trends in information and communication technology (ICT) that impact the day-to-day operations of f...

Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying p...

This serial publication focuses more on theoretical than practical analyses. It encourages historical as well as contemporary cases of social polic...

Global Crime and Justice offers a truly transnational examination of both deviance and social controls around the world. Unlike comparative textboo...

This series presents selected research papers dealing with important methodological and theoretical issues in the policy sciences, with research in...

First Published in 2001. The Kenana factory was officially inaugurated on 3 March 1981 by the President of Sudan amidst a blaze of publicity. The ...

This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea, which critically historicises and analyses the contentious and dynamic develop...

Assessing trends toward creating innovative forms of political, economic and security co-operation in Southeast Asia, this text discusses the inter...

This collection of scholarly essays discusses the internationalization of American drug policy from a variety of perspectives and features articles...

First published in 2000. Part of the Children of Poverty series that offers studies on the effects of the single parenthood, the feminization of po...

Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the authors, as well as existing research about the intersection of public policy, politic...

"Research in Employment Policy".

Portfolio allocation in presidential systems is a central tool that presidents use to deal with changes in the political and economic environment. ...

A rebel and risk-taker from childhood, John McCain—son and grandson of admirals—nevertheless chose to follow the traditional path marked out for hi...

This handy guide and supplemental text examines trends in information and communication technology (ICT) that impact the day-to-day operations of f...

The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of ...

In the first book devoted exclusively to the contentious politics of autism, noted political scientist and public policy expert John J. Pitney, Jr....

Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare sy...

Representing America looks at the critical question of how to ensure that legislators represent their constituents' interests. Using qualitative an...

Explores foreign policy in federal countries, which often varies among such countries and differs considerably from that of unitary countries

Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. Unpred...

The Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific argument of the ...