Preserving Public Lands for the Future

William R Lowry

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, William R. Lowry investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide g... Lees meer

The Politics of Unfunded Mandates

Paul L Posner

• Hardcover | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the politics behind the use of mandates requiring state and local governments to implement federal po... Lees meer

Ten Thousand Democracies

Michael B Berkman

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• The essence of democracy is popular sovereignty. The people rule. In the United States, citizens exercise this right through elected officials who the... Lees meer

Competitive Interests

Thomas T Holyoke

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Competitive Interests does more than simply challenge the long-held belief that a small set of interests control large domains of the public policy ma... Lees meer

Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence

Colleen M Grogan

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Public silence in policymaking can be deafening. When advocates for a disadvantaged group decline to speak up, not only are their concerns not recorde... Lees meer

Metropolitan Governance

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Metropolitan Governance is the first book to bring together competing perspectives on the question and consequences of centralized vs. decentralized r... Lees meer

Medical Governance

David L Weimer

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care. In the United ... Lees meer

Medicaid Politics

Frank J Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in the United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income ... Lees meer

Green Politics and Global Trade

John J Audley

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Environmental groups for the first time formalized their role in shaping U.S. and international trade policy during their involvement in NAFTA negotia... Lees meer

National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada

Gerard W Boychuk

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public... Lees meer

The Education Mayor

Kenneth K Wong, Francis X Shen, Dorothea Anagnostopoulos

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• In 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. But years before NCLB was signed,... Lees meer

After Disaster

Thomas A Birkland

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events-sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public ... Lees meer

Budgeting Entitlements

Ronald F King

• Hardcover | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• As budgetary concerns have come to dominate Congressional action, the design and implementation of welfare programs have come under greater scrutiny. ... Lees meer

The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of Enterprise Zones

Karen Mossberger

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• This book explores how policy ideas are spread-or diffused-in an age in which policymaking has become increasingly complex and specialized. Using the ... Lees meer

Branching Out, Digging In

Sarah B Pralle

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Sarah B. Pralle takes an in-depth look at why some environmental conflicts expand to attract a lot of attention and participation, while others genera... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Special-Purpose Government

Kathryn A Foster

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• In recent decades, local governments across America have increasingly turned specialized functions over to autonomous agencies ranging in scope from s... Lees meer

Out and Running

Donald P Haider-Markel

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Out and Running is the first systematic analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political representation that explores the dynamics... Lees meer

Power, Knowledge, and Politics

John A Hird

• Hardcover | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• If knowledge is power, then John Hird has opened the doors for anyone interested in public policymaking and policy analysis on the state level. A begi... Lees meer

Welfare Policymaking in the States

Pamela Winston

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Now that responsibility for welfare policy has devolved from Washington to the states, Pamela Winston examines how the welfare policymaking process ha... Lees meer

Oil and Wilderness in Alaska

George J Busenberg

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in ... Lees meer

From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing

Bruce A Wallin

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• This series examines a broad range of public policy issues and their relationship to all levels of government in the United States. The editors welcom... Lees meer

Managing the Fiscal Metropolis

Rebecca M Hendrick

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities is an important book. This first comprehensiv... Lees meer

How Governments Privatize

Mark Cassell

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Governments throughout the world confront enormous challenges when divesting. Whether it is poor-performing bank loans in Japan and Korea, military ba... Lees meer

Investing in the Disadvantaged

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• With budgets squeezed at every level of government, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) holds outstanding potential for assessing the efficiency of many progr... Lees meer