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  • Medicaid Politics

    Federalism, Policy Durability, and Health Reform

    Series series American Governance and Public Policy series
    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 Americans. As private health insurance benefits have relentlessly eroded, the program has played an increasingly important role. Yet Medicaid’s prominence in the health care arena has come as a surprise.Many astute observers of the Medicaid debate ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Administrative Presidency and the Environment

    Policy Leadership and Retrenchment from Clinton to Trump

    The growth of the administrative state and legislative gridlock has placed the White House at the center of environmental policymaking. Every recent president has continued the trend of relying upon administrative tools and unilateral actions to either advance or roll back environmental protection policies. From natural resources to climate change and pollution control, presidents have more been ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Research Methods and Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administrators

    A Practical Guide

    "The approach is well executed. The problems encountered by [the characters] represent real-life issues than administrators are faced with and the applications needed to address them."—Lee W. Payne, Stephen F. Austin State UniversityResearch Methods and Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administrators: A Practical Guide is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, core text that thoroughly prepares readers ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Strong Patronage, Weak Parties: The Case For Electoral System Redesign In The Philippines

    The current combination of electoral systems in the Philippines essentially guarantees the perpetuation of weak and incoherent political parties. As long as parties are weak and lacking in coherence, the primary focus of political contention is much more likely to be on patronage and pork than on policies and programs. As political reformers seek to address these fundamental problems of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Public Administration Theory

    Evolution and Application

    Edited by Staci M. Zavattaro ...
    What is theory? What do theorists do? Doctoral students and academics often engage with theory, but there is sometimes misunderstanding about what theory is, does, and explains. This book explores these questions, giving students and academics alike in public administration and management an idea of the breadth of depth of theory use, development, and application.The journal, Administrative Theory ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • A Radically Democratic Response to Global Governance

    Dystopian Utopias

    Series series Transnational Law and Governance
    This book presents a critique of dominant governance theories grounded in an understanding of existence as a static, discrete, mechanistic process, while also identifying the failures of theories that assume dynamic alternatives of either a radically collectivist or individualist nature. Relationships between ontology and governance practices are established, drawing upon a wide range of social, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • From Broke To Brexit

    Britain’s Lost Decade

    Perhaps the most extraordinary period in modern British history, the years between the Great Recession and Brexit have often been dubbed ‘the lost decade’ because of the economic and political turmoil caused by those two great events. Michael Burton outlines how the first led to the second, assisted by a rare confluence of other, often unrelated, social and political factors that delivered the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Education and Cultural Citizenship

    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "Nick Stevenson skilfully draws upon a welter of leading thinkers from the liberal, socialist, critical-theory and multiculturalist canons in developing his argument that leading ideas about education are umbilically tied to notions of the good society. The pluralistic and undogmatic manner in which he sifts these accounts, and his insistence upon the centrality of democratic citizenship, make ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Administrative Law

    In this new edition, author Steven J. Cann once again enlivens the topic of United States administrative law through the use of recent and "classic" legal cases to make it accessible and interesting to students. Administrative Law, Fourth Edition is an engaging casebook that presents a unique problem-solving framework that contrasts democracy with the administrative state. This novel approach ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era

    Public Policy, Private Expertise

    Edited by Chris Hurl, Anne Vogelpohl ...
    This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective. Drawing on cases studies from around the world, researchers from different disciplines—including sociology, political science, geography, anthropology, history, and management studies—examine how professional service firms have generated power in the policy-making process. The ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Maritime Sicherheit – Moderne Piraterie

    Hintergruende, Gefahren und moegliche Gegenmaßnahmen

    Series Book 7 - Analysen zur Sicherheitspolitik / German Strategic Studies
    Dieses Buch geht über das allgemeine und akademische Interesse hinaus. Es richtet sich vor allem auch an Handelnde an Bord – in Marine und Handelsschifffahrt – sowie an Verantwortliche in Schifffahrtsunternehmen, Streitkräften, Behörden und Politik. Der betroffene Praktiker bekommt hier Einblick in Hintergründe und Handlungswissen zu moderner Piraterie – auch hinsichtlich des neuen deutschen ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • United States Diplomacy with North Korea and Vietnam

    Explaining Failure and Success

    Dr. Michael Haas’ book, United States Diplomacy with North Korea and Vietnam: Explaining Failure and Success,aims to explain a significant, beguiling discrepancy in U.S. foreign relations: How has American diplomacy with Vietnam proved so successful when compared with its efforts to negotiate with North Korea? Haas undertakes a comparative analysis of foreign policy decisions to determine how ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • The Terror of the Unforeseen

    by Henry Giroux ...
    Series series LARB Provocations
    In a searing takedown of the populist authoritarian vision of America, The Terror of the Unforeseen tackles the resurgence of fascism in the age of Donald Trump’s presidency. Through the mendacious exchange of facts for “fake news,” Henry A. Giroux examines the language of hatred that activates neoliberal fascism, complete with state-sanctioned racism, casino capitalism, and fear-mongering at ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Human Capital Investment

    A History of Asian Immigrants and Their Family Ties

    In 1965, a family-reunification policy for admitting immigrants to the United States replaced a system that chose immigrants based on their national origin. With this change, a 40-year hiatus in Asian immigration ended. Today, over three-quarters of US immigrants originate from Asia and Latin America. Two issues that dominate discussions of US immigration policy are the progress of post-reform ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Governing Urban Africa

    Edited by Carlos Nunes Silva ...
    This book explores some of the key challenges confronting the governance of cities in Africa, the reforms implemented in the field of urban governance, and the innovative approaches in critical areas of local governance, namely in the broad field of decentralization and urban planning reform, citizen participation, and good governance. The collection also investigates the constraints that ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Administering the Social Welfare Programmes

    by R. Guha ...
    A welfare state is generally a state that provides a great deal of social services that are rights-based rather than means-tested. One qualifies for rights-based services by one's membership in a group or class, such as by being a citizen. Means-tested services, on the other hand, are available only to those who demonstrate need. Politics undoubtedly influence social welfare programmes. Social ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Public Affairs Faculty Manual

    A Guide to the Effective Management of Public Affairs Programs

    Series series Routledge Public Affairs Education
    While public affairs faculty study administration and management techniques, few administrators of public affairs programs receive formal training in the nuts and bolts of academic administration. Even those faculty who come to academia after distinguished careers in managerial positions may not be ready for the very different (and difficult) environment of university administration. The Public ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Das politische System Dänemarks

    Politik, Wirtschaft und Wohlfahrtsstaat in vergleichender Perspektive

    Die dänische Konsensdemokratie, die fortschrittliche Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik und der umfassende dänische Wohlfahrtsstaat werden von vielen als Vorbild gesehen. Zu Recht? Dieses Buch führt vergleichend in das politische System Dänemarks ein und zeigt auf, welche konkreten politischen Besonderheiten es tatsächlich gibt. Dabei spart es auch die Schattenseiten, Probleme und Veränderungen ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sociology of the Invisible Hand

    Series Book 20 - Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
    This book illustrates the applicability of the seminal and controversial metaphor of the «invisible hand» in modern sociological theory. It shows that sociologists have long been part of a field mainly associated with economists and political philosophers. Though unlike the framing that builds directly on Adam Smith, sociological theory focuses on undesirable and perverse outcomes. Furthermore, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • On Behalf of the Non-humans: The Struggle to Restore Our Humanity

    If all are humans, then why do some die of hunger while others waste part of their food supply? If the United Nations Human Inalienable Rights are for the human species, then those who do not have these rights are the non-humans. Although the more abundant species, non-humans are boxed inside their nations and dominated by caste structures so they cannot take back what was originally taken from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberia Administrative System: The Legislature

    The Liberian Administrative System has been a little understood system to many of its practitioners and technocrats. This is part of the poor governance regime that plagues the system.This is the book that discusses the system in an easy to understand manner. The author navigates his readers around the Legislative system specifically, and the wider administrative system generally. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Precatórios na História.

    De antes do Brasil Colônia até a Constituição de 1988.

    Series Book 2 - Precatórios e Requisições de Pequeno Valor
    Os precatórios são parte do processo de execução de sentenças ou acórdão em que houve condenação do Poder Público a pagar uma quantia em dinheiro.Este livro trata da evolução histórica dos precatórios no Brasil, começando um pouco antes do Brasil Colônia, passando pelo Império e finalizando no período republicano.Aqui se analisa textos antigos da Torre do Tombo de Portugal, obras raras do Senado ... Read more

    $10.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Banking Regulation and Globalization

    by Andreas Busch ...
    Does globalization erode the nation state's capacity to act? Are nation states forced to change their policies even if this goes against the democratic will of their electorates? How does government action change under conditions of globalization? Questions like these have not only featured highly in political debates in recent years, but also in academic discourse. This book seeks to contribute ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry

    by Matt Palumbo ...
    Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?An industry that started in the 1990s by fact-checking chain emails and Bigfoot sightings has evolved over the past decade into the American political left’s strongest tool in justifying the censorship of their political opposition and shaping the national narrative in their favor.There may have been a brief era where the fact-checkers fact-checked facts—now they ... Read more

    $9.99 USD