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The Crucible of Public Policy

Author : Bruce W. Dearstyne
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438488599
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of Public Policy written by Bruce W. Dearstyne and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era relates the dramatic story of New York State courts, particularly the Court of Appeals, in deciding on the constitutionality of key state statutes in the progressive era. The Court of Appeals, second in importance only to the United States Supreme Court, made groundbreaking decisions on the constitutional validity of laws relating to privacy, personal liberty, state regulation of business, women workers' hours, compensation for on-the-job injuries, public health, and other vital areas. In the process, the Court became a crucible of sorts—a place where complex public policy issues of the day were argued and decided. These decisions set precedents that continue to influence contemporary debates. The book puts people—those who made the laws, were impacted by them, supported or opposed them in public forums, and the courts, attorneys, and judges—at the center of the story. Author Bruce W. Dearstyne presents new material previously unused by scholars, reflecting extensive research in the Court of Appeals' archival records.

Public Policy in the United States

Author : Rushefsky
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765628503
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Public Policy in the United States written by Rushefsky and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely respected book offers a unique dualistic view of the policy process. First, it introduces readers to the American approach to public policy making as it has been shaped by our political institutions, changing circumstances, and ideology. Second, it informs readers concisely and even-handedly about U.S. policies in eight major policy realms, with well selected illustrations, case studies, and study questions. In addition to providing analytical tools and empirical information, the book imparts an appreciation of the widely shared but often competing values that must be balanced and rebalanced in the ongoing policy-making process, affecting issues of the highest concern to the American public. For this new edition, all of the policy chapters, especially those on economic policy, foreign policy, the environment, and education, have been very substantially revised and updated.

Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Public Policy Impact Study (1977 - 1980)

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Public Policy Impact Study (1977 - 1980) written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Public Policy Impact Study

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Public Policy Impact Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Science in the Crucible

Author : Mark C. Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822314974
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Social Science in the Crucible written by Mark C. Smith and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1920s and 30s were key decades for the history of American social science. The success of such quantitative disciplines as economics and psychology during World War I forced social scientists to reexamine their methods and practices and to consider recasting their field as a more objective science separated from its historical foundation in social reform. The debate that ensued, fiercely conducted in books, articles, correspondence, and even presidential addresses, made its way into every aspect of social science thought of the period and is the subject of this book. Mark C. Smith first provides a historical overview of the controversy over the nature and future of the social sciences in early twentieth-century America and, then through a series of intellectual biographies, offers an intensive study of the work and lives of major figures who participated in this debate. Using an extensive range of materials, from published sources to manuscript collections, Smith examines "objectivists"--economist Wesley Mitchell and political scientist Charles Merriam--and the more "purposive thinkers"--historian Charles Beard, sociologist Robert Lynd, and political scientist and neo-Freudian Harold Lasswell. He shows how the debate over objectivity and social purpose was central to their professional and personal lives as well as to an understanding of American social science between the two world wars. These biographies bring to vivid life a contentious moment in American intellectual history and reveal its significance in the shaping of social science in this country.

Public Administration as a Developing Discipline

Author : Golembiewski
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824765651
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Public Administration as a Developing Discipline written by Golembiewski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1977-08-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Semiotic Analysis and Public Policy

Author : Christopher L. Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351205986
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Semiotic Analysis and Public Policy written by Christopher L. Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotic Analysis and Public Policy evaluates several key areas of public policy that are dependent on narrative, naming, sign, and branding to create meaning. Semiotic analysis, drawing on the work of Saussure, Peirce, and others, allows for creation of a case-oriented model of brand versus product, and of medium compared with message. Using a critical Habermasian lens, Atkinson convincingly exposes approaches focusing too heavily on instrumentality and rhetoric that claims a resolution of complex societal dilemmas. Rooted in the literature on public policy and semiotics, Atkinson creates an opportunity to delve more fully into the creation of narratives and meaning in policy, and the origins and maintenance of public programs. Evaluation of such programs shows various levels of disconnect between popular understanding of public considerations, political outcomes, and what results from the administrative/regulatory process in support of the law. This book will be of interest for scholars and researchers of public policy, policy analysis, public administration, public management, and policy implementation.

The Evolution of Conservative Party Social Policy

Author : B. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137445815
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Conservative Party Social Policy written by B. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have changed within this particular policy sphere, the book explores various theoretical, social, political, and electoral dimensions of the subject matter.

Political Culture and Public Policy in Canada and the United States

Author : John C. Pierce
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773478978
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book Political Culture and Public Policy in Canada and the United States written by John C. Pierce and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the shared Pacific West political arena of Washington State and the province of British Columbia, but has many implications for comparison drawn at the national level. Using multiple methodologies, the book reports the results of investigative differences in the two countries, including political cultures and public preferences in three major areas of public policy: native claims, immigration, and forest resource management.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

Author : Michael Moran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191563382
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy written by Michael Moran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-13 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need for public intervention comes to be perceived, a policy response formulated, enacted, implemented, and, all too often, subverted, perverted, altered, or abandoned. Others approach public policy more prescriptively, offering politically-informed suggestions for how normatively valued goals can and should be pursued, either through particular policies or through alternative processes for making policy. Some offer their advice from the Olympian heights of detached academic observers, others as 'engaged scholars' cum advocates, while still others seek to instil more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all these traditions, using an innovative structure that responds to the very latest scholarship. Its chapters touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained. In these ways, the Handbook shows how the combined wisdom of political science as a whole can be brought to bear on political attempts to improve the human condition.

Higher Education Leadership Strategy in the Public Affairs Triumvirate

Author : Jeffrey W. Goltz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030380580
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Higher Education Leadership Strategy in the Public Affairs Triumvirate written by Jeffrey W. Goltz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive approach for colleges rethinking their community policy connections. From a ‘pracademic’ perspective, it introduces a new paradigm for contemporary college and community connections through the evolution of research, scholarship and experience, and the application of the Public Affairs discipline from Higher Education Leadership. The book explains how the public affairs forces of Community, Organization, and Administration offer a unique combination of concepts and theory that can transform practice, develop innovation, strengthen communities, and transform lives through a college partnering in a variety of community projects. The book’s defined ethical composition institutes leadership in the public realm, within the Public Affairs Triumvirate; and its discussion of the ‘science to service to philosophy’ will advance higher education strategy scholarship, creating new ideas for how academia and communities can create sustained connections and partnerships for solving problems in any community.

Public Policy

Author : Sara R. Rinfret
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1071835181
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Public Policy written by Sara R. Rinfret and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Policy: A Concise Introduction, Second Edition by Sara R. Rinfret, Denise Scheberle and Michelle C. Pautz, is a student-friendly textbook that connects responsible citizens to the world through a contemporary examination of the fundamentals of American public policy. The authors help both majors and non-majors foster their analytical skills early and then spend the rest of the semester discussing the policy issues, data, and events that matter most to them. The Second Edition has been updated to include how we can collectively use public policy to raise individuals from the margins and address inequities that exist in our system. Recent policy questions include: "How do we shape our country′s health care system?", "How do we address increases in costs of tuition?", and "Did the COVID-19 pandemic positively or negatively shape our public education system?"

Transformational Public Policy

Author : Mark Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317583981
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Transformational Public Policy written by Mark Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. Unpredictable and changing circumstances often bring nasty surprises that can increase waste in governance and public debt. This book illustrates how new methods derived from signal processing techniques can improve the practice of public policy by transforming it through rapid learning and adaptation. Interventions are processes of discovery, not compliance. Transformational Public Policy shows readers how the power of hypothesis testing in governance can be deployed. The book argues that public policy can be framed as tests of competing hypotheses subject to diagnostic errors. The aim is to learn how to reduce these diagnostic errors through cumulative experience. This approach can reduce the impact of negative unintended consequences -- a topic of great interest to policy makers and academics alike.

Refounding Democratic Public Administration

Author : Gary L. Wamsley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 080395977X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Refounding Democratic Public Administration written by Gary L. Wamsley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-05-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume contend that the North American political system is undergoing a serious governmental crisis - political leaders know only how to campaign, not how to gain consensus on goals or direct a course that is to the good of the nation. Public administration is therefore forced to compensate for the growing inadequacy of the 'leaders', and with a normative-based body of theorizing, perform its key role of governance within a democratic system of polycentric power. The book offers a revisualization of the relationship between public servants and the citizens they serve, and a continuing discourse on how public administration can constructively balance forces of change and stability in order for democracy to evolve and mature.

Public Policy

Author : Carter A. Wilson
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478638451
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Public Policy written by Carter A. Wilson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public policy issues directly and indirectly affect many everyday aspects of the lives of all Americans. Yet, most of us don’t fully understand how policy evolves. Why do public policies exist? What different types of policies are there and how controversial have they become over time? How can we better understand the continuity and change in public policies? Expanding upon the first and second editions, the author uses theoretical and historical approaches to answer these questions and highlight changes that have occurred with public policies over the past decade. He explains the complex relationship of political and social theories that explain the modifications and restructuring of public policies that exist today. Through his engaging writing style, Wilson examines a variety of controversial issues and legal cases to deconstruct each aspect of public policy. His explanations provide detailed information in clear, comfortable language that encourages the reader to better understand and appreciate policies and theories. A list of referenced websites after each chapter allows for exploration outside of the text for up-to-date information on the ever-changing world of public policy.

Marriage and Values in Public Policy

Author : Elizabeth van Acker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317604903
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Marriage and Values in Public Policy written by Elizabeth van Acker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage is a site of political conflict. It is a controversial issue in the UK, Australia and the US where there is a clash of values between neoliberal governments and diverse groups either strongly opposing or supporting marriage. In the meantime, fewer couples are marrying, while other family forms are more widely accepted. This book explores this disconnect by examining policy issues such as class divides, ethnicity, religion, same-sex marriage, gender relations and romantic expectations. A top down approach explores different government policy responses to marriage. In all three countries, there are differences and similarities in how governments react to the changes in family formations, but values or ‘conceptions of the desirable’ play a significant role. Enhancing stability and commitment as well as personal responsibility are important for policymakers who aim to keep ‘the family’ intact and thereby lower the burden on the public purse. It is difficult for political actors to respond to conflicting and changing values surrounding the diversity in relationships or to translate them into policies. There is a strong case to be made for increased policy attention to adult relationships - and a much weaker case for marriage. Rich evidence is drawn from interviews with key stakeholders as well as politicians’ speeches, government departmental reports, stakeholders’ documents and responses to government policies, and media articles.

Handbook of Public Administration

Author : W. Bartley Hildreth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351564420
Total Pages : 1618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Public Administration written by W. Bartley Hildreth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the previous edition, the best-selling Handbook of Public Administration enters its third edition with substantially revised, updated, and expanded coverage of public administration history, theory, and practice. Edited by preeminent authorities in the field, this work is unparalleled in its thorough coverage and comprehensive references. This handbook examines the major areas in public administration including public budgeting and financial management, human resourcemanagement, decision making, public law and regulation, and political economy. Providing a strong platform for further research and advancement in the field, this book is a necessity for anyone involved in public administration, policy, and management. This edition includes entirely new chapters on information technology and conduct of inquiry. In each area of public administration, there are two bibliographic treatises written from different perspectives. The first examines the developments in the field. The second analyzes theories, concepts, or ideas in the field’s literature.