Public Policy

This guide to the main concepts of policy analysis is intended for students and in-service professionals who want to become more efficient in their work. It equips readers with a structured approach to decision-making, defining issues and applying the powerful techniques of policy analysis...

This guide to the main concepts of policy analysis is intended for students and in-service professionals who want to become more efficient in their work. It equips readers with a structured approach to decision-making, defining issues and applying the powerful techniques of policy analysis...

David Wells and Tony Lynch provide an important critique of existing approaches to Green politics with particular attention to the claims of 'deep ecology'. A unique examination of the relationship between economic and ecological styles of thinking and conclude with a 'social commons' inspired revi..

The Politics and Crisis Management of Animal Health Security addresses the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in the United Kingdom - one of, if not the, most significant crises ever to face the UK farming industry. Underpinned by interviews with politicians and bureaucrats and with significant primary do..

This title was first published in 2001: In this compelling work, Matthew Flinders examines how far alternative forms of accountability have evolved and the extent to which they remedy the current shortcomings of the parliamentary system. This valid, incisive contribution to the literature will be of..

This book places the evolution of US policy within broader debates on the politics of climate change in the USA and argues that there still exists a latent potential, often obscured by the complexities of the political system, for America to act as a world leader on the issue...

Written by an author with wide expertise on Southern and Florida politics and districting, this book explores..

Written by an author with wide expertise on Southern and Florida politics and districting, this book explores..

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan uses incremental changes to manage conflicting pressures over defence.This work focuses on the establishment of defence policy constraints through 1992. It discusses the various implications of using defence policy as a means of conflict management...

This volume examines the emergence, causes and consequences of the politics of self-governance both within relevant social science theorizing and in the everyday production of public governance in various policy areas...

Using a multi-methods approach, this book addresses the puzzle of why Germany was able to implement far-reaching reforms in this policy area after a long impasse and Italy was not. As such, it delivers a broad, systematic account of these reforms and sheds light on why similar reforms were not also ..

Leading and emerging scholars from North America and Europe examine the emerging profession of public participation professionals in comparative perspective to better understand the conditions involved in the negotiation of the participatory design...