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

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

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

Oil and Wilderness in Alaska

George J Busenberg

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Oil and Wilderness in Alaska examines three significant national policy reform efforts through a theoretical framework that illuminates the processes ... 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

Interest Groups and Health Care Reform across the United States

Virginia Gray

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Interest Groups and Health Care Reform across the US assesses the impact of interest groups to determine if collectively they are capable of shaping p... Lees meer

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

• Paperback | 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

American Governance and Public Policy series

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

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

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

Brussels Versus the Beltway

Christine Mahoney

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• This book presents the first large-scale study of lobbying strategies and outcomes in the United States and the European Union, two of the most powerf... 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

Making Policy, Making Law

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• The functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress mak... Lees meer

Improving Governance

Laurence E Lynn, Carolyn J Heinrich, Carolyn J Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Policymakers and public managers around the world have become preoccupied with the question of how their goals can be achieved in a way that rebuilds ... Lees meer

The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform

Edward L Lascher

• Hardcover | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• American state and Canadian provincial governments have dealt with rapidly rising auto insurance rates in different ways over the last two decades, a ... 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

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

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

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

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

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

School's In

Paul Manna

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• For most of the history of the United States, citizens and elected officials alike considered elementary and secondary education to be the quintessent... Lees meer

Federalism in the Forest

Tomas M Koontz

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• A love for nature and the forest drew Tomas Koontz to develop a keen interest in the workings of public forest management and forest policy. Beyond po... Lees meer