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

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
• Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in ... Lees meer

Collaborative Public Management

Robert Agranoff

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Local governments do not stand alone--they find themselves in new relationships not only with state and federal government, but often with a widening ... 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

Interest Groups and Health Care Reform across the United States

Virginia Gray

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive (but not universal) health care reform bil... 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

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

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 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

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

Expert Advice for Policy Choice

Duncan MacRae, Dale Whittington

• Paperback | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Economic reasoning has thus far dominated the field of public policy analysis. This new introduction to the field posits that policy analysis should h... 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

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

The Government Taketh Away

• Hardcover | Engels | American Governance and Public Policy
• Democratic government is about making choices. Sometimes those choices involve the distribution of benefits. At other times they involve the impositio... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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