How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public policy that unmistakenly works to advance citizenship by listening to, educating, and involving ordinary people. Rather than serve mainly the narrow interests of powerful groups who are socially constructed as "deserving" or issuing discipline and punishment to powerless people socially constructed as "undeserving," public policy needs to advance citizenship, solve problems, pursue justice, and balance the interests of individuals with a concern for...
How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public polic...
How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public policy that unmistakenly works to advance citizenship by listening to, educating, and involving ordinary people. Rather than serve mainly the narrow interests of powerful groups who are socially constructed as "deserving" or issuing discipline and punishment to powerless people socially constructed as "undeserving," public policy needs to advance citizenship, solve problems, pursue justice, and balance the interests of individuals with a concern for...
How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public polic...
A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconstructed to make public policies more responsive to citizens and thus more effective? This challenge is apparent in the activist policy agenda of the Clinton administration, which supports national service programs, government-voluntary collaborations, and community-based development projects. Public Policy for Democracy is an important and timely contribution to the current discussion of how to get people more involved in their own governance. In...
A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconst...
Among all natural resource and environmental problems between the United States and Mexico, water has been the most troublesome, with ongoing historic contests over water supply becoming superseded by new controversies over water quality. Divided Waters analyzes the politics of water management along the U.S.-Mexico border, using the case of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora as a window on the problems and possibilities involved. The authors explore the water problems that Ambos Nogales shares with larger border communities surface and groundwater contamination, inadequate...
Among all natural resource and environmental problems between the United States and Mexico, water has been the most troublesome, with ongoing h...
On one side are the policy makers, on the other, the movements and organizations that challenge public policy. Where and how the two meet is a critical juncture in the democratic process. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from several different disciplines in the social sciences, Routing the Opposition connects the substance and content of policies with the movements that create and respond to them. Local antidrug coalitions, the organic agriculture movement, worker's compensation reforms, veterans' programs, prison reform, immigrants' rights campaigns: these are some of the...
On one side are the policy makers, on the other, the movements and organizations that challenge public policy. Where and how the two meet is a critica...
On one side are the policy makers, on the other, the movements and organizations that challenge public policy. Where and how the two meet is a critical juncture in the democratic process. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from several different disciplines in the social sciences, Routing the Opposition connects the substance and content of policies with the movements that create and respond to them. Local antidrug coalitions, the organic agriculture movement, worker's compensation reforms, veterans' programs, prison reform, immigrants' rights campaigns: these are some of the...
On one side are the policy makers, on the other, the movements and organizations that challenge public policy. Where and how the two meet is a critica...
This family history is a companion volume to "On the Shoulders of Generations: A Hill Family Remembrance." This book focuses on the life of Hazel Margaret Wickard Hill (1902-1962), and includes her Wickard and Tufts ancestors. She married Oliver W. Hill and was the mother of the authors of this book.
This family history is a companion volume to "On the Shoulders of Generations: A Hill Family Remembrance." This book focuses on the life of Hazel Marg...
