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Struggle for Control of Public Education
ISBN: 9781566397414 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those making decisions about education today argue that market strategies promote democratic educational reform, when really they promote market reform of education. Michael Engel argues against this tendency, siding with democratic values and calls for a return to community-controlled schools.
Those making decisions about education today argue that market strategies promote democratic educational reform, when really they promote market refor...
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Do Think Tanks Matter? : Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780773536081 / Angielski / Miękka / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the basic question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an effect is consistently ignored. Think tank directors often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation and many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. Abelson goes beyond assumptions,...
It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the basic question of ...
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The Canadian Social Union without Quebec: 8 Critical Analyses
ISBN: 9780886451844 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Also published in French under title: L'union sociale canadienne sans le Quebec.
Also published in French under title: L'union sociale canadienne sans le Quebec.
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Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929
ISBN: 9781580465175 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to reduce infant mortality.
A new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to red...
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Financing Infrastructure: Who Should Pay?
ISBN: 9780773551473 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada's urban infrastructure urgently needs work. Roads and bridges are overdue for repair, aging water systems should be replaced, sewage must be adequately treated, urban transit needs to be updated and extended, and it is necessary that public housing as well as schools, health centres, and government offices are brought up to current standards. But few cities have room to raise additional revenue, and the federal and provincial governments to which they turn for financial support are already in deficit, so who is going to pay for all of...
Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada's urban infrastructure urgently needs work. Roads and bridges are overdue for repair, aging wat...
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What Works Now?: Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781447345480 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a clearly-structured review of the aspirations and contemporary realities of evidence-informed policy and practice.
Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to prov...
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La Frénésie des fusions
ISBN: 9780773521650 / Francuski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. De 1974 a 1977, il a enseigne au college Marianopolis a Montreal. Depuis, le professeur Sancton travaille a l'Universite de Western Ontario a London, ou il dirige le programme d'etudes en administration locale depuis les 15 dernieres annees. Ce programme offre des cours de premier cycle en administration publique destines aux dirigeants municipaux. Il est actuellement president de la Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration et membre du conseil de l'Institut d'administration publique du Canada. On a souvent fait appel au professeur Sancton en qualite de consultant et de...
De 1974 a 1977, il a enseigne au college Marianopolis a Montreal. Depuis, le professeur Sancton travaille a l'Universite de Western Ontario a London,...
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Women and Political Participation: Gender, Devolution and the Policy Process
ISBN: 9781447329671 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment: An End-of-century Assessment
ISBN: 9780765602602 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With contributions by the leading presidency scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the ways this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government.
With contributions by the leading presidency scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the ways th...
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American Military Policy
ISBN: 9780791074886 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American military policy is hotly debated.
American military policy is hotly debated.
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Valuing the Environment: Six case studies
ISBN: 9781853830747 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'Pearce Report', Blueprint for a Green Economy, puts the role which monetary evaluation of environmental costs and benefit. can play firmly into the public eye. This book goes further and looks at six countries where such evaluation techniques are applied and at the obstacles to their further use. The case studies, written by leading experts in each nation, show how these methods are being taken up in the UK, Norway and Italy and the ways in which they are already extensively in use in the USA, Germany and the Netherlands. The authors also describe the obstacles to their use,...
The 'Pearce Report', Blueprint for a Green Economy, puts the role which monetary evaluation of environmental costs and benefit. can play fir...
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Reviving Local Democracy: New Labour, New Politics?
ISBN: 9781861342188 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviving local democracy offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, providing a balanced view of the democracy and participation debate. Since 1997, the Blair government has sought to mobilise popular participation through local referenda, new political structures, electoral reform, and the creation of powerful new elected mayors. Through these mechanisms it is hoped that the lack of public interest and persistently low election turnouts will be overcome.The book draws on a wide range of new survey data to relate the...
Reviving local democracy offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, provi...
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Urban Aboriginal Policy Making in Canadian Municipalities
ISBN: 9780773539495 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Individual chapters highlight the unique issues related to policy making in this field - the important role of diverse Aboriginal organizations, the need to address Aboriginal and Treaty rights and the right to self-government, and the lack of governmental leadership - revealing a complex jurisdictional and programming maze. Contributors look at provinces where there has been extensive activity as well as provinces where urban Aboriginal issues seem largely irrelevant to governments. They cover small and mid-sized towns, remote communities, and large metropolises. While their research...
Individual chapters highlight the unique issues related to policy making in this field - the important role of diverse Aboriginal organizations, the n...
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Making Culture: English-Canadian Institutions and the Arts Before the Massey Commission
ISBN: 9780802067845 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Global Cooling: Strategies for Climate Protection
ISBN: 9780415628532 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book redefines climate protection measures and readjusts climate protection targets in line with what is scientifically necessary and economically feasible. The reader is provided with an overview of recent developments and failings in, and successful instruments for, fighting climate change and global warming. Effective climate protection measures rest on two pillars: stopping all greenhouse gas emissions and cleaning the atmosphere of spare carbon. Both are possible, if the use of fossil fuels in the energy, transport, construction and chemistry sectors is terminated and the... This book redefines climate protection measures and readjusts climate protection targets in line with what is scientifically necessary and economic... |
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Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration
ISBN: 9781501702679 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration reform, the President has proposed executive actions, and state and local governments have responded unevenly and ambivalently to burgeoning immigrant communities in the context of a severe economic downturn. Moreover we have witnessed large shifts in the locations of immigrants and their families between and within the metropolitan areas of the United States. Charlotte, North Carolina, may be a more active and dynamic immigrant destination than Chicago, Illinois, while the... The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration reform, the President has prop... |
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Whose Government Is It?: The Renewal of State-Citizen Cooperation
ISBN: 9781529200935 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Leading from Between: Indigenous Participation and Leadership in the Public Servicevolume 94
ISBN: 9780773559141 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants make a difference in Canada and Australia.
How the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants make a difference in Canada and Australia.
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PUBLIC POLICIES POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
ISBN: 9780802065599 / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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White Canada Forever : Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780773523227 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British Columbia and an unshakeable belief in the unassimilability of the Asian immigrant. Canadian attitudes were dominated by a series of interlocking, hostile stereotypes derived from western perceptions of Asia and modified by the encounter between whites and Asians on the north Pacific coast. Public pressure on local, provincial, and...
Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commis...
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