Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “donald abelson”
Skip side bar filters

  • Northern Lights

    Exploring Canada’s Think Tank Landscape

    by Donald Abelson ...
    Think tanks are often thought of as a uniquely US phenomenon. Although the largest concentration of think tanks is in the United States, they can be found in virtually every country. Often overlooked, Canada’s think tanks represent a highly diverse and eclectic group of public policy organizations such as the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the C.D. Howe Institute, the Fraser Institute, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets

    The Political Economy of Innovation

    by Peter F. Cowhey, Jonathan D. Aronson, Donald Abelson ...
    Series series Information Revolution and Global Politics
    Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping competition) also transformed the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Do Think Tanks Matter? Third Edition

    Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers and other key stakeholders. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an impact continues to be ignored. Think tank directors often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Do Think Tanks Matter?, Second Edition

    Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Understanding American Politics, Third Edition

    by Stephen Brooks, Donald E. Abelson, Melissa Haussman ...
    Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States. Placing the study of American politics within a broader context of other western democracies, this textbook reinforces the idea that in order to understand the American system, students need to begin by understanding their own democracy. This balanced, comparative ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Capitol Idea

    Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development and possible deployment of a National Missile Defense and George Bush's controversial war on ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Capitol Idea

    Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development and possible deployment of a National Missile Defense and George Bush's controversial war on ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • History Has Made Us Friends

    Reassessing the Special Relationship between Canada and the United States

    Edited by Donald E. Abelson, Stephen Brooks ...
    Separated by the world’s longest land border and engaging in over three billion dollars in trade daily, Canada and the United States share security concerns, cultural interests, and a history spanning more than 250 years. Alan Rock, former Canadian ambassador to the United States, has said that this special relationship represents “a bond that is beyond practical. It borders on mystical.” The rise ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Transatlantic Relations

    Challenge and Resilience

    Edited by Stephen Brooks, Donald Abelson ...
    This book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has remained resilient despite persistent differences in the preferences, approaches, and policies of key member states.It covers topics ranging from the history of transatlantic relations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and security issues, trade, human rights, and the cultural sinews of the relationship, to the impacts of COVID-19 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and Geo-Politics

    Pathways to Influence

    Edited by Stephen Brooks, Xin Hua, Donald E. Abelson ...
    Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The reconfiguration of global power, explosion of social media, shifts away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting knowledge, and the dramatic increase in the volume of information and ideas clamoring for the attention of policy-makers are changing the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America

    Newcomers in Turbulent Times

    Edited by Victoria M. Esses, Donald Abelson ...
    Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    Human migration has reached an unprecedented level, and the numbers are expected to continue growing into the foreseeable future. Host societies and migrants face challenges in ensuring that the benefits of migration accrue to both parties, and that economic and socio-cultural costs are minimized.An insightful comparative examination of the policies and practices that manage and support immigrants ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Humanitarian Business

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and aid agencies are obliged to respond to a range of economic forces in order to 'stay in business'.In his customarily hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating ... Read more

    $22.00 USD