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  • Law and the Search for Community

    by Joel F. Handler ...
    This enduring study of law and organizations that change the community--the core relations of citizen and state--takes aim at real problems that resonate today and the limits of bureaucracy: health care, medical consent, pollution, special ed, care for the elderly and poor. A recognized sociolegal classic by a UCLA law prof, first published by Penn Press, now in digital edition with 2010 Foreword. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe

    The Paradox of Inclusion

    by Joel F. Handler ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to collectively as the 'socially excluded'. The Europeans maintain that workfare is the best method of bringing the socially excluded back into mainstream ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Hard Labor

    by Joel F. Handler, Jay D White ...
    An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic picture of the women and the issues as well as suggested strategies and innovations. The book covers a wide range of topics, including getting and keeping a job, struggling to balance the demands of work and family, health care, child care, and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Down from Bureaucracy

    The Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment

    by Joel F. Handler ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization. Here Joel Handler asks whether this restructuring of authority really allows ordinary citizens to take more control of the things that matter in ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

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    Affordability, Access, and Accountability

    Edited by Donald E. Heller ...
    Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education—and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues.As students and their families struggle to meet rising tuition prices, and as state funding for higher education dwindles, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives

    Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy Into Focus

    by Stephen F. Befort, John W. Budd ...
    The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets. The balance of economic and noneconomic goals is under the microscope in every sector of the economy. It is time to re-think the objectives of the employment relationship and the underlying assumptions of how that relationship operates ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Governing for the Future

    Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow

    by Jonathan Boston ...
    Series Book 25 - Public Policy and Governance
    This book is about governing well for the future. It investigates the nature of, and the conditions for, prudent long-term democratic governance in a dynamic, complex, and uncertain world, the reasons why such governance is politically challenging, and how such challenges can best be tackled. In particular, it addresses the problem of ‘short-termism’ – or a ‘presentist bias’ – in policy-making; ... Read more

    $185.99 USD

  • Community Development and Public Administration Theory

    Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities

    Edited by Ashley E. Nickels, Jason D. Rivera ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
    The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines. Moreover, the concept of community development has been historically abstracted, not only in the way the concept has been conceptualized in academic studies, but also by the way in which practitioners use the term in the vernacular. Departing from traditional definitions ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Development Projects as Policy Experiments

    An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration

    by Dennis A. Rondinelli ...
    Series series Development and Underdevelopment Series
    International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. This examines the alternatives and offers an approach which focuses on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, ... Read more

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  • Debate the Issues: New Approaches to Economic Challenges

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Economie
    To capitalise on the new international resolve epitomised by COP21 and the agreement on the universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires a renewed effort to promote new policy thinking and new approaches to the great challenges ahead. Responding to new challenges means we have to adopt more ambitious frameworks, design more effective tools, and propose more precise policies that will ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."― Zelizer Best Book in Economic ... Read more

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