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This book presents the initial findings that framed early discussions on Internet public policy and outlines proposals that should guide policymaking in the future. In addition, Cronin, McLure, and Radin's viewpoints show that the future of e-commerce has as much to do with how policy issues are resolved as with how technological challenges are overcome.
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The issues of the defense budget, national security, and American foreign policy have become increasingly contested in today's political environment. In this booklet, former Pentagon Analyst Earl C. Ravenal, professor of international relations at Georgetown University, offers a unique reassessment of what American security means in an uncontrollable world. Ravenal takes us beyond the superficial critiques of the U.S. military budget to show how the...
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"Fifty Shades of Pain: How Obama Care Will Slowly Strangle America" examines fifty of our professions, actions and pursuits, describing how each will be affected, diluted and obliterated by Obama Care. From Sports, to Doctors to Driving to Sex, "Fifty Shades of Pain: How Obama Care Will Slowly Strangle America" provides how the most important legislative initiative of our time will end up destroying our way of life, our culture and our country.
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Pushed by the Covid-19 crisis, the UK government has borrowed massively to save jobs, businesses and the economy from collapse, making a mockery of the austerity policies that it had championed for a decade. As a result, the role of the state is now in sharp focus. The contributors to this volume assess what that role should be and how it should be harnessed for the good of the British people in all four of its nations. Together they present policy...
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Why does policy succeed or fail? Nick Raynsford, a former MP, Minister and campaigner, tells us how it looks from the front line of policymaking. Based on his vast personal experience at the very heart of government and the voluntary sector, Raynsford explores what works and what doesn't in making and implementing policy and legislation. He gives an 'insider's view' on a range of events, some not previously made public, including the botched 1980s...
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Dans nos sociétés dites postfactuelles, il importe de comprendre et de simplifier la pensée des philosophes qui ont réfléchi au pluralisme pour développer un regard critique face aux sophismes ou aux raccourcis intellectuels véhiculés. Il faut mettre à l'épreuve des faits les multiples affirmations des dirigeants et des analystes politiques. Cela dit, alors qu'on célèbre en 2017 le 150e anniversaire de la fédération canadienne, l'heure...
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El autor del best seller Diseño de Políticas Públicas, ha creado una obra con visión funcional, basada en los más recientes desarrollos teóricos de la disciplina. Sin duda, un infaltable en las bibliotecas de universidades, agencias de gobierno y organismos multilaterales.
Si eres un consultor en evaluación de políticas públicas (o aspiras a serlo), este libro te enseñará cómo lograr una evaluación profesional. Si eres un estudiante...
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Rain and snow may be falling today, but throughout the world people continually fear water shortages. Is there reason for such apprehension? In Water Markets: Priming the Invisible Pump, Terry L. Anderson and Pamela Snyder argue that the answer is no - if we return control of water from government to markets. The authors document that humans are using only between 38 and 64 percent of the earth's readily available water. Nevertheless, in several poor...
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Collaborative working is an established feature of the public, business and third sector environments, but its effectiveness can be hampered by complex structural and personal variants. This original book explores the influence of agency through the role of individual actors in collaborative working processes, known as boundary spanners. It examines the different aspects of the boundary spanner's role and discusses the skills, abilities, and experience...
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Dr. Robert Baldwin would be the first to tell you that he used to be an average white Southern male; a family man with conservative ideals and a growing medical practice, he was living out his life without too much introspection. In 1997, however, Baldwin was diagnosed with the auto-immune disease, myasthenia gravis. In his compelling new memoir Life and Death Matters, Baldwin discusses his health scare and his subsequent search for truth in both...
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Ippolito examines the least publicized source of our current fiscal troubles--federal credit programs. Since the 1970s these programs (primary components of the federal policy in such areas as housing, agriculture, education, and international affairs) have grown dramatically, but neither the growth nor their costs have been reflected in the budget. The true costs are not tangible and direct, but these programs can affect investment, economic growth,...
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Few countries have subjected themselves to more introspection than the UK in the last three years. The decisions to leave the EU, not to destroy the UK via a breakaway by Scotland, and to create a virtually hung parliament in Westminster have been taken following much debate-which was not always of the highest quality. Huge uncertainties exist. With Brexit creating stormy waters, politically, socially, and economically, Peter McGarrick offers the...
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After studying land reform in 16 countries and offering illustrative examples from 11 more, Powelson and Stock conclude that government land reforms generally harm the rural poor more than help them. Detailing case after case in which government intervention has impoverished the peasant, the authors find only a few cases in which the government has made the peasant better off. In contrast, they show that in Third World countries where the state has...
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Citizenship is always in dispute - in practice as well as in theory - but conventional perspectives do not address why the concept of citizenship is so contentious. This unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute. The authors dispute the way citizenship is normally conceived and analysed within the social sciences, developing a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle. This view...
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Breakthrough ideas for creating jobs, reinventing health care, education, even a dramatic alternative to capitalism and socialism. Drawing from the full range of the ideological spectrum, this is more than just a thought-provoking read. "What's the Big Idea?" is a blueprint for a better America during a time when many people believe the American empire is in its declined and fall.
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When the Grace Commission on government waste issued its final report, it accused Congress of blocking attempts to cut billions of dollars from federal spending. Members of Congress, it said, tried to bring water projects and military bases to their districts and keep them there when they weren't needed. In addition, it charged Congress with interfering in administrative decisions on pay scales and employee reorganization. But the Grace Commission...
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This important book examines the role, behaviours and management practices of middle managers operating within the context of collaboration – complex inter-organizational and multi-sector settings that demand cross boundary governance, policy and practice to tackle challenging contemporary societal problems and issues. Presenting new evidence and offering perspectives from both the public and private sectors, the author critically explores the main...
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Las políticas públicas están de moda; por lo menos en nuestro medio. Su cotidiana alusión como instrumento de gibierno, como medio para hacer más efectiva la participación de los ciudadanos, o como nuevo paradigma de gobierno, son apenas evidencia de lo que los medios de comunicación transmiten a diario a cerca de un tema del cual todos dicen saber y conocer, sin que esto sea necesariamente cierto. Un buen comienzo para acercarnos al estudio...
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