Central / national / federal government policies Books

America needs a new communications law fit for the Digital Age. More than twenty years has passed since the last major revision to the Communications Act. Since then, the communications marketplace has been dramatically reshaped by increasing competition...

In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large...

Who governs? And why? How do they govern? These remain vital questions in the politics of our small cities and towns. In this new book, author Daniel Bliss takes issue with those who believe that small towns and cities are fatally vulnerable to the...

Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep...

Most leadership literature stems from and focuses on the private sector, emphasizing personal qualities that bind leaders and followers to a shared purpose. As the authors of New Public Leadership argue, if these shared purposes do not build trust and...

This book provides an explanation of nation branding theory and practice within the European context, exploring how countries build and manage their reputations globally.Each chapter focuses on a specific European country, selected from a cross-section...

La Vie De Jean-Baptiste Colbert Ministre D�������Etat (1695) est un livre �����crit par Gatien Courtilz De Sandras qui raconte la vie de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, un homme politique et ministre d'�����tat fran�����ais du XVIIe si�����cle. Le livre...

""Versuch Einer Kurzen, Systematischen Und Historichen Einleitung In Die Lehre Des Teutschen Staatsrechts Von Steuern Und Abgaben"" ist ein Buch von Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht Ulmenstein, das erstmals im Jahr 1794 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch ist...

This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the gendered experience of displacement and resettlement, it analyses the spatial reconfigurations that were...

This book explores the construction of the idea of the 'talented' student in India and its relationship to the discourse of the 'nation'. It historically situates the evolution of the National Science Talent Search (NSTS) and its subsequent avatar, the...

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the experiences of African migrants in Thailand.Thailand has always been a regional migration hub with Africans being the most recent. Sitting at the intersection of race and migration...

This book examines the current situation, levels of adoption, management practices, and the future outlook of conservation agriculture in India, and also in other tropical and subtropical regions of the world. While conservation agriculture is proposed...

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the México-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges.How do individuals negotiate...

Recent advances in agri-food technology have brought increasing complexity and emerging challenges to food safety regulation and governance, with many countries greatly divided in their regulatory approaches. As more advanced CRISPR-based gene-editing...

This book presents evidence-based research on climate-neutral and resilient farming systems and further provides innovative and practical solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the impact of climate change.Intensive farming...

This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems.Midnight Football is a sports-based intervention targeting social inclusion and crime...

Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young's work.Robert Maxwell Young, a Texas émigré to Britain, was a scholar, publisher, TV...

This volume is a critical examination of the history and impact of automation on society. It provides perspectives on the history of automation and its relationship with power, emphasizing the importance of considering the social context in which...

No margin-no mission...What does it take to bring financial justice to communities of color? Cliff Rosenthal, shaped by the movements of the 1960s, fought for decades against government indifference and systemic bias-finally seeing change come after...

AFTER WORK, AFTER PLAY, AFTER ALL is the story of Dr John Cornwall’s remarkable life from modest beginnings to an outstanding reformer as a Labor Government Minister. Spanning eight decades it covers a childhood in Bendigo, two decades of...

This book presents a new and confrontational perspective on South Indian migration to Sri Lanka, in contrast to the traditional historical records.The central theme of the book is about a group of South Indian Brāhmins who migrated to Sath Korale...

The Ideas Of The Day On Policy is a book written by Charles Buxton and published in 1866. The book is a collection of essays and speeches that discuss various policy issues of the time, including education, taxation, and social welfare. Buxton was a...

This book provides a cross-urban account on murals, street art, and public art in cities around the globe.

As a threat, a pandemic has indirect implications for social, economic and political conditions both at domestic and international levels. Thus, collective and comprehensive efforts are needed in responding to and preventing the expansion of infections...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how, and under which conditions, regulators in the social sectors are able to influence political agendas and issue definitions.In these political processes, agencies may become the policy entrepreneurs...

This book explores the capacity of different stakeholders to work together and build urban resilience to climate change through an equity-centered approach to cross-sectoral collaboration. Urban areas, where the majority of the global population dwells,...

Walking around the commercial streets of New York, San Francisco, Milan, London, or Paris and looking at the succession of multinational chain stores' windows, you can easily forget what country you are in. However, if you hear the small talk among the...

This book analyses problems of governance, development and environment affecting contemporary Pakistan; issues that lie at the centre of federal and provincial policy deliberations, formulation and implementation. The book offers a comprehensive...

Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.Widely acknowledged as the key driver of...

This book uncovers the many ways in which innovations and innovation system development policies have become crucial to development policy formation across Africa.As new instruments, actors and tools emerge in development cooperation, the role of...

Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another - critical theory and new materialism - this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist...

Although Mexican emigration to the U.S is still relevant, it has also become a transit and recipient country for thousands of refugees. In this book, leading experts in Mexico cover the political dimension of integration for migrants in Mexico analysing...

The International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences: Addressing Global Challenges-Exploring Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Sustainable Solutions in a Changing World unfolds as a crucial academic undertaking, centred around the overarching theme of...

Based on in-depth field research conducted in China between 2019 and 2023, this book raises a concept of "rightful control" and demonstrates a new means of dispute resolution used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through digital technology and its...

The Impact of UNESCO on States' Cultural Policies focuses on the impact of the 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions on the cultural policies of eight states and substates, examining how they have integrated it into their own cultural...

The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more effective opiate for chronic pain management. By 2017, the opioid epidemic had become a full-blown crisis...

How does food restore the fragmented world of migrants and the displaced? What similar processes are involved in challenging, maintaining or reinforcing divisions between groups coexisting in the same living place? Food Identities at Home and on the Move...

This book looks at the mass migration of refugees into India during the Sri Lankan civil war, the lives of the displaced people in refugee camps and the politics around the issue.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...