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61. Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy As Health Policy (The National Poverty Center Seriesin Poverty and Public Policy) | |
Paperback: 398
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(2010-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Most previous research concerning problems with health and healthcare in the United States has focused narrowly on issues of medical care and insurance coverage, but Making Americans Healthier demonstrates the important health consequences that policymakers overlook in traditional cost-benefit evaluations of social policy. The contributors examine six critical policy areas: civil rights, education, income support, employment, welfare, and neighborhood and housing. Among the important findings in this book, David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney document the robust relationship between educational attainment and health, and estimate that the health benefits of education may exceed even the well-documented financial returns of education. Pamela Herd, James House, and Robert Schoeni discover notable health benefits associated with the Supplemental Security Income Program, which provides financial support for elderly and disabled Americans. George Kaplan, Nalini Ranjit, and Sarah Burgard document a large and unanticipated improvement in the health of African-American women following the enactment of civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Making Americans Healthier presents ground-breaking evidence that the health impact of many social policies is substantial. The important findings in this book pave the way for promising new avenues for intervention and convincingly demonstrate that ultimately social and economic policy is health policy. ROBERT F. SCHOENI is professor of public policy and economics, the University of Michigan. JAMES S. HOUSE is Angus Campbell Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Survey Research, the University of Michigan. GEORGE A. KAPLAN is the Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor of Pubic Health, the University of Michigan. HAROLD POLLACK is associate professor of social service administration, University of Chicago. A Volume in the National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy Customer Reviews (1)
A must-read for anyone interested in improving population health |
62. Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America, 1900-1933 by Morton Keller | |
Paperback: 428
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(1996-02-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description A leading scholar of twentieth-century American history looks again at the beginning of the century, this time giving us a remarkable portrait of the emergence of modern society and its distinctive transformations and social problems. As in Regulating a New Economy, his earlier book on the changing American economy, Morton Keller integrates political, legal, and governmental history, now providing the first comprehensive study of the ideas and interests that shaped early twentieth-century American social policy. Keller looks at the major social institutions: the family, voluntary associations, religion, and education. He examines important social issues: the rights of the individual, the regulation of public mores (gambling, drugs, prostitution, alcohol abuse), the definition and punishment of crime, and social welfare policy (poverty, public health, conditions of labor). His final area of concern is one that assumed new importance after 1900: social policy directed at major groups, such as immigrants, blacks, Native Americans, and women. The interpretive theme is fresh and controversial. Keller sees early twentieth-century American government not as an artifact of class, race, and gender conflict but as the playing out of tension between the Progressive thrust to restore social cohesion through the principle of order and organization and two other, mutually antipodal, social interests: the weight of the American past and the growing pluralism of modern America. The interplay among these elements--Progressivism, persistence, pluralism--shaped early twentieth-century social policy. The result was no clear victory for any one of these public attitudes, but rather the emergence and delineation of most of the social issues that have dominated American public life for the rest of the century. |
63. Women's Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970 by Kathleen A. Laughlin | |
Hardcover: 208
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(2000-05-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description Laughlin details how the Bureau's strategic use of national conferences, regional field representatives, research, publicity, and alliances with the private and public sectors encouraged political activism and continuity among women in labor unions and disparate religious, civic, service, and professional women's organizations after World War II.She also discusses the department's role as a catalyst for the establishment of the President's Commission on the Status of Women, the passage of the Equal Pay Act, and the extension of a women's rights agenda at the state level. The author considers why and how the Women's Bureau was able to succeed in furthering an equal rights program in the 1960s while bound to its statutory mission as an advocate for protective labor laws aimed at regulating the workplace for women.In addition, Laughlin examines the rationale behind the Bureau's initial strong opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and its dramatic reversal in support of the ERA's ratification. This insightful study chronicles how the federal agency's quiet, backstage activism promoted an economic agenda for women and paved the way for more public, center stage feminist advocacy.It challenges traditional beliefs that women's activism was dormant during the 1940s and 1950s, and makes a significant contribution to revisionist scholarship on social and political reform movements in the postwar decades. |
64. Political Theory and Public Policy by Robert E. Goodin | |
Paperback: 296
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(1983-11-15)
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65. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving by Eugene Bardach | |
Paperback: 192
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(2008-10-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description Just when you thought a great book couldn't get any better, Eugene Bardach improves his "gem" of a handbook. Presenting dozens of concrete tips, interesting case studies, and step-by-step strategies for the budding analyst as well as the seasoned professional, Bardach's eightfold approach encapsulates more than 20 years of teaching and guiding students towards effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysis. Some of the enhancements to this edition? -A separate appendix that provides sample questions for policy analysts to ask about public and nonprofit institutions in order to aid their analysis and implementation. Readers will also find a sample document of real world policy analysis, a primer in how to "talk the talk" of policy analysis, and a cheat sheet of strategies for solving a host of policy problems. Customer Reviews (13)
Good "quick and dirty" introduction to policy analysis
A policy geek's Bible!
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66. Econometric analysis for public policy by Karl August Fox | |
Hardcover: 288
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(1958)
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67. Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy by Anne Lawrence, James Weber | |
Hardcover: 608
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(2010-02-01)
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68. Public Policymaking: An Introduction by James E. Anderson | |
Paperback: 352
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(2010-01-01)
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69. Environmental Policy and Public Health by Barry L. Johnson | |
Hardcover: 496
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(2006-12-21)
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70. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy by Thomas F. Babor | |
Paperback: 320
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(2010-05-02)
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71. Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (Suny Series in Radical Social and Political Theory) by Joan Roelofs | |
Paperback: 256
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(2003-02)
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72. Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation by Stuart S. Nagel | |
Hardcover: 424
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(2001-12-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation provides the reader with insight and alternative ways of resolving controversies related to problems at the societal level.This systematic, win-win evaluation involves choosing policy alternative that can enable conservatives, liberals, and others to come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously. This book deals with many aspects of public policy evaluation such as methods, examples, studies, professionalism, perspectives, concepts, trends, substance, theory, applications, dispute resolution, interdisciplinary interaction and bibliographies. Stuart S. Nagel has broken new ground in several areas of policy analysis. Research from an outstanding group of contributing authors places an emphasis on evaluating public policies that relate to economic, technology, social, political, international and legal problems rather than on evaluation specific narrowly focused programs. The book combines the variety of an edited book with integration and coherence of an authored book. No other book exists that pulls together numerous essays like this one, whereby providing a rich variety of insights, ideas, and applications. This book will be of interest to professors, students, practitioners, public administrators, policy analysts, and others interested in public policy evaluation. |
73. Governance, Globalization and Public Policy by Patricia Kennett | |
Paperback: 288
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(2009-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The contributors to this book seek to broaden, extend and integrate theoretical, conceptual and substantive policy debates. The book begins by exploring the concepts and perspectives associated with globalization and governance, the relationship between them and the repercussions for public policy and the state. It also considers developments at the global and regional levels and the implications of the emergence of new regulatory regimes in the context of liberalization and privatization. The focus then turns to a broad range of substantive areas of public policy such as human rights, health and health care, housing markets, poverty, security and counter-terrorism. Together the chapters provide a thorough, integrated insight into the relationship between global processes, governance and public policy across a range of policy domains Providing a comprehensive analysis of patterns and processes of governance in specific areas of public policy, this book will be of great interest to students undertaking programmes in social policy, social administration, public policy and political science, as well as researchers and academics concerned with the policymaking process. |
74. The Public Policy Process by Michael Hill | |
Paperback: 331
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(2009-08-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description In its new edition this book demonstrates how any attempt to influence the policy process needs to be grounded in an understanding of how policy is made. It covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of the process, allowing students to see the importance of the relationship between them. It also examines the role of the people and organisations involved in the process. This text is suitable for undergraduate courses in policy. Features *Provides a comprehensive guide to the various theoretical approaches used to analyse the policy process and how they can be applied |
75. Public Policy and Program Evaluation by Evert Vedung | |
Paperback: 336
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(2000-02-01)
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Extremely useful and creative source for evaluation research
A 'must' book for everyone in public policy evaluation I strongly recommend this book to anyone involvedwith program evaluation in the capacity of student, government official(program implementer)or government program evaluator. Vedung's writingstyle is clear and simple. He explains and defends his arguments in a veryprecise and systematic fashion and that makes the book very comprehensibleand easy to read. Evaluation is a diverse discipline, thus one needs tosystematize and clarify the themes he talks about right from the start.Evert Vedung does just that. In the first four chapters of the book heintroduces the reader to the diverse cosmos of evaluation. Initially hesemantically defines evaluation and explains that he confines evaluation to the after-the-fact assessments. That is, he covers on-going orterminated activities but not before-the-fact analysis of potential not-yetadopted interventions (p.8). He also talks of different evaluationmodels and he schematically classifies them into effectiveness, economicand professional models (p.36). Later,he analyzeseach model in moredetail. Among others, he puts emphasis on the typology of effects that agovernmentintervention could have and presents some of these effects asIntended - Unintended and Anticipated - Unanticipated (pp. 49-59). Inchapter five he formulates his approach to public policy evaluation bylisting eight problems - that he sees vital - in the form ofquestions. 1.Purpose problem: For what overall is the evaluationlaunched? 2.Organization (evaluator) problem: Who should exercise theevaluation and how? 3.Intervention analysis problem: How is thegovernment intervention described? Is the evaluant regarded as a means or aself-contained entity? 4.Conversion problem: What does the execution looklike between the formal in instigation of the intervention and the finaloutputs? 5.Results problem: What are the outputs and the outcomes-immediate, intermediate and ultimate - of the intervention? 6.Impactproblem: What contingencies (causal forces) - the intervention included -explain the results? 7.By what value criteria should the merits of theintervention be assessed? By what standards of performance on the valuecriteria can success or failure or satisfactory performance be judged? Andwhat are the actual merits of the intervention? 8.Utilization problem:How is the evaluation to be utilized? How is it actually used? Questionsone and two concern the evaluation of the intervention, questions threethrough seven pertain to the investigation proper and question eight refersto the feedback process or the utilization aspect of evaluation (pp.93-94). In the rest of the book (chapters 6-15) Vedung expands on each ofthese eight problems in detail. I particularly liked chapters 11 and 12which are connected to question six. In chapter 11 he discusses impactassessment logic, several experimental designsand methods. Thepresentation of the notion of the counterfactual - the basis, that is, ofexperiments - is very clear. In chapter 12 he talks ofgeneric,statistical and shadow controls. Although others have written whole bookson experimental design Evert Vedung presents the essence of this subject inthese two chapters. Surely,things could have been added. For example,he omits discussing impact assessment methodologies from the econometricspoint of view although they are widely in use nowadays (that is, evaluationstudies using regression models). On the other hand, had he includedregression methods, that might have produced a much more difficult andtechnical text, and that in turn would have decreased the audience coverageof the book. Being myself both a student of evaluation and an evaluator -I presently evaluate the process through which government subsidies aredistributed to enterprises -, I enjoyed the book immensely. In it, Ifounduses and connections both for my work and for my studies. TakisVenetoklis/Researcher, BBA, MPS, Ph.D cand., Government Institute forEconomic Research (VATT) Hämeentie 3, POB 269, 00531 Helsinki, Finland ... Read more |
76. Biblical Principles and Public Policy: The Practice (Christians in the Marketplace Series Vol 4) by Richard C. Chewning | |
Paperback: 330
Pages
(1991-01)
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77. Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional Practice (Studies in Government and Public Policy) by John A. Rohr | |
Paperback: 208
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(1999-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book encourages civil servants to reflect on specific constitutional principles and events and learn to apply them to the decisions they make. Twenty seminal articles by a preeminent scholar seek to legitimate public service by grounding its ethics in constitutional practice. John Rohr stresses that ethical practice demands an immersion in the specifics of our constitutional tradition, and he offers a guide to attaining a greater sense of those constitutional principles that can be translated into action. Along the way he considers such timely issues as financial disclosure, the treatment of civil servants as second-class citizens, and instances of civil servants caught between executive and legislative forces. Rohr's opening essays demonstrate that responsible use of administrative discretion is the key issue for career civil servants. Subsequent sections examine approaches to training civil servants using constitutional principles; character formation resulting from study of the constitutional tradition; and the ethical choices that are sometimes posed by separation of powers. A final group of chapters shows how a study of other countries' constitutional traditions can deepen an understanding of our own, while a closing essay looks at past issues and future prospects in administrative ethics from the perspective of Rohr's long involvement in the field. Throughout this insightful collection, Rohr seeks to remind public servants of the nobility of their calling, reinforce their role in articulating public interests against the excesses of private concerns, and encourage managers to make greater use of constitutional language to describe their everyday activities. Although his work focuses on the federal career civil servant, it also offers valuable lessons applicable to state and local civil servants, elected officials, judges, military personnel, and those employed in the nonprofit sector. This book is part of the Studies in Government and Public Policy series. |
78. Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights (Stonewall Inn Editions) | |
Paperback: 544
Pages
(2002-04-16)
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Inspiring words for trying times While I was famillar with some names...I was introduced to several unsuing heroes and role models. My only regret is that the book tended to gloss over instaces where the movement was not doing as well as it could have been. I believe this would have made some of the anthology more coherent. There are gaps which take away from the individual policy papers. Even if I understood the National Gay Task Force eventually bevame the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to disadvow sexism, other readers might not be aware of the reason for the name change. More information on the Romer vs. Evans decision (which invalidated Colorado's virulently homophobic Amendment Two), a real victory at a time when the Supreme Court has no shortage of conservatives. The authors simply assume that people know the important bits and pieces that give the riveting stories meaning and importance. Given their backgrounds, this tendency is both troubling and unusual, little is accomplished by preaching to the choir Still, the format of this book means it can also be used as a college textbook on GLBT issues and theory. Thus it is important to consider the book's above mentioned flaws as a fair description rather than a deliberate pan. Flaws and all, this book is recomended for anybody who wants to know what the "newest" civil rights movement has and is doing to improve American society. ... Read more |
79. Game Theory and Public Policy by Roger A. McCain | |
Hardcover: 262
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(2009-12-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description In practice, the influence of game theory on public policy and related disciplines has been less a consequence of broad theorems than of insightful examples. Accordingly, the author offers a critical review of major topics from both cooperative and noncooperative game theory, including less-known ideas in noncooperative game theory and constructive proposals for new approaches. In so doing, he provides a toolkit for the analysis of public policy as well as a clearer understanding of the public policy enterprise itself. The author's unique approach and treatment of game theory will be a useful resource for students and scholars of economics and public policy, as well as for policymakers themselves. |
80. Essential Statistics For Public Managers and Policy Analysts, 2nd Edition by Evan M Berman | |
Paperback: 285
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(2006-10-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Essential Statistics includes: * clear and concise discussions of statistical concepts and applications, from basic descriptive techniques to more advanced analytical tools * learning objectives and key term lists that frame each chapter for quick and easy reference * multiple tables, figures, and boxes to reinforce important concepts and enhance skill acquisition Exercising Essential Statistics includes: * critical thinking questions, data-based and research in practice exercises, helpful tips on data presentation, and suggested reading lists that correspond with coverage of each textbook chapter * two software guides -- "How to Use SPSS" and "Guide to Using Spreadsheets" -- that capitalize on the increased value of computers in methods courses. Freeing students from time-consuming calculations, these real-world applications allow for quick results interpretation and data validation * perforated and spiral-bound pages for maximum flexibility Customer Reviews (3)
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A decent statistic book |
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