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Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico

Peter M. Ward • University of Texas Press eBooks (1999)

Today in Texas, over 1500 colonias in the counties along the Mexican border are home to some 400,000 people. Often lacking basic services, such as electricity, water and sewerage, fire protection, policing, schools, and health care, these "...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7560/791244

Politics and Public Policy in Scotland

Arthur Midwinter, Michael J. Keating, James Mitchell (1991)

Politics and Public Policy in Scotland is a major new introductory textbook written by leading authorities on the subject in a clear, accessible style. It contains substantial coverage of government,...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21187-6

Tourism and Public Policy

C. Michael Hall, John Michael Jenkins • Wiley eBooks (2004)

This chapter contains section titled: Politics, Public Policy, and Political Systems Studying Tourism Public Policy: A Context Where Are We Now?...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470752272.ch42

Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy

John Keown • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2002)

Whether the law should permit voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is one of the most vital questions facing all modern societies. Internationally, the main obstacle to legalisation has proved to be the objection that, even if...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511495335

Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments—From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation

Pierre Lascoumes, Patrick Le Galès • Governance (2007)

Public policy instrumentation and its choice of tools and modes of operation are treated either as a kind of evidence (governing means making regulations, taxing, entering into contracts, communicating, etc.) or as if the questions it raise...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2007.00342.x

Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy

Janine R. Wedel, Cris Shore, Gregory Feldman, Stacy Lathrop • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2005)

As the rational choice model of “policy” proliferates in “policy studies, ” the social sciences, modern governments, organizations, and everyday life, a number of anthropologists are beginning to develop a body of work in the anthropology o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716205276734

Economists and Public Policy

Ronald H. Coase • Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (1999)

The large enterprise that I will be examining is the study of economics, and the performance that I will be appraising is not that of corporations but of my colleagues in the economics profession. The particular aspect of their work that I ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14913-1_3

Paternalism and Public Policy

Bill New • Economics and Philosophy (1999)

Wherever a government or state is concerned with the welfare of its citizens, there will probably also exist policies which compel the individual citizen to undertake or abstain from activities which affect that citizen alone. The set of th...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s026626710000359x

Crime and Public Policy

James Q. Wilson (2002)

1. Introduction, James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia 2. Crime in International Perspective, James P. Lynch and William Alex Pridemore 3. Crime and Biology, Terrie E. Moffitt, Stephen Ross, and Adrian Raine 4. Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Jus...

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Public policy and program evaluation

• Choice Reviews Online (1998)

Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-2785

The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy

• Princeton University Press eBooks (2013)

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentenc...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400845347