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This book tracks Americans changing attitudes about smoking over the last century. It carefully examines how Americans came to understand the health risks of smoking, how the tobacco industry sought to reframe smoking, and how public support for tobacco control affected lawsuits, elections, and public policies.

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This contributors' volume examines the ways in which public opinion affects public policy via the news media.

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This contributors' volume examines the ways in which public opinion affects public policy via the news media.

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This book surveys the historical roots, theoretical foundations, and normative claims of 20th-century conceptualisations of public opinion.

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Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind provides an in-depth look at the history and future of polling, including how public opinion is measured, how it is used and misused, and how to critically evaluate public opinion data. This new edition incorporates a new theme of po...

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Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind provides an in-depth look at the history and future of polling, including how public opinion is measured, how it is used and misused, and how to critically evaluate public opinion data. This new edition incorporates a new theme of po...

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The book captures evidence of self-affirming political imagining in how the general public in the West and Russia understood the Arab Uprisings and makes an argument both about and beyond this particular case.

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Originally published by Winthrop Publishers, Inc. in 1974, this volume concentrates upon the role of major political institutions in policy-making: interest groups, political parties, the presidency, Congress, courts, and the bureaucracy, covering both the formal and the informal context within which these institutions operate.

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This book includes eight essays which help give the reader an understanding of the legal framework of American collective bargaining. It demonstrates how and why collective bargaining has become the basic and accepted procedure in the settlement of disputes between labor and management.

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There has been a trend among public policy analysts to disavow the value of Western political tradition for understanding contemporary social dilemmas. This collection of essays aims to demonstrate that the history of political philosophy actually increases awareness of the nature of such problems.

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Drawing upon experts in Asian economics, public management, law, and the physical and political sciences from leading universities around the world, the editors of this unusual volume examine the critical challenges now facing this important sector of the world: growth, income security, and fiscal reform;

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In this study, Chinese and Western specialists analyse the nature of public policymaking in China, specific measures and alternatives, and various methodological approaches. Topics include reform of the social security system, health care administration and environmental control.

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In a nation that lacks consensus on the very nature of the state, and where policy making is heavily controlled by partisan politics, improved policy implementation capabilities are crucial for the very survival of Israeli society. Public Policy in Israel presents a framework ...

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Sheds light on policymaking by private groups, which are unaccountable to the general public and often even to governments. This book brings to life the hidden world of policymaking by providing an overview of this phenomenon and in-depth case studies in the areas of finance, food safety and certain professions.

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Offers a comprehensive assessment of a wide range of public sector reform efforts in nine countries. This book examines both the good and the bad, looking not only at what each reform accomplished but at how it was implemented. The result is a series of useful lessons on how public sector reforms can be adopted in MENA.

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This book is a synthesis of real-world case studies and scholarship relating to public value and the development of a new paradigm for policy design and institutional structure.

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A philosophical exploration of such subjects as terrorism, just war and pacifism. It offers a philosophical reflection on the moral demands made upon us by war, providing an overview of the different ways of thinking about war. It examines the conflict between utilitarian and deontological points of view.

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A philosophical exploration of such subjects as terrorism, just war and pacifism. It offers a philosophical reflection on the moral demands made upon us by war, providing an overview of the different ways of thinking about war. It examines the conflict between utilitarian and deontological points of view.

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Jason Frank's Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political philosophers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publiu...

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This book presents a history of the organized labor movement in Puerto Rico from US colonial domination in 1898 to the Great Depression in the 1930s. Despite the early influence of revolutionary ideologies, the organized workers movement sought to create change through the organization of labor and participation in electoral politics.

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Against a historical backdrop whose origins go back to the US's acquisition of Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War, the author examines in close detail the evolution of the statehood movement in that territory.