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During the past two decades public policy analysis has focused on the role of implementation as a distinct phenomenon in the creation of policy output.

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This book looks at the likely effects of this substantial transfer of powers to the Community brought about by the Amsterdam Treaty.

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In the 1980s, China established its first systems of environmental management collectively known as the three magic weapons: environmental impact assessment, pollutant discharge fees, and the three synchronizations.

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A discussion of issues affecting families, communities, and governments as they seek to secure "the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and social development" as stipulated by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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This unique work brings together a comparative analysis of American institutions, a tour of the world's political systems, and a manifesto for reform, offering insights on democracy that could revitalize U.S. politics and government.

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This book compares the approaches of various courts to the questions of free speech, which lie at the heart of much debate in constitutional law.

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Davide Panagias Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.

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In Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic, Philip C. Aka and Joseph Abiodun Balogun explore measures for improving the capacity of the Nigerian national government to implement regional and global treaties and laws related to disability that are human rights...

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The Clinton administration's National Performance Review of the federal government (also called the Reinventing Government Initiative) is the eleventh effort this century to improve the executive branch and reform the federal service.

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The first comprehensive statistical analysis of human rights attainments and improvements over time, this book seeks to answer the question, Why do some countries better observe human rights than others, and what can be done to advance the cause of human rights around the world

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The book examines HBCUs and their role in higher education through several lenses, including politics, education policy, leadership practice, culture, and social justice. It will guide HBCU leaders and administrators to improve their institutions holistically during the age of accountability.

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Rozell finds that much of the blame goes to highly negative press coverage of the Congress, and government in general, and that while Congress has always been a favorite target of critics and comedians, healthy skepticism has now largely been replaced by a debilitating cynicism that undermines the foundations of representative government.

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By using qualitative research from a number of related projects, the book examines the roles, functions and responsibilities of councillors and the expectations placed upon them by citizens, communities and government. -- .

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By using qualitative research from a number of related projects, the book examines the roles, functions and responsibilities of councillors and the expectations placed upon them by citizens, communities and government. -- .

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Can the Supreme Court be free of politics Do we want it to be Normative constitutional theory has long concerned itself with the legitimate scope and limits of judicial review. Theorists seek to resolve that issue by eliminating politics from constitutional decisionmaking. Terri Peretti argues for an openly political role for the Supreme Court.

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When is a political trial good or bad in terms of responsible governance and fairness to individuals or groups Professors Abel and Marsh define, evaluate, and justify the usefulness of various kinds of political trials, going back through history to answer these questions in practical terms.

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Based on the five-year U.S. Army study of the effect of Communist indoctrination on those held prisoners of war in Korea. Includes reports on the collaboration of prisoners with the enemy.

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In this era and every other, people yearn for a moral political leader, someone who could rise above the fray and deliver real results to their citizens or rescue them from calamity. This book investigates the lessons of these types of high-level leaders, as well as others who fall short, to deliver insights as to biblically based models examples of leadership.

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This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of humanity through the history of political philosophy.