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How has public policy formulation changed and affected the design and delivery of government programs and services in Australia This book addresses this question, offering descriptive accounts of how public services programs are designed and implemented and how they might be better managed.

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These include the definition of concepts, the establishment of criteria for judging policy studies researh, and the clarification of policy goals. Designed to serve as a definitive analysis of policy studies, this volume covers basic concepts, research criteria, societal goals, and policy altenatives.

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Second, the volume proposes to evaluate the methods of policy evaluation themselves, and to assess the field as a whole.

Designed to serve as a definitive analysis of policy studies, this volume covers basic concepts, research criteria, societal goals, and policy alternatives.

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This book explores the Trump presidency as an expression of the decline of the pluralist model and the rise of mass society as a working conceptualization of contemporary American democracy. Professor Melone describes, explains, and evaluates the isolation, alienation, and polarization of a significant share of the American electorate.

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This book explores the Trump presidency as an expression of the decline of the pluralist model and the rise of mass society as a working conceptualization of contemporary American democracy. Professor Melone describes, explains, and evaluates the isolation, alienation, and polarization of a significant share of the American electorate.

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Going to the active core of the Nazi revolt, this exciting psychological, sociological, and behavioral study is based on unique autobiographical stones supplied by over 500 pre-1933 rank-and-file Nazis. Peter Merkl's findings form the basis for a richer understanding of the political motivation of all extremist movements. Originally published in 1

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Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States This title highlights two related elements: the power of ideas in policymaking and the politics of interest formation.

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This ground-breaking study is the first to systematically examine the politics and political culture of provincial Ireland. Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown and under-utilised contemporary material, David Fleming focuses on individuals in Sligo and Limerick who were determined to shape the political landscape. -- .

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The Great Society and the War on Poverty programs of the 1960s were undergirded by a broad consensus about the problems the US faced and how they could be solved. But by the early 70s both political and scholarly tides had shifted. In this book, Henry Aaron describes both the initial consensus and its subsequent decline.

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The last two decades have witnessed significant new developments in the field of population policy, particularly an increasing trend toward the establishment of national population planning efforts in the countries of the Third World.

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This collection provides an analytical approach that combines postcolonial thought and governmentality to understand power, identity, inequality and insecurity.

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This collection provides an analytical approach that combines postcolonial thought and governmentality to understand power, identity, inequality and insecurity.

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The number of people who live in poverty has always far exceeded the number who do not. Poverty, Justice, and Western Political Thought examines the main arguments of some of the most prominent Western political theorists about the causes, effects, and solutions to the problem of poverty.

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Hardy Wickwar takes a global look at public administration from the perspective of one whose lifetime has spanned most continents and most of a century.

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The framers of the U.S. Constitution divided the federal government's powers among three branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary. Their goal was to prevent tyranny by ensuring that none of the branches could govern alone.

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The tariff policies of the 1890-1922 led to the development of tariff rates that launched the United States on a path that led to later trade wars. This work traces the course of U.S. policy through five tariffs which preceded the Fordney-McCumber tariff of 1922, when the tariff was used for both protection and revenue.

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Preponderance in U.S. Foreign Policy examines the factors that contribute to the presence and severity of blunders in U.S. foreign policy, focusing primarily on ideational variables inherent in the American identity. It presents a theory for their recurrence in accordance with those variables and the pursuit of the grand strategy of preponderance.

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Did Ronald Reagan and his policies engineer the defeat of international communism, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the elimination of decades of nuclear confrontation

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The research concludes that in the post- modern presidency, we have lost the desire and power to keep presidents accountable for their actions.

After discussing the problem of presidential accountability in the opening chapter, the book turns to the checkered pasts of American presidents with respect to protecting civil liberties.