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Everybody knows federal agencies are brain-dead leviathans. Everybody knows that the watchword of federal management is ""that's the way we've always done it.

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Balk proposes an applied theory of public agency democracy designed to liberate the potential of its highly trained experts.

The book begins by discussing professionals as power intermediaries and their necessary tensions with authority around matters of reform.

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Margaret Thatcher unalterably changed the face of Britain. The volume opens with a brief biography, which includes coverage of Thatcher's monetary and social market policies, her special relationship with Ronald Reagan, her foreign and domestic policies, and her attitudes toward women and equal opportunity issues.

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A study of Margaret Thatcher and her influence on British politics, this work interprets Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses as a political leader and analyzes the important trends in modern British politics. It has been written with the American reader in mind.

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An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.

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Cunningham shows how that influence contest was won by the civil rights groups, how their preferred interpretations of fair redistricting and discriminatory purpose were adopted by the Division, and how their chosen districting models were forced upon states by the Division.

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A new policy framework for regulation is needed to make the regulatory decision-making process more responsive to the requirements for economic growth and to the employment effects of regulation. Regulatory agencies need to use state-of-the-art analytical tools so that they can better determine the employment effects of their regulatory actions.

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Employs an imaginative format for explaining to busy policymakers and citizens how the economy works and what issues are likely to affect macroeconomic policy. The book is written as a series of memos to the president on the principles and policy issues that should be understood before making macroeconomic policy judgements.

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Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, organizations that fail to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with mental disabilities may be subject to penalties and punitive damages.

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The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon.

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Although there has been intense interest in racial minorities and public policy, most research has focused on the implementation of policies after legislative passage or on the consequent effects of those policies.

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Through extensive interviews with members of the policy community, the authors of this text reveal a pervasive belief that, in the wake of the Cold War, the public is showing a new isolation: opposition to foreign aid and hostility to the United Nations.

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This book examines the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in the citys governance regime. The citizen groups analyzed in this study have struggled to defend specific places of value to communities and, in the process, have built up civil society and advanced democratization.

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When the 2016 presidential election was over, Hillary Clinton wasn't the only American woman who lost. We all did. The Trumpian assault on our rights and opportunities seems overwhelming at times. But by arming ourselves with information and focusing on the battles we can and must wage, American women will win. Ms. Nice Guy Lost tells you how.

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The idea of public support for the arts is being challenged. Issues of cultural pluralism, the relations of art and culture, justice and affirmative action, and artistic value are presented as essential points of debate in making decisions concerning public support of the arts.

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This bibliography provides references to New England and New Englanders in US government publications issued from 1789 to 1849. It traces the origin of many of the social, fiscal, and foreign policies that were instrumental in the development of the country.

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An eye-opening look at the man whose notoriety over Watergate and whose accomplishments in foreign policy have made us foget that he was one of our most innovative modern presidents on matters of dome

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This book analyses Britains most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.

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Since the desegregation battles of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational opportunity in the United States has been framed around race. This book examines the consequences of efforts to use state constitutional provisions to reduce the 'resource segregation' of American schools and the politics of the opposition to these decisions.

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Taking advantage of an unusually wide open Presidential race, Opportunity 08 offers provocative and challenging recommendations on issues such as climate change, the budget deficit, energy security, health care, homeland security, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and dealing with China and Iran.