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This new analysis of governing ideas in U.S. foreign policy shows how they arise, are sustained and challenged both domestically and internationally, and become part of the world order.

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This book analyzes the prison systems in the Americas in the twenty-first century. Leading experts discuss the state of the prison systems in their respective countries, focusing on trends of overcrowding, high recidivism rates, harsh drug laws, human rights, and the relationship between prisons, drug trafficking, and organized crime.

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This is an insightful overview of what is happening at the cutting edge of professional public policy analysis.

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In this book foreign policy experts analyze current U.S.security concerns and the adequacy (or inadequacy) of current policies designed to address them. The authors present both the big picture and the smaller components of the U.S. security policy that make up the whole.

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Insiders and frequent visitors evaluate the state of public administration today for scholars, students, and practitioners in public administration and political science.

This unique appraisal opens with a general discussion of public administration in China and the teaching of administrative science.

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Based upon a sampling of some 800 public agency heads, division and bureau chiefs in 10 states, this study explores the world of state public management.

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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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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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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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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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This book argues that it is in the best interests of Puerto Rico and the United States to set policies to move toward political independence for Puerto Rico. It explores, theoretically and empirically, aspects of trade, industry, and market-based environmental policies in the context of the USPuerto Rico relationship.

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This book helps modern institutions, particularly todays military service academies, to solve concrete problems on how to inculcate the pursuit of the honorable in 21st Century leaders and soldiers and to provide a methodology for instilling honor in character formation.

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Using illustrations from research on racial inequality in varied domains from public procurement and contracting to mortgage lending to child maltreatment to competitive swimming, Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality argues that race neutralitywhile desirable on its faceoften fails to do what it is intended to do.

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As Americans struggle with the dual problems of exploding health care costs and ensuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the center of the public policy debate. This volume examines a wide range of ethical, methodological, legal, and political issues that must be addressed by any serious program of health care reform.

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A cooperative effort by a number of historians and political scientists, this essay collection focuses on the important connection between domestic affairs and foreign relations during the Cold War.

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A cooperative effort by a number of historians and political scientists, this essay collection focuses on the important connection between domestic affairs and foreign relations during the Cold War.

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George Kennan and Hans Morgenthau argued that moralistic and legalistic beliefs bound Wilsonian internationalists to policies outside the national interest.

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In this book, Ed A. Hewett provides a detailed, scholarly guide that analyzes Soviet economic reforms.

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The literature on regional planning deals mainly with the economic development of depressed areas and urban planning. Regional Planning corrects this imbalance by providing a unique introduction to the study of region types and their use for planning and operational purposes.

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The literature on regional planning deals mainly with the economic development of depressed areas and urban planning. Regional Planning corrects this imbalance by providing a unique introduction to the study of region types and their use for planning and operational purposes.

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A look at baseball's interaction with the federal government.

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Draws together comparative policy analysis related to prominent womens issues in the UK, exploring their construction and management through the conceptual lenses of new institutionalism.