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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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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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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.

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Voters say they want to hear more from candidates about the critical issues facing the nation and less about partisan politics. Opportunity 08 answers the call with authoritative analysis and innovative policy solutions for the problems that matter most to the future of US society, prosperity, and the world.

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While much has been written about economic competition between the United States and Japan, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that their relationship is founded essentially on each sides' domestic political concerns.

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Explores the development of health insurance in the United States and Canada. This book shows that Canada's federal structure and its parliamentary institutions encouraged a social-democratic third party that became pivotal in demonstrating the feasibility of universal, public health insurance.

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Makes an important argument on the need to find improved methods of addressing the challenges facing contemporary democracies.

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Makes an important argument on the need to find improved methods of addressing the challenges facing contemporary democracies.

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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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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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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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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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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