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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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In this book David Carter explains how the USDA relies on a variety of intermediaries to regulate organic food in the U.S. Only by accounting for the contributions of such arbitrators, Carter demonstrates, can one understand and credibly assess policies governing the fastest growing agriculture sector in the country.

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An examination of the relationships between religion and domestic public policy in America. It explores the arguments of William Jennings Bryan, John Ryan, Reinhold Niebuhr, and those of the influential African American Protestant and Jewish leaders.

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In 1993, Congress created a student loan repayment plan intended to enable high-debt graduates to accept low-income, public service jobs by reducing their loan payments and eventually forgiving part of their debts.

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Ralf Emmers discusses the significance of natural resources as a source of inter-state cooperation and competition in East Asia, assessing whether the joint exploration and development of resources can act as a means to reduce tensions in contested territories.