Central / national / federal government policies

Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans.

Urban sprawl is omnipresent in America and has left many citizens questioning their ability to stop it.

Although water is nature's most important molecule; its regulation and management are among the most challenging public policy issues for any society.

Debt crises have placed strains not only on the European Union's nascent federal system but also on the federal system in the United States.

America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform.

Housing desegregation is one of Americas last civil rights frontiers.

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What if the most influential institution in modern America isn't the school or the church, the corporation or the ballot box—but the prison?

Sustainable Visions: An Architect's Critique of Modern MauritiusBy Rambassun (Sandeep) SewpalIn this compelling and timely collection, acclaimed Mauritian architect Rambassun Sewpal offers a bold, critical examination of an island nation at a crossroads.

What if elections are not enough?

The Right to Live: Housing, Human Survival, and the National Demand for Repair examines housing as a condition of human survival, not merely a market product.

Retirement Planning for the 21st Century: A Practical Guide to Financial Security, Tax Savings, and Lifetime IncomeRetirement today is more complex than ever.

This book is the first to draw together the various strands of Irish national security policy and practice in a single chronological study, from independence in 1922 right up to the present day.

THE AGE THAT SAW ITSELF: Truth Standing at the Center of Human CivilizationHumanity has entered a remarkable moment in history.

The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era.

When Work Isn't Enough: The Collapse of the American Dream shatters the illusion that hard work alone can secure a stable life in today's economy.

What does a nation built on bondage do with the memory of bondage?

When America Thrives… The World Thrives Through Stability, Security, and Shared Prosperity is not a book about politics as much as it is a book about responsibility, stewardship, and the importance of strong foundations.

Following the agreement made by Prime Minister David Cameron with the EU on 18-19 February 2016, the day for the referendum for the UK to remain in or leave the EU is set for 23 June 2016.

Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy explores the intersection of public policy, human rights, and sexuality as they relate to inclusion and exclusion across diverse cultural settings.

After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period.

After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period.

Do you know what to do when a housing association ignores your repairs request?

Sovereignty 2035: The India Equation is a landmark strategic blueprint for a nation standing at its most consequential crossroads since independence.

The triumphant New York Times bestseller!

What is the outlook for educational reform in the United States?

Discourse of Reciprocity reveals patterns of press behavior in the US-Canada alliance at points where the nature of the alliance itself was under stress.

Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century.

What is the outlook for educational reform in the United States?

The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s.

A Brookings Institution Press and Russell Sage Foundation publicationEducation is one of the largest sectors of the U.

Few issues in tax policy are as divisive as the capital gains tax.

The complexity of governments today makes the accountability desired by citizens difficult to achieve.

'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday TimesA powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.

Professional Risk and Working with People provides advice on assessing and managing risks for all those employed to take risks with or on behalf of other people.

Progressive politics finds itself in an incredibly testing era.

Progressive politics finds itself in an incredibly testing era.

The 2011 Arab uprisings are integrated into the movement to create a regional economic community for a potential twenty-eight nations, with nearly 500 million citizens.

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022: Politics * Winner of the 2024 Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan InstituteHailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2022, The Myth of American Inequality demonstrates that the federal government egregiously overstates the degree of inequality and poverty in the world's wealthiest nation.

Decisively cutting through the hyperbole on both sides of the debate, distinguished NASA climatologist Claire L.

In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to military service and employment discrimination.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Government: Programmes and Policies imparts authoritative information on about fifty departmental policies and their future developmental programmes.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Government: Programmes and Policies imparts authoritative information on about fifty departmental policies and their future developmental programmes.

The inside story of the drug cartels on our public landsand the game wardens taking them on.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAs seen on This MorningBack in the day, I was Governor of Security and Operations for HMP Wormwood Scrubs.

How elected officials, think tanks, and interest groups form partisan policy networks to advance their agendasPartisan Policy Networks explores how policy research in the United States became deeply intertwined with partisan politics in today's polarized era.

Historians have often speculated on the alternative paths the United Stages might have taken during the Great Depression: What if Franklin D.

Much has been written about the history of Communism in America, including the Party's appeal to many in the Hollywood community of the 1930s and 40s.

Historians have often speculated on the alternative paths the United Stages might have taken during the Great Depression: What if Franklin D.

Voices from the Inside takes readers into the cells of a maximum security prison to reveal the personal accounts of over sixty women that are incarcerated for drug crimes.