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Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society's major social, public health and political concerns-death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms.

Since the 1980s, the language used around market-based government has muddied its meaning and polarized its proponents and critics, making the topic politicized and controversial.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

In recent years, political discourse about gun control and the Second Amendment has become increasingly volatile and this collection of original essays by top scholars illuminates the various reasons why.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues.

A number of women's issues serve to create novel policy problems that require creative, and sometimes unique, regulatory and legal responses.

Have efforts to advance women's and men's commitments to democratic governance, women's rights and gender equality been successful in the Caribbean?

The Scottish Referendum in September 2014 had significant and far-reaching consequences for the political settlement of the United Kingdom.

Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions 'negative liberty' and individual happiness.

The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the decline of multiculturalism as a policy in Western countries with tighter national border controls and increasing anti-migration discourse.

This book offers the reader an incisive view into the political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe.

Using Toronto as a case study, Subdivided asks how cities would function if decision-makers genuinely accounted for race, ethnicity, and class when confronting issues such as housing, policing, labor markets, and public space.

Austerity as Public Mood explores how politicians and the media mobilise nostalgic and socially conservative ideas of work and community in order to justify cuts to public services and create divisions between the deserving and undeserving.

The digitally-enabled economy is unleashing a new wave of change, something we are only just beginning to feel and understand.

Containing more than 450 entries, this easy-to-read encyclopedia provides concise information about the history of and recent trends in drug use and drug abuse in the United States-a societal problem with an estimated cost of $559 billion a year.

The Scottish Referendum in September 2014 had significant and far-reaching consequences for the political settlement of the United Kingdom.

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues.

Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of the symbol and the staple food of the Mexican nation.

In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.

The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the decline of multiculturalism as a policy in Western countries with tighter national border controls and increasing anti-migration discourse.

This book offers the reader an incisive view into the political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe.

A number of women's issues serve to create novel policy problems that require creative, and sometimes unique, regulatory and legal responses.

Austerity as Public Mood explores how politicians and the media mobilise nostalgic and socially conservative ideas of work and community in order to justify cuts to public services and create divisions between the deserving and undeserving.

The ethics of climate governance is of critical importance to current debates in climate justice, yet until now it has been largely neglected.

Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions 'negative liberty' and individual happiness.

EU Cohesion policy, along with support for agriculture and rural development, is one of the main items of EU spending.

Have efforts to advance women's and men's commitments to democratic governance, women's rights and gender equality been successful in the Caribbean?

Using Toronto as a case study, Subdivided asks how cities would function if decision-makers genuinely accounted for race, ethnicity, and class when confronting issues such as housing, policing, labor markets, and public space.

This second edition is an update of the intersection of border security, immigration, and assimilation in the U.

Public schools have been placed in a straitjacket over the past 30 years through over-regulation as a result of the growing power of the federal government over public education, expanding court decisions, state government legislation, school board policies and procedures, and the media's influence on public opinion.

Can Schools Survive?

Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story.

The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, breathtaking changes in technology are posing stark challenges to our constitutional values.

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The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address.

Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States.

After preparing to lead a quiet life as a teacher and scholar of political theory, William Galston has spent the past quarter century crossing the boundaries between academia and public life, including a two-year stint as Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy under President Clinton.

The twentieth century witnessed the rise of the United States as the preeminent player on the world stage.

In contemporary media cultures, media are part of the most important sites where collectiverepresentations and narrations of a post-migrant civic culture are (re-)negotiated.

Museum planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg demonstrate how museums and cities are using their soft power to address some of the most important issues of our time.

In a world where the human experience is increasingly overshadowed by diversity and danger and which is currently confronting the twin challenges of a global recession and pandemic, this book provides an insight into the fundamental idea of public value which represents the 'humanisation' of public policy and practice.

How can we make sense of race in Europe?

This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and discourses.

What is it like to live a life that is impossible?

The relative effectiveness of various institutions, such as the market or government, is based on the ability for individuals to access and use dispersed knowledge in society and the incentives that steer their actions.