This book explains how and why large oil-producing corporations have affected government institutions, energy policy, and politics in the United States-and suggests how their influence can be reduced.
The United States-one of the world's wealthiest and resource-richest nations-has multiple food-related problems: declining food quality due to industrialization of its production, obesity across all age groups, and a surprisingly large number of households suffering from food insecurity.
Offering a competitive strategy to defeat authoritarians' all-domain warfare, this book suggests a new combined effects and influence framework for democracies to employ before deterrence fails.
Examining actual policy to identify the facts, this book exposes how racially charged political and legal debates over immigration reform in the United States continue to inform our immigration policy.
This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.
With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the "e;American Dream,"e; this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both higher education-and our democracy.
This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.
Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United States-the most affluent country in the world-this book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.
The five hundredth anniversary of Columbuss first transatlantic voyage has provoked an outpouring of scholarship on how European exploration and colonization affected America.
Coinciding with a wave of drug policy liberalization around the world, this book analyzes the experiences of Argentina, Portugal, and Uruguay in their efforts at depenalization, decriminalization, and legalization/regulation of recreational drugs.
Coinciding with a wave of drug policy liberalization around the world, this book analyzes the experiences of Argentina, Portugal, and Uruguay in their efforts at depenalization, decriminalization, and legalization/regulation of recreational drugs.
Policymaking is of its very nature a people-centered business-a good reason why highly effective policy analysts display not only superb technical expertise but excellent people skills as well.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their transition to the White House in the most unusual of circumstances: a global pandemic, a sitting president violently refusing to accept the results of the election, and a historic racial reckoning all posed profound questions about how they would staff large parts of the government and articulate policy remedies to pressing problems in just eleven weeks.
A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationAs we approach the 30th anniversary of Earth Day (the first of its kind was April 1970), congressional debate about environmental protection often remains paralyzed and polarized.
The Climate Majority is the first book to investigate climate apathy, to describe how it prevents action to stop climate change and to show how it can be beaten with an approach developed for political campaigns.
Do no harm is Alex Schmidt's mantra throughout Deliberate Interventiona book that delves into how policy and design can work together to prevent harms in technology.
It is hoped that readers of this synthesis report will find it useful as a quick and easily digestible summary of some of the key developments in West Africa that had a direct bearing on governance in the sub-region during 2006.
In seiner ethnologischen Studie zu Roma-/Zigeunereliten bricht Tobias Marx mit der herkömmlichen Perspektive auf Roma und Zigeuner in den Ländern des Balkanraums.
Knapp zehn Jahre nach den Hartz-IV-Reformen stellt sich mehr denn je die Frage, mit welchen Regierungsweisen die neue Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik im städtischen Sozialraum gegenüber den Bewohnerinnen und Bewohnern durchgesetzt wird.
Übungsfall zur privaten Unfallversicherung Günstige Urlaubsreise Sascha Sorglos hat in den Nachrichten schon mehrere Berichte über Unruhen in einem nichteuropäischen Mittelmeeranrainerstaat verfolgt.
Although there are many publications about energy efficiency policies and renewable energy policies, most of them are specific to some countries or regions.
OECD's 1964 Economic Survey of Japan examines the structure of the economy, post-war economic growth, business cycle policies and instruments, and foreign trade and the balance of payments and presents a series of conclusions.
OECD's 1988 Economic Survey of Finland examines current economic trends and policies, industrial adjustment, and medium-term policy issues before drawing a series of conclusions.
L'edition 1962 de l'Etude economique consacree a la Grece examine quelques donnees sur l'economie hellenique, la croissance de l'economie hellenique de 1954-55 a 1959-60, l'economie grecque en 1961, les perspectives et les problemes de l'economie grecque.
L'edition 1966 de l'Etude economique consacree a la Grece examine l'evolution de l'economie en 1964 et 1965, les perspectives pour 1966 et les problemes immediats de la politique economique ; et les problemes de la politique de developpement.
