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With contributions from nearly 80 international experts, this comprehensive resource covers diverse issues, aspects, and features of public administration and policy around the world.

Why national and international equality matter and what we can do to ensure a fairer worldIn The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the exponentially increasing inequality within countries.

In his thousand-day presidency, John F.

Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support.

Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support.

How is it that, half a century after Brown v.

How is it that, half a century after Brown v.

Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies.

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Affirmative action strikes at the heart of deeply held beliefs about employment and education, about the concepts of justice and fairness, and about the troubled history of race relations in America.

In his thousand-day presidency, John F.

Since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic, the virus has caused more than 1 million deaths in the United States and 7 million deaths worldwide.

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe.

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe.

This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'.

This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'.

Although over 100 countries have developed data privacy laws, there is a lack of expert guidance on these laws.

Although over 100 countries have developed data privacy laws, there is a lack of expert guidance on these laws.

The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners presents a unique sociological analysis of the daily negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison.

The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners presents a unique sociological analysis of the daily negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison.

Why federalism is pulling America apart-and how the system can be reformedFederalism was James Madison's great invention.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right at the heart of any democratic society.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right at the heart of any democratic society.

How much 'say' should employees have in the running of business organizations, and what form should the 'voice' take?

This book addresses one of the enduring questions of democratic government: why do governments choose some public policies but not others?

Environmental challenges, and the potential solutions to address them, have a direct effect on living standards, the organization of economies, major infrastructures, and modes of urbanization.

24 hours to save the NHS.

24 hours to save the NHS.

Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in others have been little studied.

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

Is strategy a coherent plan conceived at the top by a visionary leader, or is it formed by a series of individual commitments, not always reflecting what top management has in mind?

This book offers a theory of democratic justice.

While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations.

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This book presents a fascinating analysis of expertise and policy formation, based on an in-depth study of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

The Defamation Act constitutes a significant overhaul of UK defamation legislation, which follows years of concern about the detrimental effects that preceeding libel laws had on freedom of expression, and the extent to which the jurisdiction had become a magnet for libel claimants.

In May 2010, Labour suffered one of its worst ever election defeats.

In May 2010, Labour suffered one of its worst ever election defeats.

The Defamation Act constitutes a significant overhaul of UK defamation legislation, which follows years of concern about the detrimental effects that preceeding libel laws had on freedom of expression, and the extent to which the jurisdiction had become a magnet for libel claimants.

Based on a detailed analysis of archives and high level interviews this book looks at the role of beliefs, culture and identity in the making of British nuclear policy from 1945 through to the present day.

A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead.

A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead.

Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe.

Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe.

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades.

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades.

Psychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II.