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Competitive Interests does more than simply challenge the long-held belief that a small set of interests control large domains of the public policy making landscape.

This book presents the first large-scale study of lobbying strategies and outcomes in the United States and the European Union, two of the most powerful political systems in the world.

In our increasingly globalized world, U.

Local governments do not stand alone-they find themselves in new relationships not only with state and federal government, but often with a widening spectrum of other public and private organizations as well.

The increasing reliance on private security services raises questions about the effects of privatization on the quality of public police forces, particularly in high-crime, low-income areas.

Contract management is a critical skill for all contemporary public managers.

In this new edition of Beyond Machiavelli, Beryl Radin updates her popular overview of the field of policy analysis.

Little work has been done to systematically analyze how high-profile incidents of child neglect and abuse shape child welfare policymaking in the United States.

Although a frequently discussed reform, campaigns to merge a major municipality and county to form a unified government fail to win voter approval eighty per cent of the time.

Disputes over hazardous waste sites usually are resolved by giving greater weight to expert opinion over public "e;not-in-my-back-yard"e; reactions.

Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care.

Out and Running is the first systematic analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political representation that explores the dynamics of state legislative campaigns and the influence of lesbian and gay legislators in the state policymaking process.

After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance.

Created in 1974, the U.

Synthesizing theory, personal research, and prior studies on interest groups and other lobbies, William P.

Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska.

This book explores how policy ideas are spread-or diffused-in an age in which policymaking has become increasingly complex and specialized.

Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive (but not universal) health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010.

For generations, debating the expansion or contraction of the American welfare state has produced some of the nation's most heated legislative battles.

Powerful personal accounts from migrants crossing the US-Mexico border provide an understanding of their experiences, as well as the consequences of public policy

Migrants, refugees, and deportees live through harrowing situations, yet their personal stories are often ignored.

An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster

Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the COVID-19 disaster.

Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions over the internet or social media.

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex.

Should the United States ask its military to guarantee the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf?

Lobbyists in Washington aren't a new phenomenon.

The underappreciated but surprisingly successful implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped rescue the economy during the Great Recession and represented one of the most important achievements of the Obama presidency.

The Trump administration's war on asylum and what Congress and the Biden administration can do about it

Donald Trump's 2016 campaign centered around immigration issues such as his promise to build a border wall separating the US and Mexico.

Stories of government management failures often make the headlines, but quietly much gets done as well.

Cultural factions are an intrinsic part of the fabric of American politics.

While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another.

In this new volume, two distinguished professors of social work debate the question of whether family preservation or adoption serves the best interests of abused and neglected children.

Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and private sectors.

Taking the Initiative shows that majority party leaders in Congress have set and successfully pushed their own policy agendas for decades-revealing the 'Contract With America' as only the most recent, and certainly not the most successful, example of independent policy making.

Metropolitan Governance is the first book to bring together competing perspectives on the question and consequences of centralized vs.

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Honest, objective, and informed political debates are all too rare in today's polarized and partisan climate.

Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order.

While the president is the commander in chief, the US Congress plays a critical and underappreciated role in civil-military relations-the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian leadership that commands it.

How are refugee crises solved?