The first comprehensive study of village government formation and dissolution in New York State.

This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change.

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.

Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.

Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.

Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.

A veteran environmental lobbyist reveals the behind-the-scenes struggles to address threats to the future of New York's Adirondack Park.

Demonstrates how residents can play a leading role in the positive transformation of their communities in the face of economic and population decline.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.

Draws on the author's own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.

An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation.

Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.

Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia’s search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.

Assesses the place of non-military national service in Israeli politics and society.

Argues for refocusing attention on publicness and the critical exploration of underlying assumptions that are foundational to the study and practice of public affairs.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.

Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.

Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.

The first history of the US Travel Bureau, which set the precedent for federal involvement in promoting tourism and travel, an activity which continues today.

Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.

Expert advice on how any citizen can fight government fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption.

Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo.

A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

Illuminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.

Introduction to American politics and government, intended for students of political science. Provides a critical examination of both political institutions and political behavior.

Examines the many issues raised by TIF, the most widely used tool of local economic and community development.

Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.

Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

Analyzes long-term interest group/party alliances, with a focus on the part played by federal advisory committees.

Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.

Tells the story of a tragic Supreme Court decision involving child abuse and what might be done to rectify it.

Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.

Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues in the context of competing claims about media bias.

Reveals how policymaking traditions prior to democratization continue to resonate within current South Korean public policy advocacy practices.

Responds to the demanding political and ethical challenges faced by the international disaster management community.

Offers a more democratic way to think about families, politics, and public life.

Examines city politics and policy, federalism, and democracy in the United States.

Combining expert knowledge and first-hand experience, a noted elder care researcher confronts the long-distance care of her own mother.

Examines the role of politics in the environmental policy making process.

Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era.

Presents evidence that the expansion of welfare privatization makes it harder for people to move out of poverty in large numbers.

Uncovers clues regarding the inner life of Machiavelli's political leaders.

The history of John Dewey's leadership of the progressive People's Lobby.

Detailed examination of the territorial and governance dimensions of contemporary welfare reforms in the United States and Europe.

Examines how public officials in the US, China, Japan, and Indonesia have interacted with communities affected by natural disasters.

Explores the evolution of Atlanta's water system and charts the poor urban planning decisions that created the city's current water shortage.

Practitioner-oriented sampling of the major tools used to deal with current public-sector fiscal issues.

A multidisciplinary and accessible introduction to humanity’s favorite structure: the bridge.

Revised and updated edition that analyses how the Office of National Drug Control Policy employs statistics to misleadingly claim the War on Drugs is a success.

A comprehensive examination of the relationship between higher education, state government, and economic development.

Comprehensive treatment of the challenges faced by America’s public research universities, and of what those challenges may mean for the nation.

An examination of the ethical issues surrounding tax cheating and implications for public policy.

A comprehensive history of U.S. housing policy that illuminates the political struggles that have accompanied the nation’s effort to assist those citizens who are in desperate need of decent, affordable housing.

Insider Richard Kirsch offers a vivid, first-person account of how health care reform came to be.

A fresh perspective on American water pollution policy

Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field

Examines the combat experience of Israel’s ground forces in the Al-Aqsa Intifada in order to offer a set of innovative concepts for understanding irregular warfare.

New perspective on state-level housing policy, how its role has grown in relation to the federal role.

Holistic, comparative analysis of multiple budget systems and contexts.

A comprehensive examination of multiple dimensions of terrorism

Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.

Detailed study of how real education reform works.

Study of Thomas Jefferson’s legacy in public administration.

Examines major challenges to the Fist Amendment and focuses on the extremely important paradigm shift of freedom of expression in the post-9/11 era.

Studies the Federal Home Loan Bank System, how it has changed over time and why

Examines the dynamics of Atlanta’s transportation crisis.

Examines competing claims and beliefs about the American legal system in the area of tax policy and tax enforcement.

Collection of quotations and judicial opinions of federal appellate judge Richard A. Posner

Examines recent trends in state-funded preschool education.

Examines how federal and state governments have assumed ever-greater control over the education process since the 1960s.

Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.

A new and original way of looking at the challenge presented by environmental issues.

Examines the policy stances of two major Hispanic interest groups.

Explores how policy actors in the United States and Russia have developed flexible incentive-based instruments for environmental protection.

Explores how the entry of migrant workers into Israel raises questions beyond just those of the labor market.

Makes the surprising claim that identity politics can facilitate rather than undermine worker solidarity.

Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.

Provides a clear assessment of all sides of the school choice debate.

Reveals the powerful influence of financial elites on New York City’s mayors.

Examines the impact of business improvement districts on the quality of contemporary civic life.

Applies the concept of personal and political autonomy to children and children’s development.

Evaluates the impact of equity investments in five cities during the 1990s.

Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.

Blends memoir and scholarship to provide a moving and sometimes unsettling look at how academic discourse affects the cultural values and identities that students bring into the writing classroom.

Presents an original and provocative argument about poverty policy in the United States.

Examines restrictions and potentialities for public access to science and technology decision making.

Discusses welfare reform in Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

This study of presidential administrations from Nixon through Clinton discusses how and why the White House has become the dominant player in the domestic policy process, relegating the departments to implementation, rather than design, of key initiatives.

Too often attacked as hopelessly abstract, contemporary critical social theory can help us to understand both public policy and its analysis. In this book, John Forester shows how policy analysis, planning, ...

This book addresses the problem of religion, ethics, and public policy in a global technological civilization. It attempts to do what narrative ethicists have said cannot be done—to construct a cross-cultural ...

This book examines both the politics and products of the public investment process in one of America's largest cities. It broadens the scope of contemporary debates on the political economy of urban development ...

This book explores the philosophical background of questions on environmental justice. It focuses on theories of distributive justice, primarily those which concern the manner in which benefits and burdens ...

In the past thirty years, the giving and receiving of grants has grown from a small, loosely organized club involving a few elite institutions and a few million dollars to a massive system accounting ...

Contracting out for services has become a popular technique in government's perennial quest to cut spending. Yet seldom has the practice been examined from any but the public choice approach. This book ...

In many American cities, middle and upper income people are moving into neighborhoods that had previously suffered disinvestment and decay. The new residents renovate housing, stimulate business, and ...