Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Examines the significant gaps between what New York State’s constitution says and how the state is actually governed and offers ideas for reform.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.

Demonstrates how universities can use Big Data to enhance operations and management, improve the education pipeline, and educate the next generation of data scientists.

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.