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69 produkter
City Limits
Häftad, 1981
364 kr
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Winner of the 1981 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs. "City Limits radically reinterprets urban politics by deriving its dominant forces from the logic of the American federal structure. It is thereby …
CME Group Risk Management Handbook
Products and Applications
Av CME Group, John W. Labuszewski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
719 kr
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Invaluable insights on trading today's futures marketThe CME Risk Management Handbook provides an accessible overview of the futures market in today's electronic world of trading. Page by page, it outlines the various CME products currently available and explains how those products can be used to …
CME Group Risk Management Handbook
Products and Applications
Av Leo Melamed, Paul E. Peterson m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
944 kr
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Invaluable insights on trading today''s futures market The CME Risk Management Handbook provides an accessible overview of the futures market in today''s electronic world of trading. Page by page, it outlines the various CME products currently available and explains how those products can be used …
CME Group Risk Management Handbook
Products and Applications
Av Leo Melamed, Paul E. Peterson m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
944 kr
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Invaluable insights on trading today''s futures market The CME Risk Management Handbook provides an accessible overview of the futures market in today''s electronic world of trading. Page by page, it outlines the various CME products currently available and explains how those products can be used …
Saving Schools
From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become …
Classifying by Race
Häftad, 2014
1275 kr
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The contemporary debate over racial classification has been dominated by fringe voices in American society. Cries from the right say history should be abrogated and public policy made color-blind, while zealots of the left insist that all customs, language, institutions, and practices are racially …
Classifying by Race
Inbunden, 2016
3066 kr
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The contemporary debate over racial classification has been dominated by fringe voices in American society. Cries from the right say history should be abrogated and public policy made color-blind, while zealots of the left insist that all customs, language, institutions, and practices are racially …
Choice and Competition in American Education
Inbunden, 2005
1173 kr
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Local school boards have traditionally assigned the school that a child is to attend. Only by selecting their neighborhoods have parents exercised their choice of school. In recent years, this tradition has slowly given way to magnet schools, inter-district choice programs, charter schools, voucher …
Choice and Competition in American Education
Häftad, 2005
542 kr
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Local school boards have traditionally assigned the school that a child is to attend. Only by selecting their neighborhoods have parents exercised their choice of school. In recent years, this tradition has slowly given way to magnet schools, inter-district choice programs, charter schools, voucher …
Coming Class War and How to Avoid it
Rebuilding the American Middle Class
Av Paul E Peterson, Christoph Strobel
Inbunden, 1998
2510 kr
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A clear, accessible analysis of the worsening distribution of income and wealth in America.
Social Security Primer
What Every Citizen Should Know
Inbunden, 1999
2195 kr
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Offers a clear understanding of what Social Security has accomplished in the past, challenges it now faces, and possibilities for the future. Outlines the full spectrum of current issues, policies, benefits, and proposed reforms.
Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest
Av Michael P. McCauley, B. Lee Artz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
2585 kr
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As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis …
Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest
Av Michael P. McCauley, B. Lee Artz m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
876 kr
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As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis …
Business Ethics
New Challenges for Business Schools and Corporate Leaders
Av Paul E Peterson, O.C. Ferrell
Inbunden, 2004
3154 kr
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The many recent high profile corporate scandals highlight the need for companies to do a better job of integrating ethics and responsibility into business decisions - and for business schools to integrate ethics awareness and training into their curricula. This volume sets the agenda for business …
Endangering Prosperity
A Global View of the American School
Av Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
309 kr
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The relative deficiencies of U.S. public schools are a serious concern to parents and policymakers. But they should be of concern to all Americans, as a globalizing world introduces new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity. In Endangering Prosperity, a trio of experts on …
Global Debt Crisis
Haunting U.S. and European Federalism
Av Paul E. Peterson, Daniel Nadler
Häftad, 2014
472 kr
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Debt crises have placed strains not only on the European Union's nascent federal system but also on the federal system in the United States. Old confrontations over fiscal responsibility are being renewed, often in a more virulent form, in places as far flung as Detroit, Michigan, and Valencia, …
Can the Government Govern?
Av John E. Chubb, Paul E. Peterson
E-bok, 2010
312 kr
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Effective government requires that institutions be strong enough to control the efforts of organized, entrenched special interests in favor of the broader interests shared but poorly articulated by most members of society. Recent changes in our institutions and in the problems they face raise …
Earning and Learning
How Schools Matter
Av Susan E. Mayer, Paul E. Peterson
E-bok, 2010
318 kr
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A Brookings Institution Press and Russell Sage Foundation publication Education is one of the largest sectors of the U.S. economy--yet scholars, educators, policymakers, and parents do not agree about what the money spent on education really buys. In particular, they do not agree on how much …
New Direction in American Politics
Av John E. Chubb, Paul E. Peterson
Häftad, 1985
285 kr
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Topics include:Part One: Voters and ElectionsThe New Two-Party SystemThe Economic Basis of Reagan's AppealIncumbency and Realignment in Congressional ElectionsCampaigning, Governing, and the Contemporary PresidencyThe Republican Advantage in Campaign FinanceThe Rise of National PartiesPart Two: …
Can the Government Govern?
Av John E. Chubb, Paul E. Peterson
Häftad, 1989
289 kr
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Effective government requires that institutions be strong enough to control the efforts of organized, entrenched special interests in favor of the broader interests shared but poorly articulated by most members of society. Recent changes in our institutions and in the problems they face raise …
New Direction in American Politics
Av John E. Chubb, Paul E. Peterson
E-bok, 2010
305 kr
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Topics include: Part One: Voters and Elections The New Two-Party System The Economic Basis of Reagan's Appeal Incumbency and Realignment in Congressional Elections Campaigning, Governing, and the Contemporary Presidency The Republican Advantage in Campaign Finance The Rise of National Parties Part …
Welfare Magnets
A New Case for a National Standard
Av Paul E. Peterson, Mark C. Rom
E-bok, 2010
265 kr
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""The best way of handling the question of how much to give the poor, politicians have discovered, is to avoid doing anything about it at all,"" note Paul Peterson and Mark Rom. The issue of the minimum people need in order to live decently is so difficult that Congress has left this crucial …
When Federalism Works
Av Paul E. Peterson, Barry G. Rabe m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
302 kr
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Twenty years ago cooperative federalism, in the form of federal grant-in-aid programs administered by state and local governments, was applauded almost without reservation as the best means of helping the handicapped, the educationally disadvantaged, the poor, and other groups with special needs. …
Endangering Prosperity
A Global View of the American School
Av Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
326 kr
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The relative deficiencies of U.S. public schools are a serious concern to parents and policymakers. But they should be of concern to all Americans, as a globalizing world introduces new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity. In Endangering Prosperity , a trio of experts on …
New Urban Reality
E-bok, 2001
305 kr
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America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades. How much of this change is due to technological advances in transportation, communication, and manufacturing? How much of it is due …
Urban Underclass
Av Christopher Jencks, Paul E. Peterson
E-bok, 2001
332 kr
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Many believe that the urban underclass in America is a large, rapidly increasing proportion of the population; that crime, teenage pregnancy, and high school dropout rates are escalating; and that welfare rolls are exploding. Yet none of these perceptions is accurate. Here, noted authorities, …
Global Debt Crisis
Haunting U.S. and European Federalism
Av Paul E. Peterson, Daniel Nadler
E-bok, 2014
499 kr
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Debt crises have placed strains not only on the European Union's nascent federal system but also on the federal system in the United States. Old confrontations over fiscal responsibility are being renewed, often in a more virulent form, in places as far flung as Detroit, Michigan, and Valencia, …
Teachers versus the Public
What Americans Think about Schools and How to Fix Them
Av Paul E. Peterson, Michael Henderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
363 kr
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A comprehensive exploration of 21st Century school politics, Teachers versus the Public offers the first comparison of the education policy views of both teachers and the public as a whole, and reveals a deep, broad divide between the opinions held by citizens and those who teach in the public …
Teachers versus the Public
What Americans Think About Schools and How to Fix Them
Av Paul E. Peterson, Michael Henderson m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
394 kr
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A comprehensive exploration of 21st Century school politics, Teachers versus the Public offers the first comparison of the education policy views of both teachers and the public as a whole, and reveals a deep, broad divide between the opinions held by citizens and those who teach in the public …
Education Gap
Vouchers and Urban Schools
Av William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson
Häftad, 2006
295 kr
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The voucher debate has been both intense and ideologically polarizing, in good part because so little is known about how voucher programs operate in practice. In The Education Gap, William Howell and Paul Peterson report new findings drawn from the most comprehensive study on vouchers conducted to …
