Issues in Policy History – serie
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Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective
Häftad, 1996
462 kr
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While there is extensive literature on the social history, politics, and legal aspects of birth control and abortion in the United States, the history of family planning as a policy remains to be fully recorded. This volume is intended to contribute to this history by examining birth control and …
Health Care Policy in Contemporary America
Av Alan I. Marcus, Hamilton Cravens
Häftad, 1997
543 kr
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Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II. They live longer and grow taller; they have the safest and cheapest food supply on the planet; they have seen virtually all childhood diseases brought under control. Yet concerns about health remain …
Loss of Confidence
Politics and Policy in the 1970s
Häftad, 1998
462 kr
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As the oil shortages, inflation, and unemployment of the 1970s disrupted American lives and the Watergate scandal rocked the presidency, faith in the future of the nation and its leaders was severely damaged. This volume, which is the product of a unique collaboration of distinguished scholars from …
Money and Politics
Av Paula Baker
Häftad, 2002
601 kr
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That large financial contributions distort American politics and American democracy is an idea that stands as a truism in political debate. It has fired reform movements; it has inspired round after round of efforts to limit who can give to candidates and parties, how much they can give, and how …
Future of the Democratic Left in Industrial Democracies
Häftad, 2003
454 kr
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This volume offers a comparative analysis of the challenges facing center-left parties in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, the European Union, Poland, and Russia. Among the questions addressed are: -If the traditional social bases of left parties are now too limited for winning …
Civil Rights in the United States
Av Hugh Graham
Häftad, 1994
543 kr
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Thirty years ago, in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr., appealed to the American people to support a "constructive nonviolent" struggle to create a racially integrated society. Although legal segregation has been outlawed, America today seems in many ways even more …
Drug Control Policy
Essays in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 1992
527 kr
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A detailed look at drug control policy as it has been shaped historically in the United States and other countries, most notably in China and East Asia.Drug policy has emphasized suppressing drugs at their source by curtailing their distribution, but few policy makers have considered legalization …
Integrating the Sixties
The Origins, Structures, and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade
Av Brian Balogh
Häftad, 1996
527 kr
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Each essay in this volume sheds light on an important aspect of the decade—actually a decade and half—known as the Sixties. The Sixties are famous for the diverse social movements that threatened the essence of American public policy and mainstream society and changed those very entities in …
Refugees and the Asylum Dilemma in the West
Av Gil Loescher
Häftad, 1992
485 kr
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This study presents an examination of the historical background and contemporary significance of the asylum and refugee issue confronting Western governments that draws lessons for future policy-making.This is the first study of the asylum-refugee problems to examine not only the history of …
Urban Public Policy
Historical Modes and Methods
Häftad, 1993
406 kr
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The 1992 Los Angeles riots catapulted the problems of the city back onto the policy agenda. The cauldron of social problems of the city, as the riots showed, offers no simple solutions. Indeed, urban policy includes a range of policy issues involving welfare, housing, job training, education, drug …
New Perspectives on Public Health Policy
Av James Mohr
Häftad, 2008
337 kr
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The makers of public health policy face enormous challenges in the twenty-first century. In the past, their field has been imprecisely defined, deeply conflicted, poorly organized, and constantly changing. Lines of responsibility within the field are blurred at best, and groups with similar goals …
Ruling Passions
Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2006
486 kr
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In recent years, the Journal of Policy History has emerged as a major venue for scholarship on American policy history in the period after 1900. Indeed, it is for this reason that it is often praised as the leading outlet for scholarship on American political history in the world. Only …
Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History
Av Julian E. Zelizer, Bruce J. Schulman
Häftad, 2008
527 kr
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Despite its crucial importance in U.S. history, the study of the constitutional system fell out of favor with many historians and history departments for several decades during the latter half of the twentieth century. The dawn of the twenty-first century, however, has borne witness to a new …
