Politics and Public Policy
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TRADE PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES
Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke, Richard E. Wagner
Trade Protection in the United States analyzes the history of US trade policy to explain why interest groups are able to foster protectionist policies despite the advantages which free trade offers consumers. The authors also explain why... -
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PARTY FORMATION IN EAST–CENTRAL EUROPE
Edited by Gordon Wightman
Party Formation in East–Central Europe is one of the first books to present detailed studies of politics in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria during the initial three years of post-communist rule.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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URBAN AND REGIONAL POLICY
Edited by Jon Pierre
This title provides the most important essays and papers on urban and regional policy, making it a convenient summary of the key theories, approaches and research results. The study of sub-national politics is no longer mainly concerned... -
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Policy Evaluation
Edited by Ray C. Rist
Policy Evaluation provides a systematic assessment of the impact that public policy evaluations have on the governance of democratic societies. This book emphasises the impacts of policy evaluations on the formulation, implementation an... -
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![THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY]()
THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn
The Historical Evolution of the International Political Economy focusses on the role of intersocietal and interstate relations in the evolution of human societies from hunter-gatherer bands to the contemporary global system. The essays ... -
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THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Edited by Stephan Haggard
The International Political Economy and the Developing Countries surveys the major post-war debates on the place of the Third World in the world economy. Beginning with the initial contributions to development economics by such pioneers... -
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COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Edited by Ronald Rogowski
Some of the most important scholarly work in comparative politics has dealt with the domestic political consequences of the increasingly important and volatile international political economy. In this important two volume set, Ronald Ro... -
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![THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRIVATIZATION AND DEREGULATION]()
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRIVATIZATION AND DEREGULATION
Edited by Elizabeth E. Bailey, Janet Rothenberg Pack
This collection of important previously published articles reflects the vigorous implementation of privatization in Europe and the deregulation in the United States over the last quarter century. The evolution of the movements is describ... -
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THE ECONOMICS OF AGEING
Edited by John Creedy
The fundamental role of individual ageing is something that everyone is necessarily aware of, and the division of the life cycle into a number of distinct stages has been recognised for many centuries. This volume collects 32 articles c... -
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THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RENT SEEKING
Edited by Robert D. Tollison, Roger D. Congleton
This collection brings together the classic papers on the economics of rent seeking. These papers date from Gordon Tullock’s original 1967 paper which first put forth the idea that the pursuit of transfers was socially costly. Other cl... -
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![THE LEGACY OF RONALD COASE IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS]()
THE LEGACY OF RONALD COASE IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Edited by Steven G. Medema
Ronald Coase, the 1991 Nobel laureate in Economics, has had a profound impact on the way that economists and others view both the firm and the relationship between the legal and economic systems. This authoritative collection brings to... -
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Autos, Smog and Pollution Control
Wyn P. Grant
Professor Grant uses an analytical framework drawn from the leading theories of public policy formation, such as policy communities, to address the issues raised by California’s policy making experience. This study shows how an ambitiou...
