Public Policy

Comparative Science and Technology Policy

Edited by Sheila Jasanoff

Science and technology policy is widely recognized as a critically important sphere of state activity. This book presents an authoritative overview of comparative research on science and technology policy in order to illuminate the choi...

Hardback (1997)

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Law and Economics

Edited by Richard A. Posner, Francesco Parisi

This collection presents an authoritative selection of the most important articles in law and economics literature, written by distinguished scholars such as Ronald Coase, Robert Cooter, Henry Manne, Steven Shavell and Oliver Williamson....

Hardback (1997)

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EQUIPPING SCIENCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Edited by John Irvine, Ben Martin, Dorothy Griffiths, Roel Gathier

This major book presents not only a unique vision of the likely requirements for investment in research equipment during the coming decade but also valuable information on needs and priorities in a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging f...

Hardback (August 1997)

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The Social Challenge of Job Creation

Edited by Jordi Gual

The Social Challenge of Job Creation brings together a distinguished group of economists and sociologists to provide a broad, accessible and multidisciplinary assessment of job creation in Europe.

Hardback (November 1996)

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Budgeting and the Management of Public Spending

Edited by Donald J. Savoie

This authoritative new volume contains a selection of the most important articles and papers spanning over 20 years on budgeting and managing public spending. It is divided into five succinct parts, covering the main areas of the field ...

Hardback (1996)

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Public Policy

Wayne Parsons

Public Policy provides a lively, clear and highly accessible introduction to the theory and practice of public policy. Interdisciplinary and comparative in scope, this text covers agenda setting, and problem definition, policy making, im...

Paperback (March 1996)

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Bureaucracy in the Modern State

Edited by Jon Pierre

Public administration is under increasing pressure to become more efficient, better geared to the demands and opinions of citizens, more open to contacts with transnational bureaucracies, and more responsive to the ideas of elected polic...

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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 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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