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| 1. |  | Title: Setting safety standards: regulation in the public and private sectors  Author: Cheit, Ross E Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy Publisher's Description: In this highly original and meticulously researched comparison of public and private standards-setting, Ross Cheit questions the old maxim that government-set safety standards are too severe while those set by the private sector are too lenient. Identifying the comparative institutional advantages o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: LifePlace: bioregional thought and practice Author: Thayer, Robert L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Conservation | Public Policy | California and the West | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. LifePlace is a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Burying uncertainty: risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | Ecology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing pro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Aging, death, and human longevity: a philosophical inquiry Author: Overall, Christine 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Public Policy Publisher's Description: With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the moral and political issues surrounding longevity have become more complex. Should we desire to live as long as possible? What are the social ramifications of longer lives? How does . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Reclaiming America: Nike, clean air, and the new national activism Author: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Have activists taken the bumper-sticker adage "Think Globally, Act Locally" too literally? Randy Shaw argues that they have, with destructive consequences for America. Since the 1970s, activist participation in national struggles has steadily given way to a nearly exclusive focus on local issues. Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law Publisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Starting at home: caring and social policy Author: Noddings, Nel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Anthropology | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Public Policy | Social Problems | Public Policy | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring--a way of life learned at home--can be extended into a theory that guides social policy. Tackling issues such as capital punishment, drug treatment, homelessness, mental illness, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Scarcity, choice, and public policy in middle Africa Author: Rothchild, Donald S Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Public Policy Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Public health law: power, duty, restraint Author: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Medicine | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Gostin's timely book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the government's inherent responsibility to advance the population's health and well-being, he develops a rich understanding of the government's fundamental powers . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment Author: Charlton, James I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Public Policy | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The quiet hand of God: faith-based activism and the public role of mainline Protestantism Author: Wuthnow, Robert Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Sociology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism - a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, att . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Experiencing politics: a legislator's stories of government and health care Author: McDonough, John E. (John Edward) Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Medicine Publisher's Description: John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough eloquen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: What price better health?: hazards of the research imperative Author: Callahan, Daniel 1930- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medicine | Philosophy | Public Policy Publisher's Description: The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes the ways in which such a seemingly high and humane ideal can be corrupted and distorted into a harmful practice. Medical . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Making environmental policy Author: Fiorino, Daniel J Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Public Policy | Ecology Publisher's Description: Who speaks for the trees, the water, the soil, and the air in American government today? Which agencies confront environmental problems, and how do they set priorities? How are the opposing claims of interest groups evaluated? Why do certain issues capture the public's attention?In Making Environmen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Outspoken: free speech stories Author: Levinson, Nan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Media Studies | Public Policy | Sociology | Law | Public Policy | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: With the government granting itself sweeping new surveillance powers, castigating its critics as unpatriotic, and equating differing opinions with abetting "America's enemies," free speech seems an early casualty of the war on terrorism. But as this book brilliantly demonstrates, to sacrifice our fr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs Author: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Public Policy | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: American medicine: the quest for competence Author: Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Medicine | Science | Medical Anthropology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care?These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book, the first to fu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Small property versus big government: social origins of the property tax revolt Author: Lo, Clarence Y. H Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Public Policy | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: Tax reformers, take note. Clarence Lo's investigation of California's Proposition 13 and other tax reduction bills is both a tribute and a warning to people who get "mad as hell" and try to do something about being pushed around by government. Homeowners in California, faced with impossible property . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge Author: Koplow, David A 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Public Policy | Disease Publisher's Description: Though smallpox was eradicated from the planet two decades ago, recent terrorist acts have raised the horrific possibility that rogue states, laboratories, or terrorist groups are in possession of secret stockpiles of the virus that causes the disease, and may be preparing to unleash it on target po . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Breaking through bureaucracy: a new vision for managing in government Author: Barzelay, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucratic paradigm - a theory built on such notion . . . [more] Similar Items |