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Author: Leslie A. Pal ,
R. Kent Weaver ,
Leslie A. Pal ,
Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Imprint: Georgetown University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.839kg
ISBN: 9780878409013
ISBN 10: 0878409017
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 April 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
''A fine collection that deserves wide attention. The theoretical framework is systematic and thorough, the selection of policy fields is unusually logical, and the case studies are all both rich in substance and tightly focused on the common unifying questions about loss imposition and policy formation more generally.''
A remarkable volume... First, the contributions contained within it are uniformly admirable as scholarship without being cursed with the obscurantist and obsequious lingo that too often renders such tomes either impenetrable or unappealing to the attentive and intelligent public. Second, they provide genuinely informative and compelling explanations of why public policy works (or doesn't work) the way it does. Finally, by giving sufficient detail about selected policy areas to make them intelligible, and then by adding informed reflections and cogent conclusions, they provide citizens, public officials and politicians with the intellectual tools necessary to comprehend problems that may be only apparently insoluble. -- The Innovation Journal
A remarkable volume... First, the contributions contained within it are uniformly admirable as scholarship without being cursed with the obscurantist and obsequious lingo that too often renders such tomes either impenetrable or unappealing to the attentive and intelligent public. Second, they provide genuinely informative and compelling explanations of why public policy works (or doesn't work) the way it does. Finally, by giving sufficient detail about selected policy areas to make them intelligible, and then by adding informed reflections and cogent conclusions, they provide citizens, public officials and politicians with the intellectual tools necessary to comprehend problems that may be only apparently insoluble. -- The Innovation Journal
Author Information
Leslie A. Pal is professor and director, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. R. Kent Weaver is professor of public policy and government at Georgetown University; senior fellow in Governmental Studies at The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; and the coeditor of Do Institutions Matter?
