Successful Public Policy : Lessons From Australia and New Zealand
Joannah Luetjens;Michael Mintrom;Paul 't Hart;Joannah Luetjens;Michael Mint...
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well...
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Successful Public Policy : Lessons From Australia and New Zealand
2019
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects , programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly'see'—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their achievements.Successful Public Policy : Lessons from Australia and New Zealand helps to turn that tide. It aims to reset the agenda for teaching, research and dialogue on public policy performance. This is done through a series of close-up, in-depth and carefully chosen case study accounts of the genesis and evolution of stand-out public policy achievements, across a range of sectors within Australia and New Zealand. Through these accounts, written by experts from both countries, we engage with the conceptual, methodological and theoretical challenges that have plagued extant research seeking to evaluate, explain and design successful public policy .Studies of public policy successes are rare—not just in Australia and New Zealand, but the world over. This book is embedded in a broader project exploring policy successes globally; its companion volume, Great Policy Successes (edited by Paul ‘t Hart and Mallory Compton), is published by Oxford University Press (2019).
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Politics, Policy and Public Administration in Theory and Practice
Michael de Percy;Andrew Podger;Sam Vincent;Michael de Percy;Andrew Podger;S...
This festschrift celebrates the extensive contribution John Wanna has made to the rese...
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Politics, Policy and Public Administration in Theory and Practice
2021
This festschrift celebrates the extensive contribution John Wanna has made to the research and practice of politics, policy and public administration.It includes both personal acknowledgements of his work and substantial essays on the issues that he focused most closely upon during his academic career: budgeting and financial management, politics, and public policy and administration.The essays address contemporary developments in public sector financial management in Australia and overseas, changing political processes in Queensland and the Commonwealth, and public governance and administration reform trajectories in Australia and internationally, including in China.A common theme is the importance of linking research to practice, reflecting John Wanna's own style and contribution. Essays include exploration of the interface between academia and practice, including from the perspective of practitioners.The authors of the essays in this volume include eminent Australian and international scholars of public administration, experienced public service practitioners and younger scholars influenced by John Wanna.
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Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa
Gedion Onyango;Gedion Onyango
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Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa
2022
This Handbook provides an authoritative and foundational disciplinary overview of African Public Policy and a comprehensive examination of the practicalities of policy analysis, policymaking processes, implementation, and administration in Africa today. The book assembles a multidisciplinary team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers and policy experts working inside and outside Africa to analyse the historical and emerging policy issues in 21st-century Africa. While mostly attentive to comparative public policy in Africa, this book attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions: How can public policy be understood and taught in Africa? How does policymaking occur in unstable political contexts, or in states under pressure? Has the democratisation of governing systems improved policy processes in Africa? How have recent transformations, such as technological proliferation in Africa, impacted public policy processes? What are the underlying challenges and potential policy paths for Africa going forward? The contributions examine an interplay of prevailing institutional, political, structural challenges and opportunities for policy effectiveness to discern striking commonalities and trajectories across different African states. This is a valuable resource for practitioners, politicians, researchers, university students, and academics interested in studying and understanding how African countries are governed.
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Having Too Much : Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism
Ingrid Robeyns;Ingrid Robeyns
Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that t...
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Having Too Much : Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism
2023
Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in economic and political thought. One can find similar statements of such limits in thinkers such as Plato, Aquinas, and Spinoza. But Having Too Much is the first time in contemporary political philosophy that limitarianism is explored at length and in detail. Bringing together in one place the best writing from key theorists of limitarianism, this book is an essential contribution to political philosophy in general, and theories of distributive justice in particular. Including some of the key published articles as well as new chapters, Having Too Much is necessary reading for scholars and students of political theory and philosophy, as well as anyone interested in questions of distributive justice .
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Wealth--Political aspects - Limitarianism (Philosophy) - Distributive justice - Wealth--PhilosophyContent provider:
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Putting Federalism in Its Place : The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited
Scott L. Greer;Daniel Béland;André Lecours;Kenneth A Dubin;Scott L. Greer;D...
What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates a...
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Putting Federalism in Its Place : The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited
2023
What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It has frustrated many, with federalism seeming to matter in all sorts of combinations with all sorts of issues, from nationalism to racism to intergovernmental competition. The diffuse federalism literature has not come to compelling answers for very basic questions. Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin argue for a new approach—one methodologically focused on configurations of variables within cases rather than a fruitless attempt to isolate “the” effect of federalism; and one that is substantively engaged with identifying key elements in configurations as well as with when and how their interactions matter. Born out of their work on a multi-year, eleven-country project (published as Federalism and Social Policy : Patterns of Redistribution in Eleven Countries, University of Michigan Press, 2019), this book comprises a methodological and substantive agenda. Methodologically, the authors shift to studies that embraced and understood the complexity within which federal political institutions operate. Substantively, they make an argument for the importance of plurinationalism, changing economic interests, and institutional legacies.
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Furthering Fair Housing : Prospects for Racial Justice in America's Neighborhoods
Justin P. Steil;Nicholas F. Kelly;Lawrence J. Vale;Maia S. Woluchem;Justin ...
The 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule was the most significant federal e...
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Furthering Fair Housing : Prospects for Racial Justice in America's Neighborhoods
2021
The 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule was the most significant federal effort to increase equality of access to place-based resources and opportunities, such as high-performing schools or access to jobs, since the 1968 Fair Housing Act. However, in an effort to appeal to suburban voters, the Trump administration repealed the rule in 2020, leaving its future in doubt. Furthering Fair Housing analyzes multiple dimensions of this rule, identifying failures of past efforts to increase housing choice, exploring how the AFFH Rule was crafted, measuring the initial effects of the rule before its rescission, and examining its interaction with other contemporary housing issues, such as affordability, gentrification, anti-displacement, and zoning policies . The editors and contributors to this volume—a mix of civil rights advocates, policymakers, and public officials—provide critical perspectives and identify promising new directions for future policies and practices. Placing the history of fair housing in the context of the centuries-long struggle for racial equity, Furthering Fair Housing shows how this policy can be revived and enhanced to advance racial equity in America's neighborhoods.
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Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific
Lia Kent;Joanne Wallis;Claire Cronin;Lia Kent;Joanne Wallis;Claire Cronin
Over the last two decades, civil society has helped catalyse responses to the legacies...
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Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific
2019
Over the last two decades, civil society has helped catalyse responses to the legacies of violent conflicts and oppressive political regimes in Asia and the Pacific. Civil society has advocated for the establishment of criminal trials and truth commissions, monitored their operations and pushed for take-up of their recommendations. It has also initiated community-based transitional justice responses. Yet, there has been little in-depth examination of the breadth and diversity of these roles. This book addresses this gap by analysing the heterogeneity of civil society transitional justice activity in Asia and the Pacific.Based upon empirically grounded case studies of Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Fiji, this book illustrates that civil society actors can have different – and sometimes competing – priorities, resources and approaches to transitional justice . Their work is also underpinned by diverse understandings of'justice '. By reflecting on the richness of this activity, this book advances contemporary debates about transitional justice and civil society. It will also be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners working on Asia and the Pacific.
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Charged : The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon;Emily Bazelon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the un...
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Charged : The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out.“An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy“This harrowing, often enraging book is a hopeful one, as well, profiling innovative new approaches and the frontline advocates who champion them.”—Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus ReviewsThe American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. That image of the law does not match the reality in the courtroom, however. Much of the time, it is prosecutors more than judges who control the outcome of a case, from choosing the charge to setting bail to determining the plea bargain. They often decide who goes free and who goes to prison, even who lives and who dies. In Charged, Emily Bazelon reveals how this kind of unchecked power is the underreported cause of enormous injustice—and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle.Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a twenty-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend's gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases—from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing—and, with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism, illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don't have to.Bazelon also details the second chances they prosecutors can extend, if they choose, to Kevin and Noura and so many others. She follows a wave of reform -minded D.A.s who have been elected in some of our biggest cities, as well as in rural areas in every region of the country, put in office to do nothing less than reinvent how their job is done. If they succeed, they can point the country toward a different and profoundly better future.
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Criminal justice, Administration of--Corrupt practices--United States - Imprisonment--United States - Prosecutorial misconduct--United States - Prosecution--United States--Decision making - Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States - Public prosecutors--United StatesContent provider:
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Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker;Danielle Endres;Tarla Rai Peterson;Stephanie L....
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Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy
2022
This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination of the research and practices that constitute the emerging research agenda in energy democracy.With protests over fossil fuels and controversies over nuclear and renewable energy technologies, democratic ideals have contributed to an emerging social movement. Energy democracy captures this movement and addresses the issues of energy access, ownership, and participation at a time when there are expanding social, political, environmental, and economic demands on energy systems. This volume defines energy democracy as both a social movement and an academic area of study and examines it through a social science and humanities lens, explaining key concepts and reflecting state-of-the-art research. The collection is comprised of six parts:1 Scalar Dimensions of Power and Governance in Energy Democracy2 Discourses of Energy Democracy3 Grassroots and Critical Modes of Action4 Democratic and Participatory Principles5 Energy Resource Tensions6 Energy Democracies in PracticeThe vision of this handbook is explicitly transdisciplinary and global, including contributions from interdisciplinary international scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy will be the premier source for all students and researchers interested in the field of energy, including policy , politics, transitions, access, justice , and public participation.
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Energy conservation--Social aspects - Energy security--Social aspects - Energy policy--Citizen participation - Energy development--Social aspects - Energy consumption--Social aspectsContent provider:
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Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare
Andrew Knight;Clive Phillips;Paula Sparks;Andrew Knight;Clive Phillips;Paul...
This handbook presents a much-needed and comprehensive exploration of the rapidly grow...
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Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare
2023
This handbook presents a much-needed and comprehensive exploration of the rapidly growing fields of animal welfare and law. In recent years there has been increasing attention paid to our complex, multifaceted relationships with other animals, and in particular, the depth and breadth of various societal uses of animals. This has led to a reconsideration of their moral and social status, which has sometimes challenged the interests of those who use animals. In such a contested domain, sound evidence and reasoning become particularly important. Through firm commitment to such principles, this book explores the biological foundations for the moral consideration of animals and for evolving conceptualisations of animal welfare. It reviews in detail the welfare concerns associated with numerous forms of animal use. The inclusion of key recent developments such as climate change, pandemics, and antimicrobial resistance, ensures this text is among the most current in its field. The ethical implications of the various uses of animals by society are considered, and chapters provide important recommendations for reforms of practice, law, or policy . The status of animal law internationally, and in major world regions, is reviewed. Finally, the book considers human behavioural change and strategies for improving stakeholder communication and education. The handbook is essential reading for students and scholars of animal welfare, animal law and animal ethics everywhere, and for policy -makers and other professionals working in the animal welfare sector.
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Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South : Challenges for Implementation
Kirk W. Junker;Paolo Davide Farah;Kirk W. Junker;Paolo Davide Farah
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Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South : Challenges for Implementation
2022
This volume examines the impact of globalization on international environmental law and the implementation of sustainable development in the Global South. Comprising contributions from lawyers from the Global South or who have experience in the Global South, this volume is organized into three parts, with a thematic inquiry woven through every chapter to ask how law can enable economies that can be sustained, given the limited carrying capacity of the earth. Part I describes and characterizes the status quo of environmental and economic problems in the Global South during the process of globalization. Some of those problems include redistribution of environmental burden on the public through over-reliance on the state in emerging economies and the transition to public -private partnerships, as well as extreme uncontrolled economic expansion. Building on Part I, Part II takes an international perspective by presenting some tools that are in place during the process of globalization that lead to friction and interfaces between developed and developing economies in environmental law. Recognizing the impossibility of a globalized Northern economy, the authors in Part III present some alternatives through framework ideas of human and civil rights, environmental rights, and indigenous persons'rights, as well as concrete and specific legal tools to strengthen justice and rule of law institutions. The book gives new perspectives to familiar approaches through concrete examples by professional practitioners and theoretical discourse by academic researchers, and can thereby form the basis for changes in practices, as well as further discussions and comparisons. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law, sustainable development, and globalization and international relations, as well as legal professionals and practitioners.
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Sustainable development--Developing countries - Globalization--Economic aspects--Developing countries - Environmental law, InternationalContent provider:
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JANUS AND THE MOVEMENT DISSENT.
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Boston College Law Review. Feb2024, Vol. 65 Issue 2, p371-441. 71p.
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JANUS AND THE MOVEMENT DISSENT.
Public approval of the United States Supreme Court has fallen to record lows, driven by Americans who object to the Roberts Court's conservative jurisprudence. This Article explores how incisive, bold, and creative dissents aimed at social mobilization can bolster ordinary citizens who feel estranged from this Court. Using intellectual history tools, the Article shows that Justice Kagan's 2018 dissent in Janus v. AFSCME created a dialogic relationship between the Supreme Court and labor activists and liberal academics. The dissent amplified rhetoric pioneered by union leaders and scholars, disseminating it to a mass audience. After Janus, the labor movement and its allies deployed the dissent in political organizing, litigation, and storytelling. Overall, the dissent became a mobilizing force that channeled constitutional alienation into constitutional construction. The Article also contextualizes the Janus dissent among other demosprudential dissents, with a focus on those of Justices Scalia, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor. The Article challenges the juricentric and prospective lens that scholars use to evaluate Supreme Court dissents. The Janus dissent embodies a genre of dissent aimed at movements and contemporary constitutional meaning making, not just influencing future courts. The Article also defends movement dissenting against institutionalist critiques. By refusing to accept the finality of the Court's decisions, demosprudential dissents create discursive space for popular resistance and reimagination that allows disempowered citizens to feel constitutional ownership. Movement dissents can moderate and channel anger at constitutional decisions, repairing faith in the process of constitutional explication in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Boston College Law Review. Feb2024, Vol. 65 Issue 2, p371-441. 71p.
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State Fragility : Case Studies and Comparisons
Nematullah Bizhan;Nematullah Bizhan
Presenting case studies and comparisons across seven countries, this book addresses ke...
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State Fragility : Case Studies and Comparisons
2023
Presenting case studies and comparisons across seven countries, this book addresses key questions as to the nature of state fragility, policies used to mitigate it, assessment of outcomes and prospects. It offers a novel empirical contribution in examining a range of distinct but interdependent dimensions of state fragility, not only focusing on questions of state legitimacy, capacity and authority, but also involving the economy and resilience to political and economic shocks, as well as at vital questions of context and diversity. Examining Afghanistan, Lebanon, Burundi, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Papua New Guinea and Rwanda within the context of their different local circumstances, and within broader questions of global security, the book identifies unique factors that have played a part in their specific context and explores key drivers and dominant features. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of state fragility and more broadly to students of politics, public policy , development studies, state-society relations, political economy, state building, peace and conflict studies, international studies, security studies regional studies., as well as NGOs and international organizations.
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Come Hell or High Fever : Readying the World's Megacities for Disaster
Russell W Glenn;Russell W Glenn
'Nations appear and fall, but cities endure and rediscover how to succeed. In this met...
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Come Hell or High Fever : Readying the World's Megacities for Disaster
2023
'Nations appear and fall, but cities endure and rediscover how to succeed. In this meticulously defined and researched book, Glenn presents ideas for minimising suffering during urban catastrophes. His urgency identifies risks held in urban areas by 3.5 billion people. These people are many of us: as urban populations occupying 3 per cent of our planet's land area, drawing water from 41 per cent of the world's ground surface, consuming 60 to 80 per cent of global energy and achieving 80 per cent of the world's economic productivity. For Glenn, our resilience—through diversity in preparation, survival and recovery—includes comprehensive approaches that are sustained in duration, orchestrated in bringing all necessary capabilities to bear, layered in approach and early in application.'—Major General Chris Field, Australian Army‘The time to prepare for the inevitable is now. Dr Glenn has written a book that should be read by all leaders, planners and responders who may be called upon in an urban disaster, whether natural or man-made. Military leaders should give it particular attention, as the human race is increasingly concentrated in its cities. Understanding how to wage war in dense urban terrain is essential, especially if a nation also seeks to hold the moral high ground. The fruits of any victory won among people that fails to consider the lessons in Come Hell or High Fever are likely to be very bitter.'—Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland, United States Army (retired)
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Chains
Linda Jaivin;Esther Sunkyung Klein;Annie Luman Ren;Linda Jaivin;Esther Sunk...
Speaking to the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in Octobe...
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Chains
2023; Vol. 02022
Speaking to the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in October 2022, President Xi Jinping reiterated his commitment to the'opening up'policy of his predecessors — a policy that has burnished the party's political legitimacy among its citizens by enabling four decades of economic development. Yet, for all the talk of openness, 2022 was a year of both literal and symbolic locks and chains — including, of course, the long, coercive, and often brutally enforced lockdowns of neighbourhoods and cities across China, most prominently Shanghai. Then there was a vlogger's accidental discovery of the ‘woman in chains', sparking an anguished, nationwide conversation about human trafficking. That was part of a broader (if frequently censored) conversation about gendered violence and women's rights, in a year when women's representation at the highest levels of power, which was already minimal, decreased even further. There was trouble with supply chains and, with the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, in August, island chains as well. Despite the tensions in the Asia-Pacific, the People's Republic of China expanded its diplomatic initiatives among Pacific island nations and celebrated fifty years of diplomatic links with both Japan and Australia. As the year drew to a close, a tragic fire in a locked-down apartment building in Ürümqi triggered a series of popular protests that brought an end to three years of ‘zero COVID'. The China Story Yearbook: Chains provides informed perspectives on these and other important stories from 2022.
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Migrant Ecologies : Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
James Beattie;Ryan Tucker Jones;Edward Dallam Melillo;James Beattie;Ryan Tu...
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume ex...
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Migrant Ecologies : Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
2023
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth's largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astounding long-distance migrations over time, and their profound influences on other parts of the world. This book creates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific. It effectively argues for the existence of an interconnected Pacific World environmental history, as well as for the Pacific Ocean as a necessary framework for understanding that history.The fifteen chapters in this comprehensive collection, written by leading experts from across the globe, span a vast array of topics, from disease ecology and coffee cultivation to nuclear testing and whaling practices. They explore regions stretching from the Tuamotu Archipelago in the south Pacific to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far north, resisting the depiction of the Pacific as isolated and uninhabited. What unites these diverse contributions is a concern for how the people, places, and non-human beings of the Pacific World have been shaped by, and have in turn modified, their oceanic realm. Building on a recent renaissance in Pacific history, these chapters make a powerful argument for the importance of the Pacific World as a coherent unit of analysis and a valuable lens through which to examine past, ongoing, and emerging environmental issues. By showcasing surprising and innovative perspectives on the environmental histories of the peoples and ecosystems in and around the Pacific Ocean, this work adds to current conversations and debates about the Pacific World and offers myriad opportunities for further discussions, both inside and outside of the classroom.
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Outlawing Corporate Prosecution Deals When People Have Died.
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Arizona State Law Journal. Winter2023, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p1351-1394. 44p.
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Outlawing Corporate Prosecution Deals When People Have Died.
Arizona State Law Journal. Winter2023, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p1351-1394. 44p.
Two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft crashes, occurring less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019, resulted in 346 deaths —possibly the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history. The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) used an alternative dispute resolution tool called a deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) to resolve criminal charges against Boeing and to immunize the company’s senior-level managers from prosecution. In the end, the company admitted to engaging in the criminal behavior, paid a monetary fine, and agreed to cooperate fully with the government—meaning there would be no courtroom trial, no formal adjudication of guilt, and no possibility of jail time or other serious punishment for wrongdoers. DOJ also decided it would not appoint an independent monitor to ensure Boeing’s compliance with terms of the DPA agreement. These results are profoundly unjust. In response, the United States Congress should immediately outlaw the use of DPAs in addressing federal allegations of corporate misconduct when the wrongdoing leads to one or more human fatalities. To date, Congress has failed to draw any boundaries limiting DOJ’s use of DPAs as a tool in resolving allegations of corporate malfeasance. This Article argues that banning DPAs when there is loss of human life is a legal and moral imperative—a line both reasonable and necessary for Congress to draw, even if legislators wish to continue exploring additional ways of reforming the DPA legal landscape. The Article concludes by proposing specific legislation drawing the boundary needed to address the current problem, and by engaging in a thought exercise, hypothesizing and analyzing how the Boeing case might have turned out if the legislative proposal had been enacted into law before the disastrous airplane crashes occurred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Powers of the Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation : A Comparative Perspective
Karolina Kremens;Karolina Kremens
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Powers of the Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation : A Comparative Perspective
2021; Vol. 00004
This comparative analysis examines the scope of prosecutorial powers at different phases of criminal investigation in four countries: the United States, Italy, Poland, and Germany. Since in all four the number of criminal cases decided without trial is constantly increasing, criminal investigation has become central in the criminal process. The work asks: who should be in charge of this stage of the process? Prosecutors have gained tremendous powers to influence the outcome of the criminal cases, including powers once reserved for judges. In a system in which the role of the trial is diminishing and the significance of criminal investigation is growing, this book questions whether the prosecutor's powers at the early stage of the process should be enhanced. Using a problem-oriented approach, the book provides a parallel analysis of each country along five possible spheres of prosecutorial engagement: commencing criminal investigation; conducting criminal investigation, undertaking initial charging decisions; imposing coercive measures; and discontinuing criminal investigation. Using the competing adversarial–inquisitorial models as a framework, the focus is on the prosecutor as a crucial figure in the criminal process and investigation. The insights of this book will be of interest and relevance to students and academics in criminal justice , criminology, law, and public policy , as well as policymakers, government officials, and others interested in legal reform .
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Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Beth Schaefer Caniglia;Andrew Jorgenson;Stephanie A. Malin;Lori Peek;David ...
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to p...
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Handbook of Environmental Sociology
2021
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating this moment of great environmental inequality and uncertainty. The handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars who have helped redefine the scope of environmental sociology and expand its reach and impact. Their contributions speak to key themes of the subdiscipline—inequality, justice , population, social movements, and health. Chapter topics include environmental demography, food systems, animals and the environment, climate change, disasters, and much more. The emphasis on public environmental sociology and the forward-thinking approach of this collection is what sets this volume apart. This handbook can serve as an introduction for students new to environmental sociology or as an insightful treatment that current experts can use to further their own research and publication. It will leave readers with a strong understanding of environmental sociology and the motivation to apply it to their work.
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Dying of Whiteness : How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Jonathan M. Metzl;Jonathan M. Metzl
A physician's'provocative'(Boston Globe) and'timely'(Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Bo...
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Dying of Whiteness : How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
2019
A physician's'provocative'(Boston Globe) and'timely'(Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help. In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as physician Jonathan M. Metzl shows in Dying of Whiteness, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death . Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, Metzl examines how racial resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. He shows these policies 'costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates. Now updated with a new afterword, Dying of Whiteness demonstrates how much white America would benefit by emphasizing cooperation rather than chasing false promises of supremacy.Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
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The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling
Max Gallien;Florian Weigand;Max Gallien;Florian Weigand
The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary...
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The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling
2022
The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends. Divided into six parts and spanning over 30 chapters, the volume covers themes such as mobility, borders, violent conflict, and state politics, as well as looks at the smuggling of specific goods – from rice and gasoline to wildlife, weapons, and cocaine. Chapters engage with some of the most contentious academic and policy debates of the twenty-first century, including the historical creation of borders, re-bordering, the criminalisation of migration, and the politics of selective toleration of smuggling. As it maps a field that contains unique methodological, ethical, and risk-related challenges, the book takes stock not only of the state of our shared knowledge, but also reflects on how this has been produced, pointing to blind spots and providing an informed vision of the future of the field. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from around the world, The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of conflict studies, borderland studies, criminology, political science, global development, anthropology, sociology, and geography.
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Borderlands--Case studies - Smuggling--Case studies - Emigration and immigration--Case studies - Violence--Case studiesContent provider:
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Jonathan Boston;Andrew Bradstock;David Eng;Jonathan Boston;Andrew Bradstock...
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and...
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2010
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined, framed and analysed, but also influences which ethical principles and values are taken into account and their weighting. As a result, ethics can have a profound impact, both on the character of the policy process and the choices made by decision makers.Public Policy – Why Ethics Matters brings together original contributions from leading scholars and practitioners with expertise in various academic disciplines, including economics, philosophy, physics, political science, public policy and theology. The volume addresses three main issues: fist, the ethical considerations that should inform the conduct of public officials and the task of policy analysis; second, the ethics of climate change; and third, ethics and economic policy . While the contributors have varying views on these important issues, they share a common conviction that the ethical dimensions of public policy need to be better understood and given proper attention in the policy -making process.
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Social values--Congresses - Social values - Political ethics--Congresses - Ethics--Australia--Congresses - Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses - Ethics--Australia - Decision making--Moral and ethical aspectsContent provider:
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Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability : A Course in Systems Change
Laura Musikanski;Rhonda Phillips;James Bradbury;John de Graaf;Clinton L. Bl...
Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change is the first text...
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Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability : A Course in Systems Change
2021
Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change is the first textbook bridging the gap between personal happiness and sustainable social change. The book provides a guide for students to increase their skills, literacy and knowledge about connections between a sense of well-being and systems change. Further, it can help students live a life that brings them happiness and contributes to the well-being of others and the sustainability of our planet. The book is presented in seven chapters covering the subjects of systems thinking, personal and societal values, measuring happiness, human needs, ecological sustainability and public policy . In addition, each section includes engaging exercises to empower students to develop their own ideas, prompts for group discussion, suggestions for additional research and an extensive list of resources and references. The book is written in the context of systems thinking with a style that is approachable and accessible. Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability provides essential reading for students in courses on happiness, social change and sustainability studies, and provides a comprehensive framework for instructors looking to initiate courses in this field. A website to support the professors teaching the book is available at: https://www.happycounts.org/coursebook.html The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.”
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Sustainable development--Social aspects - Happiness--Social aspects - Social change - Well-being - Human comfortContent provider:
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The Three Ages of Government : From the Person, to the Group, to the World
Jos C.N. Raadschelders;Jos C.N. Raadschelders
It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) hav...
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The Three Ages of Government : From the Person, to the Group, to the World
2020
It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) have become citizens rather than subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 and 1820, a result of the foundations of democracy laid in the age of revolutions. A century later local governments embraced this shift due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. During the twentieth century, all democratic governments began to perform a range of tasks, functions, and services that had no historical precedent. In the thirty years following the Second World War, Western democracies created welfare states that, for the first time in history, significantly reduced the gap between the wealthy and everyone else. Many of the reforms of that postwar period have been since rolled back because of the belief that government should be more like a business. Jos C.N. Raadschelders provides the information that all citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without it. The Three Ages of Government rises above stereotypical thinking to show the centrality of government in human life.
