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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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California Policy Choices
Author: Implications and Policy Options of California's Reliance on Natural Gas
Author: Mark A. BernsteinPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 9780833032171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Assesses the benefits, risks, and implications of the increased use of natural gas to meet California's growing energy needs. The authors address supply-side solutions, such as building more capacity to receive and store gas, and demand-side solutions, such as energy efficiency and diversifying the portfolio of electricity generation with renewables and distributed generation.
Policy Options Concerning California Public Debt
Author: John J. Kirlin and AssociatesPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Foreign Policy Choices for the Seventies and Eighties
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Politics, Markets, and Congressional Policy Choices
Author: Peter M. VanDorenPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472102389
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Explores Congress's role in affecting market performance
Expert Advice for Policy Choice
Author: Duncan MacRaeJr.Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589013179
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Economic reasoning has thus far dominated the field of public policy analysis. This new introduction to the field posits that policy analysis should have both a broader interdisciplinary base—including criteria from such fields as political science, sociology, law, and philosophy, as well as economics—and also a broader audience in order to foster democratic debate. To achieve these goals, MacRae and Whittington have organized their textbook around the construction of decision matrices using multiple criteria, exploring the uses of the decision matrix formulation more fully than other texts. They describe how to set up the matrix, fill in cells and combine criteria, and use it as an aid for decision making. They show how ethical assessment of the affects that alternatives have on various parties differs from political analysis, and then they extend the use of the decision matrix to consider alternatives by affected parties, periods of time, or combined factors. The authors also thoughtfully address the role of expert advice in the policy process, widening the scope of the field to describe a complex system for the creation and use of knowledge in a democracy. An extended case study of HIV/AIDS policy follows each chapter (in installments), immediately illustrating the application of the material. The book also contains a glossary. Expert Advice for Policy Choice provides a new basis for graduate education in public policy analysis and can also serve as a text in planning, evaluation research, or public administration. In addition, it will be of interest to students and professionals wishing to aid policy choice who work in such fields as sociology, political science, psychology, public health, and social work.
The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice
Author: John Martin GillroyPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 082297150X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Combining philosophy with practical politics, an expanding area of policy studies applies moral precepts, critical principles, and conventional values to collective decisions. This evolving new approach to policy analysis asserts that the same variety of ethical principles available to the individual are also available to make collective decisions in the public interest and should be used.Although policy analysis has long been dominated by assumptions originally developed for the examination of markets, such as efficiency, these essays by leading scholars - the best work done in the field over the past three decades - explore alternatives to the "market paradigm" and show how moral discrimination and choice can extend beyond the individual to encompass public decisions.Chapters by John Martin Gillroy and Maurice Wade review the political philosophies of Immanuel Kant and David Hume as backgrounds for the development of modern concepts of public policy choice. They present this anthology as a first step in codifying options, arguments, and methods within this important developing area of policy studies.
Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice
Author: James C. ClingermayerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791490947
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Institutional arrangements constitute the "rules of the game" for any civil and political society. To understand urban politics and policy making, including issues dealing with economic development, zoning, constituency representation, government borrowing, and service contract decisions, discovering institutional regularities is key. To achieve this the authors combine older institutional approaches emphasizing formal structure and governance organizations with newer approaches and transaction cost theory. Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice contends that institutional arrangements both shape and are shaped by human behavior, and when combined with contextual factors and the uncertainty associated with leadership turnover provide the basis of understanding how decisions are made at the level of local government.
Conflicting Goals and Policy Choices
Author: Choice of Law
Author: Symeon SymeonidesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019049672X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
Choice of Law provides an in-depth sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part Conflicts Law (or Private International Law) in torts, products liability, contracts, forum-selection and arbitration clauses, insurance, statutes of limitation, domestic relations, property, marital property, and successions. It also covers the constitutional framework and conflicts between federal law and foreign law. The book explains the doctrinal and methodological foundations of choice of law and then focuses on its actual practice, examining not only what courts say but also what they do. It identifies the emerging decisional patterns and extracts predictions about likely outcomes.