Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: Combative Politics
Author: Mary Layton AtkinsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022644192X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
From the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American public so often reject policies that seem to offer them exactly what they want? By the time a bill is pushed through Congress or ultimately defeated, we’ve often been exposed to weeks, months—even years—of media coverage that underscores the unpopular process of policymaking, and Mary Layton Atkinson argues that this leads us to reject the bill itself. Contrary to many Americans’ understandings of the policymaking process, the best answer to a complex problem is rarely self-evident, and politicians must weigh many potential options, each with merits and drawbacks. As the public awaits a resolution, the news media tend to focus not on the substance of the debate but on descriptions of partisan combat. This coverage leads the public to believe everyone in Washington has lost sight of the problem altogether and is merely pursuing policies designed for individual political gain. Politicians in turn exacerbate the problem when they focus their objections to proposed policies on the lawmaking process, claiming, for example, that a bill is being pushed through Congress with maneuvers designed to limit minority party input. These negative portrayals become linked in many people’s minds with the policy itself, leading to backlash against bills that may otherwise be seen as widely beneficial. Atkinson argues that journalists and educators can make changes to help inoculate Americans against the idea that debate always signifies dysfunction in the government. Journalists should strive to better connect information about policy provisions to the problems they are designed to ameliorate. Educators should stress that although debate sometimes serves political interests, it also offers citizens a window onto the lawmaking process that can help them evaluate the work their government is doing.
National Painters Magazine
Author: Digest of Insurance Cases
Author: Policy Unplugged
Author: Jennifer JensonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560424
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The authors conducted a two-year study on the implementation of computer technologies, including in-depth interviews and classroom observation at thirty-two elementary and secondary schools across Canada. Based on this research, Policy Unplugged explores the intersections and disconnections between provincial technology policy, school board policy, and school-based practices. The authors consider the ways in which technology policy has become "unplugged" from daily experience, showing that teachers, students, and administrators are part of complex pedagogical and social systems that have been badly served by the enforced and hasty introduction of technology. They also show how small, often unquestioned practices and power relations in schools can create seemingly insurmountable impediments to technological implementation.
Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change
Author: Elizabeth Tobin-TylerPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 1284281329
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Building and expanding upon the prior edition of Essentials of Health Justice, the new second edition of this unparalleled text explores the historical, structural, and legal underpinnings of racial, ethnic, gender-based, and ableist inequities in health, and provides a framework for students to consider how and why health inequity is tied to the ways that laws are structured and enforced. Additionally, it offers analysis of potential solutions and posits how law may be used as a tool to remedy health injustice. Written for a wide, interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars in public health, medicine, and law, as well as other health professions, this accessible text discusses both the systems and policies that influence health and explores opportunities to advocate for legal and policy change by public health practitioners and policymakers, physicians, health care professionals, lawyers, and lay people.
The Law Relating to Oil and Gas
Author: William Wheeler ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Paint, Oil and Drug Review
Author: The Impact Upon Small Business of Dual Distribution and Related Vertical Integration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small BusinessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Congress and Policy Making in the 21st Century
Author: Jeffery A. JenkinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110712638X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Leading political scientists analyze how Congress tackles - and fails to tackle - national challenges, from health care to immigration.