Public Affairs & Policy
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:John Arquilla

12 Emir Dynamite: T. E. Lawrence © Bettmann/Corbis The idea of sending off a handful of one’s own soldiers to train, guide, and sometimes lead far off but friendly forces ...
( Category: Strategy January 27,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Adair Turner [Turner, Adair]

Irrelevant Bankers “After a crisis,” Hyman Minsky observed, “it is always possible to construct plausible arguments … that accidents, mistakes, or easily corrected shortcomings were responsible for the disaster.” In ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 18,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Michelle Malkin & John Miano [Malkin, Michelle]

Microsoft $10,490,000 S.169 I-Squared Act of 2013 S.744 Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act H.R.2131 SKILLS Visa Act Oracle $7,190,000 S.744 Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Spike Walker

CHAPTER 6 When Lt. Bill Adickes walked down the short distance from his office and stepped into the Operations Center in the remote Coast Guard outpost in Sitka, Alaska, things ...
( Category: State & Local January 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Bevir, Mark [Bevir, Mark]

Network governance Despite the drama of the new public management, its impact was anything but clear-cut. New market-related processes certainly did not straightforwardly replace old bureaucratic ones. On the contrary, ...
( Category: Comparative Politics January 8,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-16 | Author:Mosco, Vincent [Mosco, Vincent]

Privacy and Security Privacy and security concerns are coming together to form another question mark over the IT industry, including cloud computing and big data. In order to properly assess ...
( Category: Communication Policy January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Jason W. Moore [Moore, Jason W.]

Second, in Harvey’s broader theory of spatial fix, the initial flexibility of capital, and acceleration of turnover time, achieved through a “built environment” (urban spaces) favorable to capital in one ...
( Category: Environmental Policy January 2,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-28 | Author:Levine, Adam Seth;

HEALTH CARE COSTS FIELD EXPERIMENT The experiments presented in this chapter so far paint a relatively consistent picture of how different types of people respond when organizations try to mobilize ...
( Category: Political Advocacy December 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Ray Suarez

• • • IN 1957, PLAYWRIGHT Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein dusted off the old love-across-ethnic-barriers idea for a new Broadway musical. This one would not have a “we’re ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies December 29,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Colander [Colander, David]

CHAPTER 9 Nudging toward a Complexity Policy Frame There are idiots. Look around. —LAWRENCE SUMMERS Economics has both a policy branch and a scientific branch. In the last chapter we ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy December 28,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Megan Erickson

Teaching machines Technology offers real possibilities for changing the way we relate to each other for the better—for example, adaptive technology for children with special needs gives us the potential ...
( Category: Social Policy December 24,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Tucker, William [Tucker, William]

After Albert’s death, Queen Victoria became exceedingly fond of her Scottish manservant, John Brown, seven years her junior. Members of the royal family grew to resent Brown’s influence and rumors ...
( Category: Social Policy December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:James Inhofe

THE APPEASERS When I think of all the backroom deals that took place during the Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Graham-Lieberman days, the maxim that comes to mind is: “No man survives when ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kantor, Jodi [Kantor, Jodi]

PERHAPS THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT the relationship between the president, the first lady, and the advisers was the sheer expansion it measured in the Obama union. That was the singular ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Linda J. Bilmes & Linda J. Bilmes

Global Peace and Security THE DREAM OF the U.S. invaders was to create a stable, prosperous, and democratic Middle East. But America’s intervention in Iraq is laying the foundations for ...
( Category: Economic Policy December 16,2015 )