Filling an important gap that currently exists in the literature on public budgeting, Fundamentals of Public Budgeting provides the basic foundations of capital budgeting in
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Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular fo
Resnick (health research and policy, U. of Illinois, Chicago) and Siegel (community health sciences, Boston U.) help public health students and practitioners in all levels of government and the privat
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Langbein (public administration and policy, American U.) outlines statistical skills needed by public affairs, political science, sociology, and economics graduate students and practitioners to evalua
This is an excellent new contribution to current academic and policy debates, and will be of great interest internationally to all students, researchers, public sector managers and policy makers. The
Scholars in the science and technology field have not collectively questioned, much less proposed, an agenda for policy makers. Now is an appropriate time for such an undertaking. First, there is a
The two papers that make up the core of this book address what is perhaps the most fundamental question in the current debate over Social Security: whether to shift, in part or even entirely, from tod
