Best Public Administration Books

Best Free Public Administration Books of 2024

White Nile Book Reviews
Juan Sanz Sanz
Africa is an ancient continent, of hard lands, in which good lands are scarce. There are few deep alluvial spaces. The oldest is in the bucket of Chad. There is another one in the ...
2017 Global Food Policy Report Book Reviews
International Food Policy Research Institute
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017 at the global and regional l...
Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices Book Reviews
William F. Hunt, Bill Lord, Benjamin Loh & Angelia Sia
As cities develop, more land is converted into impervious surfaces, which do not allow water to infiltrate. Careful urban planning is needed to ensure that the hydrologic cycle and...
Public Systems Modeling Book Reviews
Daniel P. Loucks
This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy a...
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship Book Reviews
Alex Franklin
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term cocreativity is used in reference to both individual ...
A Submission to the Government of Canada on the Subject of Poverty Reduction Book Reviews
Louis Shalako
This is the one they don't want you to read. It has been suppressed on the government website. A submission to the Government of Canada on the subject of poverty reduction and...
Partial Desiccation and Cultivation of the Lakes of Nicaragua Book Reviews
Juan Sanz Sanz
What is proposed in this study is to partially empty the lakes of Nicaragua, lowering its level to sea level by opening a simple gap in the isthmus that separates the largest lake ...
Developmental State Building Book Reviews
Yusuke Takagi, Veerayooth Kanchoochat & Tetsushi Sonobe
This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of huma...
Public Administration in Germany Book Reviews
Sabine Kuhlmann, Isabella Proeller, Dieter Schimanke & Jan Ziekow
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of Germa...
The Late Great United States Book Reviews
Joseph George Caldwell
In the 1990s, I wrote the book, Can America Survive?, in which I analyzed the current situation of the United States and the world. I started writing the book in 1994, revised it a...
Free Will and Abortion Denial Book Reviews
Chastity White Rose
I have always been ProLife about Abortion and I very much try to be consistent with my actions to be ProLife for everyone whether they are born, unborn, male, female, black, white,...
Thank You For Being Young Book Reviews
Andrew Lerner
A venture capital executive draws on a wide variety of business, government, and societal trends to illustrate how most major challenges facing younger adults are exacerbated by ag...
Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas Book Reviews
Nadja Kabisch, Horst Korn, Jutta Stadler & Aletta Bonn
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book brings together research findings and experiences from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate t...
Glocal Governance Book Reviews
Anja Mihr
This open access book develops a conceptual framework for glocal governance as a multistakeholder local governance approach based on global human rights norms and democratic princi...
Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education Book Reviews
Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen & Kirsi Pulkkinen
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a r...
From Colonialism to International Aid Book Reviews
Carina Schmitt
This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial p...
The 2013 Ohio Values Survey Book Reviews
Robert P. Jones
The 2013 Ohio Values Survey, a followup survey to the 2012 Ohio Values Survey, was designed to gauge Ohio voters’ opinions on three important issue areas as they begin to look towa...
Agricultural Research in Africa Book Reviews
John Lynam, Nienke M. Beintema, Johannes Roseboom & Ousmane Badiane
This bookprepared by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI), which is led by IFPRIoffers a comprehensive perspective on the evolution, current status, and future goa...
Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health Book Reviews
Patrick Fafard, Adele Cassola & Evelyne de Leeuw
“This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to our understanding of public health policy making as an essentially political endeavour. A sophisticated mix of theoretical, con...
Urban Planning Against Poverty Book Reviews
Jean-Claude Bolay
This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining sev...
Clean Energy Policy Guide Book Reviews
Center for the New Energy Economy
A multimedia state energy policy guide for state legislatures , governors’ offices, legislative staff, nongovernmental organizations and media. Policies are organized by chapters i...
Breve historia del liberalismo. Desde Jerusalen hasta Buenos Aires Book Reviews
Jorge Klusen
Dos mil años de historia liberal, desde Jerusalén en época de Jesús, hasta nuestros días en Buenos Aires, Argentina. El origen del liberalismo más allá de lo que solemos pensar o c...
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster and the Future of Renewable Energy Book Reviews
Naoto Kan & Brett De Bary
In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three reactors at ...
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods Book Reviews
Alex Bitterman & Daniel Baldwin Hess
This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 19...
Economia Politica en Mexico Book Reviews
Estevan de Anbuñano
Economia Politica en Mexico es un expocision respetuosa que el subscribe dirige a las augustas Camaras de la Nacion.
Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough Book Reviews
Anne-Greet Keizer, Will Tiemeijer & Mark Bovens
This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of selfreliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens.&#xa0...
The Piketty Task Book Reviews
Ed Conduit
Piketty’s data describe the way that the pressure of investors for return on capital in low growth situations causes decline in real wages. The state can intervene to recoup some c...
Socio-Life Science and the COVID-19 Outbreak Book Reviews
Makoto Yano, Fumihiko Matsuda, Anavaj Sakuntabhai & Shigeru Hirota
This open access book presents the first step towards building sociolife science, a field of science investigating humans in such a way that both social and lifescientific factors ...
The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism Book Reviews
Jean-François Tremblay
This handbook compares fiscal federalism arrangements in eleven federal/ decentralized countries. Each chapter examines an individual country, laying out its constitutional design ...
Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion Book Reviews
Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe & Helen Seitzer
This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions&a...
Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion Book Reviews
Yoshiaki Nishikawa & Michel Pimbert
This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often ch...
Swiss Public Administration Book Reviews
Andreas Ladner, Nils Soguel, Yves Emery, Sophie Weerts & Stéphane Nahrath
Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. Th...
1001 Sex Positions Book Reviews
Donald R. Miklich
This essay is a noneconomists’ (there’s not a bit of math in it) inquiry into the US employment losses which have been happening for about a half century. Businesses have been redu...
Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies Book Reviews
Akkelies van Nes & Claudia Yamu
This open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a stepbystep approach for its applica...
Passing Obamacare Book Reviews
Glenn Morton
Hello fellow Americans! My name is Glenn, and I am founder of the Occupy Obamacare SuperPAC and owner of Taylor, Levi, and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm in Maryland. As a...
Emerging States at Crossroads Book Reviews
Keiichi Tsunekawa & Yasuyuki Todo
This book is open access under a CC BYNCND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the gro...
An Adaptive Family Values Conscience Book Reviews
TaraElla
The family as an institution has existed for the entire duration of human civilization, and in all but a few unfortunate exceptional cases, has served to support and enrich the liv...
Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation Book Reviews
Nuno Crato & Paolo Paruolo
In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by gover...
The New Politics of Numbers Book Reviews
Andrea Mennicken & Robert Salais
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what ...
Electricity Access, Decarbonization, and Integration of Renewables Book Reviews
Sebastian Groh, Lukas Barner, Georg Heinemann & Christian von Hirschhausen
This OpenAccessBook covers different aspects of the lowcarbon energy transformation in a unique manner, with a particular focus on two regions, South Asia and SubSaharan Africa. Th...
The Final Discrimination Book Reviews
David Minor
Our civilised societies have abolished discrimination right? WRONG! Read how we can remove the final discrimination.
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy Book Reviews
Rense Nieuwenhuis & Wim Van Lancker
“This engaging collection gathers theoretical and empirical insights from leading family policy experts. The authors – representing diverse countries, disciplines, and met...
Global Nutrition Report 2016 Book Reviews
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Few challenges facing the global community today match the scale of malnutrition, a condition that directly affects one in three people. The 2016 Global Nutrition Report is a compr...
Emerging States and Economies Book Reviews
Takashi Shiraishi & Tetsushi Sonobe
This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to ...
Wicked Problems in Public Policy Book Reviews
Brian W. Head
"The concept of wicked problems has become very commonly used, and abused, in contemporary studies of public policy.  While expressing some appropriate skepticism abo...
Cooling Down Book Reviews
Susanna Hoffman, Thomas Hylland Eriksen & Paulo Mendes
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented...
Where We Live Book Reviews
Nancy LeaMond
"Whatever our age, we all want the same things: safe, affordable housing and transportation options; good health for ourselves, our loved ones and our environment; opportuniti...
Livestock grazing systems and sustainable development in the Mediterranean and Tropical areas Book Reviews
Alexandre Ickowicz & Charles-Henri Moulin
Livestock grazing systems, through their specific footprints on the landscape, can contribute to sustainable development in general and to that of territories in particular, especi...
Stranger Citizens Book Reviews
John McNelis O'Keefe
Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independence in 1783. During this formative...
The Ecosystem of an Open Democracy Book Reviews
Mara Balestrini
Within the framework of "political experimentation", a perspective from which to observe the vibrant development of political innovation in Latin America and also in Spa...
The Politics of Evidence Book Reviews
Justin Parkhurst
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political...
The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe Book Reviews
Bernard Enjolras, Lester M. Salamon, Karl Henrik Sivesind & Annette Zimmer
This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations along...
Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies Book Reviews
Johanna Kuhlmann & Frank Nullmeier
Critical in policy analysis is not only the question whether it works. One needs to know how it works. This is a question about causal mechanisms. In this exemplary volume the auth...
A 21st Century Manifesto for Liberty Book Reviews
TaraElla
What does liberal mean? There can be no agreement, it seems. It all goes back to a historical split in liberalism, actually. Since most democracies functioned on a twoparty system,...
21 Machetes Book Reviews
John Geesman
Take one of America's largest utilities...a delusional, errorprone CEO...a $46.5 million war chest filched from customers...California's squalid, paytoplay ballot initiat...
Nourishing Millions Book Reviews
Stuart Gillespie
The stories in this book are diverse, spanning five decades and playing out in different arenas, from local to global. They take place in developing countries all over the world, a...
Perspectives on Demographic Change and Public Policy Book Reviews
Jared Bernstein, Karlyn Bowman & Ruy Teixeira
In 2014, scholars from three think tanks in Washington, DC, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Brookings Institution, and the Center for American Progress (CAP), began a ...
A Place To Grow Book Reviews
Jean-Nichol Dufour
This is part 11 of a 12 books suite. This one is about how to start the new reality, how to have territory, starting with my own country, Canada. My convincing won't all be pr...
Agricultural Productivity in Africa Book Reviews
Samuel Benin
Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Trends, Patterns, and Determinants presents updated and new analyses of land, labor, and total productivity trends in African agriculture. It b...
The Retirement Crisis Book Reviews
Scott Thorpe
Every day for the next twenty years, 10,000 baby boomers will retire. Paying for the boomers retirement will cost an additional 10% of GDP, the equivalent our current spending on t...

Best Paid Public Administration Books of 2024

White Nile Book Reviews
Juan Sanz Sanz
Africa is an ancient continent, of hard lands, in which good lands are scarce. There are few deep alluvial spaces. The oldest is in the bucket of Chad. There is another one in the ...
2017 Global Food Policy Report Book Reviews
International Food Policy Research Institute
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017 at the global and regional l...
Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices Book Reviews
William F. Hunt, Bill Lord, Benjamin Loh & Angelia Sia
As cities develop, more land is converted into impervious surfaces, which do not allow water to infiltrate. Careful urban planning is needed to ensure that the hydrologic cycle and...
Public Systems Modeling Book Reviews
Daniel P. Loucks
This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy a...
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship Book Reviews
Alex Franklin
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term cocreativity is used in reference to both individual ...
A Submission to the Government of Canada on the Subject of Poverty Reduction Book Reviews
Louis Shalako
This is the one they don't want you to read. It has been suppressed on the government website. A submission to the Government of Canada on the subject of poverty reduction and...
Partial Desiccation and Cultivation of the Lakes of Nicaragua Book Reviews
Juan Sanz Sanz
What is proposed in this study is to partially empty the lakes of Nicaragua, lowering its level to sea level by opening a simple gap in the isthmus that separates the largest lake ...
Developmental State Building Book Reviews
Yusuke Takagi, Veerayooth Kanchoochat & Tetsushi Sonobe
This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of huma...
Public Administration in Germany Book Reviews
Sabine Kuhlmann, Isabella Proeller, Dieter Schimanke & Jan Ziekow
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of Germa...
The Late Great United States Book Reviews
Joseph George Caldwell
In the 1990s, I wrote the book, Can America Survive?, in which I analyzed the current situation of the United States and the world. I started writing the book in 1994, revised it a...
Free Will and Abortion Denial Book Reviews
Chastity White Rose
I have always been ProLife about Abortion and I very much try to be consistent with my actions to be ProLife for everyone whether they are born, unborn, male, female, black, white,...
Thank You For Being Young Book Reviews
Andrew Lerner
A venture capital executive draws on a wide variety of business, government, and societal trends to illustrate how most major challenges facing younger adults are exacerbated by ag...
Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas Book Reviews
Nadja Kabisch, Horst Korn, Jutta Stadler & Aletta Bonn
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book brings together research findings and experiences from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate t...
Glocal Governance Book Reviews
Anja Mihr
This open access book develops a conceptual framework for glocal governance as a multistakeholder local governance approach based on global human rights norms and democratic princi...
Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education Book Reviews
Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen & Kirsi Pulkkinen
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a r...
From Colonialism to International Aid Book Reviews
Carina Schmitt
This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial p...
The 2013 Ohio Values Survey Book Reviews
Robert P. Jones
The 2013 Ohio Values Survey, a followup survey to the 2012 Ohio Values Survey, was designed to gauge Ohio voters’ opinions on three important issue areas as they begin to look towa...
Agricultural Research in Africa Book Reviews
John Lynam, Nienke M. Beintema, Johannes Roseboom & Ousmane Badiane
This bookprepared by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI), which is led by IFPRIoffers a comprehensive perspective on the evolution, current status, and future goa...
Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health Book Reviews
Patrick Fafard, Adele Cassola & Evelyne de Leeuw
“This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to our understanding of public health policy making as an essentially political endeavour. A sophisticated mix of theoretical, con...
Urban Planning Against Poverty Book Reviews
Jean-Claude Bolay
This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining sev...
Clean Energy Policy Guide Book Reviews
Center for the New Energy Economy
A multimedia state energy policy guide for state legislatures , governors’ offices, legislative staff, nongovernmental organizations and media. Policies are organized by chapters i...
Breve historia del liberalismo. Desde Jerusalen hasta Buenos Aires Book Reviews
Jorge Klusen
Dos mil años de historia liberal, desde Jerusalén en época de Jesús, hasta nuestros días en Buenos Aires, Argentina. El origen del liberalismo más allá de lo que solemos pensar o c...
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster and the Future of Renewable Energy Book Reviews
Naoto Kan & Brett De Bary
In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three reactors at ...
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods Book Reviews
Alex Bitterman & Daniel Baldwin Hess
This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 19...
Economia Politica en Mexico Book Reviews
Estevan de Anbuñano
Economia Politica en Mexico es un expocision respetuosa que el subscribe dirige a las augustas Camaras de la Nacion.
Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough Book Reviews
Anne-Greet Keizer, Will Tiemeijer & Mark Bovens
This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of selfreliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens.&#xa0...
The Piketty Task Book Reviews
Ed Conduit
Piketty’s data describe the way that the pressure of investors for return on capital in low growth situations causes decline in real wages. The state can intervene to recoup some c...
Socio-Life Science and the COVID-19 Outbreak Book Reviews
Makoto Yano, Fumihiko Matsuda, Anavaj Sakuntabhai & Shigeru Hirota
This open access book presents the first step towards building sociolife science, a field of science investigating humans in such a way that both social and lifescientific factors ...
The Forum of Federations Handbook of Fiscal Federalism Book Reviews
Jean-François Tremblay
This handbook compares fiscal federalism arrangements in eleven federal/ decentralized countries. Each chapter examines an individual country, laying out its constitutional design ...
Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion Book Reviews
Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe & Helen Seitzer
This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions&a...
Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion Book Reviews
Yoshiaki Nishikawa & Michel Pimbert
This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often ch...
Swiss Public Administration Book Reviews
Andreas Ladner, Nils Soguel, Yves Emery, Sophie Weerts & Stéphane Nahrath
Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. Th...
1001 Sex Positions Book Reviews
Donald R. Miklich
This essay is a noneconomists’ (there’s not a bit of math in it) inquiry into the US employment losses which have been happening for about a half century. Businesses have been redu...
Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies Book Reviews
Akkelies van Nes & Claudia Yamu
This open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a stepbystep approach for its applica...
Passing Obamacare Book Reviews
Glenn Morton
Hello fellow Americans! My name is Glenn, and I am founder of the Occupy Obamacare SuperPAC and owner of Taylor, Levi, and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm in Maryland. As a...
Emerging States at Crossroads Book Reviews
Keiichi Tsunekawa & Yasuyuki Todo
This book is open access under a CC BYNCND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the gro...
An Adaptive Family Values Conscience Book Reviews
TaraElla
The family as an institution has existed for the entire duration of human civilization, and in all but a few unfortunate exceptional cases, has served to support and enrich the liv...
Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation Book Reviews
Nuno Crato & Paolo Paruolo
In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by gover...
The New Politics of Numbers Book Reviews
Andrea Mennicken & Robert Salais
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what ...
Electricity Access, Decarbonization, and Integration of Renewables Book Reviews
Sebastian Groh, Lukas Barner, Georg Heinemann & Christian von Hirschhausen
This OpenAccessBook covers different aspects of the lowcarbon energy transformation in a unique manner, with a particular focus on two regions, South Asia and SubSaharan Africa. Th...
The Final Discrimination Book Reviews
David Minor
Our civilised societies have abolished discrimination right? WRONG! Read how we can remove the final discrimination.
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy Book Reviews
Rense Nieuwenhuis & Wim Van Lancker
“This engaging collection gathers theoretical and empirical insights from leading family policy experts. The authors – representing diverse countries, disciplines, and met...
Global Nutrition Report 2016 Book Reviews
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Few challenges facing the global community today match the scale of malnutrition, a condition that directly affects one in three people. The 2016 Global Nutrition Report is a compr...
Emerging States and Economies Book Reviews
Takashi Shiraishi & Tetsushi Sonobe
This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to ...
Wicked Problems in Public Policy Book Reviews
Brian W. Head
"The concept of wicked problems has become very commonly used, and abused, in contemporary studies of public policy.  While expressing some appropriate skepticism abo...
Cooling Down Book Reviews
Susanna Hoffman, Thomas Hylland Eriksen & Paulo Mendes
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented...
Where We Live Book Reviews
Nancy LeaMond
"Whatever our age, we all want the same things: safe, affordable housing and transportation options; good health for ourselves, our loved ones and our environment; opportuniti...
Livestock grazing systems and sustainable development in the Mediterranean and Tropical areas Book Reviews
Alexandre Ickowicz & Charles-Henri Moulin
Livestock grazing systems, through their specific footprints on the landscape, can contribute to sustainable development in general and to that of territories in particular, especi...
Stranger Citizens Book Reviews
John McNelis O'Keefe
Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independence in 1783. During this formative...
The Ecosystem of an Open Democracy Book Reviews
Mara Balestrini
Within the framework of "political experimentation", a perspective from which to observe the vibrant development of political innovation in Latin America and also in Spa...
The Politics of Evidence Book Reviews
Justin Parkhurst
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political...
The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe Book Reviews
Bernard Enjolras, Lester M. Salamon, Karl Henrik Sivesind & Annette Zimmer
This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations along...
Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies Book Reviews
Johanna Kuhlmann & Frank Nullmeier
Critical in policy analysis is not only the question whether it works. One needs to know how it works. This is a question about causal mechanisms. In this exemplary volume the auth...
A 21st Century Manifesto for Liberty Book Reviews
TaraElla
What does liberal mean? There can be no agreement, it seems. It all goes back to a historical split in liberalism, actually. Since most democracies functioned on a twoparty system,...
21 Machetes Book Reviews
John Geesman
Take one of America's largest utilities...a delusional, errorprone CEO...a $46.5 million war chest filched from customers...California's squalid, paytoplay ballot initiat...
Nourishing Millions Book Reviews
Stuart Gillespie
The stories in this book are diverse, spanning five decades and playing out in different arenas, from local to global. They take place in developing countries all over the world, a...
Perspectives on Demographic Change and Public Policy Book Reviews
Jared Bernstein, Karlyn Bowman & Ruy Teixeira
In 2014, scholars from three think tanks in Washington, DC, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Brookings Institution, and the Center for American Progress (CAP), began a ...
A Place To Grow Book Reviews
Jean-Nichol Dufour
This is part 11 of a 12 books suite. This one is about how to start the new reality, how to have territory, starting with my own country, Canada. My convincing won't all be pr...
Agricultural Productivity in Africa Book Reviews
Samuel Benin
Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Trends, Patterns, and Determinants presents updated and new analyses of land, labor, and total productivity trends in African agriculture. It b...
The Retirement Crisis Book Reviews
Scott Thorpe
Every day for the next twenty years, 10,000 baby boomers will retire. Paying for the boomers retirement will cost an additional 10% of GDP, the equivalent our current spending on t...

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