Intended for use in undergraduate American Government courses at the introductory level. This Brief Edition of PLAY OF POWER includes just the first 16 chapters of the longer text.

Play of Power: An Introduction to American Government

Vaughn, Jacqueline

Eisenstein, James

Williams, R. Bruce

Kessler, Mark

Science & Math

Cengage Learning'

To put environmental politics in context, it is important to understand how the recognition of environmental problems, and the attempts to devise solutions for these problems, make up the policy process. The authors use the policy process as a framework for reviewing the broad spectrum of environmental problems facing political leaders today. They discuss both the development of US policy and the globalization of environmental politics, particularly as manifested in international agreements and in the activities of the United Nations Environment Program. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Environmental Politics: Domestic and Global Dimensions

Politics & Social Sciences

Bryner, Gary C.

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This comprehensive and balanced text examines the history, organizations, interest groups, and processes that shape domestic and global environmental politics.

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Wadsworth Publishing

See how environmental policy is shaped with ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL DIMENSIONS! Easy-to-read and concise, this political science text shows you how environmental problems are identified and how solutions are formulated and implemented. With objective and clear explanations of controversies, you will gain an understanding of how politics affects policymaking and how that affects progress toward solving environmental problems. Coverage of events such as the tsunami in Indonesia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the 2004 presidential campaign give you insight into the environmental policy behind recent events.

Earth Sciences

Easy-to-read and concise, this political science text explores how environmental problems are identified and how solutions are formulated and implemented. With objective and clear explanations of controversies, you will gain an understanding of how politics affects policymaking and how policy affects progress toward solving environmental problems. Coverage of issues such as the role of social networking, the "renaissance" of nuclear power, and the first year of the Obama presidency makes the text current and relevant.

Business & Money

Economics

Managerial Discretion in Government Decision Making: Beyond the Street Level provides a comprehensive discussion of managerial and executive discretion at all levels of government. Beginning with a discussion of moving beyond street-level discourse, this book sets the stage for studying managerial discretion. It examines aspects of expertise in discretionary decision making at the federal level, including several case examples to account for the wide usage of executive orders in managerial positions, and examines the formal roles of managers at state government levels, while highlighting the variations among state managers in their usage of discretion, with examples of state managers with too much discretion. Next the book identifies key aspects of managerial discretion in local governments, including information on the applicability of discretion in school districts and its implications in decision making, discusses the myriad ways in which managers in local jurisdictions either individually or collectively make decisions within the parameters of state laws, board regulations, and/or council ordinances, and concludes with a discussion of how much discretion managers should have and dangers inherent in providing managers with too much discretion, and reinforces the discourses on accountability in public organizations.

Managerial Discretion In Government Decision Making: Beyond The Street Level

Management & Leadership

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality

"Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace, and social integration. Disabled Rights provides an interdisciplinary approach to the history and politics of the disability rights movement and assesses the creation and implementation, successes and failures of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by federal, state and local governments. Disabled Rights explains how people with disabilities have been treated from a social, legal, and political perspective in the United States. With an objective and straightforward approach, Switzer identifies the programs and laws that have been enacted in the past fifty years and how they have affected the lives of people with disabilities. She raises questions about Congressional intent in passing the ADA, the evolution and fragmentation of the disability rights movement, and the current status of disabled people in the U.S. Illustrating the shift of disability issues from a medical focus to civil rights, the author clearly defines the contemporary role of persons with disabilities in American culture, and comprehensively outlines the public and private programs designed to integrate disabled persons into society. She covers the law's provisions as they apply to private organizations and businesses and concludes with the most up-to-date coverage of recent Supreme Court decisions-especially since the 2000-2002 terms-that have profoundly influenced the implementation of the ADA and other disability policies. For activists as well as scholars, students, and practitioners in public policy and public administration, Switzer has written a compassionate, yet powerful book that demands attention from everyone interested in the battle for disability rights and equality in the United States.

Medical Books

Vaughn Switzer, Jacqueline

Administration & Medicine Economics

Georgetown University Press

Waste Management: A Reference Handbook: A Reference Handbook

Reference

ABC-CLIO

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