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  • Using Evidence to Inform Policy

    by Pete Lunn, Frances Ruane ...
    Using Evidence to Inform Policy is a unique examination of how evidence can be used to improve policymaking, especially in challenging economic times. There is a need for transparency in government and policy decisions. Research and evidence can help to provide this transparency, and Using Evidence to Inform Policy outlines how. However, the book also demonstrates the complexity of the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Policy Analysis in Ireland

    by Brendan K O’Rourke, John Mchale, Jason Harold, Eoin Cullina, Clodagh Harris, Pauline Cullen, Diarmuid Scully, Maura Adshead, Orla O'Connor, Chris Mcinerney, Joanna O'Riordan, Bernadette Connaughton, Aodh Quinlivan, Frances Ruane, Muiris MacCarthaigh, Fiona Dukelow, Clare O’Mahony ...
    Series series International Library of Policy Analysis
    Leading Irish academics and policy practitioners present a current and comprehensive study of policy analysis in Ireland.Contributors examine policy analysis at different levels of government and governance including international, national and local and in the civil service, as well as non-government actors such as NGOs, interest groups and think tanks. They investigate the influential roles of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Keeping the Republic

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    Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains just how close we've come to losing the republic, and how we can restore it to greatness.Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has been called "the most presidential man in ... Read more

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  • Taken

    The Inspirational True Story Of One Mother's Epic Win Against Social Services

    by Sue O'Callaghan ...
    SHE FOUGHT THE LAW, AND THE LAW LOSTSue O’Callaghan was one of us. Just an ordinary mum, living an ordinary life, in a nice house with her husband and family. Ordinary, that is, until the day her husband took the children for a walk and never came home.Like any mother, she was worried: Had her family been in a terrible accident? Had they been the victims of a crime? Little did Sue know that her ... Read more

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  • Codes of the Underworld

    How Criminals Communicate

    by Diego Gambetta ...
    How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems of whom to trust, how to make themselves trusted, and how to handle information without being detected ... Read more

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  • The Welfare of Nations

    by James Bartholomew ...
    What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And—is it too late to stop welfare states from permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world? Traveling around the globe, James Bartholomew examines welfare models, searching for the best education, health care, and support services in 11 vastly different ... Read more

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  • The Age of Responsibility

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy. ... Read more

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  • Implementing and Working with the Youth Criminal Justice Act across Canada

    Edited by Raymond R. Corrado, Susan Reid, Marc Alain ...
    Since its implementation in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been the subject of intense political and scholarly debate. A complicated mixture of provisions intended to provide harsher punishments for serious violent crimes while encouraging positive, non-punitive interventions in less serious cases, its impact on the youth justice system remains controversial.Implementing and Working with ... Read more

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  • Courtroom and Report Writing Skills for Social Workers

    by Clare Seymour, Richard B. Seymour ...
    Series series Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Guides
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  • Listening to the Welfare State

    by Michael Seltzer, Christian Kullberg, Ilmari Rostila ...
    Series series Welfare and Society
    Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients in these systems. All have collected their data through ethnographic observations as well as taped ... Read more

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  • The Soul of Civil Society

    Voluntary Associations and the Public Value of Moral Habits

    by Don Eberly, Ryan Streeter ...
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