Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“william e lyons”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william e lyons”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Politics of Dissatisfaction

    Citizens, Services and Urban Institutions

    by William E. Lyons, David Lowery, Ruth Hoogland DeHoog ...
    The Politics of Dissatisfaction: Citizens, Services, and Urban Institutions is destined to be a classic in public administration and public policy; it makes major theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature in both fields. It is a rigorous empirical attempt to assess the public choice view of citizenship and local government. The research upon which this book is based was founded on ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray ...
    The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Great American City

    Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

    by Robert J. Sampson ...
    This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Understanding Institutional Diversity

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics. A leader in applying game theory to the understanding of institutional analysis, Elinor Ostrom provides in this book a coherent method for undertaking the analysis of diverse economic, political, and social ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Happiness

    A Revolution in Economics

    by Bruno S. Frey ...
    Series series Munich Lectures in Economics
    A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Research In Multicultural Education

    From The Margins To The Mainstream

    by Carl A. Grant ...
    A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students. ... Read more

    Free

  • Social Justice

    The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy

    by Madison Powers, Ruth Faden ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Sociology of Gender

    An Introduction to Theory and Research

    by Amy S. Wharton ...
    Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introductory overview of gender theory and research, and continues to offer a unique and compelling approach to one of the most important topics in the field of sociology.Features extensive revisions and updates, and incorporates recent cross-national ... Read more

    $41.00 USD

  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Inequality Reader

    Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender

    by David Grusky, Szonja Szelenyi ...
    Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Moral Dimension

    Toward a New Economics

    by Amitai Etzioni ...
    Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary of moral and social considerations in economic behaviour, he provides a provocative new framework ... Read more

    $14.99 USD