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This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural
Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors'
earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security
Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with an eye towards
isolating those vectors of nuclear decision-making on which the US
might exert influence within a foreign state. The case studies
included in this volume tackle a number of the nuclear
challenges-termed "nuclear thresholds"-likely to be faced by the US
and identify the most promising points of leverage available to
American policymakers in ameliorating a wide range of
over-the-horizon nuclear challenges. Because near and medium-term
nuclear thresholds are likely to involve both allies and
adversaries simultaneously, meaning that US response will require
strategies tailored to both the perception of threat experienced by
the actors in question, the value the actors place on their
relationship with the US, and the domestic context driving
decision-making. This volume offers a nuanced look at each actor's
identity, national norms, values, and perceptual lens in order to
offer culturally-focused insights into behavior and intentions.
"How a more positive form of identity politics can restore public
trust in government Illiberalism, Thomas Main writes, is the basic
repudiation of liberal democracy, the very foundation on which the
United States rests. Itsays no to electoral democracy, human
rights, the rule of law, toleration. It is a political ideology
that finds expression in such older right-wing extremist groups as
the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists and more recently among the
Alt-Right and the Dark Enlightenment. There are also left-of-center
illiberal movements, including various forms of communism,
anarchism, and some antifascist movements. The Rise of Illiberalism
explores the philosophical underpinnings of this toxic political
ideology and documents how it has infiltrated the mainstream of
political discourse in the United States. By the earlytwenty-first
century, Main writes, liberal democracy's failure to deal
adequately with social problems created a space illiberal movements
could exploit to promote their particular brands of identity
politics as an alternative. A critical need thus is for what the
author calls "positive identity politics," or a widely shared sense
of community that gives a feelingof equal importance to all sectors
of society. Achieving this goal will, however, be an enormous
challenge. In seeking actionable remedies for the broken political
system of the United States, this book makes a major scholarly
contribution tocurrent debates about the future of liberal
democracy. "
Welfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor
Giuliani despite the city's history of liberal social programs and
its huge, entrenched welfare system. The city reduced the numbers
on welfare from 1,120,000 to 460,000 by changing the organizational
culture, protecting against fraud, insisting on 'work first,'
adapting information technology, and contracting for job placement.
The organizational culture was transformed by bold leadership that
changed the welfare agency's mission and goals, overcame internal
resistance, and prevailed over politicians who had a vested
interest in the status quo and the media that were opposed to
welfare reform. Welfare fraud was largely eliminated by dropping
from the rolls those who were working and could not appear for
in-person interviews, by fingerprinting recipients to catch those
enrolled under multiple identities and those receiving welfare
checks from other jurisdictions, by uncovering hidden income, by
enrolling new applicants only after thorough investigation, and by
tightening controls to prevent fraud by corrupt employees. JobStat,
a computer-based system modeled after the Police Department's
system used to track precinct activity, was developed to track the
status of welfare recipients and to monitor the performance of the
'Job Centers,' which were formerly called welfare offices. JobStat
focused the attention of department personnel on performance
indicators rather than on minutely specified rules. The Giuliani
administration's major contribution to national welfare reform was
the creation of the only system in the country with large-scale,
alternative work arrangements that was able to acculturate large
numbers of the never-employed to the world of work.
Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social
problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so
mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic
policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells
the remarkable story of how America's largest city has struggled
for more than thirty years to meet the crisis of modern
homelessness through the landmark development, since the initiation
of the Callahan v Carey litigation in 1979, of a municipal shelter
system based on a court-enforced right to shelter. New York City
now shelters more than 50,000 otherwise homeless people at an
annual cost of more than $1 billion in the largest and most complex
shelter system in the world. Establishing the right to shelter was
a dramatic break with long established practice. Developing and
managing the shelter system required the city to repeatedly
overcome daunting challenges, from dealing with mentally ill street
dwellers to confronting community opposition to shelter placement.
In the course of these efforts many classic dilemmas in social
policy and public administration arose. Does adequate provision for
the poor create perverse incentives? Can courts manage recalcitrant
bureaucracies? Is poverty rooted in economic structures or personal
behavior? The tale of how five mayors-Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani,
Bloomberg and de Blasio-have wrestled with these problems is one of
caution and hope: the task is difficult and success is never
unqualified, but positive change is possible. Homelessness in New
York City tells the remarkable story of what happened-for good and
sometimes less good-when New York established the right to shelter.
This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural
Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors'
earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security
Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with an eye towards
isolating those vectors of nuclear decision-making on which the US
might exert influence within a foreign state. The case studies
included in this volume tackle a number of the nuclear
challenges-termed "nuclear thresholds"-likely to be faced by the US
and identify the most promising points of leverage available to
American policymakers in ameliorating a wide range of
over-the-horizon nuclear challenges. Because near and medium-term
nuclear thresholds are likely to involve both allies and
adversaries simultaneously, meaning that US response will require
strategies tailored to both the perception of threat experienced by
the actors in question, the value the actors place on their
relationship with the US, and the domestic context driving
decision-making. This volume offers a nuanced look at each actor's
identity, national norms, values, and perceptual lens in order to
offer culturally-focused insights into behavior and intentions.
Created especially for the Australian customer
Facts, tips and stats for players, spectators and coaches
Fully updated with all the latest rule changes and including
expanded skills, coaching and training chapters, "Aussie Rules For
Dummies," 2nd Edition takes you from getting a grip on the basics
to more advanced aspects of playing, watching and coaching
Australia's national game. Packed with practical information and
fascinating anecdotes, this is the simplest, clearest and most
detailed guide to AFL available.
Discover how to: Understand positions, umpires and scoringGear
up correctly, and avoid and treat injuriesImprove your playing
skills and coach effectivelyAppreciate the clubs, competitions and
awards
Pain management is a growing area of interest for many health care
professionals. It is a truly integrated approach involving a team
comprising medical practitioners, clinical psychologists,
physiotherapists, occupational therapists and nurse practitioners.
Different professions may work together but the approach may also
be adopted by individual practitioners. Pain Management: An
Interdisciplinary Approach deals specifically with the management
of potentially chronic l pain, how to assess patients with pain,
the factors involved in the development of chronic pain and the
setting up and running of a pain management programme. The main
focus is on musculoskeletal and fibromyalgic type pain. Cancer pain
is not addressed. The authors address not only what is recommended
in the management of pain but also whether and why it is done,
thereby covering not only the content of interdisciplinary pain
management but also the processes involved. An increasing number of
courses on pain management are now being set up around the world.
This has created an increasing and continuous demand for a textbook
which could be used by those attending these courses and which
would provide others who have to deal with the problems as part of
their day to day practice with guide to best practice. The book
provides an essential reference for all health professionals
involved in all aspects of pain management. Provides extensive
background material and covers broad issues which other books lack
Focuses on not only what is done with the management of pain but
whether and why it is done Includes the nuts and bolts of setting
up and running a pain management programme Addresses the
application of pain management programmes in a wide range of fields
Has a multidisciplinary approach and therefore appeals to a
multidisciplinary market Two new co-authors: Kay Greasley and Bengt
Sjolund. Major restructuring of chapters and rewriting of content
with new authors for many of them. Greatly increased discussion of
biopsychosocial management in individual clinical practice.
Addresses the needs of the individual practitioners as well as
those working in specialised pain management units. Includes more
on primary care and secondary pain prevention. Expanded discussion
of the clinical-occupational interfaces. Particular emphasis on the
identification and targeting of modifiable risk factors for chronic
pain and prolonged disability. The following topics stregthened
throughout: communication, the nature of groups, medication and
iatrogenics. Potential of an evidence-based biopsychosocial
approach to pain management highlighted.
Pain in later life is both quite common and disabling, and it
differs significantly in terms of its aetiology, diagnosis and
treatment from pain in the general adult population. Older people
often have complicated co-morbidities, have a high prevalence of
mental health problems (e.g. anxiety, cognitive impairment, and
depression) and respond to treatment in different ways compared to
younger people. Their specific needs are rarely discussed
specifically in more general texts.
Part of the "Oxford Pain Management Library," this pocketbook will
serve as a concise companion for healthcare professionals who
manage older patients suffering with pain. Concise chapters will
summarize up-to-date reserach literature in a practical style that
will have direct relevance to busy clinicians. Introductory
chapters will include the epidemiology of pain in older people as
well as the proper assessment of older patients with pain
conditions. Later chapters will focus on specific painful
conditions common in the elderly, including arthritis and
rheumatism, osteoporosis, abdominal pain, and cancer.
The book will appeal to a wide variety of health care
professionals in both primary care and secondary care services such
as geriatric medicine, rheumatology, orthopedics, surgery, pain
management and palliative medicine. The book will also be of
relevance to nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists,
clinical psychologists, pharmacists and other health care
providers.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social
problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so
mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic
policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells
the remarkable story of how America's largest city has struggled
for more than thirty years to meet the crisis of modern
homelessness through the landmark development, since the initiation
of the Callahan v Carey litigation in 1979, of a municipal shelter
system based on a court-enforced right to shelter. New York City
now shelters more than 50,000 otherwise homeless people at an
annual cost of more than $1 billion in the largest and most complex
shelter system in the world. Establishing the right to shelter was
a dramatic break with long established practice. Developing and
managing the shelter system required the city to repeatedly
overcome daunting challenges, from dealing with mentally ill street
dwellers to confronting community opposition to shelter placement.
In the course of these efforts many classic dilemmas in social
policy and public administration arose. Does adequate provision for
the poor create perverse incentives? Can courts manage recalcitrant
bureaucracies? Is poverty rooted in economic structures or personal
behavior? The tale of how five mayors-Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani,
Bloomberg and de Blasio-have wrestled with these problems is one of
caution and hope: the task is difficult and success is never
unqualified, but positive change is possible. Homelessness in New
York City tells the remarkable story of what happened-for good and
sometimes less good-when New York established the right to shelter.
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