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In 2009 the US House of Representatives passed legislation
requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent over
the coming decade. Later that year, President Obama went to
Copenhagen to sign a treaty requiring reductions by 50 percent over
a two-decade period. The President came back with nothing: no firm
commitment to reduce emissions and only a vague target to hold
global temperature rises to under 2 C. How does a President who has
a 75-vote majority in the House and a 19-vote majority in the
Senate who has pre-approval for a treaty reducing greenhouse gas
production by 18 percent not achieve a treaty with at least the
minimum goal of 18 percent reductions by 2020?Others have answered
the puzzle by looking at institutional designs or negotiation
dynamics. This book articulates a multilevel process that starts
with local politics to explain how they can influence international
negotiations and why President Obama s efforts in Copenhagen were
doomed to fail. Understanding the role of local private interests
can help form strategies for overcoming national resistance to
climate change legislation and ultimately international agreements
that could change the environmentally self-destructive course we
are on.
In 2009 the US House of Representatives passed legislation
requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent over
the coming decade. Later that year, President Obama went to
Copenhagen to sign a treaty requiring reductions by 50 percent over
a two-decade period. The President came back with nothing: no firm
commitment to reduce emissions and only a vague target to hold
global temperature rises to under 2 C. How does a President who has
a 75-vote majority in the House and a 19-vote majority in the
Senate who has pre-approval for a treaty reducing greenhouse gas
production by 18 percent not achieve a treaty with at least the
minimum goal of 18 percent reductions by 2020?Others have answered
the puzzle by looking at institutional designs or negotiation
dynamics. This book articulates a multilevel process that starts
with local politics to explain how they can influence international
negotiations and why President Obama s efforts in Copenhagen were
doomed to fail. Understanding the role of local private interests
can help form strategies for overcoming national resistance to
climate change legislation and ultimately international agreements
that could change the environmentally self-destructive course we
are on."
Sixteen million people have died in civil wars in the past 50
years. In view of that, civil wars may be the single most
destabilizing force in world politics today. The only greater
killer is the suffering that pushes individuals into them. Civil
wars create regional and global instability that threatens economic
initiatives and political continuity. Preventing civil wars is a
challenge that the policy community is ill-equipped to handle.
Rwanda is an example a tragedy that the world did nothing to stop.
Iraq and Afghanistan are tragedies the world did much to inflame.
This book uses argument, evidence, and intuition born of experience
to provide an account of civil wars and the steps we can take to
reduce them.
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E-Government 2003 (Paperback, New)
Mark A. Abramson, Therese L. Morin; Contributions by Genie N. L. Stowers, Diana Burley Gant, Jon P. Gant, …
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This work provides in-depth case studies of the state of
e-government today. The book chronicles the early days of
e-government and presents a collective snapshot in time as to where
governments - at the federal, state and local levels - are today as
they continue their march toward e-government. Editors Abramson and
Morin present a comprehensive progress report on e-government
before a distinguished list of contributors discuss such varied
topics as the quality of federal websites, technology and
innovation in the State Department, online voting and the
public-sector information security. Through grants for research and
forms, the IBM Endowment for the Business of Government stimulates
research and facilitates discussion on new approaches to improving
the effectiveness of government at the federal, state, local and
international levels.
Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly
pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken
up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is
seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed
consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed, transparency is often
seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This
book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices
and transparency practices together as parallel systems of
accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework
for understanding surveillance and transparency practices
instrumented with information technology. The volume centers around
five case studies: Campaign Finance Disclosure, Secure Flight,
American Red Cross, Google, and Facebook. A series of themed
chapters draw on the material and provide cross-case analysis. The
volume ends with a chapter on policy implications.
Sixteen million people have died in civil wars in the past 50
years. In view of that, civil wars may be the single most
destabilizing force in world politics today. The only greater
killer is the suffering that pushes individuals into them. Civil
wars create regional and global instability that threatens economic
initiatives and political continuity. Preventing civil wars is a
challenge that the policy community is ill-equipped to handle.
Rwanda is an example a tragedy that the world did nothing to stop.
Iraq and Afghanistan are tragedies the world did much to inflame.
This book uses argument, evidence, and intuition born of experience
to provide an account of civil wars and the steps we can take to
reduce them.
Extensive measures are taken to ensure that blood transfusion poses
a minimal microbiological hazard to recipients. Transfusion
Microbiology is the definitive text on all aspects of transfusion
transmitted infections. This comprehensive text covers all medical,
scientific, technical and developmental aspects of this critically
important sector of transfusion medicine. A detailed discussion of
all infective agents, donor issues, testing and pathogen
inactivation is provided. Agents causing major concern recently,
such as vCJD, are considered in the context of historical
experience with agents such as HIV. All aspects of risk assessment,
regulation, cost benefit analysis and quality management are
reviewed. Relevant to blood transfusion centres, hospital
transfusion laboratories, haematologists and microbiologists,
medical, scientific and technical staff, universities and general
training programmes worldwide, Transfusion Microbiology provides an
up-to-date resource for all practitioners and researchers involved
in transfusion medicine.
The underappreciated but surprisingly successful implementation of
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped rescue the
economy during the Great Recession and represented one of the most
important achievements of the Obama presidency. It tested all
levels of government with urgent time frames and extensive
accountability requirements. While ARRA passed most tests with
comparatively little mismanagement or fraud, negative public and
media perceptions of the initiative deprived the president of
political credit. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews and
nationwide field research, Governing under Stress examines a range
of ARRA stimulus programs to analyze the fraught politics, complex
implementation, and impact of the legislation. Essays from public
administration scholars use ARRA to study how to implement large
federal programs in our modern era of indirect, networked
governance. Throughout, the contributors present potent insights
into the most pressing challenges facing public policy and
management, and they uncover important lessons about policy
instruments and networks, the effects of transparency and
accountability, and the successes and failures of different types
of government intervention.
The underappreciated but surprisingly successful implementation of
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped rescue the
economy during the Great Recession and represented one of the most
important achievements of the Obama presidency. It tested all
levels of government with urgent time frames and extensive
accountability requirements. While ARRA passed most tests with
comparatively little mismanagement or fraud, negative public and
media perceptions of the initiative deprived the president of
political credit. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews and
nationwide field research, Governing under Stress examines a range
of ARRA stimulus programs to analyze the fraught politics, complex
implementation, and impact of the legislation. Essays from public
administration scholars use ARRA to study how to implement large
federal programs in our modern era of indirect, networked
governance. Throughout, the contributors present potent insights
into the most pressing challenges facing public policy and
management, and they uncover important lessons about policy
instruments and networks, the effects of transparency and
accountability, and the successes and failures of different types
of government intervention.
This book is one that can change your life by revealing the
power of God's word and what He can do to transform your life. It
shows time and again how in history God has changed men and women
of God who experienced God's power by believing in His word. They
didn't take any shortcuts in life-they just trusted God with their
whole heart and they saw God's faithfulness. They saw that God will
come through for those who put their trust in Him. God has a plan
for us, and I truly believe that you will be able to identify with
some of the characters and events that have taken place. I pray
that you will apply these principles to your own life. This book
will help you to identify spiritually with God and His people on
another level. I encourage you to see what God has in store for you
through the strong spiritual truths found in this book
While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated
rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and
incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile
privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional
policy making in three key areas: computerized databases,
wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues,
legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting
those with a vested interest in new technology over those
advocating privacy protection. "Legislating Privacy" explores the
dynamics of congressional policy formulation and traces the limited
response of legislators to the concept of privacy as a fundamental
individual right. According to Regan, we will need an expanded
understanding of the social value of privacy if we are to achieve
greater protection from emerging technologies such as Caller ID and
genetic testing. Specifically, she argues that a recognition of the
social importance of privacy will shift both the terms of the
policy debate and the patterns of interest-group action in future
congressional activity on privacy issues.
Originally published in 1995.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
latest in digital technology to make available again books from our
distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These
editions are published unaltered from the original, and are
presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both
historical and cultural value.
We have seen recent massive intervention by the United States and
its allies in Europe in internal conflict in Bosnia and Kosovo. In
"Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict," Patrick Regan
systematically answers the question about the conditions under
which third parties intervene in civil conflicts to stop the
fighting. It uses data on all civil conflicts since 1945 to
identify those conflicts that are amenable to outside interventions
and the types of interventions that are more likely to be
successful.
"Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict" is a book about how
governments can help facilitate the end of civil conflicts. In a
time when internal conflicts appear to be increasing in number, and
increasingly destabilizing, governments need to know what policies
work and when. Interventions are generally of two
sorts--unilateral, or when one state takes action, and
multilateral, such as UN or NATO action. This book examines the
conditions under which each form of intervention is most likely and
most effective. The analysis suggests that three conditions
associated with multi-lateral interventions will increase the
likelihood of success: mutual consent of the parties involved;
impartiality on the part of the intervenors; and the existence of a
coherent intervention strategy. The questions are posed from the
perspective of the decision maker and the answers offered are
framed in a language familiar to the decision-making community. The
book mixes descriptive case material with systematic statistical
analysis of a unique data set of all civil conflicts since World
War II, providing contemporary examples to illustrate overall
trends in the data. Beyond the policy implicationsthis work is also
rich in theoretical development about issues of conflict and
conflict management.
This book will appeal to students of international conflict, civil
war, ethnic conflict, and those who are concerned with developing
policy in the post-cold war world to deal with intrastate
conflict.
Patrick M. Regan is Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Binghamton University.
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