The book introduces Legislative Conflict Theory. The theory suggests that conflict in legislatures in two-dimensional and that a moderate level of conflict will be most productive. The two types of conflict are policy differences and relational conflict. Using the US Congress as a testing ground, and novel indicators of both forms of conflict and ......
Insights on Resiliency, Innovation, and Performance
Governments face increasingly serious, seemingly intractable management challenges. This book brings together scholars, thought leaders, and government executives to address the future of government operations, and provide government leaders with practical, actionable insights on how best to manage and lead through uncertain and disruptive times.
Insights on Resiliency, Innovation, and Performance
Governments face increasingly serious, seemingly intractable management challenges. This book brings together scholars, thought leaders, and government executives to address the future of government operations, and provide government leaders with practical, actionable insights on how best to manage and lead through uncertain and disruptive times.
The authors compare the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public opinion and the dynamics of party politics in Taiwan, along with some of its strategic neighbors. The book provides profound implications for understanding the interactions between the COVID-19 pandemic and politics for scholars worldwide.
Re-thinking Child Welfare Training amid Rationally Bounded Administrativ
Toward a Theory of Administrative Tethering is the culmination of a seven-year commitment to investigate and explore the nature of collaboration, specifically in child protective services (CPS).
Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty
This unique manual provides policymakers, social planners, and economists with salient aspects of fiscal redistribution theory, a step-by-step guide to applying fiscal incidence analysis including the required software, a variety of country studies to illustrate, and data on fiscal redistribution for a large number of countries around the world.
The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the Us-Mexico Bor
Documents the cruel immigration policies and treatment toward border crossers on the US-Mexico border. On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the United States and Mexico. In Unsettling, Gilberto Rosas situates this devastating shooting as ......
An Examination of the Devolution of Higher Education in the Age of Corpo
Tenure at a Crossroads, Again? represents a collection of academically researched essays that discusses the American academy from multiple viewpoints - the administrator, the professor, the K-12 educator. Political, economic, and cultural changes have created unintended consequences that require us to re-examine current practices to offer ......
This book emphasizes the importance of community development in the change and transformation of a community and why that change matters. Community development improves the social capital of a community, and creates new housing opportunities and new places for people that improve and enhance the overall quality of life of the community.