This book examines ways in which communities can affect change by providing strategies on creating and developing communities that enables people to live their lives.
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.
Halting Higher Education's Decline in the Court of Public Opinion
An unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of what citizens really think about their public universities, What's Public about Public Higher Ed? places special emphasis on the events of 2020-including the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst racial unrest seen in half a century-as major inflection points for understanding the implications of the ......
Lemieux shows how free trade improves the lives of American consumers, especially the poor. The narrow agenda of the protectionists-to protect a small minority of producers at the expense of millions of their fellow Americans-is the wrong path for an increasingly diverse and complex economy. This concise primer shows you why.
This book examines the expanding reach of the securities market in the US financial system. It analyzes key elements such as the rise of technology, the role of hedge funds, and the bloated agency system, and argues that the current structure is doomed to fail. It suggests a new structure capable of withstanding the challenges of modern markets.
The Distribution of Regulatory Impacts in the United States
Provides extensive empirical evidence showing how key areas of federal regulation during the past forty years have had varying social and economic impacts across the different strata of American society.
The war on terrorism has raised profound questions of domestic governance -not primarily about power or policy, but about the capacities of government agencies, their personnel, procedures, work habits and styles, and ability to interface with each other.
This book makes a basic promise: It will help you pry loose government information. Governments are obsessed with controlling the message. This is your book to help get records they do not want to disclose.
Your Right to Know tells you how to use freedom-of-information laws to gain access to government records on spending, policies and ......
