American Health Care Proposals and International Experience
With health care reform at the top of the domestic agenda, this volume assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans by discussing how six other countries have organised health care finance and delivery to achieve universal access to comparable quality care at much lower costs.
While the idea of national standards has been widely supported, many respected educators doubt their value from fear that such standards will institutionalize the lowest common denominator. Others cite the poor performance of US students on international tests and insist that the US will suffer because of this poor performance. This book addresses ......
What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. This book represents the private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy. It makes a contribution to the foreign policy debate.
Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation
This work aims to show how a higher levy on gasoline would be a more effective way to promote energy efficiency in the United States. The authors examine policies in different countries; show how regultory measures have failed in the United States; and offer suggestions for new directions.
Examines the shifting fortunes of economic interest groups in Washington. Gary Mucciaroni addresses such compelling questions as: Why do policymakers bestow benefits on these groups in some areas of public policy but refrain from doing so in others? Why are benefits given to these industries in one period but revoked at a later time?
Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States
The virtual inability to open new hazardous waste management facilities in Canada and the United States stems directly from a form of community opposition so common and vehement that it is commonly identified as a syndrome: Not In My Back Yard (or NIMBY). Beyond NIMBY examines positive alternatives to prevailing approaches to siting and the ......
Produced in close consultation with state health care officials from all around the US, this important volume offers practical and timely recommendations for how to make health reform work. It addresses the central implementation, management, and federalism dimensions of reform.
Examines the evolution of US policy toward the World Bank and the impact of the United States on the institution's policies and operations. Beginning with the US role in the start-up of the Bank, Catherine Gwin describes the ebb and flow of the US support.
Emergent Public Health Hazards and National Policymaking
Focusing on activity devoted to the discovery, investigation, containment, and prevention of disease in the population at large, Christopher Foreman shows how uncertainty and politics complicate crucial stages of policy response, and why that response is easily misinterpreted.
