georgetown university press mär 2005 (5 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the past decade in the United States, nearly 6,000 people a year have died waiting for organ transplants. In 2003 alone, only 20,000 out of the 83,000 waiting for transplants received them--in anyone's eyes, a tragedy. Many of these deaths could have been prevented, and many more lives saved, were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Bioethicist Mark Cherry explores the why of these well-intentioned misperceptions and legislation and boldly deconstructs the roadblocks that are standing in the way of restoring health to thousands of people. If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded Kidney for Sale by Owner contends that the market is indeed a legitimate--and humane--way to procure and distribute human organs. Cherry stakes the claim that it may be even more just, and more compatible with many Western religious and phil.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Both 'bureaucracy' and 'bureaucrats' have taken on a pejorative hue over the years, but does the problem lie with those on the 'street-level'--those organizations and people the public deals with directly--or is it in how they are managed Norma Riccucci knows that management matters, and she addresses a critical gap in the understanding of public policy by uniquely focusing on the effects of public management on street-level bureaucrats.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The unifying theme is studying how language is used in context (unlike the generative Chomskian approach), in interactions between at least two people in order to achieve some purpose. This book explores thus explores how lanugage is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity. It brings together perspectives from cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and first and second language acquisition research. These fields traditionally have not cross-fertilized their ideas, although all are engaged in usage-based approaches, so linking all three is a creative idea. This volume contains selected contributions from the 2003 GURT. Some of the names are prominent (Adele Goldberg, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Susanne Niemeier, Ann Wennerstrom).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scandals have been ubiquitous since the beginning of the Republic, but it wasn't until 1954 that ethical self-regulation began to move legislatively beyond bribery statutes to address deeper issues--those which, in New York Governor Thomas Dewey's words, skulked in the 'shadowlands of conduct.' Rosenson begins her exploration with that moment when New York became the first state to enact a general ethics law, setting standards and guidelines for behavior. Unforgiving and illuminating, she examines the many laws that have been enacted since and the reasons that many of these law came into being.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a unique comparative focus on state policy, 'Power, Knowledge, and Politics' dissects the nature of the policy institutions that policymakers establish and analyzes the connection between policy research and how it is actually used in decision making. Hird probes the effects of politics and political institutions--parties, state political culture and dynamics, legislative and gubernatorial staffing, partisan think tanks, interest groups--on the nature and conduct of nonpartisan policy analysis. Through a comparative examination of institutions and testing theories of the use of policy analysis, Hird draws conclusions that are more useful than those derived from single cases. This thoroughly comprehensive look at policymaking at the state level concludes that nonpartisan policy analysis institutions can play an important roles long as they remain scrupulously nonpartisan.