Political Science / Public Policy

Using seventeen cases where researchers applied behavioral interventions in the field, this book identifies not only what works but also what does not work (and why).

Remaking European Political Economies analyses the political economy of financial assistance and socio-economic change during the euro crisis.

The latest title in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series offers practical advice on how best to successfully design, deliver, and evaluate efficient cash transfer programs.

Covering a range of criminal justice and social policy issues, this book explores how governments and Parliament justify their legislative choices under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Faith, Rights, and Choice traces the history of religious accommodations in the schooling systems of Canada’s provinces.

This collection of essays analyses the ongoing effects of neoliberalism and assesses its impacts on society, culture, and the political environment in the present day.

Aiming to Explain uses firearms policy to test and compare several theories of policy change in order to gauge their explanatory potential in the Canadian context.

Cybersecurity Management looks at the current state of cybercrime and explores how organizations can develop resources and capabilities to prepare themselves for the changing cybersecurity environment.

The book provides a thorough review of the U.S. health care system, including its organization and financing, care delivery, recent reforms, and an evaluation of the system’s performance.

Providing a broad-based background for analysing economic policies, this textbook brings economic rationality to political decision making.

Examining a range of policy areas in Canada, this book assesses the extent to which governments share information and learn from each other when tackling challenging policy problems and the impact it has on national policy making.

Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in holding the pharmaceutical industry to account through greater transparency.

This book examines Social Impact Bonds as a means to finance social services, and how mainstream and heterodox economic theory can help understand their existence and emergence.

Applying an innovative approach to capture varieties and dynamics of federal democracies, this collection examines the conditions, mechanisms and practices that make federal democracies work.