Beyond Racial Gridlock
Title | Beyond Racial Gridlock PDF eBook |
Author | George Yancey |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2009-08-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830874550 |
Sociologist George Yancey critiques four models of race (colorblindness, Anglo-conformity, multiculturalism and white responsibility), and introduces a new model (mutual responsibility). He offers hope that people of all races can walk together on a shared path toward racial reconciliation--not as adversaries but as collaborators and partners.
Breaking Through Gridlock
Title | Breaking Through Gridlock PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Jay |
Publisher | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2017-05-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1626568960 |
Using enlightening exercises and rich examples, this book helps us become aware of the role we unwittingly play in getting conversations stuck and empowers us to share what really matters so that together we can create positive change. --
American Environmental Policy, updated and expanded edition
Title | American Environmental Policy, updated and expanded edition PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Mcgrory Klyza |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2013-08-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0262525046 |
An updated investigation of alternate pathways for American environmental policymaking made necessary by legislative gridlock. The “golden era” of American environmental lawmaking in the 1960s and 1970s saw twenty-two pieces of major environmental legislation (including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act) passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed into law by presidents of both parties. But since then partisanship, the dramatic movement of Republicans to the right, and political brinksmanship have led to legislative gridlock on environmental issues. In this book, Christopher Klyza and David Sousa argue that the longstanding legislative stalemate at the national level has forced environmental policymaking onto other pathways. Klyza and Sousa identify and analyze five alternative policy paths, which they illustrate with case studies from 1990 to the present: “appropriations politics” in Congress; executive authority; the role of the courts; “next-generation” collaborative experiments; and policymaking at the state and local levels. This updated edition features a new chapter discussing environmental policy developments from 2006 to 2012, including intensifying partisanship on the environment, the failure of Congress to pass climate legislation, the ramifications of Massachusetts v. EPA, and other Obama administration executive actions (some of which have reversed Bush administration executive actions). Yet, they argue, despite legislative gridlock, the legacy of 1960s and 1970s policies has created an enduring “green state” rooted in statutes, bureaucratic routines, and public expectations.
Gridlock
Title | Gridlock PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hale |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2013-07-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0745670105 |
The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But at the same time, our tools for global policymaking - chiefly state-to-state negotiations over treaties and international institutions - have broken down. The result is gridlock, which manifests across areas via a number of common mechanisms. The rise of new powers representing a more diverse array of interests makes agreement more difficult. The problems themselves have also grown harder as global policy issues penetrate ever more deeply into core domestic concerns. Existing institutions, created for a different world, also lock-in pathological decision-making procedures and render the field ever more complex. All of these processes - in part a function of previous, successful efforts at cooperation - have led global cooperation to fail us even as we need it most. Ranging over the main areas of global concern, from security to the global economy and the environment, this book examines these mechanisms of gridlock and pathways beyond them. It is written in a highly accessible way, making it relevant not only to students of politics and international relations but also to a wider general readership.
Gridlock
Title | Gridlock PDF eBook |
Author | Byron L. Dorgan |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2013-07-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429949422 |
Two Iranian agents hand over one million dollars to a Russian engineer for a thumbdrive. The drive contains a deadly computer virus that could shut down all electrical power in the United States at a keystroke. In rural North Dakota, a lineman is electrocuted, and the local cop sent to investigate is shot to death. As rolling electrical blackouts begin to shut down major US cities, the war for energy domination begins. Two nations are behind this deadly attack: Venezuela and Iran, intent on destroying the present world order and bringing an arrogant America to its knees. Their agent of terror is Yuri Makarov, a former Spetsnaz officer, the best of the best among the shadow world of killers for hire. When governments are powerless to stop such a man from sending the United States back to the horse-and-buggy era, North Dakota county sheriff Nate Osborne and brash journalist Ashley Borden once again step into the breach. Gridlock is a harrowing near-future thriller from New York Times bestselling duo Senator Byron Dorgan and David Hagberg. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Moving Beyond Gridlock
Title | Moving Beyond Gridlock PDF eBook |
Author | Robert T. Dunphy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
This volume attempts to put the transportation problem in the context of regional land use and to offer guidance to those who make transportation improvements and to planners who approve and implement projects that need transportation services.
Preventing Strategic Gridlock
Title | Preventing Strategic Gridlock PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela S. Harper |
Publisher | Cameo Publications |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780971573949 |
Find out why strategies and initiatives that looked good during planning end up mysteriously snarled in a tangled web of persistent organizational problems ("stategic gridlock") during execution.