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Adding value to policy analysis & advice - Claudia Scott & Karen Baehler

ISBN: 086840859X

Explores ways of adding value to policy analysis & advice in Australia and New Zealand, drawing on contributions from individuals & organisations both inside & outside the formal policymaking system. The authors critique & expand upon the available models, methods & approaches to policy analysis and advising, & propose a systems perspective & a crafting approach to policy design.

Global terrorism and new media : the post Al-Qaeda generation - Philip Seib & Dana M. Janbek

ISBN: 0415779618

Based partly on a content analysis of discussion boards & forums, the authors share their findings on how terrorism 1.0 is migrating to 2.0 where the interactive nature of new media is used to build virtual organization & community. Although the creative use of social networking tools such as Facebook may advance the reach of terrorist groups, the impact of their use of new media remains uncertain.

Government, politics, power & policy in Australia - Dennis Woodward, Andrew Parkin & John Summers (eds)

ISBN: 1442508736

Provides students with an in-depth contemporary study of Australian politics & key policy issues, with a balance of conceptual, institutional, historical & contemporary approaches.

Green planet blues: four decades of global environmental politics - Conca & Dabelko (eds)

ISBN: 0813344115

Examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives... Paradigms of sustainability, environmental security, & ecological justice illustrate the many ways environmental problems & their solutions are framed in contemporary international debates about climate, water, forests, toxics, energy, food, biodiversity & other environmental challenges of the 21st century.

The Australian political system in action - Narelle Miragliotta, Wayne Errington & Nicholas Barry

ISBN: 0195563174

This book introduces the dynamics of the Australian political system. It sets out the key concepts and institutions of democratic politics and demonstrates how the actors and institutions of Australian politics interact and develop.

 

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