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Evidence-based Policy Making in the Social Sciences: Methods That Matter

This book gathers an expert group of social scientists to showcase emerging forms of analysis and evaluation for public policy analysis. Each chapter highlights a different method or approach, putting it in context and highlighting its key features before illustrating its application and potential value to policy makers. Aimed at upper-level undergraduates in public policy and social work, it also has much to offer policy makers and practitioners themselves.

By Mark Evans (editor) and Gerry Stoker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781447329367 | Policy Pr, October 15, 2016, cover price $110.00

Paperback:

9781447329374 | Reprint edition (Policy Pr, October 15, 2016), cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This book gathers an expert group of social scientists to showcase emerging forms of analysis and evaluation for public policy analysis.

Nuclear Power and Energy Policy: The Limits to Governance

Product Description: This book explores how different governments have leveraged their capacity to advance a revival of nuclear power. Presenting in-depth case studies of France, Finland, Britain and the United States, Baker and Stoker argue that governments may struggle to promote new investment in nuclear power...read more

By Gerry Stoker

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Hardcover:

9781137433855 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 7, 2015, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book explores how different governments have leveraged their capacity to advance a revival of nuclear power.

Public Services: A New Reform Agenda

Product Description: Griffiths, Kippin and Stoker bring together many of the country's leading academic and policy experts to explore the long-term challenges facing public services, and ask what the role of government, citizens and society should be in addressing them...read more

By Simon Griffiths (editor), Henry Kippin (editor) and Gerry Stoker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781849663489 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 29, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Griffiths, Kippin and Stoker bring together many of the country's leading academic and policy experts to explore the long-term challenges facing public services, and ask what the role of government, citizens and society should be in addressing them.

Paperback:

9781474218054 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 29, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Griffiths, Kippin and Stoker bring together many of the country's leading academic and policy experts to explore the long-term challenges facing public services, and ask what the role of government, citizens and society should be in addressing them.

Debating Institutionalism

Product Description: Institutionalism has become one of the dominant strands of theory within contemporary political science. Beginning with the challenge to behavioural and rational choice theory issued by March and Olsen, institutional analysis has developed into an important alternative to more individualistic approaches to theory and analysis...read more

By Gerry Stoker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780719076787 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Institutionalism has become one of the dominant strands of theory within contemporary political science.

Paperback:

9780719090004 | Reprint edition (Manchester Univ Pr, August 6, 2013), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Institutionalism has become one of the dominant strands of theory within contemporary political science.

Governance Theory and Practice: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach

By Vasudha Chhotray and Gerry Stoker

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Hardcover:

9780230546769 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 9, 2008, cover price $110.00

Paperback:

9780230250390, titled "Governance Theory and Practice: A Cross Disciplinary Approach" | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2010, cover price $39.00

Prospects for Citizenship

Product Description: Is citizenship in decline due to globalisation and an erosion of civic participation and democratic representation? Or is it merely transformed and extended to new levels and larger scales? Should we assess these challenges and changes primarily from a perspective of global justice, or consider also membership in a democratic polity as itself a basic good? Prospects for Citizenship addresses these broad questions in a unique collaborative effort...read more

By Gerry Stoker

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Hardcover:

9781849660051 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 15, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This text offers a perspicuous, empirically-informed theoretical overview of the prospects for citizenship in the light of its current political context.

Paperback:

9781474252898 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 27, 2015), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Is citizenship in decline due to globalisation and an erosion of civic participation and democratic representation?

Theory and Methods in Political Science

This basic introduction to theory and methods in political science brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading scholars in every field into a carefully integrated and coherent text.

By David Marsh (editor) and Gerry Stoker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780230576261 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2010, cover price $135.00

9780333948569 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 7, 2002), cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This basic introduction to theory and methods in political science brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading scholars in every field into a carefully integrated and coherent text.

9780312127619 | 1st edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1995), cover price $65.00 | also contains Burn | About this edition: This basic introduction to theory and methods in political science brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading scholars in every field into a carefully integrated and coherent text.

Paperback:

9780230576278 | 3 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2010), cover price $49.50

9780333948552 | 2 reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 7, 2002), cover price $45.00

9780312127626 | 1st edition (Palgrave Macmillan, July 1, 1995), cover price $26.95

Politics/Why Politics Matters Student Pack

By Gerry Stoker

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Paperback:

9780230248106 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, November 9, 2009, cover price $69.05

Elections and Voters

Product Description: This major new text by two leading authorities in the field provides a state-of-the-art assessment of what we know about voting behavior and the character, consequences and significance of elections in democratic states. Uniquely broad-ranging in scope, it shows how patterns of electoral behavior have evolved over time and also assesses the varying extents to which voters in different countries are able to affect the direction of government policies in practice...read more

By Mark N. Franklin

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9781403941275 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 13, 2009), cover price $135.00 | About this edition: This major new text by two leading authorities in the field provides a state-of-the-art assessment of what we know about voting behavior and the character, consequences and significance of elections in democratic states.

Teoria y metodos de la ciencia politica/ Theory and Methods in Political Science

By David Marsh, Jesus Cuellar Menezo (trans) and Gerry Stoker

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Paperback:

9788420681658 | Italian edition edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007), cover price $50.95

Re-energizing Citizenship: Strategies for Civil Renewal

By Tessa Brannan (editor), Peter John (editor) and Gerry Stoker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780230500419 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 9, 2007, cover price $130.00

Remaking Planning: The Politics of Urban Change

By Gerry Stoker

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Miscellaneous:

9780203989661 | 2 edition (Routledge, September 14, 2006), cover price $59.95

Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work

Product Description: Achieving mass democracy was the great triumph of the last century. Learning to live with it will be the greatest achievement of this one. Stoker suggests that democracy must create a new politics, making it as easy as possible for as many people to participate...read more

By Gerry Stoker

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Hardcover:

9781403997395 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 22, 2006, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Achieving mass democracy was the great triumph of the last century.

Paperback:

9781403997401 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 22, 2006, cover price $41.00 | About this edition: Achieving mass democracy was the great triumph of the last century.

British Local Government Into The 21st Century

Product Description: What is the current state of local government in Britain and where is it going? Edited by two leading experts and with an all-star cast of contributors, British Local Government into the 21st Century brings together a set of specially-commissioned and tightly-edited chapters to provide a comprehensive assessment of the issues and challenges facing local authorities as they search for a new role in a new century...read more

By Gerry Stoker (editor) and David J. Wilson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781403918727 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 2005, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: What is the current state of local government in Britain and where is it going?

Transforming Local Governance: From Thatcherism to New Labour

Product Description: Drawing on the author's unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gerry Stoker

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Hardcover:

9780333802489 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 4, 2004, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the author's unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities.

Advancing a New Public Service Ethos

By Gerry Stoker

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Paperback:

9781903447215 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $15.45

Towards Holistic Governance: The New Reform Agenda

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By Diana Leat, Kimberly Seltzer and Gerry Stoker

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Hardcover:

9780333928912 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 2002, cover price $99.95

Models of Local Governance: Public Opinion and Political Theory in Britain

Product Description: From 1979 to 1997 Britain was a laboratory for experiments in local governance as the control and delivery of local services was switched from elected councils to appointed boards (quangos), private companies or self-management. This book is about four models of local governance: the traditional 'localist' model, the New Right's 'individual' model, the New Left's 'mobilisation' model, and government's own 'centralist' model...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Malcolm Dickson, William Lockley Miller and Gerry Stoker

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Hardcover:

9780333790052 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 2000, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: From 1979 to 1997 Britain was a laboratory for experiments in local governance as the control and delivery of local services was switched from elected councils to appointed boards (quangos), private companies or self-management.

9780312237721 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | also contains Linearization and Efficiency Enhancement Techniques for Silicon Power Amplifiers: From Rf to Mmw

The New Politics of British Local Governance

Product Description: This book examines the changing nature of local politics, drawing on the latest research from the ESRC Local Governance Program. It assesses the emergence of new forms of elite organizations and changing power relations in the context of increasing roles for business and other partners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gerry Stoker (editor)

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9780312228033 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 2000, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This book examines the changing nature of local politics, drawing on the latest research from the ESRC Local Governance Program.

The New Management of British Local Governance

Product Description: This text presents a detailed analysis of management of public services at the local level, drawing on the work of the ESRC Local Governance Programme. The radical transformation of public service delivery is assessed in terms of its overall impact as well as its operation in particular areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gerry Stoker (editor)

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9780312219703 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1999, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This text presents a detailed analysis of management of public services at the local level, drawing on the work of the ESRC Local Governance Programme.

The Privatization of Urban Services in Europe

Product Description: Municipal governments are trying increasingly to offload urban services in response to various factors. Services are becoming ever more costly to manage; and governments are influenced by the spread of free market doctrine, fiscal pressure, and bids from international concerns inducing them to transfer responsibility for delivering services to the private sector...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dominique Lorrain (editor) and Gerry Stoker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781855673649 | Thomson Learning, December 1, 1996, cover price $104.99 | About this edition: Municipal governments are trying increasingly to offload urban services in response to various factors.

Paperback:

9781855673656 | Cengage Learning, December 1, 1996, cover price $43.99 | About this edition: Municipal governments are trying increasingly to offload urban services in response to various factors.

Theories of Urban Politics

Product Description: Providing a comprehensive overview of the main theories which structure debate on urban politics, the internationally respected contributors to this textbook provide a clear and coherent account which is organized around four major questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Judge (editor), Gerry Stoker (editor) and Harold Wolman (editor)

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Paperback:

9780803988651 | Sage Pubns Ltd, July 11, 1995, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Providing a comprehensive overview of the main theories which structure debate on urban politics, the internationally respected contributors to this textbook provide a clear and coherent account which is organized around four major questions.

Local Government in Europe: Trends and Development

By Richard Batley and Gerry Stoker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780312057367 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1991, cover price $49.95

Remaking Planning: The Politics of Urban Change in the Thatcher Years

Product Description: This book challenges the view that planning under the Thatcher governments has simply been abandoned to market forces, aiming to show that the interrelation of state and market is central to all current styles of planning. A wide variety of contemporary case studies are presented ranging across the country from Glasgow, through Cambridge and Colchester to London with a comparative analysis of their key features...read more

By Tim Brindley, Yvonne Rydin and Gerry Stoker

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Hardcover:

9780047110214 | Routledge, February 1, 1990, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book challenges the view that planning under the Thatcher governments has simply been abandoned to market forces, aiming to show that the interrelation of state and market is central to all current styles of planning.

Paperback:

9780415098748 | Routledge, January 1, 1988, cover price $73.95

The Politics of Local Government

Product Description: The last decade has seen an increase in political and ideological conflict in local government. This book analyzes this context and examines both the operation of elected local authorities and the rise of a non-directly elected local governement.

By Gerry Stoker

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Paperback:

9780333442708 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 8, 1988, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: The last decade has seen an increase in political and ideological conflict in local government.

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