Bøger af Phillip J. Cooper

By considering key issues important to a more effective understanding and use of regulation in the future, this book makes a vital case for restoring debate about regulation's rightful role within the republic and offers hope that a better understanding of that role can help lift us out of the crisis.

Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action within our democracy. Yet few have truly understood the nature of the president's special powers and their impact on American life. In this volume, Phillip Cooper offers a cogent guide to these powers.

Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions takes a broad-based and integrative approach to exploring nation-building and reconstruction in the wake of environmentally destructive warfare.

This text illuminates the Supreme Court's legendary and little-known clashes from John Marshall to Ruth Ginsberg. It aims to help the reader understand why the justices fight, how they fight and why their fights matter.

Is the public getting a good deal when the government contracts out the delivery of goods and services? This title explors what happens when public sector organizations - at the federal, state and local levels - form working relationships with other agencies, communities, non-profit organizations and private firms through contracts.

Federal district-court judges have to make some of the most difficult decisions in cases involving civil rights, schools and housing, prison reform, and other social issues. This book gives a number of case studies.

"Implementing Sustainable Development" focuses on the challenge of turning international commitments and policy promises into action. Using examples and cases from around the US and around the world, it examines the successful and failed efforts designed to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development.