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  • Environmental Federalism

    Old Legacies and New Challenges

    by Luke Fowler ...
    In Environmental Federalism, Luke Fowler helps to refocus much-needed attention on the role of state governments in environmental policy creation and implementation in the United States. While the national government receives most of the attention when it comes to environmental policy, state governments play a vital role in protecting our natural resources. Legacy problems, like air, water, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Estado de México: Fuerte y firme

    Sobre el Estado de México se pueden decir muchas cosas; la primera, que es la entidad más poblada del país; esta característica se ha dado gracias a una serie de fenómenos migratorios altamente complejos, principalmente, porque se generaron por condiciones externas a nuestra propia entidad entre la década de 1940 y 1990 causando con esto que la densidad de algunas de las ciudades de nuestra ... Read more

    $12.70 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Estado Mexicano y Tributación Funciones, origen y aplicación de recursos públicos

    El Estado Mexicano de igual forma que todos los Estados Democráticos en el mundo actual se componen, por necesidad elemental, de sus elementos integrantes: el territorio, la población y el gobierno y es a través del último que se procurarán, política, jurídica, administrativa y económicamente, los fines y funciones sociales de su creación y permanencia. Las qué en esencia básica y fundamental para ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Estructura Económica de España - 2022

    Estructura Económica de España llega a su 26.ª edición, con numerosas reimpresiones intermedias. Muchas veces difundido con el nombre de su propio autor originario, –"El Tamames"—, el libro se ha convertido en la primera y permanente referencia sobre economía española por más de seis décadas, desde 1960 a2022. Un caso único. Esta obra ha sido y permanece como texto básico de enseñanza en ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Experiencing the European Union

    Learning how EU negotiations work through simulation games

    The EU is a complex political and institutional machine, with distinct procedures, language and codes. Its functioning is based on negotiations among a variety of actors at different levels (local, regional, national, supranational, inter-institutional, intra-institutional, etc.) as well as in informal and non-legislative contexts. For this reason, the EU can be difficult to understand. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Facing Poverty and Marginalization

    Fifty Years of Critical Research in Brazil

    Series series (Post-)Critical Global Childhood & Youth Studies
    A long history of poverty, discrimination, colonialism and struggle for social justice has provided, over the last fifty years, the context for the development of a vast amount of critical scholarship targeting marginalization in Brazil: Freireian pedagogics, theology of liberation, critical sociology, anthropology and ethnomathematics, critical social psychology and discourse analysis. Most of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Fairness, Morality, Simplicity

    by Martin Earley ...
    This is not a work of sociology; it is not based on polling of people’s changing views; it is not a sub-Hayekian/Rawlsian analysis of the constitution; it is not a relation of the extended Marxist family; and it does not apply evolutionary perspectives. It has a Christian, often a Judeo-Christian, refrain but it is not harking back to a different era. It values the judgements and experience of the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faz Zone di Autonomia Finanziaria

    Series series Contro Economia
    Nell’accezione corrente in economia, si fa riferimento per definire la ricchezza al concetto di scarsità. Un bene è tanto più prezioso in quanto è scarso, ed è questa la ragione per cui l’oro vale molto di più dell’aria, nonostante questa sia indubbiamente essenziale per vivere mentre l’oro è del tutto superfluo.Ma se ci pensiamo bene, questa idea è falsa. Se così fosse, della buona musica, o ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • FDA MEDICAL DEVICE REVIEWS

    Evaluation is Needed to Assure Requests for Additional Information Follow a Least Burdensome Approach

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DHHS
    Determining that a new medical device is safe and effective is a substantial investment of time and resources for the sponsor and FDA, the agency that regulates medical devices. FDA relies on the device sponsor to provide supporting data at the time of its original submission, and the agency can request additional information during the review. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL BUILDINGS

    Agencies Focus on Space Utilization As They Reduce Office and Warehouse Space

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOC
    The federal government continues to work to reduce its real property inventory and associated costs. GSA provides space for agencies in government-owned and commercially leased buildings. In 2015, the OMB issued a memorandum requiring the 24 agencies with chief financial officers to reduce their domestic office and warehouse space. These agencies are required to set annual reduction targets for a ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL BUILDINGS

    GSA Should Establish Goals and Performance Measures to Manage the Smart Buildings Program

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOC
    To help comply with federal policies aimed at improving federal building energy and environmental management, GSA has implemented a smart buildings program nationwide in federally owned buildings under its custody and control. Two key technologies included in the program are Internet-connected advanced utility meters and an analytical software application, GSAlink, which alerts staff to potential ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL CRIMINAL RESTITUTION

    Most Debt Is Outstanding and Oversight of Collections Could Be Improved

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOJ
    One of the goals of federal criminal restitution is to restore victims of federal crimes to the position they occupied before the crime was committed by providing compensation. Various entities within the federal government are involved in the process of requesting, ordering, and collecting restitution for crime victims, including DOJ and the judiciary... ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE

    CMS Needs to Ensure Complete, Accurate Data on Terminations of Coverage for Nonpayment of Premiums

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DHHS
    CMS has noted that it is important for enrollees to maintain continuous health insurance coverage to ensure the stability of the FFE. Certain rules allow for enrollment flexibilities—such as special enrollment periods and a 3-month grace period that is allowed before coverage is terminated for recipients of federal income-based subsidies who default on their premiums. However, some issuers have ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL HEALTH-INSURANCE MARKETPLACE

    Analysis of Plan Year 2015 Application, Enrollment, and Eligibility-Verification Process

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DHHS
    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) offers subsidized health-care coverage for qualifying applicants. States may operate their own health-care marketplaces or rely on the FFM, maintained by CMS. In PY 2015, 37 states relied on the FFM and over 8 million plan selections were made through the FFM. PPACA represents a significant fiscal commitment for the federal government, which ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION

    Capital Requirements and Stress Testing Practices Need Strengthening

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DHUD
    FHA insures private lenders against losses from defaults on single-family mortgages. According to independent actuarial reviews, in fiscal years 2009–2014, FHA’s MMI Fund (which insures $1.2 trillion in single-family traditional and reverse mortgages) did not meet its statutory 2 percent capital requirement. Also, a budgetary review determined that the fund required $1.69 billion in supplemental ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

    DHS and DOJ Are Working to Enhance Responses to Incidents Involving Individuals with Mental Illness

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DHS
    Law enforcement encounters with individuals with mental illness may require special training and skills and can sometimes involve volatile situations, risking tragic injuries or even death... ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL PAY

    Opportunities Exist to Enhance Strategic Use of Special Payments

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - Independent
    Federal agencies can provide additional compensation by using seven broadly available special payment authorities to recruit and retain employees to address needed skills. Though special payments can help fill mission-critical skills gaps, agencies also face constrained budgets, which underscores the importance of cost-effective use of authorities. OPM and the CHCO Council play important roles in ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL PERSONAL PROPERTY

    Opportunities Exist to Improve Identification of Unneeded Property for Disposal

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DHS
    The federal government owns billions of dollars of personal property—such as office furniture, scientific equipment, and industrial machinery. By law, each agency is required to follow GSA’s disposal process so that an agency’s unneeded property can be used by other agencies or certain non-federal entities. Since 2012, agencies have reduced their office and warehouse space due to government-wide ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL PRISONS

    Information on Inmates with Serious Mental Illness and Strategies to Reduce Recidivism

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOJ
    In 2016, SAMHSA estimated that about 10.4 million adults in the United States suffered from a serious mental illness, which generally includes conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. As of May 27, 2017, BOP was responsible for overseeing 187,910 inmates and 7,831 of these inmates were considered to have a serious mental illness. Research has shown that inmates with serious mental ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL REAL PROPERTY

    Agencies Make Some Use of Telework in Space Planning but Need Additional Guidance

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DHHS
    Federal agencies are exploring ways to use telework as a tool to reduce the federal footprint and use space more efficiently. GAO was asked to examine the effects of telework on agencies’ space-planning efforts. In this report, GAO reviewed: (1) how the 23 civilian CFO Act agencies reported using telework in office space planning; (2) the specific ways selected agencies and GSA used telework in ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL REAL PROPERTY

    DHS and GSA Have Not Implemented Recommendations to Strengthen the Management of DHS Headquarters Consolidation

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DHS
    DHS and GSA have been managing efforts to consolidate DHS executive leadership, operational management, and other personnel at one secure headquarters location rather than at multiple locations throughout the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The consolidation is to include the development of multi-billion dollar headquarters facilities at the St. Elizabeths campus in Washington, D.C... ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL REGULATIONS

    Opportunities to Improve the Effectiveness and Transparency of Regulatory and Guidance Practices

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - EOP
    Congress has often asked GAO to evaluate the implementation of procedural and analytical requirements that apply to agencies’ rulemaking and guidance processes. The importance of improving the transparency of those processes, including providing public participation and sufficient oversight, is a common theme throughout GAO’s body of work on federal regulation... ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL REGULATIONS

    Key Considerations for Agency Design and Enforcement Decisions

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - Independent
    Within the limits of their statutory authority, agencies may design their regulations in different ways to achieve intended policy outcomes. Agencies also decide how they will promote compliance with their regulations and ensure that regulated entities are informed of regulatory requirements... ... Read more

    $20.74 USD

  • FEDERAL RULEMAKING

    OMB Should Work with Agencies to Improve Congressional Review Act Compliance during and at the End of Presidents’ Terms

    by Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOT
    The Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015 includes a provision for GAO to assess multiple characteristics of final significant regulatory actions promulgated by executive departments during presidential transition periods (September 23 through January 20) at the end of Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama’s administrations and compare them to each other and to regulations issued during ... Read more

    $20.74 USD