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Using Evidence to Inform Policy

By: Pete Lunn,Frances Ruane

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Using Evidence to Inform Policy

By: Pete Lunn,Frances Ruane

Using Evidence to Inform Policy is a unique examination of how evidence can be used to improve policymaking, especially in challenging economic times. There is a need for transparency in government and policy decisions. Research and evidence can help to provide this transparency, and Using Evidence to Inform Policy outlines how. However, the book also demonstrates the complexity of the relationship between evidence and policy, arguing that in most cases good policy cannot be determined by evidence alone. Using Evidence to Inform Policy demonstrates the breadth and value of the contribution that evidence can make to policy. It presents eleven studies drawn from recent Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) research projects, illustrating different aspects of the relationship between evidence and policy, and how these vary by policy area. Using examples, the book demonstrates how national and international research can be used to good effect in policymaking. The theme of how evidence can influence policy is examined with reference to Ireland and the international experience and in a wide range of areas, including the economy, public infrastructure, innovation, competition, the labour market, financial regulation, healthcare, housing, education, government spending, public services and earnings. Each chapter tackles a question that's relevant to policymaking now, for example, how to protect consumers of financial services; what is the public's perception of public services and their implications for public sector reform?; how to explain changes in earnings and labour costs during the recession; what is the evidence for providing economic security through competition and regulatory policy?; do active labour market policies activate?; how to boost innovation and productivity in enterprises. The book is relevant to all those taking courses in economics, sociology, political science, governance, social policy and Irish Studies at postgraduate and undergraduate level, as well as civil servants, politicians, policymakers, researchers and analysts in the public sector.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717162893

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9780717162895

Occupational Employment Forecasts 2012

By: Pete Lunn,Nicola Doyle,Gerard Hughes

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Occupational Employment Forecasts 2012

By: Pete Lunn,Nicola Doyle,Gerard Hughes

Based on data covering the period 1991-2005, forecasts levels of employment by occupation to 2012. Distinguishes between high-growth and low-growth scenarios, and provides a breakdown of occupations by gender. Presents sectoral employment forecasts following the ILO definition of employment status.

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ESRI

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0707002559

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9780707002552

Fair Play?

Sport and Social Disadvantage in Ireland

By: Pete Lunn

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Sport and Social Disadvantage in Ireland

By: Pete Lunn

Using data from more than 3000 adults, examines the impact of social disadvantage on participation in sport. Finds those with low incomes or law educational attainment less likely to play sport. Points up the need to change sports policy.

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122

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ESRI

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0707002486

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9780707002484

Smarter Recovery

A Practical Guide to Maximizing Training Results

By: Pete McCall

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Smarter Recovery

A Practical Guide to Maximizing Training Results

By: Pete McCall

Smarter Recovery takes the guesswork out of maximizing your recovery. With 60 exercises and stretches for recovery and mobility, nutrition strategies, case studies, and prescriptive action plans, you can ensure you will be prepared for your next workout and wake up feeling your best.

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249

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Human Kinetics

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1718214812

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9781718214811

Amen Corner

By: Pete Liebengood

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Amen Corner

By: Pete Liebengood

A boy in his late teens with incredible vertical jumping skills is the first nonclone drafted by an International Football League team in fifteen years since the league converted to clones-only players in 2041. Orphaned at birth and raised by Catholic nuns, Patrick Caravan is coveted by the San Jose Routers for his potential for turning end zone fade routes into touchdowns. The resistance to a nonclone playing in the league is fierce and widespread. In addition to coping with instant celebrity and the disdain of nearly everyone in the game, young Caravan is obsessed with learning the identity of his real parents. That leads to a complicated extortion plot against the mother superior who raised him. Young Caravan fulfills his potential, triumphing with a leaping fade route catch that tops the scoring but, because of complications, doesnt win his team the Super Bowl.

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293

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524588245

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9781524588243

Collision

The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972–1985

By: Pete Gershon

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The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972–1985

By: Pete Gershon

Winner, 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city’s emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figures, including museum director James Harithas and sculptor James Surls. Harithas was a fierce champion for Texan artists during his tenure as the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum–Houston (CAM). He put Texas artists on the map, but his renegade style proved too confrontational for the museum’s benefactors, and after four years, he wore out his welcome. After Harithas’s departure from the CAM, the chainsaw-wielding Surls established the Lawndale Annex as a largely unsupervised outpost of the University of Houston art department. Inside this dirty, cavernous warehouse, a new generation of Houston artists discovered their identities and began to flourish. Both the CAM and the Lawndale Annex set the scene for the emergence of small, downtown, artist-run spaces, including Studio One, the Center for Art and Performance, Midtown Arts Center, and DiverseWorks. Finally, in 1985, the Museum of Fine Arts presented Fresh Paint: The Houston School, a nationally publicized survey of work by Houston painters. The exhibition capped an era of intensive artistic development and suggested that the city was about to be recognized, along with New York and Los Angeles, as a major center for art-making activity. Drawing upon primary archival materials, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and over sixty interviews with significant figures, Gershon presents a narrative that preserves and interweaves the stories and insights of those who transformed the Houston art scene into the vibrant community that it is today.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623496330

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9781623496333

Uneven Lies

The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf

By: Pete McDaniel

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The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf

By: Pete McDaniel

A fast-moving heart-warming narrative on the history of African-Americans in golf. Beginning with the 1896 U.S. Open where blacks first played in national competition, to the invention of the golf tee by an African-American dentist in 1899, to the early clubs and facilities open to people of color, to the service roles that served as an introduction to the game. And much, much more.

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American Golfer

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1888531371

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9781888531374

Using Evidence to Inform Policy

By: Pete Lunn,Frances Ruane

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Basic Instincts

Human Nature and the New Economics

By: Pete Lunn

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Basic Instincts

Human Nature and the New Economics

By: Pete Lunn

Human instincts are surprisingly sophisticated and subtle, having adapted over generations of trading with each other. Understanding how these instincts work can not only change the way you think about your own affairs, it can alter how you think about a whole range of economic and business issues (from what constitutes a fair salary to the impact of globalisation).A new breed of economists - known as behavioural economists - has started to observe economic life more closely. This book reveals the fascinating results of their studies . Human instincts have long been ignored by traditional economics, but they are crucial factors in major economic decisions, and hence important for our futures. This engaging book is about those human instincts and how the study of them has begun to change fundamentally the science of economics and our own behaviour in today's world

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Marshall Cavendish Books Limited

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0462099636

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9780462099637

Fair Play?

Sport and Social Disadvantage in Ireland

By: Pete Lunn

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Sport and Social Disadvantage in Ireland

By: Pete Lunn

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