Policy making is a political struggle over values and ideas. By exposing the paradoxes that underlie even seemingly straightforward policy decisions, Policy Paradox shows students that politics cannot be cleansed from the process in favor of rationality. Author Deborah Stone has fully revised and up[...]

Whether you are a professional new to the user-centered design field, or an experienced designer who needs to learn the fundamentals of user interface design and evaluation, this book can lead the way. What will you get from this book? Based on a course from the Open University, UK which has been ta[...]

This is a book about the defining assumptions and assumed definition of the welfare state. It is a work that pulls apart social categories like 'disability' or 'need' and shows how they function politically and where they come from historically. For many years, the welfare state was expanding. In th[...]