Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations

Edited By Francisco Panizza, B. Guy Peters, Conrado Ramos Larraburu

A Systematic Analysis of Patronage Appointments in Public Bureaucracies of Seven Latin American Countries

Traffic Safety Reform in the United States and Great Britain

This book combines theory and research to analyze attempts to improve traffic safety through stricter drinking-age laws, seat-belt requirements, and deterrents to drunk driving.

Private Markets and Public Intervention

A Primer for Policy Designers

By Harvey Averch

Averch describes and analyzes common strategies for solving problems in public policy including the use of markets, bureaus, regulation, planning and budgeting, benefit-cost, systems analysis, and evaluation.

Toward a National Power Policy

The New Deal and the Electric Utility Industry, 1933–1941

By Philip J. Funigiello

This book profiles the events, laws, utilities and dominant industry and political players that shaped the development of national power policies during a period when the federal government sought to make affordable electricity available to all Americans.