Land Use Policies in Selected States

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Managing Psychopathic Employees

[Excerpt] What if a small but definable subset of the employee population were responsible for a major share of corporate crime and ethical breaches? If so, then developing policies that target them would improve the firm’s performance, not to mention its ethical climate. In this article I claim that psychopathic employees constitute such a subset, and I suggest human resource policies that can help firms cope with them

A Nuclear-Armed Iran: Possible Security and Diplomatic Implications

Analyzes how Iran's neighbors might react to a nuclear Iran: self-help in enhancing their own defenses; bandwagoning by accommodating Iran's preferences; and balancing by moving closer to the United States or forming a collective security arrangement

Public Jobs and Public Agendas: The Public Sector in an Era of Economic Stress

[Excerpt] The issues described in this volume\u27s chapters remained in flux as this book was being completed. The U.S. economy was in a recovery phase, albeit a recovery at a rather lackluster pace. Because of the lags in adjustment in state and local governments, the public sector was coping with prior circumstances even as the private sector resumed an economic expansion. At the international level, some European elections in the aftermath of the Great Recession have suggested that there is public frustration with austerity policies. The Great Recession occurred in an era of political polarization, which the sharp downturn exacerbated. As a result, resolving the issues related to public sector employment was complicated by an infusion of ideology. Working out the problems that remain unresolved is likely to be marked by continued partisan struggles in state and local affairs, and in similar conflicts around the world