| Author | : Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781304117380 |
Alaska Native Cultures and Issues
| Author | : Libby Roderick |
| Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2010-07-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1602230927 |
Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the important issues they face. This concise book compiles frequently asked questions and provides informative and accessible responses that shed light on some common misconceptions. With responses composed by scholars within the represented communities and reviewed by a panel of experts, this easy-to-read compendium aims to facilitate a deeper exploration and richer discussion of the complex and compelling issues that are part of Alaska Native life today.
Alaska Politics and Public Policy
| Author | : Clive S. Thomas |
| Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
| Total Pages | : 1241 |
| Release | : 2016-09-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 160223289X |
Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter the political landscape. This book, the most comprehensive on the subject to date, focuses on the question of how beliefs, institutions, personalities, and power interact to shape Alaska politics and public policy. Drawing on these interactions, the contributors explain how and why certain issues get dealt with successfully and others unsuccessfully, and why some issues are taken up quickly while others are not addressed at all. This comprehensive guide to the political climate of Alaska will be essential to anyone studying the politics of America’s largest—and in some ways most unusual—state.
Alaska Politics & Government
| Author | : Gerald A. McBeath |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 1994-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780803231207 |
This book examines Alaska's character and the forces shaping it. Underlying their descriptions are the themes of independence, dependence, and the search for sustainable economic development.
Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
| Author | : Craig Volden |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2014-10-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0521761522 |
This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.
Alaska Subsistence
| Author | : Frank Blaine Norris |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Alaska |
| ISBN | : |
"This study is a chronicle of how subsistence management in Alaska has grown and evolved"--P. viii.
The Community Development Quota Program in Alaska
| Author | : Committee to Review the Community Development Quota Program |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 1999-05-17 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0309524105 |
This book reviews the performance and effectiveness of the Community Development Quotas (CDQ) programs that were formed as a result of the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996. The CDQ program is a method of allocating access to fisheries to eligible communities with the intent of promoting local social and economic conditions through participation in fishing-related activities. The book looks at those Alaskan fisheries that have experience with CDQs, such as halibut, pollock, sablefish, and crab, and comments on the extent to which the programs have met their objectives--helping communities develop ongoing commercial fishing and processing activities, creating employment opportunities, and providing capital for investment in fishing, processing, and support projects such as infrastructure. It also considers how CDQ-type programs might apply in the Western Pacific.
Alaska Public Policy Issues
| Author | : Clive S. Thomas |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds
| Author | : Eyene Okpanachi |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2021-08-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030782514 |
This book aims to foster a better understanding of the particular challenges faced by resource-dependent countries or jurisdictions in managing their resource revenues through natural resource funds (NRFs). It explores the varieties of natural resource management strategies as dictated primarily by domestic politics, and how the potential negative distributional consequences of resource wealth management (the resource curse) may add political dimensions and potential conflicts to decisions about NRFs in ways that other sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) do not experience. By bridging the existing academic and practical knowledge gap arising from the limited attention given to the domestic politics of NRFs and state-society relations, this edited book is a valuable resource for academics, policymakers, and civil society actors in resource-driven economies and especially those interested in learning from comparative experiences of natural resource wealth management through NRFs.
