Alaska's Constitution

Alaska's Constitution
Author: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9781304117380

Alaska Native Cultures and Issues

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds

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.