Alaska Public Policy Current Problems And Issues

Author : Gordon Scott Harrison
Publisher : [College] : Institute of Social, Economic and Government Research, University of Alaska
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Public Policy: Current Problems and Issues written by Gordon Scott Harrison and published by [College] : Institute of Social, Economic and Government Research, University of Alaska. This book was released on 1973 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of papers on economic development and land use policies in Alaska.

Author : Clive S. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Public Policy Issues written by Clive S. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781304117380
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska's Constitution written by Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clive S. Thomas
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 160223289X
Total Pages : 1241 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Politics and Public Policy written by Clive S. Thomas and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 1241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last book on Alaska politics came out over twenty years ago, long before the rise of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin and the decline of oil revenue and fisheries. With Alaska Politics and Public Policy, Clive Thomas has pulled together a diverse team of specialists to update and expand our understanding of the political and policy realities of Alaska. This comprehensive volume lays out a detailed map of a political landscape that's physically huge, environmentally diverse, and constrained in economics and population. This book, the most comprehensive on Alaska politics and public policy published to date, explores how beliefs, institutions, personalities, and power shape Alaska politics and public policies. Understanding how these elements interact helps explain why and how some issues get dealt with by government in Alaska, why others get little attention, why some are tackled but cannot be resolved, and why others are not addressed at all. Combining the human element with the interrelationships within the political system gets to the very nature of politics. The book ranges from covering the basics of Alaska politics to providing detailed treatments of the factors shaping politics and the operation of government to providing in-depth analysis of issues and policies. Alaska Politics and Public Policy provides a wide range of information and analysis to a broad readership--from those with very little knowledge of Alaska politics to Alaska politics junkies. The book also includes an extensive glossary of terms related to Alaska and its politics. Two types of people were asked to contribute to the book: One group is political scientists and other social scientists. The other includes past and present state elected and appointed officials, as well as other political practitioners and observers, such as lobbyists and journalists. This combination of contributors enables the book to provide both conceptual and hands-on insights into its comprehensive coverage of topics ranging from the role of Alaska Natives to the influence of interest groups to the reality of the state's dependence on oil to the ambivalent attitude toward the federal government to the likely potential of the Arctic in Alaska's future.

Author : Claus M. Naske
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186135
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska written by Claus M. Naske and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land- and seascapes. Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Russians claimed northern North America by right of discovery in 1741. During their occupation of “Russian America” the region was little more than an outpost for fur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867, nobody knew what to do with “Seward’s Folly.” Mainland America paid little attention to the new acquisition until a rush of gold seekers flooded into the Yukon Territory. In 1906 Congress granted Alaska Territory a voteless delegate and in 1912 gave it a territorial legislature. Not until 1959, however, was Alaska’s long-sought goal of statehood realized. During World War II, Alaska’s place along the great circle route from the United States to Asia firmly established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War. The developing military garrison brought federal money and many new residents. Then the discovery of huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave a measure of economic security to the state. Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region’s and state’s history, including the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s.

Author : Gerald A. McBeath
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803231207
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Politics & Government written by Gerald A. McBeath and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter A. Coates
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223102
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy written by Peter A. Coates and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977 oil began to flow south from the Arctic through the controversial Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). This study considers the TAPS proposal and controversy as an extension (even a culmination) of established processes, policies, and attitudes within Alaska history, American environmental history, and the history of conservation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Stephen W. Haycox
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295746874
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska written by Stephen W. Haycox and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peoples from Asia into the Americas and their contact with and accommodation to Western culture; the spread of European political economy to the New World; the expansion of American capitalism and culture; and the impacts of climate change. In this updated classic, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox surveys the state’s cultural, political, economic, and environmental past, examining its contemporary landscape and setting the region in a broader, global context. Tracing Alaska’s transformation from the early postcontact period through the modern era, Haycox explores the ever-evolving relationship between Native Alaskans and the settlers and institutions that have dominated the area, highlighting Native agency, advocacy, and resilience. Throughout, he emphasizes the region’s systemic dependence on both federal support and outside corporate investment in natural resources—furs, gold, copper, salmon, oil—and offers a less romantic, more complex history that acknowledges the broader national and international contexts of Alaska’s past.

Author : Alaska. Division of State Libraries and Museums. Documents Section
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State and Local Publications Received written by Alaska. Division of State Libraries and Museums. Documents Section and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Jennings
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759100695
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education written by Michael Jennings and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an in-depth study of Alaskan indigenous communities, Jennings explores the relationship between land and education. He reveals how Euro-American institutions attempt to redefine indigenous understandings of land and spirituality to make them conform to those in the dominant society. The author proposes educational agendas that are components of native sovereignty, with their distinctive spiritual, intellectual, and material relationships to land. This book is valuable for educational policymakers, and instructors in education, anthropology and Native American studies.