Public Policy category: 4660 books
State Management
An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates...
Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy
Theories, Controversies and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book considers a range of contemporary approaches to public policy studies. These approaches are based on a number of theoretical perspectives on decision-making, as well as alternative perspectives on policy instruments and implementation. The range of approaches covered in the volume includes...
Policy Analytics, Modelling, and Informatics
Innovative Tools for Solving Complex Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive approach to the study of policy analytics, modelling and informatics. It includes theories and concepts for understanding tools and techniques used by governments seeking to improve decision making through the use of technology, data, modelling, and other analytics,...
The Path of American Public Policy
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Among all the worlds’ democracies, the American system of government is perhaps the most self-conscious about preventing majority tyranny. The American constitutional system is predicated on an inherent ideational and institutional tension dating back to the foundation of the nation in the eighteenth...
One-armed Economist
On the Intersection of Business and Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
One-Armed Economist represents a personal, if eclectic, approach to public policy. Weidenbaum avoids doctrinaire positions, be they Keynesian or monetarist or supply side or libertarian. This distillation of Weidenbaum's wide range of writings on public policy issues over the last four decades draws...
Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making. It is explicitly comparative in casting cultural policy within a broad sociopolitical and historical framework. Given the complexity of national communities, there has been an absence of...
by Henricson, Clem
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
With an increasingly bitter secular religious divide, there is a messy, defective relationship between the state and morality in the UK. In response, Morality and Public Policy puts forward proposals to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond more effectively to morality and associated shifts...
American Public Policy
Promise and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
This updated edition of American Public Policy by B. Guy Peters provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the policy-making process from procedural approaches and policy instruments to in-depth analysis of specific policy issues. The Eleventh Edition considers how policy has been impacted...
Public Administration & Public Management
The Principal-Agent Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates.
Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer...
by Reji K. Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book examines the impact of economic reforms in India on the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines. It traces the changing production and trade pattern of the industry, research and development (R&D) preferences and strategies of Indian pharmaceutical firms, patent system alongside...
The “big society” and the british welfare state: a paradigm shift or just incremental policy change?
The “big society” and the british welfare state: a paradigm shift or just incremental policy change?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The main topic of the dissertation is the innovative Conservative-Liberal Democratic plan of the Big Society, aiming at liberalizing the public sector from an excessive incidence and influence by public institutions and reaching a new conception of “human needs”, empowering local people and communities.
Consequently,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Public policy has a dynamic effect on multiple facets of modern society. Methods for managing and engaging the public sphere continue to change conceptually across the globe, impacting the ways that governments and citizens interact both within and across borders. Management and Participation in the...
Issues for Debate in American Public Policy
Selections from CQ Researcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists, this annual collection of nonpartisan and thoroughly researched reports focuses on 16 hot-button policy issues. With reports ranging from racial profiling to prescription drug costs, the Twentieth Edition of Issues for Debate in American Public Policy...