Public Policy category: 4660 books
by Maarten A. Hajer, Robert Hoppe, Bruce Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. Drawing from recent work on language and argumentation and referring to such...
Public Policy and Performance Management in Democratic Systems
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book applies various theoretical tools to explore the advantages and disadvantages of performance management systems, the ways in which they can be improved, and the strategies through which they can be designed and integrated into the policy making process. By providing both theoretical insights...
Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe
More Evidence for Better Results
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services,...
Beyond Sputnik
U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescopes and particle accelerators. Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. Beyond Sputnik is a comprehensive survey...
by B. Guy Peters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Making effective public policies is a difficult task, but considering policymaking as a problem of design analogous to architecture or engineering can assist in that process. This book outlines three vital components of policy design: understanding the causes behind the problem being addressed; identifying...
Undernutrition and Public Policy in India
Investing in the future
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Despite substantial economic growth, India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in the country, and examines the effectiveness of policies designed...
Public management in transition
The orchestration of potentiality
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This textbook is the first to examine how new trends such as “radical innovation”, “co-creation” and “potentialization” challenge fundamental values in the public sector. The authors bridge traditional public management approaches that tend to exclude social and societal problems, with...
Strengthening Policy Research
Role of Think Tank Initiative in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Strengthening Policy Research: Role of Think Tank Initiative in South Asia is a vivid presentation of the diverse journeys of think tanks under the aegis of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) programme managed by the International Development Research Centre in South Asia. The book extensively discusses...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the state of policy analysis in Turkey for an international audience. Noting Turkey’s traditionally strong, highly centralised state, the book documents the evolution of policy analysis in the country, providing an in-depth review of the context,...
An Institutional Framework for Policymaking
Planning and Population Dispersal in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
An Institutional Framework for Policymaking offers a new approach to the study of institutions and adds to the growing body of literature in the field of 'new institutionalism.' Dr. Matt Evans utilizes previous characterizations of institutions to analyze the framework affecting policymaking and the...
by Diana Leat
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book discusses a series of related but independent challenges faced by philanthropic foundations, drawing on international, contemporary and historical data. Throughout the world, private philanthropic foundations spend huge sums of money for public good while the media, policy-makers and the...
American Public Administration
Public Service for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
American Public Administration has been the go-to introductory textbook for Public Administration courses with a focus on civil society for the last decade. Now in an extensively revised and updated second edition, authors Cropf and Wagner weave the most recent and compelling research throughout every...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public...
Pathways of Power
The Dynamics of National Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
While civics textbooks describe an idealized model of “how a bill becomes law;” journalists often emphasize special interest lobbying and generous campaign contributions to Congress; and other textbooks describe common stages through which all policies progress, these approaches fail to convey—much...