Public Policy category: 4660 books
Dynamic Governance
Embedding Culture, Capabilities and Change in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
In a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival. Even if the initial chosen set of principles, policies and practices are good, static efficiency and governance would eventually lead to stagnation and decay. No amount of careful planning can assure a...
Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time.
In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)....
Who Controls Public Lands?
Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different...
by Anneliese Dodds
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them. This new edition pays particular attention to the international contexts of ideas, interests and institutions in which decision...
Knowledge in policy
Embodied, inscribed, enacted
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This important collection presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on the different forms that knowledge takes. Knowledge is embodied in people, inscribed in documents and...
by Michael Mintrom
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Policymaking is of its very nature a people-centered business-a good reason why highly effective policy analysts display not only superb technical expertise but excellent people skills as well. Those "people skills" include the ability to manage professional relationships, to learn from others about...
Carrots, Sticks and Sermons
Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive. Still, a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools hamper a good overview. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes such a framework for the field and clearly shows how public policy instruments...
Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure
Managing the Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public‐Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice. Infrastructure bottlenecks are generally considered the most important constraint to growth in many countries worldwide. Historically, infrastructure...
by Morphet, Janice
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) is frequently viewed as simple by the media and politicians. In ways - never really explained - the EU has managed to 'take away' Britain's sovereign powers and has the ability to determine much of its legislation. The history of how this has occurred...
Thinking Outside the Box
Innovation in Policy Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Thomas Courchene is the author or editor of numerous books and has published hundreds of academic papers on a wide range of Canadian public policy issues. Thinking Outside the Box honours his outstanding contributions to Canadian public policy thinking and practice. Research papers included in the...
Rush to Policy
Using Analytic Techniques in Public Sector Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Rush to Policy explores the appropriate role of technical analysis in policy formation. The authors ask when and how the use of sophisticated analytic techniques in decision making benefits the nation. They argue that these techniques are too often used in situations where they may not be needed or...
Do Think Tanks Matter?, Second Edition
Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Do Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This perception...
by Andrew Bradstock, David Eng, Jonathan Boston
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Exploring the ethical frameworks and principles upon which governments can and should base their policies, this study draws on papers from the 2009 Ethical Foundations of Public Policy conference held in Wellington, covering topics such as ethics in decision making and advice giving, sustainability,...
Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While...