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Cover of The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
by Maarten A. Hajer, Robert Hoppe, Bruce Jennings
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...
Cover of Public Policy and Performance Management in Democratic Systems
by Shlomo Mizrahi
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...
Cover of Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe
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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,...
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Beyond Sputnik

U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century

by Homer Alfred Neal, Tobin Smith, Jen McCormick
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...
Cover of Advanced Introduction to Public Policy
by B. Guy Peters
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...
Cover of Undernutrition and Public Policy in India
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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...
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Public management in transition

The orchestration of potentiality

by Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels, Grønbæk Pors
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...
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Strengthening Policy Research

Role of Think Tank Initiative in South Asia

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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

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,...
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An Institutional Framework for Policymaking

Planning and Population Dispersal in Israel

by Matt Evans
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...
Cover of Philanthropic Foundations, Public Good and Public Policy
by Diana Leat
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...
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American Public Administration

Public Service for the Twenty-First Century

by Robert A. Cropf, John L. Wagner
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...
Cover of Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa
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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...
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Pathways of Power

The Dynamics of National Policymaking

by Timothy J. Conlan, Paul L. Posner, David R. Beam
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...
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