Public Policy category: 4660 books
by Hyun-jung Je
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
In an ever more globalized and pluralized world, more attention is paid to engaging private parties in the process of trade policy-making, as non-state actors are often directly affected by trade policy shaped by governments. However, despite growing interest in this issue, there has been a relative...
by George M. Guess, Thomas Husted
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Most public policy analysis books currently on the market are US-centric and focused on quantitative analysis, while comparative public policy textbooks are oriented around countries and specific policy processes. International Public Policy Analysis is the first textbook to take a truly comparative...
Canadian Public Policy
Selected Studies in Process and Style
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Studies of public policy in Canada are traditionally narrow, focusing on a particular policy area or jurisdiction without giving consideration to the significant procedural commonalities that can be identified across the public policy spectrum. Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive,...
Public Policy Praxis
A Case Approach for Understanding Policy and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Public administration and policy analysis education has long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed by, and sometimes defeated by, value conflict. Too often public administration education has failed...
Policy Drift
Shared Powers and the Making of U.S. Law and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of U.S. public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policy
There is no finality to the public policy process. Although it’s often assumed that once a law is enacted it is implemented faithfully, even...
Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes
Serving and Transforming Communities in Times of Economic and Political Constraint
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the authors, as well as existing research about the intersection of public policy, political discourse, and public libraries, this book seeks to understand the origins and implications of the current standing of public libraries in public policy...
Public Policy in the United States
Challenges, Opportunities, and Changes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Offering the widest breadth of policy issue coverage on the market, the sixth edition of this well-regarded text covers events through the 2016 elections and beyond. Though the content has been extensively and thoughtfully revised and updated, the sixth edition maintains its clear approach, without...
Policy Analysis
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy...
Public Policy in the 'Asian Century'
Concepts, Cases and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This volume explores the defining features, critical approaches, challenges and opportunities for public policy in the ‘Asian Century’. This is the first book to systematically analyse the key institutions and practices that comprise public policy, administration and governance to investigate...
Public Policy and Private Interest
Ideas, Self-Interest and Ethics in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Public Policy and Private Interest explains the complexities of the policy making process in a refreshingly clear way for students who are new to this subject. The key topics it explains are:
How policy originates, is refined, legitimised, implemented, evaluated and terminated in the forms of...
Comparing Public Policies
Issues and Choices in Industrialized Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The study of comparative public policy reveals the intensely political nature of policy choices. While policy analysts often look to policy successes and failures outside their borders to draw valuable lessons and insights, cultural, economic, political, and institutional conditions vary from country...
by Jonathan B. Imber
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The findings of scientific research often provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy. However, effective communication to the larger public about what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. It is the prerogative of democratic societies to determine...
The Public Policy Primer
Managing the Policy Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Fully revised for a second edition, this essential guide provides a concise and accessible overview of the public policy process: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation.
The book provides an introduction to the key policy functions, the challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration is a comprehensive leading-edge guide for students, scholars and practitioners of public policy and administration. Public policy and administration are key aspects of modern societies that affect the daily lives of all citizens. This...