Public Policy category: 4660 books
Does Policy Analysis Matter?
Exploring Its Effectiveness in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
How well can democratic decision making incorporate the knowledge and expertise generated by public policy analysts? This book examines the historical development of policy analysis, as well as its use in legislative and regulatory bodies and in the federal executive branch. The essays show that policy-analytic...
Lessons of Disaster
Policy Change after Catastrophic Events
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the minds of the public: "What can be done to prevent this from happening again?" Today, news media and policymakers often invoke the "lessons of September 11" and the "lessons of Hurricane Katrina." Certainly, these unexpected...
Understanding Trust in Government
Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough,...
Anticipatory Policymaking
When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence in which government develops solutions for clearly evident and identifiable problems. While this depiction holds true in many cases, it fails to account for instances in which public...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy is the only book to offer a comprehensive...
Issues in Law and Public Policy on Contract Labour in India
Comparative Insights from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
This book discusses the increasing use of contract labour in India that has accompanied attempts to liberalise the economy. After briefly examining Indian labour laws and public policy, it juxtaposes the country’s labour market practices with international labour standards. The questions that are...
The Politics of Radioactive Waste Management
Public Involvement and Policy-Making in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Environmental concerns have pushed the decarbonisation of the European economy high on the EU political agenda. This has renewed old debates about the role of nuclear energy in the European economy and society that gravitate around the issues of nuclear safety and radioactive waste management (RWM)....
by Jan-Erik Johanson
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This book explores goal-oriented action and describes the variety of options offered by strategic management in guiding public organisations. The book is based on the idea that planning is only one option in orienting the functioning of public organisations and applies resource-based and network studies...
Communicative Capacity
Public Encounters in Participatory Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Participatory democracy has become an unshakable norm and its practice is widespread. Nowadays, public professionals and citizens regularly encounter each other in participatory practice to address shared problems. But while the frequency, pace and diversity of their public encounters has increased,...
Framing Inequality
News Media, Public Opinion, and the Neoliberal Turn in U.S. Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades. In Framing Inequality, Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the pivotal policy debates of this period. Drawing on a wide range of empirical evidence...
Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change
Theoretical and Empirical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change. It draws on cross-country case studies. The focus on ‘agency’ has been an important development, enabling researchers to better reveal the causal mechanisms generating institutional change (i.e., how institutional change...
How Policies Make Citizens
Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why? And does it matter for policy outcomes? In this richly detailed and fluidly written book, Andrea Campbell argues that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Through a case study of senior citizens in the...
Knowledge, policy and power in international development
A practical guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.
It offers a power analysis perspective on the knowledge-policy process, illustrated with rich empirical examples from the field of...
The Institutions of American Democracy
The Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
From curriculum standards and testing to school choice and civic learning, issues in American education are some of the most debated in the United States. The Institutions of American Democracy , a collection of essays by the nation's leading education scholars and professionals, is designed to inform...