Public Policy category: 4660 books

Cover of Knowledge, Power, and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis
by Rob Hoppe
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

This volume probes practical dilemmas and competing re- search perspectives in environmental policy analysis. Scholars working in different fields, research traditions, societies, and policy domains offer significant insights into the processes and consequences of environmental policy making. Part...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Grounded in black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has garnered significant attention in the field of public policy and other disciplines/fields of study. The potential of intersectionality, however,...
Cover of Governometrics and Technological Innovation for Public Policy Design and Precision
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014

In recent years, government officials have been able to formulate more accurate policies through statistical application. By utilizing quantitative and statistical methods in policy making, governometrics ensures excellence in governmental performance and helps the future of policy making. Governometrics...
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Singapore Perspectives 2012

Singapore Inclusive: Bridging Divides

by Soon Hock Kang, Chan-Hoong Leong
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012

The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development. It is a quick and essential reference for understanding the broad policy discussions that animate thought...
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Policy Making in Britain

An Introduction

by Professor Peter Dorey
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

Introducing you to the public policy making process in Britain today, this book adopts an empirical approach to the study of policy making by relating theory to actual developments in Britain since the 1980s. It covers: Ideas, Problem Definition, Issues and Agenda-Setting Key Individuals Key...
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Australian public policy

Progressive ideas in the neoliberal ascendency

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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016

At a time when neoliberal and conservative politics are again in the ascendency and social democracy is waning, Australian public policy re-engages with the values and goals of progressive public policy in Australia and the difficulties faced in re-affirming them. It brings together leading authors...
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Islam and the Everyday World

Public Policy Dilemmas

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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006

This is a new examination of how Shari’a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law. The process by which public policy is decided - through elections, debates, political processes,...
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Implementing Public Policy

An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance

by Michael Hill, Peter Hupe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

Building on the success of the previous two editions, this book provides students with an exemplary overview of the theory and practice of public policy implementation and how it relates to contemporary public management. In doing so, this new edition makes use of more illustrative examples, delves...
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Applied Policy Research

Concepts and Cases

by J. Fred Springer, Peter J. Haas, Allan Porowski
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

Where many textbooks on policy research focus on methodological and statistical theories, leaving students to wonder how they will apply those theories to future policy positions, this innovative textbook takes theories of policy research and puts them into practice, demystifying the subject by translating...
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Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy

Essays commemorating Interpreting British Governance

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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy offers the latest perspectives on the interpretive approach to governance and public policy research. This book commemorates more than a decade of governance research by Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes, the leading exponents of interpretive...
Cover of Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa examines how decision makers have managed and mismanaged public policy issues in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyses the neglected issue of how ideas about public policy are generated, by whom and for what purpose. Persistent problems such as political instability,...
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Evaluation for the real world

The impact of evidence in policy making

by Thomas, Paul, Palfrey
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012

Evaluation research findings should be a key element of the policy-making process, yet in reality they are often disregarded. This valuable book examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are available when evaluating...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to public policy and administration in Ireland, thereby bridging the gap between general texts on public policy and policy analysis and books on Irish politics. Each chapter covers one of the key issues in policy analysis, eg. rational choice, corporatism,...
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by Paul 't Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

A crisis of governance is widespread in western societies. Public administration is caught in a web of personal and organizational inter-dependencies that require continuous awareness and readjustment on the part of its practitioners. Understanding Policy Fiascoes applies policy analysis to come to...
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