Academic Articles & Research Papers

Trust and Public Policy

Public Policy and the Corporation

Science and Public Policy

Research and Public Policy

Professor Hyman has reviewed for us all the research that has been done on the effects of corporal punishment in the schools.1 It is actually a meager record because of the reasons he has mentioned, many of them ethical, demographic, and re...

Understanding Public Policy: Theories and Issues

Preface.- 1. Introduction to Policy and Policymaking.- 2. What is Policy and Policymaking?.- 3. Power and Public Policy.- 4. Bounded Rationality and the Psychology of Policymaking.- 5. Institutions and New Institutionalism.- 6. Structures, ...

Wicked Problems in Public Policy

Public Policy and Program Evaluation

Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...

Agendas, alternatives, and public policies

1. How Does an Idea's Time Come? 2. Participants on the Inside of Government 3. Outside of Government, But Not Just Looking In 4. Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans 5. Problems 6. The Policy Primeval Soup 7. T...

Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies

An introduction to the study of public policy

The causes of policy failures are, at root, political. Studying the policy process. The nature of public problems. Getting problems to government. Formulating proposals. Legitimating programs. Budgeting for programs. Implementing programs. ...

Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach

Preface. PART I: THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES. 1. The Nature of Public Policy. 2. The Evolution of Public Policy and Politics in America. 3. Approaches to Public Analysis. 4. Models and Public Policy Studies. PART II: ANALYSIS IN TH...

Private Management and Public Policy

How should corporate managers respond to social concerns and political pressures? The authors suggest that appropriate guidelines for corporate social performance are to be found within the framework of public policy, and illustrate their a...

Advanced Introduction to Public Policy

Contents: 1. Public Policy: A Design Perspective 2. Policy Problems PART I MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT POLICY 3. Models of Policymaking 4. Agendas, Agenda-setting and Framing PART II POLICY INTERVENTIONS 5. Designing Intervention and Implementat...

Economic Geography and Public Policy

Economic Geography and Public Policy fills the gap by illustrating many new policy insights economic geography models can offer to the realm of theoretical policy analysis. Focusing primarily on trade policy, tax policy, and regional policy...

Congress, the Bureaucracy, and Public Policy

The nature of policy and policy making in the United States. Actors in the relationship. Congressional-bureaucratic interaction: occasions and resources. Distributive policy. Protective regulatory policy. Redistributive policy. Foreign and ...

Conceptualizing Public Policy

Policy-making involves both a technical and political process of articulating and matching actors’ goals and means. Policies are thus actions which contain goal(s) and the means to achieve them, however well or poorly identified, justified,...

Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy

Applied welfare economics and public policy , Applied welfare economics and public policy , کتابخانه دیجیتالی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات درمانی شهید بهشتی...

Public Policy Analysis

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for s...

The Europeanization of Public Policy

Abstract This chapter deals with the Europeanization of public policy, with emphasis on the problems that researchers encounter when they try to get to grips with the concept of Europeanization, the issue of explanation, the measurement of ...

Public Policy in Australia

Figures and tablesAcknowledgmentsThe authors1 Public policy in Australia2 The state in Australia3 Public policy in a Federal State4 The political executive5 The public sector6 Political organisations7 Making policy choices8 Policy delivery9...