Academic Articles & Research Papers

Integrating Motivational Interviewing into Community Coalition Technical Assistance: The Coalition Check-Up.

Public Policy and Political Ideas

Part 1 A theoretical overview: interests or ideas? an overview of ideational concepts in public policy research, Dietmar Braun from hooks to focal points - the changing role of ideas in rational choice theory, Andreas Busch the power of ide...

Getting involved: Uganda cancer society´s efforts to build strategic partnerships for tobacco tax increments and strong tobacco industry monitoring

Background and challenges to implementation Uganda Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is moving towards fully integrating tobac...

Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES The Policy Sciences at the Cross-Roads Promoting the Policy Orientation: Lasswell in Context Public Policy, Social Science and the State: An Historical Perspective POLICY PROCESSES Theories of the Policy Cycle Agenda...

American Public Policy: Promise and Performance

PART ONE: THE NATURE OF PUBLIC POLICY Chapter One: What is Public Policy Defining Public Policy The Instruments of Public Policy The Environment of Public Policy Summary Chapter Two: The Structure of Policymaking in American Government Fede...

Analyzing Public Policy

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of...

Public policy: an introduction to the theory and practice of policy analysis

Contents: PART I 1.1 Introduction 1.2 'Public and 'Policy' as Concepts 1.3 The Development of the Policy Approach 1.4 Kinds of Policy Analysts and Policy Analysis 1.5 Varieties of Analytical Frameworks 1.6 Philosophical Frameworks 1.7 Analy...

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, ...

Equilibrial service composition model in Cloud manufacturing (ESCM) based on non-cooperative and cooperative game theory for healthcare service equipping

Industry 4.0 is the digitalization of the manufacturing systems based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for developing a manufacturing system to gain efficiency and improve productivity. Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is a parad...

Rénover les grands ensembles ou développer le territoire ? Une mixité au filtre de l’action publique dans les banlieues populaires de l’agglomération de Bordeaux

Examiner l’usage et la traduction opérationnelle du référentiel de mixité sociale dans les politiques de rénovation urbaine en France, rend plus nettes les tensions entre les logiques d’une politique nationale centralisée et les démarches d...

Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology

Society that has become one of the twentieth-century classic science lectures, titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."He presented a technological vision of extreme miniaturization in 1959, several years before the word "chip" became...

Sharing tactical data in a network-enabled coalition

The NATO Command, Control and Consultation Agency (NC3A) is a participant in a coalition project called the Shared Tactical Pictures (STP). The aim of STP is to develop methods and techniques to enable the sharing of a wide variety of infor...

The China Gambit: Geoeconomics and the US’ Turn to Informal Data Governance Initiatives

In October 2023, the US withdrew its proposals on cross-border data flows at the World Trade Organization (WTO), reversing its long-held position on binding commitments against data localization. Concurrently, it has orchestrated the creati...

Regional Election in Czech Republic 2020

On October 2-3, 2020, regional elections were held in the Czech Republic amid the second wave of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Despite the traditional attitude to this elec- tion as secondary, its significance for the expert community ...

Good Partners Make Good Relationships

This paper analyses the perception of the new member states of the EU (the 2004 and 2007 entrants) by the old member states’ representatives. The text utilizes an updated version of image theory and it is based on 24 interviews with diploma...

ON THE INTERACTION OF EURO PARTIES WITH PARTIES FROM THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP COUNTRIES. PART 4

The article analyzes the cooperation of one of the leading pan–European political organizations – the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) – with its partners in the countries participating in the Eastern Partnership pr...

Democratic Breakthrough in Malaysia – Political Opportunities and the Role of Bersih

The 14th general election (GE14) in Malaysia saw a democratic breakthrough as the Barisan Nasional's uninterrupted rule since independence finally came to an end. This article seeks to analyse the role and impact of the Bersih movement in G...

Interregionalism and International Relations

List of tables ix List of contributors xi Preface xiii List of abbreviations xv PART I Introduction 1 1 Interregionalism: A new phenomenon in international relations HEINER HANGGI, RALF ROLOFF AND JURGEN RULAND 3 PART II The concept of inte...

Creating British Global Leadership: The Liberal Trading Community from 1750 to 1792

This paper explores the process by which Great Britain rose to a position of global leadership in the 1800s. It examines the critical period from 1750 to 1792 when Great Britain moved from global leadership based on colonial/mercantile powe...

Membership-linked issue specialization within the G77 in UN climate negotiations

Abstract The Group of 77 and China (G77) coordinates developing-country positions in negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), while many members also participate through overlapping negotiating ...