[PDF] Improving Public Policy

• Author : Fanie Cloete,Henry Wissink,C. De Coning
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105124247128

Effective governance is the essential mission of the public sector. Good policy management is crucial if effective governance is to take place. This revised text successfully combines the theory and practice of public policy.

• Author : George C. Edwards
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1980
• ISBN : UOM:39015064096277

Abstract: Communication, resources, dispositions and bureaucratic structure contribute to or limit implementation of public policy. Transmission of accurate communications is essential; lack of clarity and consistency cause problems in implementation. Staff, information, authority, and equipment resources are critical to policy implementation. Effects of the attitudes or dispositions of law makers are explored. Organizational structure may assist or hamper implementors; advantages and disadvantages of structural types are included. Types of policies that have experienced problems in implementation are described; prospects for

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2000
• ISBN : UCAL:B4928618

• Author : Jeffrey E. Cohen
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1997-09-29
• ISBN : UOM:39015041533582

divFinds that presidents are responsive to the public in selecting issues to focus on, but pay less attention to public opinion when making a policy /DIV

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : UCSD:31822036002293

• Author : John Terence Coppock,W. R. Derrick Sewell
• Publisher : Pergamon
• Release Date : 1976
• ISBN : UOM:39015028081902

Spatial Dimensions of Public Policy.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2002
• ISBN : CORNELL:31924097818524

• Author : B. Guy Peters
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1993
• ISBN : UOM:49015002534304

Now considered a classic amongst political experts, "American Public Policy" is an excellent overview of the fundamental processes and content of American public policy. Peters gives a clear exposition of the public policy environment from agenda setting to evaluation, identifying the governmental structures and procedures through which policy is designed and implemented. With characteristic flair for lucid and lively discussion, Peters examines the problems, goals, and important issues in substantive policy areas, including health care, social security and welfare, education,

• Author : Dennis J. Palumbo,Marvin Andrew Harder
• Publisher : Free Press
• Release Date : 1981
• ISBN : UOM:39015015284089

• Author : Associate Professor of Political Science Marc K Landy,Marc Karnis Landy,Martin A. Levin
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1995
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105012411273

"All people want to talk about these days is the Republican 'revolution' in the process and substance of public policy. This collection of essays gives us a framework for assessing the novelty of the revolution' and, more importantly, for grounding today's policy developments in the changes in American politics and political philosophy over the past two decades." -- Richard A. Brody, Stanford University. "An ambitious, provocative book that develops a powerful argument explaining how and why policy innovation is more

• Author : Mel Dubnick
• Publisher : Jai Press
• Release Date : 1991
• ISBN : UOM:39015019434631

• Author : Deborah A. Cobb-Clark,Siew-Ean Khoo
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : UOM:39015064868097

The authors have assembled a set of important studies that show how selective immigration policy affects subsequent outcomes for immigrants. The chapters exploit a unique longitudinal dataset that provides new insights into the factors that affect employment status, health, and housing by cohort, gender and visa status.

• Author : Basskaran Nair
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 1966
• ISBN : UCAL:B4911522

Policy analysts and policy planners should start from the premise that obstacles, uncertainties and surprises are important features of policy-making. All public policies should be treated as complex problems, from the outset. Complexity theorists start from the premise that complex policies are ill-defined and ambiguous. There is often little consensus about what the problem is, let alone how to resolve it. Into the complexity of the wicked problem fray, Marketing Public Policy introduces the role of communication scholars and practitioners

• Author : John Kenneth Gohagan
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
• Release Date : 1980
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105035800676

• Author : John A. Gardiner
• Publisher : Greenwood
• Release Date : 1977
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105043720247