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Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy

Author : Nikolaos Zahariadis
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589012363
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy written by Nikolaos Zahariadis and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahariadis offers a theory that explains policymaking when "ambiguity" is present—a state in which there are many ways, often irreconcilable, of thinking about an issue. Expanding and extending John Kingdon's influential "multiple streams" model that explains agenda setting, Zahariadis argues that manipulation, the bending of ideas, process, and beliefs to get what you want out of the policy process, is the key to understanding the dynamics of policymaking in conditions of ambiguity. He takes one of the major theories of public policy to the next step in three different ways: he extends it to a different form of government (parliamentary democracies, where Kingdon looked only at what he called the United States's presidential "organized anarchy" form of government); he examines the entire policy formation process, not just agenda setting; and he applies it to foreign as well as domestic policy. This book combines theory with cases to illuminate policymaking in a variety of modern democracies. The cases cover economic policymaking in Britain, France, and Germany, foreign policymaking in Greece, all compared to the U.S. (where the model was first developed), and an innovative computer simulation of the policy process.

Performance Goals in Public Management and Policy

Author : Chan Su Jung
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178897185X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Performance Goals in Public Management and Policy written by Chan Su Jung and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chan Su Jung provides a thorough review of goal ambiguity in the public sector, exploring the general assertions, arguments and empirical evidence regarding performance goal ambiguity, particularly highlighting its causes, consequences, and mediation effects. The author proposes a new conceptual framework for successful analysis of goal ambiguity that can effectively relate to diverse organizational and program characteristics.

Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations

Author : James G. March
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations written by James G. March and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Managing Ambiguity

Author : Čarna Brković
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785334158
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Managing Ambiguity written by Čarna Brković and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.

The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability

Author : Mark Bovens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199641250
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability written by Mark Bovens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the best scholars in the field from around the world, this handbook showcases conceptual and normative as well as the empirical approaches in public accountability studies.

Multiple Streams and Policy Ambiguity

Author : Rob A. DeLeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009397907
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Multiple Streams and Policy Ambiguity written by Rob A. DeLeo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element addresses the criticisms of the Multiple Stream Framework, the lack of empirical research, and the inconsistent operationalization of key concepts. It established a community of scholars. With Public Policy it develops a comprehensive guide for conducting MSF research.

Decision-making Under Ambiguity and Time Constraints

Author : Reimut Zohlnhöfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785521683
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Decision-making Under Ambiguity and Time Constraints written by Reimut Zohlnhöfer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 21st Century Public Manager

Author : Zeger van der Wal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137507446
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The 21st Century Public Manager written by Zeger van der Wal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truly global in scope and ambition, the 21st Century Public Manager addresses key trends, challenges, and opportunities facing public managers across contexts and regimes. This accessible textbook aims to inspire public managers in rethinking their roles, skills, and values as they enter a VUCA world-one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It is written for aspiring and current public managers in graduate schools and executive education programs.

The Predicaments of Publicness

Author : Udo Pesch
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059720822
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Predicaments of Publicness written by Udo Pesch and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As governmental goods and resources continue to undergo privatization, many wonder just what is “public” about public administration. The Predicaments of Publicness traces the development of this dilemma in modern political and social thought and then applies those theoretical findings to some of the most relevant practical issues in current public administration. Some organizations, Pesch asserts, remain outside of the public/private schism, and The Predicaments of Publicness will provide readers—both citizens and civil servants—with essential guideposts for negotiating these new arenas.

Foreign policy as public policy?

Author : Klaus Brummer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526140713
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Foreign policy as public policy? written by Klaus Brummer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how foreign policy analysis can be enriched by ‘domestic realm’ public policy approaches, concepts and theories. Starting out from the observation that foreign policy has in many ways become more similar to (and intertwined with) ‘domestic’ public policies, it bridges the divide that still persists between the two fields. The book includes chapters by leading experts in their fields on arguably the most important public policy approaches, including, for example, multiple streams, advocacy coalition, punctuated equilibrium and veto player approaches. The chapters explore how the approaches can be adapted and transferred to the study of foreign policy and point to the challenges this entails. By establishing a critical dialogue between approaches in public policy and research on foreign policy, the main contribution of the book is to broaden the available theoretical ‘toolkit’ in foreign policy analysis.

Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World

Author : Luke Fowler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438493606
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World written by Luke Fowler and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed and prodded into the chaos that is the real world. Often, this leads to unintended consequences as ideas are transformed into actions. For better or worse, policy implementation occurs within organized anarchies marred by ambiguity where who pays attention to what and when is the most important determinant of outcomes. While the new law serves as a cue, implementers must figure out how to make it functional in the best way possible and how to institutionalize it to establish new norms that endure. In unpacking an argument of how and why patterns of policy implementation manifest as they do, Luke Fowler takes the reader through a journey of how policymakers, organizations, and entrepreneurs shape the way implementers understand policies and translate them into action under ambiguous circumstances. The result is a complex picture of why some policies work in practice and others do not.

Theories Of The Policy Process

Author : Christopher M. Weible
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000899799
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Theories Of The Policy Process written by Christopher M. Weible and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each policy process theory. In this thoroughly revised fifth edition, each chapter has been updated to reflect recent empirical work, innovative theorizing, and a world facing challenges of historic proportions with climate change, social and political inequities, and pandemics, among recent events. Updated and revised chapters include Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, Multiple Streams Framework, Policy Feedback Theory, Advocacy Coalition Framework, Narrative Policy Framework, Institutional and Analysis and Development Framework, and Diffusion and Innovation. This fifth edition includes an entirely new chapter on the Ecology of Games Framework. New authors have been added to most chapters to diversify perspectives and make this latest edition the most internationalized yet. Across the chapters, revisions have clarified concepts and theoretical arguments, expanded and extended the theories’ scope, summarized lessons learned and knowledge gained, and addressed the relevancy of policy process theories. Theories of the Policy Process has been, and remains, the quintessential gateway to the field of policy process research for students, scholars, and practitioners. It’s ideal for those enrolled in policy process courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and those conducting research or undertaking practice in the subject.

Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis

Author : M. Granger Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316886999
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis written by M. Granger Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the critical issues of taste, professional responsibility, ethics, and values that are associated with policy analysis and research. Topics covered include policy problems formulated in terms of utility maximization such as benefit-cost, decision, and multi-attribute analysis, issues in the valuation of intangibles, uncertainty in policy analysis, selected topics in risk analysis and communication, limitations and alternatives to the paradigm of utility maximization, issues in behavioral decision theory, issues related to organizations and multiple agents, and selected topics in policy advice and policy analysis for government.

Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting

Author : Nikolaos Zahariadis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784715921
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting written by Nikolaos Zahariadis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the agenda on agenda setting, this Handbook explores how and why private matters become public issues and occasionally government priorities. It provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the perspectives, individuals, and institutions involved in setting the government’s agenda at subnational, national, and international levels. Drawing on contributions from leading academics across the world, this Handbook is split into five distinct parts. Part one sets public policy agenda setting in its historical context, devoting chapters to more in-depth studies of the main individual scholars and their works. Part two offers an extensive examination of the theoretical development, whilst part three provides a comprehensive look at the various institutional dimensions. Part four reviews the literature on sub-national, national and international governance levels. Finally, part five offers innovative coverage on agenda setting during crises.

Public Policy and the Public Interest

Author : Lok-sang Ho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136651063
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Public Policy and the Public Interest written by Lok-sang Ho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a book on public policy, this book is unique in addressing explicitly the role of human nature. Only with a good understanding of human nature can policy makers address their foremost needs and anticipate how people may respond to specific designs in policy. This way policy makers can avoid "unintended consequences." The book also provides a new perspective on the meaning of public interest, which is based on intellectual roots dating back to J.S.Mill and more recently Harsanyi and Rawls. Traditionally, economists have referred to either the Hicksian criterion or the Kaldorian criterion as the yardstick to whether a policy is welfare enhancing, not realizing that both of these criteria fail abjectly in producing a convincing test for welfare improvement. This is because ex post, typically some people will gain and some people will lose from any policy. The author argues for an alternative, ex ante welfare increase criterion that is based on how people would assess a policy if they were completely impartial and totally ignored their personal interests. It applies the principles to key policy concerns such as health policy, tort law reform, education and cultural policy, and pension reform. The healthcare reform proposals in the book illustrate the application of the principles. The author proposes a basic protection plan under which standard basic healthcare services are priced the same whether they are provided by public or private caregivers—at levels that can contain both demand side and supply side moral hazard. Annual eligible healthcare expenses are capped to alleviate worries. A "Lifetime Healthcare Supplement" that includes an element of risk sharing adds to patients’ choice and protection without compromising fiscal sustainability.

Theories of the Policy Process

Author : Christopher M. Weible
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973918
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Theories of the Policy Process written by Christopher M. Weible and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in the most established and widely used theoretical frameworks in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each framework. This well-regarded volume covers such enduring classics as Multiple Streams (Zahariadis et al.), Punctuated Equilibrium (Jones et al.), Advocacy Coalition Framework (Jenkins-Smith et al.), Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (Schlager and Cox), and Policy Diffusion (Berry and Berry), as well as two newer theories—Policy Feedback (Mettler and SoRelle) and Narrative Policy Framework (McBeth et al.). The fourth edition now includes a discussion of global and comparative perspectives in each theoretical chapter and a brand-new chapter that explores how these theories have been adapted for, and employed in, non-American and non-Western contexts. An expanded introduction and revised conclusion fully examines and contextualizes the history, trajectories and functions of public policy research. Since its first publication in 1999, Theories of the Policy Process has been, and remains, the quintessential gateway to the field of policy process research for students, scholars and practitioners.

Inheritance in Public Policy

Author : Richard Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300058772
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Inheritance in Public Policy written by Richard Rose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although politicians promise innovation and change when they run for office, once elected they face inherited commitments to programs initiated by their predecessors, legacies that severely limit their freedom of choice. In this book, the authors examine the ways in which decisions made by past generations of administrators control policy-making in the present.