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Living the Policy Process

Author : Philip B. Heymann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199714924
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Living the Policy Process written by Philip B. Heymann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process. Even the most respected policymakers have to contend with obstacles that seemingly have little to do with the issue at hand--office politics, work structure, and shifting political environments. Yet learning to manage such complex environments is necessary for good policymaking. In Living the Policy Process, Philip Heymann outlines the complex thought processes of policymakers as they struggle to influence both foreign and domestic policy decisions from within the United States government bureaucracy. Focusing on three critical situations to illuminate the politics of policy choice-the successful attempt to sell missiles to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s; the Iran-Contra scandal; and the FDA's attempt to regulate smoking as well as the efforts to do the same by an outside lobbyist-Heymann dissects the intuitive yet rigorous framework that highly skilled policymakers follow to influence government outcomes. Throughout, he offers detailed accounts of the policy process at work in the Reagan, first Bush, and Clinton administrations, from the cabinet level down to the middle tiers of the federal bureaucracy. Heymann deftly describes the shifting real-world conditions that government officials face as they struggle to shape the policy agenda. Ultimately, Living the Policy Process offers a clear, incisive look at the complex considerations involved from all perspectives, with concrete examples, and enriches the understanding of the overall policy process for students, scholars, and practitioners.

The Public Policy Process

Author : Michael Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317860365
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Public Policy Process written by Michael Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Fully revised and updated for a sixth edition, The Public Policy Process provides

Introduction to the Policy Process

Author : Birkland
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765627310
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Policy Process written by Birkland and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised, reorganized, updated, and expanded, this widely-used text sets the balance and fills the gap between theory and practice in public policy studies. In a clear, conversational style, the author conveys the best current thinking on the policy process with an emphasis on accessibility and synthesis rather than novelty or abstraction. A newly added chapter surveys the social, economic, and demographic trends that are transforming the policy environment.

Living the Policy Process

Author : Philip B. Heymann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190450533
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Living the Policy Process written by Philip B. Heymann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process. Even the most respected policymakers have to contend with obstacles that seemingly have little to do with the issue at hand--office politics, work structure, and shifting political environments. Yet learning to manage such complex environments is necessary for good policymaking. In Living the Policy Process, Philip Heymann outlines the complex thought processes of policymakers as they struggle to influence both foreign and domestic policy decisions from within the United States government bureaucracy. Focusing on three critical situations to illuminate the politics of policy choice-the successful attempt to sell missiles to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s; the Iran-Contra scandal; and the FDA's attempt to regulate smoking as well as the efforts to do the same by an outside lobbyist-Heymann dissects the intuitive yet rigorous framework that highly skilled policymakers follow to influence government outcomes. Throughout, he offers detailed accounts of the policy process at work in the Reagan, first Bush, and Clinton administrations, from the cabinet level down to the middle tiers of the federal bureaucracy. Heymann deftly describes the shifting real-world conditions that government officials face as they struggle to shape the policy agenda. Ultimately, Living the Policy Process offers a clear, incisive look at the complex considerations involved from all perspectives, with concrete examples, and enriches the understanding of the overall policy process for students, scholars, and practitioners.

Public Policy Making

Author : Larry N. Gerston
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765627434
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Public Policy Making written by Larry N. Gerston and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief text identifies the issues, resources, actors, and institutions involved in public policy making and traces the dynamics of the policymaking process, including the triggering of issue awareness, the emergence of an issue on the public agenda, the formation of a policy commitment, and the implementation process that translates policy into practice. Throughout the text, which has been revised and updated, Gerston brings his analysis to life with abundant examples from the most recent and emblematic cases of public policy making. At the same time, with well-chosen references, he places policy analysis in the context of political science and deftly orients readers to the classics of public policy studies. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.

The Policy-making Process

Author : Charles Edward Lindblom
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Policy-making Process written by Charles Edward Lindblom and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1980 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Policy Problems and Policy Design

Author : B. Guy Peters
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786431351
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Policy Problems and Policy Design written by B. Guy Peters and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public policy can be considered a design science. It involves identifying relevant problems, selecting instruments to address the problem, developing institutions for managing the intervention, and creating means of assessing the design. Policy design has become an increasingly challenging task, given the emergence of numerous ‘wicked’ and complex problems. Much of policy design has adopted a technocratic and engineering approach, but there is an emerging literature that builds on a more collaborative and prospective approach to design. This book will discuss these issues in policy design and present alternative approaches to design.

The Policy Process in the Modern State

Author : Michael James Hill
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Policy Process in the Modern State written by Michael James Hill and published by Prentice Hall PTR. This book was released on 1997 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised book includes more explanatory material on the policy process, and the purpose and problems of studying it.

Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process

Author : Giandomenico Majone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300052596
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process written by Giandomenico Majone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern industrial democracies, the making of public policy is dependent on policy analysis--the generation, discussion, and evaluation of policy alternatives. Policy analysis is often characterized, especially by economists, as a technical, nonpartisan, objective enterprise, separate from the constraints of the political environment. however, says the eminent political scientist Giandomenico Majone, this characterization of policy analysis is seriously flawed. According to Majone, policy analysts do not engage in a purely technical analysis of alternatives open to policymakers, but instead produce policy arguments that are based on value judgments and are used in the course of public debate. In this book Majone offers his own definition of policy analysis and examines all aspects of it--from problem formulation and the choice of policy instruments to program development and policy evaluation. He argues that rhetorical skills are crucial for policy analysts when they set the norms that determine when certain conditions are to be regarded as policy problems, when they advise on technical issues, and when they evaluate policy. Policy analysts can improve the quality of public deliberation by refining the standards of appraisal of public programs and facilitating a wide-ranging dialogue among advocates of different criteria. In fact, says Majone, the essential need today is not to develop 'objective' measures of outcomes--the traditional aim of evaluation research--but to improve the methods and conditions of public discourse at all levels and stages of policy-making.

Implementation and the Policy Process

Author : Dennis Palumbo
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Implementation and the Policy Process written by Dennis Palumbo and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of why implementation research has contributed to a major reconsideration of the process of policy formation and offers conceptual frameworks that employ implementation research to develop a fuller understanding of the entire policy process. The contributors caution the error of assuming that implementation is the main factor in policy making and that once implementation is taken care of, policies will be effective. They attempt to place implementation in the broader policymaking process and show its relationship to the other parts of the policy cycle. Additionally, several of the contributors develop explanatory models that cut across the research dichotomies of the prevailing top-down and bottom-up approaches and establish an agenda for future research.

Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries

Author : William Ascher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108278647
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries written by William Ascher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the 'under-development syndrome', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations.

Top Down Policymaking

Author : Thomas R. Dye
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Top Down Policymaking written by Thomas R. Dye and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his eye-opening work, Dye explodes the myth that public policy represents the “demands of the people” and that the making of public policy flows upward from the masses. In reality, Dye argues, public policy in America, as in all nations, reflects the values, interests, and preferences of a governing elite. Top Down Policymaking is a close examination of the process by which the nation’s elite goes about the task of making public policy. Focusing on the behind-the-scenes activities of money foundations, policy planning organizations, think tanks, political campaign contributors, special-interest groups, lobbyists, law firms, influence-peddlers, and the national news media, Dye concludes that public policy is made from the top down.

National Policy-Making

Author : Pertti Alasuutari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136177590
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book National Policy-Making written by Pertti Alasuutari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notions of social change are often divided into local versus international. But what actually happens at the national level—where policies are ultimately made and implemented—when policy-making is interdependent worldwide? How do policy-makers take into account the prior choices of other countries? Far more research is needed on the process of interdependent decision-making in the world polity. National Policy-Making: domestication of global trends offers a unique set of hybrid cases that straddle these disciplinary and conceptual divides. The volume brings together well-researched case studies of policy-making from across the world that speak to practical issues but also challenge current theories of global influence in local policies. Distancing itself from approaches that conceive narrowly of policy transfer as a "one-way street" from powerful nations to weaker ones, this book argues instead for an understanding of national decision-making processes that emphasize cross-national comparisons and domestic field battles around the introduction of worldwide models. The case studies in this collection show how national policies appear to be synchronized globally yet are developed with distinct "national" flavors. Presenting new theoretical ideas and empirical cases, this book is aimed globally at scholars of political science, international relations, comparative public policy, and sociology.

The Submerged State

Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226521664
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Submerged State written by Suzanne Mettler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler’s provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even though they receive them? The Obama administration has been roundly criticized for its inability to convey how much it has accomplished for ordinary citizens. Mettler argues that this difficulty is not merely a failure of communication; rather it is endemic to the formidable presence of the “submerged state.” In recent decades, federal policymakers have increasingly shunned the outright disbursing of benefits to individuals and families and favored instead less visible and more indirect incentives and subsidies, from tax breaks to payments for services to private companies. These submerged policies, Mettler shows, obscure the role of government and exaggerate that of the market. As a result, citizens are unaware not only of the benefits they receive, but of the massive advantages given to powerful interests, such as insurance companies and the financial industry. Neither do they realize that the policies of the submerged state shower their largest benefits on the most affluent Americans, exacerbating inequality. Mettler analyzes three Obama reforms—student aid, tax relief, and health care—to reveal the submerged state and its consequences, demonstrating how structurally difficult it is to enact policy reforms and even to obtain public recognition for achieving them. She concludes with recommendations for reform to help make hidden policies more visible and governance more comprehensible to all Americans. The sad truth is that many American citizens do not know how major social programs work—or even whether they benefit from them. Suzanne Mettler’s important new book will bring government policies back to the surface and encourage citizens to reclaim their voice in the political process.

Analyzing the European Union Policy Process

Author : Esther Versluis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 113710001X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing the European Union Policy Process written by Esther Versluis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are provided with a practical insight into how to analyze policies and policy-making in the EU. Using case studies to deepen readers' understanding, this book examines the various stages of the policy process - from the moment the issue reaches the agenda through to drafting, implementation and evaluation.