Public Policy category: 4660 books
The Political Process of Policymaking
A Pragmatic Approach to Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering this surprising Sisyphean effort as a lack of rationality, the author examines it as a political activity that produces order and stability.
Narrative Policy Analysis
Cases in Decentred Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Narratives or storytelling are a feature of the everyday life of all who work in government. They tell each other stories about the origins, aims and effects of policies to make sense of their world. These stories form the collective memory of a government department; a retelling of yesterday to make...
The Politics of Common Sense
How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The way that movements communicate with the general public matters for their chances of lasting success. Deva Woodly argues that the potential for movement-led political change is significantly rooted in mainstream democratic discourse and specifically in the political acceptance of new issues by...
Public Participation, Science and Society
Tools for Dynamic and Responsible Governance of Research and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The field of public participation is developing fast, with phenomena such as citizen science and crowdsourcing extending the resource base of research, stimulating innovation and making science more accessible to the general population.
Promoting public participation means giving more weight...
Identities, Trust, and Cohesion in Federal Systems
Public Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
To what extent do federal systems promote multiple identities and attachments? How do their identities affect the trust that is assigned to various orders of government and contribute to cohesion in federalist systems? Do cohesive federations depend on public trust and strong attachment to the national...
by Professor Kjell A Eliassen, Prof Nick Sitter
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
'A broad-ranging and highly intelligent account of key recent developments internationally which skillfully updates the public management and governance literatures' - Ewan Ferlie, Royal Holloway
'Public management has been radically changed and reformed... this book gives students a fine introduction...
Socio-Analytic Dialogue
Incorporating Psychosocial Dynamics into Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
In this book, Bruno Boccara argues that complex and changing psychosocial issues, in particular those related to the societal unconscious, must be assessed and incorporated in public policy analysis through Socio-Analytic Dialogue, a psychosocial approach aimed at understanding and addressing emotional...
Unchained
The Purging of Black Students from Public School Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book is about a system of public policy within public-school education that has scarred the lives of many young black students with school suspension, expulsion, and/or police arrest. Many will have received roughly three criminal charges on their police records well before they will ever receive...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
An examination of the current Israeli government, covering public policies such as health, housing and transport. The volume covers the institutional as well as the political and the bureaucratic framework within which public policies have been made and implemented.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
This book examines the ways in which Arab civil society actors have attempted to influence public policies. In particular, the book studies the drive towards a change of policies that affect women and their well-being. It does so through the lens of women civil society activism and through analysis...
by Norman Flynn, Dr. Alberto Asquer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The seventh edition of the bestselling Public Sector Management is a rich and insightful description, analysis and critique of the management of the public sector by the UK government.
NEW to the seventh edition:
Now set in an international context with comparative global examples throughout
Three...
Limiting Resources
Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts...
Campaign 2012
Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner. It presents authoritative analyses of a dozen key policy issues currently testing the nation:
-domestic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The study of governance has risen to prominence as a way of describing and explaining changes in our world. The SAGE Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and innovative overview of this fascinating field, with particular emphasis on the significant new and emerging theoretical issues and...