Making Policy Making Change

Author : Makani N. Themba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Policy, Making Change written by Makani N. Themba and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time to share the burden:toward Institution-Focused Intervention; An agenda of substance:grassroots efforts to reduce alcohol and tobaco problems; Making more pie: local initiatives that increase resources and institutional accountability; Plotting a course: lessons from the front lines; taking policy:media and the message; Looking ahead: reflections and recommendations.

Author : Larry N. Gerston
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765627434
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( 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.

Author : Mark Carlton Miller
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589010256
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Policy, Making Law written by Mark Carlton Miller and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume proposes a new way of understanding the policymaking process in the United States by examining the complex interactions among the three branches of government, executive, legislative, and judicial. Collectively across the chapters a central theme emerges, that the U.S. Constitution has created a policymaking process characterized by ongoing interaction among competing institutions with overlapping responsibilities and different constituencies, one in which no branch plays a single static part. At different times and under various conditions, all governing institutions have a distinct role in making policy, as well as in enforcing and legitimizing it. This concept overthrows the classic theories of the separation of powers and of policymaking and implementation (specifically the principal-agent theory, in which Congress and the presidency are the principals who create laws, and the bureaucracy and the courts are the agents who implement the laws, if they are constitutional). The book opens by introducing the concept of adversarial legalism, which proposes that the American mindset of frequent legal challenges to legislation by political opponents and special interests creates a policymaking process different from and more complicated than other parliamentary democracies. The chapters then examine in depth the dynamics among the branches, primarily at the national level but also considering state and local policymaking. Originally conceived of as a textbook, because no book exists that looks at the interplay of all three branches, it should also have significant impact on scholarship about national lawmaking, national politics, and constitutional law. Intro., conclusion, and Dodd's review all give good summaries.

Author : Peter John
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136824758
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Policy Work written by Peter John and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many tools are on offer to politicians and other policy-makers when they seek to change policy outcomes. Often they choose to concentrate on one set of tools, but fail to see the costs as well as the benefits – and may not consider the available evidence regarding their effectiveness. This innovative new textbook clearly sets out the main tools of government, and provides an analysis of their efficacy when applied to public problems. Each chapter examines the relative benefits and costs of using a key tool that is available to improve policy outcomes, drawing on a diverse literature, a large number of empirical studies and a range of contexts. Areas covered include: governments and policy outcomes law and regulation public spending and taxation bureaucracy and public management institutions information, persuasion and deliberation networks and governance. Offering a clear and comprehensive evaluation, and highlighting the set of powerful tools commonly available, this text encourages students to consider the most effective combination in order to manage key issues successfully. Including a useful glossary of key terms, this book will be of great interest to all students of public policy, administration and management.

Author : Brien Palmer
Publisher : Quality Press
ISBN 13 : 0873896114
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Change Work written by Brien Palmer and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As organizations strive to remain ahead of the competition, there will inevitably and often come the need for change. All successful organizations regularly use change to improve processes and increase performance. While these times of change can be a great opportunity for an organization, it also can be a time of stress and angst for all involved. Not all organizations are in a position to make these changes effectively and efficiently, and for many their efforts often fall short of the intended goals. Making Change Work: Practical Tools for Overcoming Human Resistance to Change was written to help organizations prepare for and successfully implement change. The price of a failed change effort can be steep, both monetarily and in a loss of credibility. Making Change Work will first provide tools to measure your organization's readiness to change, helping make sure that the efforts will not be doomed to fail from the beginning. The book then provides many tools to apply sequentially and logically in order to gain acceptance of the change throughout the organization. In helping your organization make change successfully, Making Change Work addresses buy-in, acceptance, motivation, anticipation, fear, uncertainty, and all the other messy human considerations that cause change to fail in the real world.

Author : Charles Edward Lindblom
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( 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:

Author : Charles H. Bishop (Ph. D.)
Publisher : AMACOM/American Management Association
ISBN 13 : 9780814405284
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Change Happen One Person at a Time written by Charles H. Bishop (Ph. D.) and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on a proven, workplace-tested process developed by the author for major companies, Making Change Happen One Person at a Time also equips you to appraise the readiness of your whole organization or department to support the change effort.

Author : Thomas König
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441958096
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reform Processes and Policy Change written by Thomas König and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Tsebelis’ veto players approach has become a prominent theory to analyze various research questions in political science. Studies that apply veto player theory deal with the impact of institutions and partisan preferences of legislative activity and policy outcomes. It is used to measure the degree of policy change and, thus, reform capacity in national and international political systems. This volume contains the analysis of leading scholars in the field on these topics and more recent developments regarding theoretical and empirical progress in the area of political reform-making. The contributions come from research areas of political science where veto player theory plays a significant role, including, positive political theory, legislative behavior and legislative decision-making in national and supra-national political systems, policy making and government formation. The contributors to this book add to the current scholarly and public debate on the role of veto players, making it of interest to scholars in political science and policy studies as well as policymakers worldwide.

Author : Darren Swanson
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 8132101472
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Adaptive Policies written by Darren Swanson and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title describes the concept of adaptive policymaking and presents seven tools for developing such policies. Based on hundreds of interviews with people impacted by policy and research of over a dozen policy case studies, this book serves as a pragmatic guide for policymakers by elaborating on these seven tools.

Author : Bochel, Hugh
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861349033
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Policy in Theory and Practice written by Bochel, Hugh and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book combines both academic and practitioner perspectives to provide critical consideration of contemporary policy-making and highlight examples of good practice at all levels of government. In Professional Policy Making for the Twenty-First Century the Cabinet Office's Strategic Policy Making Team identified nine 'competencies' as the key features of 'modern policy making': forward-looking; outward-looking; innovative, flexible and creative; evidence-based; inclusive; joined-up; open to review; open to evaluation; and capable of learning lessons. Using these to structure the book, nine central chapters - each written by a pair of co-authors, one primarily an academic, and the other primarily a policy maker or practitioner - examine the competencies in turn. Accompanying case studies provide lessons or pointers to good practice, together with guidance on how to access further information. Set in the context of New Labour's emphasis on 'modernisation', and reflecting the growing emphasis on policy making as a skill, the book will appeal to a range of audiences, including undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses that draw upon approaches to public administration and public policy, and social researchers, policy officers and others involved in the development and analysis of policy making at all tiers of government.