Policy Dynamics

Author : Frank R. Baumgartner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226039404
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Dynamics written by Frank R. Baumgartner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While governmental policies and institutions may remain more or less the same for years, they can also change suddenly and unpredictably in response to new political agendas and crises. What causes stability or change in the political system? What role do political institutions play in this process? To investigate these questions, Policy Dynamics draws on the most extensive data set yet compiled for public policy issues in the United States. Spanning the past half-century, these data make it possible to trace policies and legislation, public and media attention to them, and governmental decisions over time and across institutions. Some chapters analyze particular policy areas, such as health care, national security, and immigration, while others focus on institutional questions such as congressional procedures and agendas and the differing responses by Congress and the Supreme Court to new issues. Policy Dynamics presents a radical vision of how the federal government evolves in response to new challenges-and the research tools that others may use to critique or extend that vision.

Author : Graeme Boushey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493000
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America written by Graeme Boushey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America integrates research from agenda setting and epidemiology to model factors that shape the speed and scope of public policy diffusion. Drawing on a data set of more than 130 policy innovations, the research demonstrates that the 'laboratories of democracy' metaphor for incremental policy evaluation and emulation is insufficient to capture the dynamic process of policy diffusion in America. A significant subset of innovations trigger outbreaks - the extremely rapid adoption of innovation across states. The book demonstrates how variation in the characteristics of policies, the political and institutional traits of states, and differences among interest group carriers interact to produce distinct patterns of policy diffusion.

Author : Brian W. Hogwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Dynamics written by Brian W. Hogwood and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Kay
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847203000
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Public Policy written by Adrian Kay and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . this is a first rate book. It draws on a wide range of reading philosophy, economics and politics and teases out a number of important ideas. . . for academics and postgraduates it surely will be essential reading and I think has pushed the study of public policy forward. Michael Connolly, Political Studies Review In The Dynamics of Public Policy, Adrian Kay sets out the crucial methodological, theoretical and empirical implications of two important trends in the social sciences: a frequently expressed ambition for analysis of movies not stills and the regular observation that policy, politics and governance is becoming more complex. Beginning with a discussion of the centrality of temporality, change and history to the social sciences, he develops the provocative claim that existing models of the policy process are of limited value in understanding and explaining policy dynamics. Instead, the author argues that it is only through structured narratives that we can really understand and explain complex policy histories. He sets out a methodology for structuring policy narratives and illustrates the claims of the book through four detailed case studies: health policy and pharmaceutical regulation in the UK; and agricultural policy and budget policy in the EU. Adrian Kay s book will appeal to academics in the fields of policy analysis, public administration and public sector management as well as political science and political theory.

Author : Nancy C. Roberts
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Public Policy written by Nancy C. Roberts and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996-02-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is targeted at practitioners and researchers who pursue large-scale system change involving multiple organizations and hundreds of people. It looks at how radical change can be achieved in public policy by "change agents"--Often people outside government who push for change using certain policy entrepreneurship and innovation tactics. The authors' ultimate aim is to build an understanding of radical change in open systems - systems without clear boundaries that can cross group, organizational, regional, even national boundaries. The authors follow a single case - educational reform through public school choice in Minnesota - and its six policy entrepreneurs over a five year period to determine the dynamics of radical system-level change.

Author : Wadi Haddad
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821326602
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Education Policymaking written by Wadi Haddad and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the case for educating women better. Here are sound reasons why targeting funds to educate girls and women can yield the best investment returns in the developing world and provide enormous economic benefits. The discussion explains how such funding can reduce environmental pollution, fertility rates, and female mortality and help prevent the spread of AIDS. It describes an entrenched cultural tradition that denies girls an education and keeps them from contributing economically to their families and their countries. A low-cost strategy to educate more women and girls worldwide is presented, along with examples of successful education programs in many developing nations.

Author : Bas Arts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402050798
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Dynamics in Environmental Governance written by Bas Arts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents fresh analyses of a number of well-known cases, but does so from one comprehensive view, the so-called policy arrangement approach. Cases discussed range over organic farming, integrated water management, nature policy, cultural heritage policy, integrated region-oriented policy, corporate environmental management and target group policy, always in search of the commonality of experience and conclusions to be drawn in understanding the past and in formulating future perspectives.

Author : Paul 't Hart
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066537
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Groupthink written by Paul 't Hart and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997-04-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEffects of group dynamics on decision making /div

Author : Frank R. Baumgartner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226039412
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Dynamics written by Frank R. Baumgartner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-06-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While governmental policies and institutions may remain more or less the same for years, they can also change suddenly and unpredictably in response to new political agendas and crises. What causes stability or change in the political system? What role do political institutions play in this process? To investigate these questions, Policy Dynamics draws on the most extensive data set yet compiled for public policy issues in the United States. Spanning the past half-century, these data make it possible to trace policies and legislation, public and media attention to them, and governmental decisions over time and across institutions. Some chapters analyze particular policy areas, such as health care, national security, and immigration, while others focus on institutional questions such as congressional procedures and agendas and the differing responses by Congress and the Supreme Court to new issues. Policy Dynamics presents a radical vision of how the federal government evolves in response to new challenges-and the research tools that others may use to critique or extend that vision.

Author : James L. Sundquist
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815723189
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of the Party System written by James L. Sundquist and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the original edition of Dynamics of the Party System was published in 1973, American politics have continued on a tumultuous course. In the vacuum left by the decline of the Democratic and Republican parties, single-interest groups have risen and flourished. Protest movements on the left and the New Right at the opposite pole have challenged and divided the major parties, and the Reagan Revolution--in reversing a fifty-year trend toward governmental expansion--may turn out to have revolutionized the party system too. In this edition, as in the first, current political trends and events are placed in a historical and theoretical context. Focusing upon three major realignments of the past--those of the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1930s--Sundquist traces the processes by which basic transformations of the country's two-party system occur. From the historical case studies, he fashions a theory as to the why and how of party realignment, then applies it to current and recent developments, through the first two years of the Reagan presidency and the midterm election of 1982. The theoretical sections of the first edition are refined in this one, the historical sections are revised to take account of recent scholarship, and the chapters dealing with the postwar period are almost wholly rewritten. The conclusion of the original work is, in general, confirmed: the existing party system is likely to be strengthened as public attention is again riveted on domestic economic issues, and the headlong trend of recent decades toward political independence and party disintegration reversed, at least for a time.