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Author : Marije Schouwstra,Michael Ellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:150407417
Author : William N. Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : UCSC:32106013558207
"This multidisciplinary synthesis of concepts and methods of public policy analysis takes a systematic approach to creation, critical assessment, and communication of policy-relevant knowledge. ... stresses the process of formulating policy problems as crucial step in solving them. In addition, he emphasizes the need to understand the political contexts in which policy analysis is practiced, and the application of policy analysis in increasingly complex societies"--Back cover.
Author : Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047705184
Policy Studies courses are being increasingly offered in public policy schools, political science departments, public administration programmes, and elsewhere. There seems to be a consensus that a basic core of policy courses should deal with policy methods, the policy process, and policy substance. Each can be a course in itself for a term apiece or longer, or as parts of a larger course. This book is designed to deal with the basic theoretical issues in public policy analysis. Those basic issues can be divided into conceptual theory, theory of knowing, casual theory and normative theory.
Author : William N. Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317344841
Dunn presents a problem-oriented, integrated, multidisciplinary synthesis of concepts and methods of public policy analysis. The text draws from political science, public administration, economics, decision analysis, and social and political theory.
Author : Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038680166
This volume explores four basic theoretical issues in public policy analysis: conceptual theory, theory of knowing, casual theory, and normative analysis; the final section addresses future aspects of policy theory. The editors' introduction provides essential definitions, a discussion of five necessary elements of policy evaluation, and a review of key characteristics of good policy analysis. Ten chapters written by fourteen experts in the field treat such areas as relativity and quantum logics, policy design, the argumentation process, and more.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789240035546
Author : Graham Hassall
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789736151
This book is a comparative study of government and public policy in the twenty small states of the Pacific Islands, examining the often tense societal interactions over competing conceptions of public-sector institutions and authority, rule-making, and policy processes.
Author : Evert Vedung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351495608
Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a recent addition to the great chain of attempts to use the brainpower of scholars and scientists to further the interests of the state. Evaluation scholars are asked to provide retrospective assessments of the implementation, output, and outcome of government measures in order to effect deeper understanding and well-grounded decisions on the part of those in charge of government operations. Evaluation is the process of distinguishing the worthwhile from the worthless, the precious from the useless; evaluation implies looking backward in order to be able to steer forward better. Written from a political science perspective, Public Policy and Program Evaluation provides an overview of the possibilities and limits of public sector evaluation. Evert Vedung examines evaluation as a mechanism for monitoring, systematizing, and grading government activities and their results so that public officials, in their future-oriented work, will be able to act as responsibly, creatively, and efficiently as possible. Topics discussed include: "Evaluation, Rationality, and Theories of Public Management"; "Models of Evaluation"; "Internal or External Evaluation"; "Impact Assessment as Tryout and Social Experimentation"; "Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory"; "The Eight-Problems Approach to Evaluation"; and "Uses and Users of Evaluation." All evaluation rests upon the idea that perceptions, opinions, intentions, judgments—in short, everything concerned with the world of human consciousness—play such interesting roles in political and administrative action that their functions are worth investigating. Through experience, humans may learn from past actions. The interventions of the modern state are so extensive, their execu
Author : Huey-tsyh Chen,Peter H. Rossi
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015021575850
This collection of essays edited by Huey-tsyh Chen and Peter H. Rossi underscores the importance of theory in program evaluation and analyzes the nature and implications of theory-driven evaluations. Scholars from different disciplines cover a wide range of issues, such as functions of program theory, the interface between theory and methods, strategies for formulating theory, cost and resource constraints, different types of theory-driven evaluations, and the future implications of such evaluations. This broad-based analysis is designed for interdisciplinary audiences in all the social sciences, including political scientists, sociologists, and public administrators. This policy study analysis points to four types of theory that guide evaluations and describe theory-driven metaevaluation. Five approaches are used to analyze research strategies and methods. Three applications offer insights into programs and policies and their implementation--multigoal theory-driven approaches, programs for the homeless, and children's mental health services. Five chapters examine applications in impact assessment and cost-benefit analysis--the importance of theory in selection modeling, the impact of plant closings, research-based theory for educational planning and evaluation, using meta-analysis in evaluation, and theory-driven approaches to cost-benefit analysis.
Author : Frank Fischer,Gerald J. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351564366
The study of public policy and the methods of policy analysis are among the most rapidly developing areas in the social sciences. Policy analysis has emerged to provide a better understanding of the policymaking process and to supply decision makers with reliable policy-relevant knowledge about pressing economic and social problems. Presenting a broad, comprehensive perspective, the Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, and Methods covers the historical development of policy analysis, its role in the policy process, and empirical methods. The handbook considers the theory generated by these methods and the normative and ethical issues surrounding their practice. Written by leading experts in the field, this book- Deals with the basic origins and evolution of public policy Examines the stages of the policy-making process Identifies political advocacy and expertise in the policy process Focuses on rationality in policy decision-making and the role of policy networks and learning Details argumentation, rhetoric, and narratives Explores the comparative, cultural, and ethical aspects of public policy Explains primary quantitative-oriented analytical methods employed in policy research Addresses the qualitative sides of policy analysis Discusses tools used to refine policy choices Traces the development of policy analysis in selected national contexts The Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, and Methods describes the theoretical debates that have recently defined the field, including the work of postpositivist, interpretivist, and social constructionist scholars. This book also explores the interplay between empirical and normative analysis, a crucial issue running through contemporary debates.
Author : Carl V. Patton,David S. Sawicki
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038140193
The book focuses on basic, quickly applied policy analysis methods that can be used to resolve policy problems. There are relevant, real life examples used throughout.
Author : Ray C. Rist
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034884620
For governments to be successful in achieving their objectives, they need to select the correct policy instruments. This volume addresses the role of policy instruments in achieving policy objectives. Policy Evaluation provides a systematic assessment of the impact that public policy evaluations have on the governance of democratic societies. This book emphasises the impacts of policy evaluations on the formulation, implementation and accountability functions of governments. At all three phases of the policy cycle, there is a need for coherent and systematic evaluation. This book demonstrates how such evaluations can be conducted and the opportunities for their subsequent utilization.
Author : David L. Weimer,Aidan R. Vining
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317345640
Updated in a new 5th edition, this book lays a strong conceptual foundation to understanding the rationales of and limitations to public policy. It gives practical advice about how to do policy analysis while demonstrating the application of advanced analytical techniques through case study examples. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices is a comprehensive, accessible, and rich introduction to policy analysis for readers in public policy, public administration, and business programs.
Author : Benoit Rihoux,Heike Grimm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387288291
Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines and policy fields. The work further develops methods for systematic comparative cases analysis in a small-N research design, with a key emphasis laid on policy-oriented applications. Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis is clearly both a social scientific and policy-driven endeavor; on the one hand, the book engages in an effort to further improve social scientific methods, but on the other hand this effort also intends to provide useful, applied tools for policy analysts and the "policy community" alike. Though quite a variety of methods and techniques are touched upon in this volume, its focus is mainly laid on two recently developed research methods/techniques which enable researchers to systematically compare a limited number of cases; Qualitative Comparative Analysis(QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets (FS).
Author : Bonard Mwape
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781546290469
Anyone involved in the policy process analyzes policy in some sense. However, those who analyze and manage policy professionally must use a variety of tools to do their job effectively. This book, Tools for Policy Analysis and Management, discusses topics and presents tools and methodologies central to the tasks of policy analysis and management. The general approach and the specific suggestions made have been developed over many years of teaching policy analysis to graduate students as well as executive education workshops for policy makers and analysts.