Ambiguity And Choice In Public Policy

Author : Nikolaos Zahariadis
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589012364

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Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy by Nikolaos Zahariadis Pdf

Zahariadis offers a theory that explains policymaking when "ambiguity" is present—a state in which there are many ways, often irreconcilable, of thinking about an issue. Expanding and extending John Kingdon's influential "multiple streams" model that explains agenda setting, Zahariadis argues that manipulation, the bending of ideas, process, and beliefs to get what you want out of the policy process, is the key to understanding the dynamics of policymaking in conditions of ambiguity. He takes one of the major theories of public policy to the next step in three different ways: he extends it to a different form of government (parliamentary democracies, where Kingdon looked only at what he called the United States's presidential "organized anarchy" form of government); he examines the entire policy formation process, not just agenda setting; and he applies it to foreign as well as domestic policy. This book combines theory with cases to illuminate policymaking in a variety of modern democracies. The cases cover economic policymaking in Britain, France, and Germany, foreign policymaking in Greece, all compared to the U.S. (where the model was first developed), and an innovative computer simulation of the policy process.

Author : James G. March,Johan P. Olsen
Publisher : Bergen : Universitetsforlaget
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050201436

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Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations by James G. March,Johan P. Olsen Pdf

Author : Udo Pesch
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789059720824

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The Predicaments of Publicness by Udo Pesch Pdf

As governmental goods and resources continue to undergo privatization, many wonder just what is “public” about public administration. The Predicaments of Publicness traces the development of this dilemma in modern political and social thought and then applies those theoretical findings to some of the most relevant practical issues in current public administration. Some organizations, Pesch asserts, remain outside of the public/private schism, and The Predicaments of Publicness will provide readers—both citizens and civil servants—with essential guideposts for negotiating these new arenas.

Author : Reimut Zohlnhöfer,Friedbert W. Rüb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785521683

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Decision-making Under Ambiguity and Time Constraints by Reimut Zohlnhöfer,Friedbert W. Rüb Pdf

Author : Chan Su Jung
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788971850

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Performance Goals in Public Management and Policy by Chan Su Jung Pdf

Chan Su Jung provides a thorough review of goal ambiguity in the public sector, exploring the general assertions, arguments and empirical evidence regarding performance goal ambiguity, particularly highlighting its causes, consequences, and mediation effects. The author proposes a new conceptual framework for successful analysis of goal ambiguity that can effectively relate to diverse organizational and program characteristics.

Author : Rob A. DeLeo,Reimut Zohlnhöfer,Nikolaos Zahariadis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009397902

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Multiple Streams and Policy Ambiguity by Rob A. DeLeo,Reimut Zohlnhöfer,Nikolaos Zahariadis Pdf

This Element addresses the criticisms of the Multiple Stream Framework, the lack of empirical research, and the inconsistent operationalization of key concepts. It established a community of scholars. With Public Policy it develops a comprehensive guide for conducting MSF research.

Author : Luke Fowler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438493602

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Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World by Luke Fowler Pdf

The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed and prodded into the chaos that is the real world. Often, this leads to unintended consequences as ideas are transformed into actions. For better or worse, policy implementation occurs within organized anarchies marred by ambiguity where who pays attention to what and when is the most important determinant of outcomes. While the new law serves as a cue, implementers must figure out how to make it functional in the best way possible and how to institutionalize it to establish new norms that endure. In unpacking an argument of how and why patterns of policy implementation manifest as they do, Luke Fowler takes the reader through a journey of how policymakers, organizations, and entrepreneurs shape the way implementers understand policies and translate them into action under ambiguous circumstances. The result is a complex picture of why some policies work in practice and others do not.

Author : Nikolaos Zahariadis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784715922

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Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting by Nikolaos Zahariadis Pdf

Setting the agenda on agenda setting, this Handbook explores how and why private matters become public issues and occasionally government priorities. It provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the perspectives, individuals, and institutions involved in setting the government’s agenda at subnational, national, and international levels. Drawing on contributions from leading academics across the world, this Handbook is split into five distinct parts. Part one sets public policy agenda setting in its historical context, devoting chapters to more in-depth studies of the main individual scholars and their works. Part two offers an extensive examination of the theoretical development, whilst part three provides a comprehensive look at the various institutional dimensions. Part four reviews the literature on sub-national, national and international governance levels. Finally, part five offers innovative coverage on agenda setting during crises.

Author : Reimut Zohlnhofer,Friedbert Rub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785522531

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Decision-Making Under Ambiguity and Time Constraints by Reimut Zohlnhofer,Friedbert Rub Pdf

This volume is the first attempt to fill that gap by bringing together a group of international scholars to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Framework from different angles.

Author : Mark Bovens,Robert E. Goodin,Thomas Schillemans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199641253

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The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability by Mark Bovens,Robert E. Goodin,Thomas Schillemans Pdf

Drawing on the best scholars in the field from around the world, this handbook showcases conceptual and normative as well as the empirical approaches in public accountability studies.

Author : Čarna Brković
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785334153

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Managing Ambiguity by Čarna Brković Pdf

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.

Author : Ali Guidara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030626280

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Policy Decision Modeling with Fuzzy Logic by Ali Guidara Pdf

This book introduces the concept of policy decision emergence and its dynamics at the sub systemic level of the decision process. This level constitutes the breeding ground of the emergence of policy decisions but remains unexplored due to the absence of adequate tools. It is a nonlinear complex system made of several entities that interact dynamically. The behavior of such a system cannot be understood with linear and deterministic methods. The book presents an innovative multidisciplinary approach that results in the development of a Policy Decision Emergence Simulation Model (PODESIM). This computational model is a multi-level fuzzy inference system that allows the identification of the decision emergence levers. This development represents a major advancement in the field of public policy decision studies. It paves the way for decision emergence modeling and simulation by bridging complex systems theory, multiple streams theory, and fuzzy logic theory.

Author : Zittoun, Philippe,Fischer, Frank,Nikolaos Zahariadis
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529210347

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The Political Formulation of Policy Solutions by Zittoun, Philippe,Fischer, Frank,Nikolaos Zahariadis Pdf

In this book, an international group of public policy scholars revisit the stage of formulating policy solutions by investigating the basic political dimensions inherent to this critical phase of the policy process. The book focuses attention on how policy makers craft their policy proposals, match them with public problems, debate their feasibility to build coalitions and dispute their acceptability as serious contenders for government consideration. Based on international case studies, this book is an invitation to examine the uncertain and often indeterminate aspects of policy-making using qualitative analysis embedded in a political perspective.

Author : Donald P. Moynihan
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589014350

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The Dynamics of Performance Management by Donald P. Moynihan Pdf

Efficiency. Innovation. Results. Accountability. These, advocates claim, are the fruits of performance management. In recent decades government organizations have eagerly embraced the performance model—but the rush to reform has not delivered as promised. Drawing on research from state and federal levels, Moynihan illustrates how governments have emphasized some aspects of performance management—such as building measurement systems to acquire more performance data—but have neglected wider organizational change that would facilitate the use of such information. In his analysis of why and how governments in the United States have made the move to performance systems, Moynihan identifies agency leadership, culture, and resources as keys to better implementation, goal-based learning, and improved outcomes. How do governments use the performance information generated under performance systems? Moynihan develops a model of interactive dialogue to highlight how performance data, which promised to optimize decision making and policy change for the public's benefit, has often been used selectively to serve the interests of particular agencies and individuals, undermining attempts at interagency problem solving and reform. A valuable resource for public administration scholars and administrators, The Dynamics of Performance Management offers fresh insight into how government organizations can better achieve their public service goals.

Author : Anna Malandrino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031157943

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Migrant Languages in Education by Anna Malandrino Pdf

This book examines language education policy in European migrant-hosting countries. By applying the Multiple Streams Framework to detailed case studies on Austria and Italy, it sheds light on the factors and processes that innovate education policy. The book illustrates an education policy design that values language diversity and inclusion, and compares underlying policymaking processes with less innovative experiences. Combining empirical analysis and qualitative research methods, it assesses the ways in which language is intrinsically linked to identity and political power within societies, and how language policy and migration might become a firmer part of European policy agendas. Sitting at the intersection between policy studies, language education studies and integration studies, the book offers recommendations for how education policy can promote a more inclusive society. It will appeal to scholars, practitioners and students who have an interest in policymaking, education policy and migrant integration.