Global Policy Studies

Author : Michael Orsini,Miriam Smith
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774840057

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Critical Policy Studies by Michael Orsini,Miriam Smith Pdf

Traditional definitions of public policy in Canada have been challenged in recent years by globalization, the transition to a knowledge-based economy, and the rise of new technologies. Critical Policy Studies describes how new policy problems such as border screening and global warming have been catapulted onto the agenda in the neo-liberal era. The book also surveys the recent evolution of critical approaches to policy studies, which have transformed decades-old issues. Contributors conceptualize the ways in which public policy questions cut across the traditional fields of policy. They cover both topical approaches such as Foucauldian and post-empiricist analysis and new applications of established perspectives, such as political economy. Conventional methodologies reveal new connotations when used to explore such topics as security issues, Canadian sovereignty, welfare reform, environmental protocol, Aboriginal policy, and reproductive technologies. Critical Policy Studies provides an alternative to existing approaches to policy studies, and will be welcomed by scholars, students, and practitioners of political science and public policy.

Author : Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349116546

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Global Policy Studies by Stuart S. Nagel Pdf

An analysis of international interactions which have been designed to deal with shared policy problems. Such problems include pollution, trade, common property problems, health and education. This subject crosses the fields of international relations and comparative public policy studies.

Author : Heike M. Grimm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030060619

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Public Policy Research in the Global South by Heike M. Grimm Pdf

This volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South. The authors illustrate the emergence of public policy research as an academic discipline, and highlight various aspects of history, governance, politics, and economics as components of public policy theory development. By offering a cross-national perspective, the papers contribute to a better understanding of when, how, and by whom a given policy agenda is designed, which is essential to grasping how policy is implemented. In turn, the authors investigate how the development of public policy research has influenced policymaking in fields such as democratization, migration, corruption, agriculture, environment, education, and entrepreneurship and, more specifically, agenda setting in selected countries of the Global South.

Author : Michael R. Anderson,Stephanie S. Holmsten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317509677

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Political and Economic Foundations in Global Studies by Michael R. Anderson,Stephanie S. Holmsten Pdf

Political and Economic Foundations in Global Studies provides an innovative introductory examination of the global forces shaping the world today, seen through political and economic lenses. Along with its companion, Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies, the book exposes students to the historical contours of, and the key concepts and processes that underlie, the interconnections among individuals, societies, organizations, and governments. As in the rest of Routledge’s Global Studies series, the Foundations books employ a two-part strategy: conceptual underpinnings explored in the first part are enlivened by case studies in the second. Special features magnify the utility of the text: • Text boxes are employed to expand and emphasize specific material: they are used to open up the coverage to related topics or to call attention to especially critical material, such as historical milestones or key vocabulary. • Resource boxes offer links that point readers to sources—mostly online—on the topics discussed and establish a rich archive of additional material for readers to draw on. • At the same time, back-of-chapter References and Further Research lists help students to trace the material used by authors or to follow more general leads relating to the topics covered in the chapters. • Images highlight specific details of the case studies, helping to bring the subjects alive.

Author : Diane Stone,Kim Moloney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191076350

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration by Diane Stone,Kim Moloney Pdf

Global policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above traditional nation-state policy processes. New practices of transnational administration are emerging inside international organizations but also alongside the trans-governmental networks of regulators and inside global public private partnerships. Mainstream policy and public administration studies have tended to analyse the capacity of public sector hierarchies to globalize national policies. By contrast, this Handbook investigates new public spaces of transnational policy-making, the design and delivery of global public goods and services, and the interdependent roles of transnational administrators who move between business bodies, government agencies, international organizations, and professional associations. This Handbook is novel in taking the concepts and theories of public administration and policy studies to get inside the black box of global governance. Transnational administration is a multi-actor and multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations, depending on the policy issue or problems, at the local, urban, sub-regional, sub-national, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional, transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of 'local' and 'global' are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but are articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity. These transnational patterns represent a reinvigoration of public administration and policy studies as the Handbook authors advance their analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of the nation-state.

Author : Sujian Guo,Baogang Guo
Publisher : Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123323375

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Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development by Sujian Guo,Baogang Guo Pdf

Examining the challenges of Chinese political development from a holistic perspective, each of the authors emphasizes a particular dimension of political culture, political economy, foreign policy, and environmental and social challenges.

Author : Diane Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108624350

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Making Global Policy by Diane Stone Pdf

Global policy making is taking shape in a wide range of public sector activities managed by transnational policy communities. Public policy scholars have long recognised the impact of globalisation on the industrialised knowledge economies of OECD states, as well as on social and economic policy challenges faced by developing and transition states. But the focus has been on domestic politics and policy. Today, policy studies literature is building new concepts of 'transnational public-private partnership', 'trans-governmentalism' and 'science diplomacy' to account for rapid growth of global policy networks and informal international organisations delivering public goods and services. This Element goes beyond traditional texts which focus on public policy as an activity of states to outline how global policy making has driven many global and regional transformations over the past quarter-century. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Paul Cairney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350311978

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Understanding Public Policy by Paul Cairney Pdf

The fully revised second edition of this textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to theories of public policy and policymaking. The policy process is complex: it contains hundreds of people and organisations from various levels and types of government, from agencies, quasi- and non-governmental organisations, interest groups and the private and voluntary sectors. This book sets out the major concepts and theories that are vital for making sense of the complexity of public policy, and explores how to combine their insights when seeking to explain the policy process. While a wide range of topics are covered – from multi-level governance and punctuated equilibrium theory to 'Multiple Streams' analysis and feminist institutionalism – this engaging text draws out the common themes among the variety of studies considered and tackles three key questions: what is the story of each theory (or multiple theories); what does policy theory tell us about issues like 'evidence based policymaking'; and how 'universal' are policy theories designed in the Global North? This book is the perfect companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying public policy, whether focussed on theory, analysis or the policy process, and it is essential reading for all those on MPP or MPM programmes. New to this Edition: - New sections on power, feminist institutionalism, the institutional analysis and development framework, the narrative policy framework, social construction and policy design - A consideration of policy studies in relation to the Global South in an updated concluding chapter - More coverage of policy formulation and tools, the psychology of policymaking and complexity theory - Engaging discussions of punctuated equilibrium, the advocacy coalition framework and multiple streams analysis

Author : Guorui Fan,Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811383472

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Handbook of Education Policy Studies by Guorui Fan,Thomas S. Popkewitz Pdf

This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. By effectively breaking through the boundaries between countries and disciplines, it presents new theories, techniques and methods for contemporary education policy, and illustrates the educational policies and educational reform practices that various countries have introduced to meet the challenges of continuous change. Based on an analysis of the nature of education policy and education reform, this volume focuses on education reform and the concept of education quality. Adopting a historical and comparative perspective, it examines the dialectical relationship between education policy and education reform in various countries, assesses theoretical and practical issues in the process of moving from regulation to multiple governance in contemporary education administration, and explores the impact of globalization on national education reform and the interdependence between countries. In addition, it presents studies addressing educational policy research methodology from multiple perspectives. Highlighting the changes in national education macro policies, this volume comprehensively reveals the complex relationship between contemporary education reform and social change, and explores the links between contemporary social, political and economic systems and educational policy research and practice, offering a holistic portrait of macro trends in contemporary education reform.

Author : Bob Deacon
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412907624

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Global Social Policy and Governance by Bob Deacon Pdf

`This primer on the global politics of social policy ... is essential reading for students as well as others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon′s book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex supra-national debates over rights, regulation and redistribution impinging on social welfare all over the world′ - Jomo K.S., United Nations Assistant, Secretary-General for Economic Development `This book is very timely and addresses many issues that are en vogue at the moment. It relates social policy studies to other fields such as global governance and development studies and thus opens up new discussions in the subject area′ - Dr Antje Vetterlein, University of Oxford Global Social Policy and Governance offers an authoritative understanding of the way social policies at national and supra-national level are shaped in the context of globalisation. The book: " evaluates national social policies advanced by international organisations. " examines policies addressing global social redistribution, regulation and rights. " highlights the roles of global actors, including INGOs, consultants, think tanks, task forces and global policy advocacy coalitions. " explores the political obstacles to reforms in global social governance, " outlines the growing importance of global social movements. " presents arguments for more effective global and regional social policies. " is illustrated by case studies, further reading sections and a glossary. Global Social Policy and Governance will be an essential text for students of social policy, development studies and international relations. It will also be invaluable reading for those shaping social policies in international organisations and those in social movements seeking to influence them. Bob Deacon is Professor of International Social Policy at the University of Sheffield.

Author : Andrew Gilbert
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501750274

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International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy by Andrew Gilbert Pdf

In International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy Andrew C. Gilbert argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that permeate such encounters. He discusses the transformations that happen in everyday engagements between intervention agents and their target populations, and also identifies key instabilities that emerge out of such engagements. Gilbert highlights the struggles, entanglements and inter-dependencies between and among foreign agents, and the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina that channel and shape intervention and how it unfolds. Drawing upon nearly two years of fieldwork studying in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gilbert's probing analysis identifies previously overlooked sites, processes, and effects of international intervention, and suggests new comparative opportunities for the study of transnational action that seeks to save and secure human lives and improve the human condition. Above all, International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy foregrounds and analyzes the open-ended, innovative, and unpredictable nature of international intervention that is usually omitted from the ordered representations of the technocratic vision and the confident assertions of many critiques.

Author : Gary K. Bertsch
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982-09
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015019790263

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Global Policy Studies by Gary K. Bertsch Pdf

Author : Canh Thien Dang,Javier Cifuentes-Faura,Xiaolong Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1874 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819964413

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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Business and Policy Studies by Canh Thien Dang,Javier Cifuentes-Faura,Xiaolong Li Pdf

This proceedings volume contains papers accepted by the 2nd International Conference on Business and Policy Studies (CONF-BPS 2023), which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editorial team of the conference. This volume presents the latest research achievements, inspirations, and applications in applied economy, finance, enterprise management, public administration, and policy studies. CONF-BPS 2023 was a hybrid conference that includes several workshops (offline and online) around the world in Cardiff (Jan, 2023), London(Feb, 2023) and Sydney (Feb, 2023). Prof. Canh Thien Dang from King's College London, Prof. Arman Eshraghi from Cardiff Business School, and Prof. Kristle Romero Cortés from UNSW Business School have chaired those offline workshop.

Author : Stuart Nagel
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0824791428

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Encyclopedia of Policy Studies, Second Edition, by Stuart Nagel Pdf

"This entirely updated and enlarged Second Edition of a landmark reference/text continues to provide comprehensive coverage of every important aspect of policy studies--discussing concepts, methods, utilization, formation, and implementation both internationally and across each level of government."

Author : Fred Carden
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788178299303

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Knowledge to Policy by Fred Carden Pdf

Investigates the effects of research in the field of international development.. Examines the consequences of 23 research projects funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre in developing countries. Shows how research influence public policy and decision-making and how can contribute to better governance.