Public Policy Making Reexamined

Author : Yehezkel Dror
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351495578

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Public Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies. Although it caused much controversy when it was first published for its systematic approach to policy studies, the book is acknowledged as a modern classic of continuing importance for the teaching and research of public policy, planning and policy analysis, and public administration. The paperback includes a new introduction updating and supplementing many of the author's original ideas.Professor Dror combines the approaches of policy analysis, behavioral science, and systems analysis in his examination of the reality of public policymaking and his suggestions for its reform. Actual policymaking is carefully evaluated with the help of explicit criteria and standards based on an optimal model approach, resulting in detailed proposals for improvement. He applies a scientific orientation to the study of social facts and theory.

Author : Yehezkel Dror
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351495585

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Public Policy Making Reexamined by Yehezkel Dror Pdf

Public Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies. Although it caused much controversy when it was first published for its systematic approach to policy studies, the book is acknowledged as a modern classic of continuing importance for the teaching and research of public policy, planning and policy analysis, and public administration. The paperback includes a new introduction updating and supplementing many of the author's original ideas.Professor Dror combines the approaches of policy analysis, behavioral science, and systems analysis in his examination of the reality of public policymaking and his suggestions for its reform. Actual policymaking is carefully evaluated with the help of explicit criteria and standards based on an optimal model approach, resulting in detailed proposals for improvement. He applies a scientific orientation to the study of social facts and theory.

Author : Yehezkel Dror
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : OCLC:1009215526

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Public Policymaking Reexamined by Yehezkel Dror Pdf

Author : Thomas R. Dye
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016132238

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Understanding Public Policy by Thomas R. Dye Pdf

This leading introduction to public policy is designed to provide learners with concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing "specific" public policies. It focuses on "what" policies governments pursue, "why" governments pursue the policies they do, and what the "consequences" of these policies are. Very contemporary in perspective, it introduces eight analytical models currently used by political scientists to describe and explain political life and then, using these various analytical models singly and in combination explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas. For individuals interested in a summary of current public policy in a variety of areas.

Author : James E. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015025058937

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Public Policymaking by James E. Anderson Pdf

Author : Yehezkel Dror
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351499309

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Policymaking under Adversity by Yehezkel Dror Pdf

This groundbreaking study systematically treats recent policymaking trends, starting with a reconsideration of salient theoretical issues of policymaking and its study and culminating with a survey of current policy-related predicaments in various countries. Dror proposes that the task for social science research is to uncover underlying causes of policymaking inadequacies. Standard research methods, Dror states, have been unable to uncover the realities of important decisions made inside governments. In order to gain an understanding of pressing predicaments, he believes that policymakers need to examine the foundations of contemporary practices of present assumptions, and that they need a multiplicity of approaches to policymaking.After prescribing a set of requirements that policymaking must satisfy in order to adequately respond to challenges, Dror posits several improvements needed in education and in policy decision making. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography, including numerous important German works not found in other English-language studies. This book supplements the earlier basic theory and models propounded in Dror's Public Policymaking Reexamined by dealing with current trends. As a guide to public policy literature and related works, it will be invaluable to students and practitioners.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674452569

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Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen Pdf

The noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen argues that the dictum “all people are created equal” serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, and physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background. He argues for concentrating on higher and more basic values: individual capabilities and freedom to achieve objectives. By concentrating on the equity and efficiency of social arrangements in promoting freedoms and capabilities of individuals, Sen adds an important new angle to arguments about such vital issues as gender inequalities, welfare policies, affirmative action, and public provision of health care and education.

Author : Ingrid Robeyns
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783744244

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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice by Ingrid Robeyns Pdf

How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking. This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.

Author : G. William Domhoff
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0878552286

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Who Really Rules? by G. William Domhoff Pdf

Robert A. Dahl's Who Governs? is a classic pluralist study which has had an important influence on American social science since the early sixties. Who Really Rules? provides a categorical challenge--empirical, methodological, and theoretical--to Dahl's work. Empirically, Domhoff's restudy of New Haven shows through newly discovered documents that Dahl was wrong about the pluralism of New Haven's power structure. He also presents the most systematic statement of power structure methodology yet made, a statement that contradicts Dahl's methodological claims which have been the prevailing wisdom in American social science for over fifteen years. Finally, Domhoff outlines the national policy planning network through which the big business ruling class dominates urban government. Who Really Rules? is unique in that it makes possible for the first time a dialogue between pluralist and ruling-class views on the basis of studies of the same city by leading exponents of the rival theoretical positions. It is original in that it includes much data not revealed by Dahl. It presents the methodology of power structure research in the most comprehensive fashion yet attempted, and reveals a ruling-class network for urban policy planning that has never before been fully articulated.

Author : V. K. Agnihotri
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : India
ISBN : 8170225612

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Public Policy Analysis and Design by V. K. Agnihotri Pdf

Collection of articles presented at the Seminar on Public Policy Analysis and Design organized by Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration from 23 to 25 August, 1993; with special reference to India.

Author : Yehezkel Dror
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136342394

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The Capacity to Govern by Yehezkel Dror Pdf

The inadequacies of contemporary forms of governance are increasingly recognized: the brain drain from politics, distrust of governments, the danger of mass media and money-dominated elections, and the failure of governments to find good policy options on major issues. Industry, civil society and non-governmental organizations, however important, cannot compensate for government's incapacity to shape the future, which only it is democratically entitled to do. Radical improvements in governance are urgently needed, but salient proposals are scarce. This book diagnoses contemporary governments as obsolete and proposes changes in values, structures, staffing, public understanding and political culture to equip governance for the radically novel challenges of the 21st century. This is the first Report dealing with governance commissioned and approved by the Club of Rome, testifying to the significance of this book.

Author : Kevin B. Smith,Christopher Larimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429973987

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The Public Policy Theory Primer by Kevin B. Smith,Christopher Larimer Pdf

Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy, the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. Authors Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer offer an organized and comprehensive overview of the core questions and concepts, major theoretical frameworks, primary methodological approaches, and key controversies and debates in each subfield of policy studies from the policy process and policy analysis to program evaluation and policy implementation. The third edition has been updated throughout to include the latest scholarship and approaches in the field, including new and expanded coverage of behavioral economics, the narrative policy framework, Fourth Generation implementation studies, the policy regime approach, field experiments, and the debate of program versus policy implementation studies. Now with an appendix of sample comprehensive exam questions, The Public Policy Theory Primer remains an indispensable text for the systematic study of public policy.

Author : D. Ravindra Prasad,V. Sivalinga Prasad,P. Satyanarāyaṇa
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Management
ISBN : 8120709616

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Administrative Thinkers by D. Ravindra Prasad,V. Sivalinga Prasad,P. Satyanarāyaṇa Pdf

Author : David E Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000303759

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The National Planning Idea In U.s. Public Policy by David E Wilson Pdf

This book explores the eventful but largely forgotten history of national planning efforts in the United States, first identifying and comparing five alternative approaches to contemporary national planning, then using these approaches to assess the events of 1973-1976, a period when crisis pressures brought a vigorous resurgence of national planning activity and debate. Dr. Wilson concludes that two new approaches to planning— "learning-adaptive" and general systems—are increasingly being used in lieu of the long-established, and less flexible, rational and incremental approaches, and that these might eventually achieve a beneficial new synthesis in both federal policy practice and social science theory. He argues that the twin questions of a planned versus a planning society and of who will plan for whom are inexorably emerging as key issues in U.S. public policy. Along with its companion volume—National Planning in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography, also published by Westview—this book provides extensive new interdisciplinary research material and integrative perspectives on current planning challenges.

Author : Austin Ranney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Political science
ISBN : UOM:39015000552953

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Political Science and Public Policy by Austin Ranney Pdf