The National Planning Idea In U S Public Policy

Author : David E Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : David E Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036730970X

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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 : David E. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429727979

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National Planning In The United States by David E. Wilson Pdf

This annotated bibliography of more than 2,000 entries, current through 1977, sheds light on the national planning idea as a substantive issue in past, present, and future U.S. public policy; presents a bibliographic structure that suggests new emphases, relationships, and interdisciplinary approaches; and makes more easily accessible to students a

Author : David E. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367294249

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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 : Frank Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000307627

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Politics, Values, And Public Policy by Frank Fischer Pdf

Addressed to the growing concerns about norms and values in policy assessment, this study develops a methodology for the political evaluation of public policy. It is designed to move policy evaluation beyond its current emphasis on efficient achievement of goals, focusing instead on the assessment of the acceptability of the goals themselves, emplo

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Economic history
ISBN : UOM:39015083028426

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Public Policy Digest of the National Planning Association by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gregory S. Wilson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572336643

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Communities Left Behind by Gregory S. Wilson Pdf

"Throughout this terrific book, Wilson places this government agency-its creation, its lifespan and achievements, and its mixed legacies-in the broader context of postwar American history and, more specifically, the history of employment policy." --Jason Scott Smith, author of Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 With clarity and insight, Gregory S. Wilson recounts the story of the Area Redevelopment Administration and connects a nearly forgotten piece of American employment history to national and transnational developments in the making of social policy in the years between the New Deal and the Great Society. Communities Left Behind demonstrates how the United States has, since the Great Depression, tried but failed to address the nation's structural inequalities, and it reopens discussions about poverty and economic dislocation in a period when the country is facing new economic challenges. The ARA was created in 1961 and remained in operation until 1965. Its goal was to assist communities, especially economically distressed ones in rural or undeveloped areas of the country, in generating employment opportunities. Unstated in the creation of the ARA was its intention to serve as an economic development project mostly for Appalachia and the American South, where nearly all of its money was spent. Wilson argues that the ARA was doomed to fail from the beginning because of the requirement that federal officials not interfere with state and local priorities. It simply was not possible to implement a federal initiative in the South without running afoul of local interests. And, to further complicate matters, the issue of race loomed in the background: when ARA policies aimed to improve employment opportunities for black southerners, they were invariably sabotaged by racist politics. This ambivalent legacy of the ARA is alive today, Wilson suggests, as areas of the nation that have struggled economically since the agency's original creation-including inner cities, Native American reservations, Appalachia, and the rural South-continue to founder. Gregory S. Wilson is associate professor of history at the University of Akron and coeditor of the Northeast Ohio Journal of History.

Author : Peter William House,Roger Roger Don Shull
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412831059

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The Rush to Policy by Peter William House,Roger Roger Don Shull Pdf

Rush to Policy explores the appropriate role of technical analysis in policy formulation. The authors ask when and how the use of sophisticated analytic techniques in decision-making benefits the nation. They argues that these techniques are too often used in situations where they may not be needed or understood by the decision maker, where they may not be to answer the questions raised but are nonetheless required by law. House and Shull provide an excellent empirical base for describing the impact of politics on policies, policy analysis, and policy analysts. They examine cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, and decision analysis and assess their ability to substitute for the current decision-making process in the public sector. They examine the political basis of public sector decision-making, how individuals and organizations make decisions, and the ways decisions are made in the federal sector. Also, they discuss the mandate to use these methods in the policy formulation process. The book is written by two practicing federal policy analysts who, in a decade of service as policy researchers, developed sophisticated quantitative analytic and decision-making techniques. They then spent several years trying to use them in the real world. Success and failures are described in illuminating detail, providing insight not commonly found in such critiques. The authors delineate the interaction of politics and technical issues. Their book describes policy analysis as it is, not how it ought to be. Peter W. House is the director of policy research and analysis at the National Science Foundation. He is the author of ten books on multidisciplinary science and technology policy research and analyses in government, private, and university sectors, including The Art of Public Policy Analysis and with Roger D. Shull, Regulatory Reform: Politics and the Environment and Regulations and Science: Management of Research on Demand. Roger D. Shull is a senior analyst at the Division of Policy Research and Analysis, National Science Foundation.

Author : James L Garnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000309676

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Reorganizing State Government by James L Garnett Pdf

Although state executive branch reorganization has been surrounded by controversy and expense for more than sixty years and has been occurring at an unprecedented rate during the last thirteen, much of our knowledge of it has been anecdotal, fragmentary, conceptually imprecise, and untested, asserts Dr. Garnett. His book contributes conceptual and empirical order to the study of reorganization by analyzing competing and complementary models, evaluating research methodologies, stating hypotheses, and testing those hypotheses with data drawn from more than 150 of the state reorganizations that have taken place in this century. Dr. Garnett addresses three basic questions: Why do state reorganizations occur? How are they conducted? What forms do the reorganized executive branches take? His specific action guidelines for governors and other state officials, agenda for further research, and extensive bibliography will be particularly useful.

Author : Yehezkel Dror
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Terrence R Tutchings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000310092

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Rhetoric And Reality by Terrence R Tutchings Pdf

Since 1945, the role of the president in shaping domestic and foreign policy has changed dramatically. Though the prodigious growth of the federal bureaucracy under the Executive Branch reflects much of this change, bureaucratic response to the major issues of the past three decades has been ineffective or nonexistent, and a notable parallel development has been the increasing use of public commissions in the policymaking process. Dr. Tutchings studies more than 100 public commissions using a model of the policymaking process that includes demands, decision and information costs, and policy results and outcomes. Reviewing the results of the commissions as reflected in presidential support of recommendations (via proposed legislation) and in congressional response, he notes that their membership has typically been dominated by government/corporate elites: as this membership has become more pluralistic, there has been a sharp decline in the contributions of the commissions to the policymaking process. Perhaps the most significant contribution of the book is its detailed development of the concept of rhetorical policy as a first step in the policymaking process.

Author : Don Lavoie
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781937184209

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National Economic Planning by Don Lavoie Pdf

Don Lavoie argues that the radical Left's enthusiasm for planning has been a tragic mistake and that progressive social change requires the abandonment of this traditional view. Lavoie argues that planning—whether Marxism, economic democracy, or industrial policy—can only disrupt social and economic coordination. He challenges both radicals and their critics to begin reformulating our whole notion of progressive economic change without reliance on central planning. National Economic Planning: What is Left? will challenge thinkers and policymakers of every political persuasion.

Author : David Ciepley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0674022963

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Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism by David Ciepley Pdf

This book argues that it was primarily the encounter with totalitarianism that dissolved the ideals of American progressivism and crystallized the ideals of postwar liberalism. In politics, the ideal of governance by a strong, independent executive was rejected and a politics of contending interest groups was embraced.

Author : Redmond Kathleen Molz,American Library Association
Publisher : Chicago : America Library Association
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015018615792

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National Planning for Library Service, 1935-1975 by Redmond Kathleen Molz,American Library Association Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Military planning
ISBN : 9781428982079

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Creating Strategic Vision by Anonim Pdf