The Policy State

Author : Karen Orren,Stephen Skowronek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0674982657

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Policy is government's ready response to changing times, the key to its successful adaptation. It tackles problems as they arise, from foreign relations and economic affairs to race relations and family affairs. Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek take a closer look at this well-known reality of modern governance. In The Policy State they point out that policy is not the only way in which America was governed historically, and they describe the transformation that occurred as policy took over more and more of the work of government, emerging as the raison d'être of the state's operation. Rather than analyze individual policies to document this change, Orren and Skowronek examine policy's effect on legal rights and the formal structure of policy-making authority. Rights and structure are the principle elements of government that historically constrained policy and protected other forms of rule. The authors assess the emergence of a new "policy state," in which rights and structure shed their distinctive characteristics and take on the attributes of policy. Orren and Skowronek address the political controversies swirling around American government as a consequence of policy's expanded domain. On the one hand, the policy state has rendered government more flexible, responsive, and inclusive. On the other, it has mangled government's form, polarized its politics, and sowed deep distrust of its institutions. The policy state frames an American predicament: policy has eroded the foundations of government, even as the policy imperative pushes us ever forward, into an uncertain future.--

Author : Karen Orren,Stephen Skowronek
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674728745

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The Policy State by Karen Orren,Stephen Skowronek Pdf

Introduction: Public policy and state formation -- The policy motive -- Rights in the policy state -- Structure in the policy state -- Politics in the policy state

Author : David Brunori
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877667268

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State Tax Policy by David Brunori Pdf

Author : M. Painter,J. Pierre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230524194

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Challenges to State Policy Capacity by M. Painter,J. Pierre Pdf

Globalization and New Public Management pose major challenges to the policy capacity of the state. Challenges to State Policy Capacity offers the most timely and comprehensive coverage of contemporary state policy capacity. Drawing on the work by international leading scholars in political science and public administration, the book is indispensable to anyone interested in policy capacity, administrative reform and the state.

Author : M. Evren Tok,Lolwah R. M. Alkhater,Leslie A. Pal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137466396

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Policy-Making in a Transformative State by M. Evren Tok,Lolwah R. M. Alkhater,Leslie A. Pal Pdf

This book explores, in a series of detailed case studies, how public policy is actually made in Qatar. While Qatar is a Gulf monarchy, its governance is complex. Other analysts have tried to come to grips with this complexity using qualified descriptions of the system such as 'late rentier,' 'pluralized autocracy,' 'tribal democracy,' or 'soft authoritarian.' The authors of the volume use the lens of a transformative state. Qatar is deliberately engaged in a rapid process of radical economic and societal transformation. That process has its contradictions and tensions, particularly with regards to achieving a balance between Islam, social traditions, and modernity. This book explores how it also has a specific policy dynamic of generating ideas and institutions, developing policy and program designs, implementation and coordination.

Author : Karen Orren
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674983168

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The Policy State by Karen Orren Pdf

Policy is government’s response to changing times, the key to its successful adaptation. It tackles problems as they arise, from foreign relations and economic affairs to race relations and family affairs. Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek take a close look at this well-known reality of modern governance: the expanded domain of the “policy state.”

Author : Edward O. Laumann,David Knoke
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0299111946

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The Organizational State by Edward O. Laumann,David Knoke Pdf

The Federal Government in the United States is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Presidents are elected by popular vote in the nation (filtered through the electoral college), Senators are elected by popular vote in their states, and Representatives are elected by popular vote in their Congressional districts. Cabinet members and agency heads are appointed by the elected president, as are members of the Supreme Court. But this says nothing about politics. Professor Lauman and Knoke have asked, in this book, how policies were made, in the period 1977-1980, in the areas of energy and health. The question is a very different one from the question of how the positions of president and Congress are filled.

Author : G. John Ikenberry,David A. Lake,Michael Mastanduno
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801495245

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The State and American Foreign Economic Policy by G. John Ikenberry,David A. Lake,Michael Mastanduno Pdf

How has the U.S. government made the nation's foreign economic policy over the last hundred years? Social scientists have traditionally presented the American state as relatively weak, its policies as directly reflecting the domestic balance of strength among interested social groups and economic sectors. This collection of essays by seven notable young political scientists provides a theoretical reevaluation of the forces at work in national policy making and present evidence that the effectiveness of the national government in shaping U.S. policy has been greatly underestimated.

Author : Derek S. Hoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226347653

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The State and the Stork by Derek S. Hoff Pdf

“A powerful model of how to understand the complex array of issues that will shape the political economy of population in the future.”—American Historical Review From the founders’ fears that crowded cities would produce corruption, luxury, and vice to the zero population growth movement of the late 1960s to today’s widespread fears of an aging crisis as the Baby Boomers retire, the American population debate has always concerned much more than racial composition or resource exhaustion, the aspects of the debate usually emphasized by historians. In The State and the Stork, Derek Hoff draws on his extraordinary knowledge of the intersections between population and economic debates throughout American history to explain the many surprising ways that population anxieties have provoked unexpected policies and political developments—including the recent conservative revival. At once a fascinating history and a revelatory look at the deep origins of a crucial national conversation, The State and the Stork could not be timelier. “Hoff has done a real service by bringing to the foreground the economic dimension of U.S. debates over population size and growth, a topic that has been relegated to the shadows for too long.”—Population and Development Review “After decades of failed efforts by the scientific community to alert the public to the environmental dangers of population growth and overpopulation, a first-rate historian has finally detailed both the arguments and their policy implications . . . Everyone interested in population should read The State and the Stork. This is an incredibly timely book.”—Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb

Author : John Echeverri-Gent
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520913264

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The State and the Poor by John Echeverri-Gent Pdf

This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangible exchanges between state and society, provides strategic interaction among self-interested individuals, social groups, and bureaucracies. It demonstrates how this interaction can be harnessed to enhance the effectiveness of public policy. Echeverri-Gent's application of this framework to poverty alleviation programs generates provocative insights about the ways in which institutions and social structure constrain policy-makers. In the process, he illuminates new implications for the concepts of state autonomy and state capacity. The book's original conceptual framework and intriguing findings will interest scholars of South Asia and American politics, social theorists, and policy-makers.

Author : William Mark Crain
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472024070

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Volatile States by William Mark Crain Pdf

Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. With new insights about the factors that contribute to state economic success, the book departs from traditional analyses of economic performance in its emphasis on the role of volatility. Volatile States identifies institutions and policies that are key determinants of economic success and illustrates the considerable promise of a mean-variance criterion for assessing state economic performance. The mean-variance perspective amends applications of growth models that rely on the mobility of productive factors keyed to income levels alone. Simply measuring the level of growth in state economies reveals an incomplete and perhaps distorted picture of performance. Taking the volatility of state economies explicitly into account refines the whole notion of "economic success." This book is essential reading for economists, political scientists, and policy-makers who routinely confront questions about the consequences of alternative institutional arrangements and economic policy choices. W. Mark Crain is Professor of Economics and Research Associate, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University.

Author : Peter deLeon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438400785

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Democracy and the Policy Sciences by Peter deLeon Pdf

As originally proposed by Harold Lasswell, the policy sciences were dedicated to democratic governance. But today they are far removed from the democratic process and do little to promote the American democratic system. This book examines how in the context of American history and the development of the policy sciences, a more democratic, participatory policy analysis could be conceptualized in theory and administered in practice. Peter deLeon argues that for the policy sciences to move toward democracy, they must accept a new analytic paradigm that draws heavily on critical thinking and the writing of post-positivism. To further that end, he presents a "minipopulist" procedure that will allow more citizen participation without hamstringing the processes of government.

Author : Andreas Ladner,Nils Soguel,Yves Emery,Sophie Weerts,Stéphane Nahrath
Publisher : Springer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319923819

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Swiss Public Administration by Andreas Ladner,Nils Soguel,Yves Emery,Sophie Weerts,Stéphane Nahrath Pdf

Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public administration, there are other factors which make a country successful. The authors argue that Switzerland is an interesting case, from a theoretical, scientific and a more practice-oriented perspective. While confronted with the same challenges as other countries, Switzerland offers different solutions, some of which work astonishingly well.

Author : Sandra Braman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262261883

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Change of State by Sandra Braman Pdf

How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power: theoretical foundations and empirical examples of information policy in the U.S., an innovator informational state. As the informational state replaces the bureaucratic welfare state, control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power. In Change of State Sandra Braman examines the theoretical and practical ramifications of this "change of state." She looks at the ways in which governments are deliberate, explicit, and consistent in their use of information policy to exercise power, exploring not only such familiar topics as intellectual property rights and privacy but also areas in which policy is highly effective but little understood. Such lesser-known issues include hybrid citizenship, the use of "functionally equivalent borders" internally to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding, census methods, and network interconnection. Trends in information policy, argues Braman, both manifest and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.After laying the theoretical, conceptual, and historical foundations for understanding the informational state, Braman examines 20 information policy principles found in the U.S Constitution. She then explores the effects of U.S. information policy on the identity, structure, borders, and change processes of the state itself and on the individuals, communities, and organizations that make up the state. Looking across the breadth of the legal system, she presents current law as well as trends in and consequences of several information policy issues in each category affected. Change of State introduces information policy on two levels, coupling discussions of specific contemporary problems with more abstract analysis drawing on social theory and empirical research as well as law. Most important, the book provides a way of understanding how information policy brings about the fundamental social changes that come with the transformation to the informational state.

Author : Rushefsky
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780765628503

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Public Policy in the United States by Rushefsky Pdf

This widely respected book offers a unique dualistic view of the policy process. First, it introduces readers to the American approach to public policy making as it has been shaped by our political institutions, changing circumstances, and ideology. Second, it informs readers concisely and even-handedly about U.S. policies in eight major policy realms, with well selected illustrations, case studies, and study questions. In addition to providing analytical tools and empirical information, the book imparts an appreciation of the widely shared but often competing values that must be balanced and rebalanced in the ongoing policy-making process, affecting issues of the highest concern to the American public. For this new edition, all of the policy chapters, especially those on economic policy, foreign policy, the environment, and education, have been very substantially revised and updated.