The hidden dimension of public policy: private governments and the policy-making process
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 37, S. 3-34
ISSN: 0022-3816
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 37, S. 3-34
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 321-329
ISSN: 1540-6210
Although improvisation stands outside of conventional models for rational policy making and Weberian administration, it is nonetheless prevalent in public life. This article argues that improvisation is both a natural consequence of bounded rationality as well as a product of cultural and personal predilections and environmental circumstances. Drawing on a number of instances of improvisation in public administration and policy making in Israel, it attempts to shed light on its uses, motives, and implications, as well as on the issues involved in considering its utility.
In: Asia Pacific community: a quarterly review, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 433-455
ISSN: 0387-1711
The political, ideological and economic context of Trumpism -- Populism -- Trumpism -- Trump voters -- Perfect storm -- Inequality -- Select domestic public policies of the Trump Administration -- Labor policy -- Health care policy -- Social welfare, education and tax policies -- Voter suppression -- Trumpism: race, class, and police policy.
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 853-863
ISSN: 0276-8739
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 284-286
ISSN: 0276-8739
In: Pitt Latin American Series
Public Policy in Latin America is a masterful synthesis of scholarship on the region. Sloan studies political phenomena not by making superficial comparisons between leaders, parties or styles, but by examining what governments do-the creation of public policy through political process. The decisions to stress accumulation versus distribution of economic goods, the role of the bureaucracy, and the quality of political participation tell more about a nation than what party or persons are in power.
In: Punishment & society, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 424-450
ISSN: 1741-3095
Prior research has failed to attend adequately to the ways in which state-level political actors in the USA think about and relate to public opinion. While some research has considered how political actors, such as legislators and state agency staff members, assess public opinion on penal issues, that body of research has been limited both conceptually and methodologically. This article argues that an enterprise perspective on policy making combined with a constructionist perspective on public opinion have the potential to deepen our understanding of penal policy making. To that end, descriptive data from interviews with a wide range of political actors in New York State are considered for what they indicate about the dynamics of public opinion construction, assessment, and use among political actors engaged in penal policy making.
Within the field of innovation studies, researchers have identified several market failures that hamper investment in R&D, innovation and growth in a market economy. Several policies such as government subsidies, tax deductions, soft loans, and public venture capital provided to firms that pursue R&D have therefore been recommended by researchers, in addition to regulations to increase the quality and standards of goods and services. Less attention has been paid to government failures in cases where a policy fails to achieve its stated goal, often due to conflicts between the interests of special interest groups and the public. This paper discusses the concept of government failure within an innovation policy context and why this perspective is important for policy design since it is likely that policies that aim to reduce market failures could suffer from political failures. A text analysis of all papers published in 5 leading innovation journals between 2010 and 2019, a total of 5,526 papers, indicates a lack of research about government failures, which could lead to recommendations from researches to policymakers not being successful due to political failures.
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In: Review of policy research, Band 36, Heft 6, S. 708-735
ISSN: 1541-1338
AbstractAcross many social–ecological systems, policy makers and scholars increasingly call for science to inform policy. The science–policy interface becomes especially complex as collaborative approaches include multiple stakeholders working together across jurisdictions. Unfortunately little is known about how much and how science is used in collaborative governance for social–ecological systems. This exploratory study examines instrumental, conceptual, and symbolic use of science in a science‐rich collaborative planning case in the Puget Sound, USA. It also examines the influence of science, relative to other factors, in collaborative planning, and what factors affect it. Results from a survey and document analysis indicate the prevalence of conceptual use of science, with relatively little symbolic use. Some factors promoting conceptual and instrumental use discourage symbolic use. Overall, while science is seen as influential in this science‐rich context, its influence is balanced by local stakeholder preferences and contextual information.
Based on theories of policy-making to deduce the implications for public policy of major long-term technological, economic, environmental and social trends, this study presents the EU policy implications that are more assertive security policies, more business-friendly economic policies, more liberal social policies, and increased public spending
Public choice approaches have revolutionized contemporary political science, particularly in the United States, where a "new right" political movement has developed. This book develops a critique of new right views through its coverage of aspects of the public choice/new right literature.
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 538-551
ISSN: 1938-274X
This article analyzes opinions about abortion, racial, and social welfare policies, comparing their determinants among citizens with different levels of political information over the past several decades. Hypothesizing that growing elite partisan polarization may have exacerbated the political implications of differences in political awareness, the authors examine how increasing clarity of party—policy linkages among political elites influences party—policy linkages in the mass public. The results show that only the well informed responded to the growing elite polarization by becoming more partisan in their opinions. Apparently, in the absence of the motivation to develop coherent opinions, even a simplification of the political environment does not close the gaps between those who are more and less aware about politics.
In: Boston University Law Review, Vol. 102 (2022)
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