Suchergebnisse

The ends and means of public policy / Mark Fabian -- Behavioural theories and public policy / Uwe Dulleck -- Institutions matter : an introduction to the role of institutions in public policy / Julia Talbot-Jones -- Regulatory theories and frameworks / Elizabeth Bluff -- Why do we need evidence-based public policy? / Robert Breunig -- Making facts and telling furphies with economic modelling : cost-benefit analysis in the post-truth era / Leo Dobes -- Policy experimentation and impact evaluation : the case of a student voucher system in New Zealand / Sholeh A. Maani -- HECS : a hybrid model for higher-education financing / Bruce Chapman -- Revisiting Danish flexicurity after a decade of reform : does the labour market still work for everyone? / Henning Jørgensen and Mads Peter Klindt -- Building an adequate but sustainable retirement incomes system / Andrew Podger and Michael Keating -- Massaging the market with industrial policy : lessons from FYR Macedonia and Malaysia / Volker Treichel -- Government-market mixes for health care / Andrew Podger -- Balancing efficiency and equity in the tax and transfer system-wide / Miranda Stewart and Peter Whiteford -- Inclusive growth : hybrid policies into the future / Glenn Withers -- Evidence-based policy making in the Tropics : are developing countries different? / Stephen Howes, Ashlee Betteridge, Lawrence Sauss and Lhawang Ugyel -- The political realities of policy design and implementation / John Hewson

Both economists and political scientists have made important contributions to the field of public policy analysis. Economists have stressed the roles of competition, natural monopolies, information asymmetries, externalities, incentives, and federalism in promoting or undermining efficiency. Political scientists, in contrast, have focused more on the mechanics of agenda change, the likelihood of nonincremental policy change, and how the policy-making process varies across issue areas. Economists have influenced government decisions that led to the creation of public utility commissions, emissions trading, revenue sharing, and health maintenance organizations. Political scientists have influenced government decisions on the d sign of political institutions (environmental impact statements, legislative redistricting) and on the choice of public policies (criminal justice strategies, welfare reform). In general, the presence of a scholarly consensus facilitates the use of policy analysis. However, interest group politics and electoral incentives also play an important role. Adapted from the source document.

Native Americans, who are recognized simultaneously as sovereign tribal groups and as American citizens, present American society and its policy-making process with a problem fundamentally different from that posed by other ethnic minorities. In these essays, the contributors discuss the historical background, certain pathologies of Indian-white relations, questions of legal sovereignty and economic development, and efforts to find new ways of successfully resolving recent controversies.

Based on conference paper. Why policy studies could become cross-nationally comparative; an overview of the kinds of analyses that have been published; problems and potentials of research.

Impact of various aspects of public policy on trade unions and impact of the unions on policy-making; 12 articles; US. Topics include labor law reform, public sector unions, higher education and unions, and union strategy.