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ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR, TO THE SUBSTANTIVE GOALS OF EFFECTIVENESS, EFFICIENCY, AND EQUITY IN POLICY ANALYSIS SHOULD BE ADDED THE PROCESS GOALS OF PARTICIPATION, PREDICTABILITY, AND PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS. THIS SHOULD HELP RECOMMENDED POLICIES COME CLOSER TO ACHIEVING OPTIMALITY IN THE VALUES IMPLICITLY PRESENT IN MOST WIDELY ACCEPTED POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES.

The latest in the six-volume set of global policy handbooks, this reference utilizes a cross-national, cross-policy approach to examine the public policy of six different regions around the world. Combining actual and theoretical perspectives, the book compares and presents nonideological resolutions to current political conditions worldwide. With contributions from over 30 international policy experts and academicians and containing over 1200 literature references, tables, and drawings, the book is an insightful resource for public administrators and public policy experts, political scientists, economists, sociologists, attorneys, and students in these disciplines.

Featuring a pragmatic approach to coping with the legal complications surrounding pretrial release, drug-related crime, and freedom of religion, among other issues, this timely reference presents a host of legal policy problems in diverse political and cultural settings throughout the world. Contributors bridge the academic gulf between worldwide and public policy studies, as well as the ideological gap between liberal and conservative attitudes toward constitutional law, individual liberty, public safety, and human rights. The authors emphasize the need for an integrated, "one-world" perspective in the international legal community, drawing on over 1200 references, tables, and illustrations

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: POLICY WITHIN DEVELOPING NATIONS -- 1 Improving Developmental Policy -- Suggestions from Africa -- Supplementary Ideas Based on China in June 1989 -- The Philippines in 1990 -- 2 Win-Win Developmental Administration -- Ideology versus Technology -- Personnel Administration -- Financial Administration -- 3 Emergency Nations in 1996 -- Meaning -- Social Indicators -- Trends -- 4 Postwar Developments: Bosnia and Public Policy -- Basic Concepts -- Bosnia -- Applicability Elsewhere -- Economic Policy -- Unemployment, Inflation and Growth -- Sectors of the Economy -- Social Policy -- Engineering and Science Policy -- Physical Planning -- Science Policy -- Political Policy -- International Relations -- Legal Policy -- Legal Issues -- Civil Liberties -- Some Possible Next Steps -- Bosnia -- Applicability Elsewhere -- PART II: POLICY ACROSS DEVELOPING NATIONS -- 5 Peace Studies and Research Centers -- Educating for Planetary Consciousness -- War and the Ability to Perceive Reality -- Peace Studies Programs -- Peace Research Centers -- 6 Mini-symposium on Inter- and Intranational Dispute Resolution -- Disputes between Sovereign Nations -- A Joint Perspective -- Two Separate Perspectives -- Disputes between Controlling Countries and Colonies or Quasi-colonies -- The Alternatives -- The Goals -- Scoring the Relations -- A Super-optimum Solution -- Disputes between Central Governments and Secessionist Provinces -- Super-optimizing Applied to Russian Secession -- Finding a Super-optimum Solution -- Disputes between Conflicting Nations within a Country -- Super-optimizing Applied to Civil War in Yugoslavia -- Post-Civil War Dispute Resolution by Ivan Grdesic

Part I: Domestic Policy Problems. 1. Poverty and the Economy. 2. Minorities and Public Policy. 3. Environmental Protection and Technology. Part II: International Policy Problems. 4. Promoting Democracy and Dispute Resolution as Foreign Policy. 5. Global Policy Studies and Economic Communities. 6. International Dispute Resolution. Part III: Institution Building in Developmental Policy Studies. 7. Policy-making Institutions. 8. Policy Analysis Institutions.

First published in 1998, this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives, Liberals, or other major groups can all come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously. This book is organised in terms of concepts, methods, causes, process, substance, and the policy studies profession. Concepts clarify that policy evaluation traditionally involves: (1) Goals to be achieved; (2) Alternatives available for achieving them; (3) Relations between goals and alternatives; (4) Drawing a conclusion as to the best alternative in light of the goals, alternatives, and relations; and (5) Analysing how the conclusion would change if there were changes in the goals, alternatives, or relations. Super-optimizing also involves five related steps, but with the following improvements: (1) Goals are designed as conservative, liberal, or neutral; (2) Alternatives get the same designations; (3) Relations are simplified to indicate which alternatives are relatively high or low on each goal; (4) The conclusion involves arriving at an alternative that does better on Goal A than Alternative A, and simultaneously better on Goal B than Alternative B; and (5) The fifth step involves analysing the super-optimum or win-win alternative in terms of its feasibility as to the economic, technological, psychological, political, administrative, and legal matters.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Super-optimizing Analysis and India's Industrial Policy -- Background and Trends -- Alternatives, Goals and Relations -- A Super-optimum Solution -- Finding Other Super-optimum Solutions -- Part I Economic Policy -- 1 India's Textile Policy and the Informal Sectors -- Introduction -- The Textile Industry -- Textile Policy -- Impact of Policy -- Policy Making in the Textile Sector -- Part II Social Policy -- 2 Women's Rights in India: a Socioreligious Perspective -- Rights of Women Through the Ages -- The Era of Social Reform and Indian Women -- Social Legislations and Women -- Political Consciousness and Indian Women -- Human Rights vis-à -vis Women of India -- The UN Conferences on Women and the Steps Taken in India -- Steps Taken by India -- 3 Political Education and Political Socialization in a Pluralistic Society: a Case Study of Two Generations of Women in India -- Political Socialization -- Political Socialization and Political Education -- Changes in the Political Socialization and Political Education of Indian Women -- The Views of Indian Women on their Place in Society -- Family, Education and Political Socialization -- The Relationship Between Political Socialization and Political Participation -- Political Education, Political Socialization and Role Perceptions -- Concluding Observations -- Part III Environmental and Health Policy -- 4 Gender Dimensions of the Environment and Development Debate: the Indian Experience -- Destroyers of the Environment or Victims of Development: the Case of Women at Survival Levels -- Forest Policies and Grass-roots Women's Movements -- Mega-dams, Rehabilitation and Women -- Population Explosion and the Environment