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Intro -- Postmodern Public Policy -- Contents -- Preface -- BRIEF OF THE ARGUMENT -- PLAN OF THE BOOK -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The System and its Nemesis -- ENCROACHMENTS -- HYPERRATIONALITY -- 2. The Mutation of Meaning -- SOME EXAMPLES OF THE DISCONNECT -- THE INSTABILITY OF LANGUAGE -- 3. Idea Contagion -- MEMETICS -- MEMETICS AND POSTMODERNISM -- THE PROSPECTS FOR RATIONAL SORTING -- 4. Contextualism -- SITUATION AND INTENTIONALITY -- PRACTICAL DISCOURSE -- A PERSPECTIVE ON CHANGE -- 5. Policy Inquiry -- EPISTEMOLOGY AS ABSTRACT UNIVERSALISM -- FACTS ARE WORD-SHAPED THINGS -- SELF-REFERENTIAL SYSTEMS -- PERSPECTIVAL SMALL t TRUTH -- 6. Democratic Discourse -- THE END OF UNIVERSALS? -- MONOLOGIC DISCOURSE: AN OXYMORON -- VIBRANT PLURALISM -- AN ETHOS OF DISCOURSE -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of developments in public policy since 1979. Part 1 analyses changes in the structures and style of government under Thatcher and Major and the impact of the European Community on policy. Part 2 provides detailed assessments of major individual policy areas. A final concluding chapter assesses the impact of the Thatcher decade on policy and its legacy for the 1990s

Media violence and public policy / James T. Hamilton -- Content analysis of entertainment television : the importance of context -- Barbara J. Wilson [and others] -- Content analysis of entertainment television : new methodological developments / James Potter [and others] -- Content analysis of entertainment television : the 1994-95 results / Barbara J. Wilson [and others] -- Content analysis of entertainment television : implications for public policy / Dale Kunkel [and others] -- Television visual violence in reality programs : differences across genres / Dominic Lasorsa [and others] -- Ratings and advisories : implications for the new ratings system for television / Joanne Cantor, Kristen Harrison, and Marina Krcmar -- Does viewer discretion prompt advertiser discretion? : the impact of violence. Warnings the television advertising market / James T. Hamilton -- Stop the violence : lessons from antiviolence campaigns using mass media / Myra Gregory Knight [and others] -- Framing of the television violence issue in newspaper coverage / Cynthia Hoffner -- First glance at the constitutionality of the V-chip ratings system / Matthew L. Spitzer

A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconstructed to make public policies more responsive to citizens and thus more effective? This challenge is apparent in the activist policy agenda of the Clinton administration, which supports national service programs, government-voluntary collaborations, and community-based development projects. Public Policy for Democracy is an important and timely contribution to the current discussion of how to get people more involved in their own governance. In this book, contributors urge policymakers and policy analysts to promote a more vigorous and inclusive democracy by incorporating concerns about citizenship in their craft, rather than strictly emphasizing efficiency and effectiveness. The authors provide insight into how the social construction of politics affects the recipients of the policies and the public in general. They call attention to how policies reinforce negative stereotypes of some groups, such as welfare recipients, and often lead to political alienation and withdrawal. In addition, they discuss how polices using "clinical reason"--a term borrowed from medicine and used as a way to classify people--are increasingly applied to nonmedical situations, such as domestic violence, to restrict individual power and legitimacy. The authors argue that much needs to be done by the government itself to improve policy design and empower all citizens to participate in the democratic process. They identify concrete strategies for policymakers to enhance the role of citizens without sacrificing program effectiveness.

It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control. Are American values declining as so many suggest? And are those values at the root of many social problems today? Shaped by experience and public policies, people's values and social norms do change. What role can or should a democratic government play in shaping values? And how do these values conditon the efficacy of public policy? In this book, six distinguished social scientists identify trends in America's values and their consequences, and consider public policy tools with which some of those values might be changed. Daniel Yankelovich begins with a discussion of how American values have shifted in the last half-century, and argues that affluence is the driving force behind these changes in values. James Q. Wilson argues that destructive habits which can lead to social pathologies, like crime and drug use, are set early in life; he examines how public policy might intervene when children are young to promote better values. David Popenoe maintains that America has veered too far towards industrialist values, and explores the resulting decline of families and many attendant social ills. Nathan Glazer describes the history and present status of the dispute over multicultural education. Jane Mansbridge examines the process of building cooperation, consensus, and public spirit. And George Akerlof and Janet L. Yellen discuss the problem of gang criminality. Inthe past, social scientists have often sidestepped questions about values as undefinable, unquantifiable, and somehow unscientific. The essays in this volume address these questions at last. Henry J. Aaron, director of the Economic Studies program at Brookings,

Politics and Public Policy in Scotland is a major new introductory textbook written by leading authorities on the subject in a clear, accessible style. It contains substantial coverage of government, policy and administration, of the impact of successive Conservative governments on Scotland and of similarities and differences with the rest of the UK

Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation is the only book of its kind to present aspects of public policy evaluation that relate to economic, technology, social, political, international, and legal problems. Rather than looking at specific narrowly focused programs, this book emphasizes broad-based evaluation theory, study, and application, providing a rich variety of exceptional insights and ideas.

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively known as the ""new economic geography""--Have devoted little attention to the policy implications of the new theory. Economic Geography and Public Policy fills the gap by illustrating many new policy insights economic geography models can offer to the realm of theoretical policy a

Principles of Public Policy Practice was written with policy makers, concerned citizens, and students of public policy in mind. Striving to avoid technical language, the author introduces a new paradigm that starts from the commonality of human nature and the assumption that public policy should be impartial. Rather than playing the interests of one group versus those of another, he argues convincingly that public policy should aim at enhancing the ex ante welfare for everyone if everyone did not know the position or the identity one would assume. Using this conceptual device of the representative individual, the analysis readily leads to policy implications that are both reasonable and concrete in diverse areas ranging from health care, crime and punishment to macroeconomic and financial market stability. The book concludes with a chapter summarizing the various principles of public policy practice that will meet the challenges of the new millennium. These principles, certainly of interest to academics in social sciences who are studying public policy, political economy, international financial systems, and capital markets, should appeal equally to practitioners, including public policy makers, consultants, advisers, administrators, and public service trade unions