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CuddleCard: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of providing financial support to low-income mothers of preterm infants on parental caregiving in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

Margaret McConnell, Alya Alsager, Plyce Fuchu, Shrivaths Sriprasad et al. • BMC Pediatrics (2025)

Abstract Background Preterm birth is a leading cause of childhood mortality and developmental disabilities, with persistent socioeconomic disparities in incidence and outcomes. Maternal presence during prolonged neonatal intensive care unit...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12887-025-05621-9

Public Food Procurement as a Driving Force for Building Local and Agroecological Food Systems: Farmers’ Skepticism in Vega Baja del Jarama, Madrid (Spain)

Marian Simón-Rojo, Andrés Couceiro, Julia del Valle, José Fariña Tojo • Land (2020)

In the last decade, efforts to re-localize the food system have been gaining ground in a way that is intended to induce changes in the primary sector, thereby improving its conditions and sustainability. The European Union has identified fo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/land9090317

Tourism and Public Policy

John Michael Jenkins, C. Michael Hall, Muchazondida Mkono • Wiley eBooks (2014)

This chapter summarizes important aspects of tourism public policy research. It focuses on research approaches and methodologies, and considers the limitations of policy analysis. Debates and discussions concerning shifts in focus, for exam...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118474648.ch43

The Promise of Co‐Design for Public Policy

Emma Blomkamp • Australian Journal of Public Administration (2018)

Abstract As a novel method for creatively engaging citizens and stakeholders to find solutions to complex problems, co‐design holds great promise for policy makers. It has been vaunted as a way to generate more innovative ideas, ensure poli...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12310

Public Opinion and Public Policy, 1980-1993

Alan D. Monroe • Public Opinion Quarterly (1998)

Abstract To what extent have the policy decisions of the U.S. government been consistent with the preferences of the public? Us-ing results of national surveys, public opinion was compared with actual policy outcomes on over 500 issues from...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/297828

The Public Policy Process

Michael J. Hill, Frédéric Varone, Gabriela Lotta • Routledge eBooks (2014)

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making, the...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010203

Research and Public Policy

Leonard D. Eron • PEDIATRICS (1996)

Professor Hyman has reviewed for us all the research that has been done on the effects of corporal punishment in the schools.1 It is actually a meager record because of the reasons he has mentioned, many of them ethical, demographic, and re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.98.4.821

Public Policy and Program Evaluation

Evert Vedung • Routledge eBooks (2017)

Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315127767

Economic Geography and Public Policy

Frédéric Robert‐Nicoud, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Rikard Forslid, Richard Baldwin et al. • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (2003)

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 analysis. Focusing primarily on trade policy, tax policy, and regional policy...

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Conceptualizing Public Policy

Michael P. Howlett, Ben Cashore • Palgrave Macmillan eBooks (2014)

Policy-making involves both a technical and political process of articulating and matching actors’ goals and means. Policies are thus actions which contain goal(s) and the means to achieve them, however well or poorly identified, justified,...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314154.0006

Public Policy Analysis

William N. Dunn • Routledge eBooks (2015)

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for s...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315181226

Public Policy in Australia

Glyn Davis (1993)

Figures and tablesAcknowledgmentsThe authors1 Public policy in Australia2 The state in Australia3 Public policy in a Federal State4 The political executive5 The public sector6 Political organisations7 Making policy choices8 Policy delivery9...

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Crime and Public Policy

Michael Tonry • Oxford University Press eBooks (2012)

Abstract This introduction to the book starts by defining crime. It explains that cross-national agreement about what should and should not be considered as criminal is narrower than is sometimes recognized. Examples are given of various ac...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844654.013.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

• Oxford University Press eBooks (2008)

Abstract The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all the traditions of public policy. Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists appro...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548453.001.0001