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Politics and Public Policy in Scotland

Arthur Midwinter, Michael J. Keating, James Mitchell (1991)

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,...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21187-6

Usable Knowledge in Public Policy

David Adams • Australian Journal of Public Administration (2004)

The range of usable information for public policy is complex and distributed but policy debate is still dominated by instrumental and centralised information constructed and controlled by functional and managerial experts—the creed of exper...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.2004.00357.x

Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy

Janine R. Wedel, Cris Shore, Gregory Feldman, Stacy Lathrop • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2005)

As the rational choice model of “policy” proliferates in “policy studies, ” the social sciences, modern governments, organizations, and everyday life, a number of anthropologists are beginning to develop a body of work in the anthropology o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716205276734

Paternalism and Public Policy

Bill New • Economics and Philosophy (1999)

Wherever a government or state is concerned with the welfare of its citizens, there will probably also exist policies which compel the individual citizen to undertake or abstain from activities which affect that citizen alone. The set of th...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s026626710000359x

Public policy and program evaluation

• Choice Reviews Online (1998)

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/10.5860/choice.35-2785

Estimating the Genuine Progress Indicator before and during the COVID pandemic in Australia

Alexandros Karatopouzis, Alexey A. Voinov, Ida Kubiszewski, Firouzeh Taghikhah et al. • Ecological Indicators (2022)

In the efforts to ensure the health of the Australian population during the COVID pandemic, social, economic, and environmental aspects of people’s life were impacted. In addressing the pandemic risks, a number of governments prioritized pe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109025

New spatial records of vascular plants in the Azores Archipelago: the PRIBES project and the Azorean Biodiversity Portal (ABP) initiatives - I. São Jorge Island (Azores)

Andrea Petrone, Paulo Borges, Fernando Pereira, Rui Elias • Biodiversity Data Journal (2026)

The Azores Archipelago is known for its important natural heritage, yet its ecosystems face a “green tsunami” in the form of numerous exotic and invasive species. This influx has wrought serious biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosyste...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e167704

Getting involved: Uganda cancer society´s efforts to build strategic partnerships for tobacco tax increments and strong tobacco industry monitoring

Evelyn Angiji, Paul Ebusu • Tobacco Induced Diseases (2018)

Background and challenges to implementation Uganda Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is moving towards fully integrating tobac...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18332/tid/84466

Green Technology and Governance in Sustainable Tourism: A Roadmap for Human and Social Sustainability in Cirebon, Indonesia

Kawuryan Megandaru Widhi, Fahlevvi Mohammad Rezza, Putri Titis Sari, Bingamawa Mohammad Tosan et al. • E3S Web of Conferences (2025)

This study examines the combination of governance and green technology to facilitate the sustainable development of tourism in Cirebon City, Indonesia. Employing a qualitative case study design, data were collected through document analysis...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202565702001

A Cooperative City. A dream Come True

Yu. P. Voronov • Мир новой экономики (2024)

The article explores the process of creating a large cooperative housing complex in a district of New York. It highlights the unique circumstances that made the cooperative City project possible in the United States. The article also examin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.26794/2220-6469-2024-18-4-43-53

RANKING DE DESEMPENHO DA EXECUÇÃO ORÇAMENTÁRIA POR FUNÇÕES DE GOVERNO DOS ESTADOS E DO DISTRITO FEDERAL NO ANO DE 2013

Maurício Corrêa da Silva, José Emerson Firmino, José Dionísio Gomes da Silva, Erivan Ferreira Borges • Perspectivas Contemporâneas (2016)

Public policy assessment is, by definition, applied social research: it seeks a balance between the methodological and technical rigor of a social investigation and the pragmatism and flexibility needed by a tool supporting the decision-mak...

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Media and cultural policy as public policy

David Hesmondhalgh • International Journal of Cultural Policy (2005)

The British Labour government's media and cultural policies since 1997 are analysed as aspects of public policy. This allows assessment of the media and cultural policies of a supposedly centre‐left government in a conjuncture marked by neo...

OPENALEX public-domain DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286630500067861

Public policy and construction innovation

George Seaden, André Manseau • Building Research & Information (2001)

The particular roles played by governments through their policies and programmes are considered within a comparative context in order to gain an understanding of construction innovation systems and processes. The analysis of this question i...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210010027701

Managing Value Conflict in Public Policy

David Thacher, Martin Rein • Governance (2004)

Policy issues are often characterized by conflicting values. Conventionally, students of public policy have conceptualized government's response to value conflicts as a matter of “balancing” competing goals, or striking trade‐offs among val...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0952-1895.2004.00254.x