Academic Articles & Research Papers

Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy

What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish some kind of policy function. To be effective, they must find ways to navigat...

Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. The present edition has been rewritten and restructured. Public choice and politic...

Public policy and program evaluation

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...

Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy

What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish a policy function. This second edition of Governance Networks in Public Admin...

Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health – a perspective on definition and distinctions

Collaboration between community members, researchers, and policy makers drives efforts to solve complex health problems such as obesity, alcohol misuse, and type 2 diabetes. Community participation is essential to ensure the optimal design,...

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

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...

Evaluating the effect of comprehensive land consolidation on spatial reconstruction of rural production, living, and ecological spaces

China’s long-standing dual-track institutions, which differentiate between urban and rural areas, have prioritized urban development, exacerbating the urban–rural divide and contributing to the ongoing decline of rural regions. In response,...

Structuration, fondements et objectifs de la politique linguistique au Pays Basque

2004 marked a turning point in the linguistic policy elaborated and implemented in the Basque Country, in particular due to the transformation of the Public Authority, composed of the State, the Aquitaine Region, the Department of the Atlan...

Janus-faced Populism: De-democratization or Democratization of Democracy?

As one of the most visible aspects of political life in recent years, the populist rises imply the ‘crisis of representation’ that means the existing institutional mechanism of representative democracy is ineffective in representing the var...

Europeanisation of public policy

The European Union (EU) affects national political and administrative systems, domestic politics and policies. Currently, we witness under the label of ‘Europeanisation’ a turn towards this research perspective which brings into focus that ...

Governance and public policy

(2001). Governance and public policy. Israel Affairs: Vol. 7, Public Policy in Israel, pp. 3-20....

Cultural industries and public policy

This article re‐imagines the space of the cultural industries and their governance. It is divided into three parts. In the first, questions of definition are reviewed. In the second part, cultural policies (and by default cultural industrie...

Managing Value Conflict in Public Policy

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...

Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

Governance and Public Policy in the United Kingdom

1. Introduction: Public Policy in a Changing World 2. Interpreting Governance 3. Interpreting the Modern State 4. From Modernity to Crisis 5. Internal challenges to the Modern State : The New Right 6. External challenges to the Modern State...

Handbook of Public Policy

This is an invaluable survey of the major theories and approaches in this area of study and research. It explores the role of parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional design and democratic governance today...

Public Policy for Democracy.

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 c...

Perceptions of the functioning and effectiveness of nursing regulators in Ghana and South Africa: a cross-sectional study

Objective Nursing regulators are important governance structures for nurses who are critical to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). This study examined the perspectives of the heads of nursing education institutions (NEIs) i...

Commercial interests in health policy dialogues: a qualitative content analysis of NEDLAC’s engagement with South Africa’s Health Promotion Levy

Abstract Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rising rapidly in South Africa, prompting the introduction of the Health Promotion Levy (HPL) in 2018 to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. However, the levy remains...

Tourism and Public Policy

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...