Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

Elections and Public Policy

In the absence of historical opinion survey data, studies of the linkage between popular voting and American public policy have been confined to relatively recent time periods. Questions about these linkages, however, necessarily have a tem...

Economic Geography and Public Policy

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 Ameri...

Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices

In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analysis. In his major ...

Public policies, regional inequalities and growth

Bureaucracy, Politics and Public Policy.

Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES The Policy Sciences at the Cross-Roads Promoting the Policy Orientation: Lasswell in Context Public Policy, Social Science and the State: An Historical Perspective POLICY PROCESSES Theories of the Policy Cycle Agenda...

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 and Behavior Change

Abstract Changing behavior is often necessary to tackle societal problems, such as obesity, alcohol abuse, and debt problems. This article has two goals. First, it aims to highlight how governments can try to change the behavior of citizens...

Values and Public Policy

This work presents six essays that seek answers to some particular questions. What role can, or should, a democratic government play in shaping values? And, how do values shape the effects of public policy? The contributors identify trends ...

Public Opinion and Public Policy

Abstract The link between public opinion and public policy is of special importance in representative democracies, as we expect elected officials to care about what voters think. Not surprisingly, a large body of literature tests whether po...

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...

The Internet and Public Policy

Abstract This article looks at the role of the Internet in policymaking, identifying potential policy effects of widespread use of the Internet by citizens, firms, governments and voluntary organizations. It considers how the Internet and I...

A Web-Based Tool for Quantification of Potential Gains in Life Expectancy by Preventing Cause-Specific Mortality

Introduction: Local health departments are currently limited in their ability to use life expectancy (LE) as a benchmark for improving community health. In collaboration with the Baltimore City Health Department, our aim was to develop a we...

Global disparities in access to hepatitis C medicines before and during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: an ARIMA-based interrupted time series analysis

Background The introduction of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has allowed countries to reduce the health and economic burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, access to DAAs remains expensive and limited in many countries globally due t...

Implementing self-collection for primary human papillomavirus testing: Perspectives on implications for federally qualified health center patient populations

Background: Primary testing for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) via self-collection can increase cervical cancer screening rates. In the United States, federally qualified health center (FQHC) patients often have low incomes, lack heal...

Innovations for Interpretability, Flexibility, and Sustainability in Intelligent Machinery and Industry 4.0

Three levels, namely the device level, the connection level, and the systems management level, are frequently used to conceptualize intelligent machinery and Industry 4 [...]...

How can we promote gender and sex equality in orthopaedics and traumatology surgery? Research avenues perspectives

Abstract Gender and sex disparities persist in orthopaedic and traumatology surgery, making it one of the least diverse medical specialties worldwide. Despite growing women representation in medical education, women continue to be significa...

Associations of Eating Identities With Self-Reported Dietary Behaviors and Body Mass Index

Objective:To inform dietary interventions, it is important to understand antecedents of recommended (henceforth: healthy) dietary behaviors, beyond dietary beliefs and self-efficacy. We used the validated “Eating Identity Type Inventory” to...

International Data Access Network (IDAN)

With legal frameworks changing, administrative data can increasingly be utilised both for official statistics and to facilitate new research, enabling the development of evidence-based policy for the public benefit. Secure access conditions...