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Public Policy Analysis

Peter Knoepfel, Corinne Larrue, Frédéric Varone, Michael Hill • Policy Press eBooks (2007)

This book is an English version of a successful text* on public policy analysis originally written for policy practitioners in Switzerland and France. It presents a model for the analysis of public policy and includes examples of its applic...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781861349071.001.0001

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

Religion and Public Policy

Michael Minkenberg • Comparative Political Studies (2002)

This article addresses the relationship between religion and politics in liberal democracies from a public policy angle. The analysis shows that contrary to the general secularization thesis, there is a visible religious impact on public po...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414002035002004

Reframing Public Policy

Frank Fischer (2003)

Abstract In recent years a set of new ‘postempiricist’ approaches to public policy, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analy...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/019924264x.001.0001

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

Public Opinion and Public Policy

Stuart Soroka, Christopher B. Wlezien • Oxford University Press eBooks (2010)

Abstract The key function of representative democracy is to provide a mechanism through which public opinion and public policy are regularly connected. On one hand, there should be policy representation; public preferences for policy should...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195335354.003.0015

Public Policy

Christoph Knill, Jale Tosun (2012)

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together anal...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-00800-8

Internet in the life of Russian youth

Natal'ya V. Rozenberg, Liliya V. Rozhkova • Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки (2023)

Background. The active development of information and communication technologies has led to the fact that the Internet has taken an important place in the daily life of a modern person. Today there is no such area of life of people where th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21685/2072-3016-2023-3-1

Expertise, Knowledge, and Resilience in #AcademicTwitter: Enacting Resilience-Craft in a Community of Practice

Sean M. Eddington, Caitlyn Jarvis • Media and Communication (2022)

Online communities of practice are a useful professional development space, where members can exchange information, aggregate expertise, and find support. These communities have grown in popularity within higher education—especially on soci...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17645/mac.v10i2.5053