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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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210010027701
Andy C. Pratt • International Journal of Cultural Policy
(2005)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286630500067739
• Choice Reviews Online
(1996)
This book surveys a wealth of British, American, and Canadian studies of public policy making, and proposes a model of the policy process which identifies relevant forces at work in the policy process and aids in the understanding of policy...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.33-5970
David Adams, Michael Heß • Australian Journal of Public Administration
(2001)
Both internationally and within Australia public policy is experiencing a rush back to the idea of community. After 15 years of discourse about the new public management and economic rationalism a much older discourse is slipping back into ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.00205
Gill Ringland (2002)
About the Author Acknowledgements Abbreviation Introduction Part I: Scenarios in Public Policy Summary Four Scenarios for Public Education in Seattle Rotterdam and Arnhem Mission and Consequences in Bueren Scottish Enterprisea s use of Scen...
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Göktuğ Morçöl • Routledge eBooks
(2013)
Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203112694
Stephen Brooks (1998)
List of Figures List of Table Preface PART I: UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC POLICY 1. Basic Concepts in the Study of Public Policy 2. Theories of Public Policy 3. The Context of Policy-Making in Canada 4. Policy Implementation PART II: POLICY FIELDS...
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Charles L. Cochran, Eloise F. Malone (1994)
Drones. Obamacare. Immigration. The economy. Gun control. Topics in the news on a daily basis, all the subject of heated policy debates. This new edition of Public Policy: Perspectives and Choices-thoroughly revised to reflect a half-decade...
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David Richards, Martin J. Smith (2002)
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...
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Robert Geyer, Samir Rihani • Routledge eBooks
(2012)
This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the internat...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203856925
Jonathan Wolff • Routledge eBooks
(2019)
Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry, second edition subjects important and controversial areas of public policy to philosophical scrutiny. Jonathan Wolff, a renowned philosopher and veteran of many public committees, introduce...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351128667
Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman • bepress Legal Repository
(2005)
Our concern in this Essay is to explain the epistemic origins of political conflict. Citizens who agree that the proper object of law is to secure society's material well-being are still likely to disagree-intensely-about what policies will...
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Lars G. Tummers • Public Administration Review
(2019)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13109
Christopher B. Wlezien, Stuart Soroka • Oxford University Press eBooks
(2016)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.74
Brian W. Hogwood, B. Guy Peters (1985)
Governments, like people, suffer in various ways when their internal functions go awry. But, unlike medical pathology, there is no recognized system of classification for the malfunctioning of policymaking. Building on the analogy between t...
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David S. Meyer, Helen Ingram, Steven Rathgeb Smith • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
(1994)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2074276
Ashley Nicole Gearhardt, Marie A. Bragg, Rebecca L. Pearl, Natasha A. Schvey et al. • Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
(2012)
There is a pressing need to reduce both the prevalence and impact of obesity. This review begins with a discussion of the roles of treatment and prevention. Two overriding issues, weight bias and the addictive nature of food, are covered be...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032511-143129
Robert E. Goodin (1982)
Some say that public policy can be made without the benefit of theory that it emerges, instead, through trial-and-error. Others see genuine philosophical issues in public affairs but try to resolve them through fanciful examples. Both, argu...
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Helen Zerlina Margetts • Policy & Internet
(2009)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2202/1944-2866.1029
Piti Pita, Pornphimol Winyuchakrit, Bundit Limmeechokchai • Heliyon
(2020)
The transport sector is one of the important contributors of increasing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Thailand. Due to rapid development of transport infrastructure and technologies, patterns of energy consumption in this sector, ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05112