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Marilyn Taylor (2011)
The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement, believe active communities...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-34409-9
Peter C. John • Routledge eBooks
(2013)
The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203136218
Peter C. John • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester)
(1998)
Book synopsis: An accessible review of the main approaches in the study of public policy, this text argues that most writers who seek to explain how policy varies and changes use one of the five frameworks: institutional, group/network, soc...
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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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781861349071.001.0001
Paul Cairney (2011)
Preface.- 1. Introduction to Policy and Policymaking.- 2. What is Policy and Policymaking?.- 3. Power and Public Policy.- 4. Bounded Rationality and the Psychology of Policymaking.- 5. Institutions and New Institutionalism.- 6. Structures, ...
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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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315127767
John W. Kingdon (1984)
1. How Does an Idea's Time Come? 2. Participants on the Inside of Government 3. Outside of Government, But Not Just Looking In 4. Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans 5. Problems 6. The Policy Primeval Soup 7. T...
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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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315181226
Claudio Maria Radaelli • Oxford University Press eBooks
(2003)
Abstract This chapter deals with the Europeanization of public policy, with emphasis on the problems that researchers encounter when they try to get to grips with the concept of Europeanization, the issue of explanation, the measurement of ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/0199252092.003.0002
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/019924264x.001.0001
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844654.013.0001
Bulent Cavas • Science Education International
(2026)
Dear Readers, The September 2026 issue of Science Education International presents 11 original research articles authored by scholars from 11 countries, including Germany, Slovenia and Italy, Finland and South Africa, Brazil, Chile and Arge...
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DOI: 10.33828/sei.v37.i4.e
Rafat Saleh Madani • الاكاديمي
(2026)
The contemporary designer analyzes and studies the elements of artistic heritage, to identify the intellectual and aesthetic premises that lie in its structure, its elements, its vocabulary, and its encapsulation. With the aim of enriching ...
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DOI: 10.35560/jcofarts1765
Sanae Kanno, Seishiro Hirano, Tsubasa Sakamoto, Akiko Furuyama et al. • Scientific Reports
(2020)
Abstract Macrophage receptor with collagenous structure (MARCO) is a scavenger receptor class-A protein that is expressed on the cell surface of macrophages. MARCO mediates binding and ingestion of unopsonized environmental particles, inclu...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78464-2
Heather O’Mahen, Louise Howard, Helen Sharp, Antoinette Davey et al. • Health and Social Care Delivery Research
(2025)
Background Perinatal mental health disorders affect one in five mothers during pregnancy or within 2 years post childbirth. These disorders can lead to poor pregnancy and childbirth outcomes and maternal deaths. Additionally, they negativel...
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DOI: 10.3310/RRAP0011
Jody Koenig Kellas, Katherine M. Castle, Alexis Johnson, Marlene Z. Cohen • Behavioral Sciences
(2017)
(1) Background: The communication of hope is complicated, particularly for family caregivers in the context of cancer who struggle to maintain hope for themselves and their loved ones in the face of terminality. In order to understand these...
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DOI: 10.3390/bs7020033
Kerry Woolfall, Bridget Young, Emma Thomas-Jones, Elizabeth Deja et al. • BMJ Open
(2026)
Objectives Clinical research in emergency and critical care is vital, but recruitment and consent are complex. Research may be conducted without prior consent when patients are critically ill, and interventions are time critical. Some patie...
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106677
Tadeusz Wallas • Integrated communications
(2018)
The article attempts to determine the specifics of communication studies, its place and role in the system of scientific disciplines. The author emphasizes the importance of development of this science, especially in today’s conditions of c...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.28925/2524-2644.2018.5.12
Hanno Hardt • Routledge eBooks
(2008)
The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and pr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203133125
Donald Treadwell • Journal of Human Subjectivity
(2006)
Few academic departments in the same discipline are alike with respect to course offerings. This is particularty true of communication studies, whose own literature indicates a diversity of conceptual diiferences at play. Communication stud...
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