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Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments—From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation

Pierre Lascoumes, Patrick Le Galès • Governance (2007)

Public policy instrumentation and its choice of tools and modes of operation are treated either as a kind of evidence (governing means making regulations, taxing, entering into contracts, communicating, etc.) or as if the questions it raise...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2007.00342.x

Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy

Janine R. Wedel, Cris Shore, Gregory Feldman, Stacy Lathrop • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2005)

As the rational choice model of “policy” proliferates in “policy studies, ” the social sciences, modern governments, organizations, and everyday life, a number of anthropologists are beginning to develop a body of work in the anthropology o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716205276734

Economists and Public Policy

Ronald H. Coase • Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (1999)

The large enterprise that I will be examining is the study of economics, and the performance that I will be appraising is not that of corporations but of my colleagues in the economics profession. The particular aspect of their work that I ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14913-1_3

Public policy and program evaluation

• Choice Reviews Online (1998)

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/10.5860/choice.35-2785

A Cooperative City. A dream Come True

Yu. P. Voronov • Мир новой экономики (2024)

The article explores the process of creating a large cooperative housing complex in a district of New York. It highlights the unique circumstances that made the cooperative City project possible in the United States. The article also examin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.26794/2220-6469-2024-18-4-43-53

RANKING DE DESEMPENHO DA EXECUÇÃO ORÇAMENTÁRIA POR FUNÇÕES DE GOVERNO DOS ESTADOS E DO DISTRITO FEDERAL NO ANO DE 2013

Maurício Corrêa da Silva, José Emerson Firmino, José Dionísio Gomes da Silva, Erivan Ferreira Borges • Perspectivas Contemporâneas (2016)

Public policy assessment is, by definition, applied social research: it seeks a balance between the methodological and technical rigor of a social investigation and the pragmatism and flexibility needed by a tool supporting the decision-mak...

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Navigating public health research in UK secondary schools: key challenges and opportunities identified by researchers

Laila Khawaja, Sarah Muir, Sarah Jenner, Sarah Shaw et al. • BMC Research Notes (2026)

Abstract Objective Conducting health research with adolescents involves navigating complex challenges at both organisational and individual levels. As part of evaluating the EACH-B (Engaging Adolescents with Changing Behaviour) intervention...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13104-026-07642-8

Developing a framework for primary health care resilience in pandemic conditions for Iran

Naser Derakhshani, Erfan Kharazmi, Seyedeh Narges Pouyan, Azam Choopani et al. • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (2026)

Abstract Introduction Primary Health Care (PHC) services are people's first point of contact with the health system. PHC helps to ensure health system resilience and health community, playing a vital role in preventing and detecting disease...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s41043-026-01389-5

Public policy and construction innovation

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210010027701

Complexity and Public Policy

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203856925

Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

• Public administration and public policy (2006)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420017007

Knowledge and Public Policy

Judith E. Innes • Routledge eBooks (2020)

This book addresses the question of what it takes to develop social indicators that genuinely influence important public decisions. It looks historically at the processes of creating and using three important social indicators in the United...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429337840

The pathology of public policy

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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Public Policy for Democracy.

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2074276

International Data Access Network (IDAN)

Roxane Silberman, Dana Mueller, Beate Lichtwardt • International Journal of Population Data Science (2018)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v3i5.1068