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Policy Experiments, Failures and Innovations takes a policy studies
perspective in considering post-communist EU member states?
experiences since accession. The book analyses policy transfer
processes and expands the new and growing sub-field of policy
failure by interrogating the binary ideas of ?failure? and
?success? in the context of the Central Eastern European (CEE)
transition, democratic consolidation and European Union membership.
Contributions consider the extent to which external models have had
real traction in the political economies and societies of the CEE
countries. The book also considers the ways external models were
adapted, transformed or sometimes abandoned in response to
unexpected difficulties in implementation. It provides critical
analysis of the setbacks, real or perceived policy failures, as
well as innovations and unexpected outcomes in a number of
important policy areas in the ?new? member states of the EU. This
book will be of interest to policy studies scholars and European
Union/European studies scholars. It is also relevant for students
of European politics as well as general public policy degree
courses at undergraduate and graduate level. Contributors include:
D. Adascalitei, A. Batory, A. Cartwright, D. Craciun, S. Domonkos,
H. Grabbe, A. Kemmerling, A. Krizsan, K. Makszin, L. Matei, G.
Medve-Balint, B.G. Peters, D. Stone, S. Svensson, A. Tetenyi, S.
Torotcoi, V. Zentai
Think tank traditions is a follow up to the critically acclaimed
monograph "Think Tanks across Nations" (Manchester University
Press, 1998), edited by the same authors, which was widely
acknowledged as a ground-breaking work in the comparative study of
think tanks. The book looks at the historical role and contemporary
significance of think tanks in the West, including Europe, the
United States and Canada, as well as considering their activities
in China, Eastern Europe and Argentina. In so doing, the book
provides a broad-based and in-depth analysis of the role of think
tanks in the processes of economic liberalization and
democratization.
Banking on Knowledge is one of the first studies of the way in which the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'Knowledge Bank'. The contributions to Banking on Knowledge are from an internationally acclaimed group of experts, including an original and groundbreaking piece by Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist and Vice President of the World Bank. Subjects covered include: * the changing policy emphasis within the World Bank as it develops alliances with non-governmental actors and promotes civil society * first-hand accounts of the making of this new global network amidst the plethora of existing political, commercial and non-governmental networks * detailed case studies of the problems faced by think tanks and other knowledge institutions across the world * whether knowledge, information and data is used by experts successfully to influence policy. Timely, original and provocative, this book is essential reading for students, researchers, policy makers and professionals with an interest in the future of the World Bank, the role of think tanks and the changing nature of development.
bBanking on Knowledge is one of the first studies of the way in which the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'Knowledge Bank'. The book addresses how international organizations and governments are developing partnerships with think tanks, research institutes and other knowledge institutions in the hope of informing and improving policies for reform and development around the world. Subjects covered include: * the changing policy emphasis within the World Bank as it develops alliances with non-governmental actors and promotes civil society * first-hand accounts of the making of this new global network amidst the plethora of existing political, commercial and non-governmental networks * detailed case studies of the problems faced by think tanks and other knowledge institutions across the world * whether knowledge, information and data is used by experts successfully to influence policy. Timely, original and provocative, this book is essential reading for students, researchers, policy makers and professionals with an interest in the future of the World Bank, the role of think tanks and the changing nature of development.
Think tanks are proliferating. Although they are outside of
government, many of these policy research institutes are perceived
to influence political thinking and public policy. This book
develops ideas about policy networks, epistemic communities and
policy learning in relation to think tanks.
Think tanks are proliferating. Although they are outside of
government, many of these policy research institutes are perceived
to influence political thinking and public policy. This book
develops ideas about policy networks, epistemic communities and
policy learning in relation to think tanks.
First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this
updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable
opportunities for learning that they offer. Policy successes and
failures offer important lessons for public officials, but often
they do not learn from these experiences. The studies in this
volume investigate this broken link. The book defines policy
learning and failure and organises the main studies in these fields
along the key dimensions of processes, products and analytical
levels. Drawing together a range of experts in the field, the
volume sketches a research agenda linking policy scholars with
policy practice.
Global policy making is taking shape in a wide range of public
sector activities managed by transnational policy communities.
Public policy scholars have long recognised the impact of
globalisation on the industrialised knowledge economies of OECD
states, as well as on social and economic policy challenges faced
by developing and transition states. But the focus has been on
domestic politics and policy. Today, policy studies literature is
building new concepts of 'transnational public-private
partnership', 'trans-governmentalism' and 'science diplomacy' to
account for rapid growth of global policy networks and informal
international organisations delivering public goods and services.
This Element goes beyond traditional texts which focus on public
policy as an activity of states to outline how global policy making
has driven many global and regional transformations over the past
quarter-century. This title is also available as Open Access on
Cambridge Core.
Global policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above
traditional nation-state policy processes. New practices of
transnational administration are emerging inside international
organizations but also alongside the trans-governmental networks of
regulators and inside global public private partnerships.
Mainstream policy and public administration studies have tended to
analyse the capacity of public sector hierarchies to globalize
national policies. By contrast, this Handbook investigates new
public spaces of transnational policy-making, the design and
delivery of global public goods and services, and the
interdependent roles of transnational administrators who move
between business bodies, government agencies, international
organizations, and professional associations. This Handbook is
novel in taking the concepts and theories of public administration
and policy studies to get inside the black box of global
governance. Transnational administration is a multi-actor and
multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations, depending on the
policy issue or problems, at the local, urban, sub-regional,
sub-national, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional,
transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of
'local' and 'global' are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but
are articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity.
These transnational patterns represent a reinvigoration of public
administration and policy studies as the Handbook authors advance
their analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of the
nation-state.
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social story meant to build self-esteem in children on the spectrum
as well as nurturing acceptance and understanding among their
peers. It is written from a positive perspective in the voice of a
child with autism. The "label" is diffused to show that we are all
different and we are all special.
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