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Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most
prominent area-based initiatives launched by the New Labour
government in England soon after it came to power in 1997. "Health
Action Zones," written by members of the team undertaking the
national evaluation of HAZ, examines their development and impact
from a variety of perspectives.
It outlines important features of the social, policy and evaluative
environment within which Health Action Zones were established and
which greatly contributed to learning about health policy and
practice development in the early part of the twenty-first century.
As importantly, the book discusses enduring themes on topics such
as building capacity for collaboration amongst diverse and unequal
partners and developing the capacity to learn within complex policy
systems. It assesses the successes of specific strategies aimed at
improving health and reducing health inequalities.
"Health Action Zones" provides in-depth analysis of a key policy
initiative that will be of great value to those concerned with
building the evidence-base for future action. It also offers
guidance on how best to design, implement and evaluate future
initiatives intended to deal with fundamental social problems.
The multidisciplinary nature of this text makes it suitable for a
wide range of postgraduate courses including those covering issues
in public health, community care, urban studies, social policy,
health and social care research, local governance and public
services.
Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most
prominent area-based initiatives launched by the New Labour
government in England soon after it came to power in 1997. Written
by members of the team undertaking the national evaluation of HAZ,
this book examines the initiative 's development and impact from a
variety of perspectives. It outlines important features of the
social, policy and evaluative environment within which HAZ were
established and discusses enduring themes such as building and
developing capacity with diverse and unequal partners within
complex policy systems.
Multidisciplinary in nature, the book provides in-depth analysis
of a key policy initiative, offering guidance on how best to
design, implement and evaluate future initiatives intended to deal
with fundamental social problems.
This volume explores the defining features, critical approaches,
challenges and opportunities for public policy in the 'Asian
Century'. This is the first book to systematically analyse the key
institutions and practices that comprise public policy,
administration and governance to investigate how they are changing
in the context of increasing Asian influence. Its authors argue
that the Asian Century holds the potential to generate a paradigm
shift equivalent to the impacts of neo-liberalism and the New
Public Management of the late 20th century. Divided into three
parts, this volume interrogates the theories underpinning
contemporary public policy; explores case studies from different
policy arenas across the Asian region; and imagines what a future
of globalised public policy might look like. It examines the
implementation measures necessary to support policy and
administration in an era of transnational governance networks,
tightly linked economic markets and progressively fluid cultural
exchanges. This book provides the concepts and tools necessary to
navigate these shifting sands successfully. It is essential reading
for scholars of public policy, public management, international
relations, and politics and social sciences, as well as for
administrators and public servants.
How are responses to urban policy challenges affected by new
ideas about governance? How can we explain the governance
transformations that result? And what are the consequences for
democracy? This wide-ranging study of three European cities -
Birmingham, Copenhagen and Rotterdam - shows how hybrid forms of
governance emerge from the tensions between new visions and past
legacies, and existing institutional arrangements and powerful
actors. Hybrid governance includes public-private partnerships,
stakeholders boards, and multi-actor forums operating at arm's
length to institutions of representative democracy. Offering
detailed studies of migration and neighbourhood policy, as well as
a novel Q methodology analysis of public administrators' views on
democracy, the book explores how actors generate new practices,
shows how these develop, and evaluates the democratic implications.
The book concludes that hybrid governance is both widespread and
diverse, is spatially and policy specific and that actors - public
managers, politicians and the public - contribute to hybrid designs
in ways that promote and challenge democratic conventions.
This wide-ranging study of three European cities shows how hybrid
forms of governance emerge from the tensions between new ideas and
past legacies, and existing institutional arrangements and powerful
decision makers. Using detailed studies of migration and
neighborhood policy, as well as a novel Q methodology analysis of
public administrators.
Collaboration is a ubiquitous yet contested feature of contemporary
public policy. This book offers a new account of collaboration's
appeal to human actors drawing on empirical examples across time
and space. It provides a novel and comprehensive framework for
analysing collaboration, that will be of use to those interested in
understanding what happens when human actors collaborate for public
purpose.
Public participation is central to a wide range of current public
policies - not only in the UK, but elsewhere in the developed and
the developing world. There are substantial aspirations for what
enhanced participation can achieve. This book offers a critical
examination of both the discourse and practice of participation in
order to understand the significance of this explosion in
participatory forums, and the extent to which such practices
represent a fundamental change in governance. Based on 17 case
studies across a range of policy areas in two English cities, the
authors address key issues such as: the way in which notions of the
public are constructed; the motivation of participants; how the
interests and identities of officials and citizens are negotiated
within forums; and the ways in which institutions enable and
constrain the development of participation initiatives. Much of the
literature on public participation is highly normative. This book
draws from detailed empirical work, theories of governance, of
deliberative democracy and social movements to offer a nuanced
account of the dynamics of participation and to suggest why
experiences of this can be frustrating as well as transformative.
This book will be essential reading for students of public and
social policy and offers important insights for those directly
engaged in developing participation initiatives across the public
sector
This book investigates the professional needs and training
requirements of an ever-changing public service workforce in
Australia and the United Kingdom. It explores the nature of future
roles, the types of skills and competencies that will be required
and how organisations might recruit, train and develop public
servants for these roles. Leading international research -
practitioners make recommendations for how local organisations can
equip future public servants with the skills and professional
capacities for these shifting professional demands, and the
skillsets they will require. Drawing on ideas that have been
developed in the Australian and UK context, the book delves into
the major themes involved in re-imagining the public service
workforce and the various forms of capacities and capabilities that
this entails. It then explores delivery of this future vision, and
its implications in terms of development, recruitment and strategy.
Collaboration between governments, business, the voluntary and community sectors is now central to the way public policy is made, managed, and delivered. This book provides the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the theory, policy, and practice of collaboration. Written by two leading authorities in the field, the book explores the experience of collaboration in regeneration, health, and other policy sectors, and assesses the consequences of the emergence of public-private partnerships contrasting the UK experience to that elsewhere in the world.
Public participation is central to a wide range of current public
policies - not only in the UK, but elsewhere in the developed and
the developing world. There are substantial aspirations for what
enhanced participation can achieve. This book offers a critical
examination of both the discourse and practice of participation in
order to understand the significance of this explosion in
participatory forums, and the extent to which such practices
represent a fundamental change in governance. Based on 17 case
studies across a range of policy areas in two English cities, the
authors address key issues such as: the way in which notions of the
public are constructed; the motivation of participants; how the
interests and identities of officials and citizens are negotiated
within forums; and the ways in which institutions enable and
constrain the development of participation initiatives. Much of the
literature on public participation is highly normative. This book
draws from detailed empirical work, theories of governance, of
deliberative democracy and social movements to offer a nuanced
account of the dynamics of participation and to suggest why
experiences of this can be frustrating as well as transformative.
This book will be essential reading for students of public and
social policy and offers important insights for those directly
engaged in developing participation initiatives across the public
sector.
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