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"This entirely updated and enlarged Second Edition of a landmark
reference/text continues to provide comprehensive coverage of every
important aspect of policy studies--discussing concepts, methods,
utilization, formation, and implementation both internationally and
across each level of government."
This title was first published in 2000: A history of the ideas
behind public policy studies, which can be defined as the study of
the nature, causes and effects of government decisions for dealing
with social problems.
Written by nearly 25 authorities in the field, the Handbook of
Global International Policy focuses on public policy issues among
and within nations on every continent-comparing approaches and
applications to real-world problems.
Beginning with a thorough introduction to the subject, the Handbook
reviews
former and emerging U.S. decision-making foreign policies in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, and Haiti
rebel conflicts and restored relations among Eritrea, the Sudan,
and Ethiopia
Spanish enclaves in Northern Africa
pre- and post-Cold War policies in East Asia, including North and
South Korea
arms control and disarmament programs around the world
ongoing risks in the Middle East
nationalism and its effect in Slovenia and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
peacekeeping efforts in Eastern Europe by Russia
civil and military relations between North-Rhine Westphalia and the
European Union
England's public relations effort regarding European unity
integration and national conflicts of the Zapatista movement in
Mexico
Columbia's attempts to apply military control and civil laws to
combat internal problems
the findings of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project case and
more
With over 1000 key literature citations and illustrations, the
Handbook of Global International Policy serves as timely reading
for public administrators and public policy experts, political
scientists, economists, sociologists, attorneys, and upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
This title was first published in 2000: A history of the ideas
behind public policy studies, which can be defined as the study of
the nature, causes and effects of government decisions for dealing
with social problems.
The Handbook of Global Technology Policy presents and compares
nonideological resolutions to environmental pollution and toxic
waste, urbanization and transportation, homelessness, health-care
policies around the world. It provides an evaluation of industrial
interventions and energy sources, explores flow control and
corporate growth, privatization and liberalization, health data
networks, and electronic innovation and governance. Other topics
include pharmaceutical policies, the state of science and
technology in Africa, the reemergence of tuberculosis, wind energy
technology development and diffusion in Inner Mongolia, and major
problems of policy implementation in India
Public policy analysis can be defined as determining which of
various alternative public or governmental policies will most
achieve a given set of goals in light of the relations between the
policies and the goals. The goal of this volume is to define public
policy in depth as well as the five key elements of policy
evaluation.
Traditional trade-off thinking says we must accept undesirable
costs to get desirable benefits. Win-win thinking says we can avoid
the unwanted costs of big deficits and still have economic growth.
Such an accomplishment comes about through improved technology,
free trade, and public policy. Win-win, or super-optimising, policy
is capable of simultaneously achieving both conservative and
liberal goals. To be meaningful policies, they may have to satisfy
various kinds of feasibility. The text accompanying the tables in
this CD-ROM frequently talks about the need to overcome these
feasibility hurdles.
Super-Optimizing Examples - Across Public Policy Problems
Peace, Prosperity & Democracy At the Cutting Edge, Volume 1 -
Handbook of Peace, Prosperity & Democracy
Analyzing Peace, Prosperity & Democracy - Handbook of Peace,
Prosperity & Democracy -- 2
Public administration is the study of methods for improving and
understanding how governmental programs are implemented, especially
in terms of personnel, financing, and accountability. Through a
win-win, or super-optimizing, set of solutions, all parties can
find success in the policy process.
Whenever a question of public policy is addressed, heated arguments
ensue. Liberals tout one solution, conservatives another, and still
others appear who are neither liberal nor conservative but have
their own desired solution. In such a heated political atmosphere,
legislators and policy makers need to creatively balance competing
factions and wants. This book looks at the practical application of
creativity in a broad set of policy areas. The chapters take note
of diverse topics like merit treatment, technology, vouchers, and
budgeting, while also offering theoretical studies of the concept
of creativity and its potential in the coming years. Concluding the
book is a bibliography of books about creativity.
Selection of essays studying the impact of policy on peace, prosperity, and democracy.
Devising effective and popular public policy is a daunting task.
Often, it requires the balancing of diametrically opposed ideas,
finding the right mix of liberal, conservative, and independent
ideas to make a solid compromise. Being able to please all sides in
an argument constitutes the theory of win-win solutions. This book
examines win-win as one of several means of making policy. Tackling
such important issues as democracy, poverty, and justice, the book
serves as a useful guide to anyone working or interested in the
creative field of policy formulation and implementation.
Creativity in general can be defined as an ability or an
occurrence. Either way, it refers to developing an alternative way
of (1) explaining gravity, (2) writing a symphony, (3) lessening
the problem of poverty, or (4) dealing with some other subjects.
The distinctive aspect of a creative alternative is that it is
better on whatever criteria are considered relevant than the
alternatives that were previously being considered. A special kind
of creativity involves not merely finding a better way of doing
things, but of finding a way that exceeds the best initial
expectations of whatever sides or viewpoints may have been in
contention over how to deal with a problem. That kind of creativity
can be referred to as super-optimising creativity. It does more
than just find a new better or best alternative. It finds an
alternative that is better than what the previous perspectives had
as their best expectations, simultaneously across all those
previous perspectives. Super-optimising creativity is closely
related to super-optimising analysis which refers to methods that
are useful in finding alternatives that are capable of exceeding
the best expectations of all sides and viewpoints to dispute or
dilemmas.
The basic elements of this book involve integrating five policy
problems, four developing regions, and four fields of knowledge.
The five policy problems are economic, technology, social,
political, and legal. The four developing regions are Africa, Asia,
East Europe, and Latin America. The four fields of knowledge are
natural science, social science, humanities, and law. A part of
this book was published as International Policy Studies: A Win-Win
Curriculum.
This book is divided into three parts on what to teach, how to
teach, and new teaching technologies regarding public
administration and public policy. What to teach includes the core
of public administration, research methods, ethics education,
professionalism, research design and portfolio development. How to
teach includes the administrator as teacher, reading/writing case
studies, team teaching and instructional design. New teaching
technologies include distance learning, Hollywood films and the
Internet. Both public administration and public policy are
included. Public administration emphasizes personnel, financial and
accountability administration. Public policy emphasizes economic,
technology, social, political, international and legal policy.
This book reviews win-win policy, the process itself, ideology
policy, software, policy goals and economic feasibility. The
significance of policy evaluation stand out following the events of
11 September 2001. The available evidence points to very weak
evaluation based more on partisan motives rather than win-win
thinking.
INTRODUCTION -- WIN-WIN POLICY FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS, SIX
EXAMPLES. WIN-WIN DEVELOPMENT ACROSS FOUR CONTINENTS: Policy
Analysis, Super-Optimizing, and Developing Nations; Basic Aspects
of Policy Analysis; Super-Optimizing; Improving Developmental
Policy; Africa Development; Sub-Saharan Africa; North Africa and
the Middle East; Asia Development; China, Korea, and Japan; The
Philippines, Thailand, and Southeast Asia; India, Pakistan, and
South Asia; East Europe Development; Russia and the Former
Republics; East Europe Other than Russia; Latin America; South
America -- Super-Optimizing Analysis and Constitutional Reform;
Central America and the Caribbean; Epilogue; International
Interaction for Regional Development. DEVELOPMENTAL POLICY BEYOND
THE CUTTING EDGE: Win-Win Policy; Win-Win Global Policy Studies; A
Chinese Perspective on Win-Win; Economic Growth and Poverty;
Economic Growth and Public Choice -- Law, Religion, and Democracy;
Bad Government Often the Cause of Poverty; Developmental Theory and
Literature; Development as Freedom; Developmental Policy Literature
-- By Regions and Policies; Politics and Bureaucracy; Women in
Commonwealth Politics; Bureaucratic Accountability and Policy
Evaluation in Third World Countries; Asia Public Policy;
Intervention in East Timor and Elsewhere; Cambodia as Bad Foreign
Policy; Science in the Future of India and Elsewhere; Africa and
Latin America; African Government Reform; Dilemmas and Solutions in
the Implementation of Social Policies in Latin America; Teaching
International Policy; International Policy Studies at the
University of Kentucky. CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTAL POLICY; Win-Win
Economic Growth Policy; Long Cycles in International Relations and
Win-Win Conditions; Regional Developmental Policy; Regional
Integration in West Africa; Africa in the 21st Century?; Social
Policy in East Europe; Policy Goals; Prospects for Global
Democracy, Prosperity, and Peace; Policy Process; Reality of
Planning for Development in the Developing Countries; Obstacles to
Public Policy Implementation; Economic Policy; Economic Development
and Decentralized Government; Comparative Developmental Policy;
Comparative Development -- USA Versus Others. INDEX.
Contemporary Developmental Policy
Handbook of Policy Creativity, Volume 2 - Creativity Causes &
Effects
The basic elements of this book involve integrating five policy
problems, and four fields of knowledge. The five policy problems
are economic, technology, social, political and legal. The four
developing regions are Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin
America. The four fields of knowledge are natural science, social
science, humanities and law.
Win-Win Anti-Poverty Policy - Handbook of Win-Win Economics, Volume
3
Combining Capitalism, Socialism & Democracy - Handbook of
Win-Win Economics, Volume 2
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